Br. Loman Joseph

Henry Gorman was born on August 3, 1884, in Kilcough, County Wicklow, Ireland. He was one of eleven children, seven boys and four girls. One of his sisters entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph and became Sister Mary Martin and his oldest brother became Brother Aelpeus James FSC of the District of New York. Henry entered the Novitiate at Castletown in September of 1907 at the age of twenty-three and immediately volunteered for missionary service in the United States. He was sent to the Glencoe Novitiate in December and he received the habit of the Brothers and religious name of Brother Loman Joseph on January 1, 1908. In August of 1909 he was assigned to teach in Santa Fe; in August of 1912 to Christian Brothers Academy in Kansas City and a year later in 1913 to St. Paul, Minnesota. Brother Loman Joseph was assigned to Christian Brothers High School in St. Joseph, Missouri, in August of 1914 and in February of 1915 to Glencoe and St. Alphonsus Rock Church School in St. Louis. He spent 1918 to 1926 at De La Salle in Chicago, 1926-1927 in Duluth and 1927-1928 in Minneapolis. In 1928 he was assigned Sub-Director at St. Joseph, Missouri but in 1932 he returned to De la Salle in Chicago. In 1934 he returned also to St. Paul, Minnesota. He was assigned to the community of Ancients in Glencoe in 1945 but was off to St. Joe again later that year. In 1948 he retired again at Glencoe but in 1956 he was assigned to Christian Brothers High School in St. Louis. Illness took him to Saint Joseph Hill Infirmary near Eureka, where he died at age eighty-two in 1966, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for fifty-nine years.