Edwin V. O'Hara

6 September 1881 – 11 September 1956

12 works on record

Biography

Edwin Vincent O'Hara was born in Lanesboro, Minnesota, one of eight children. His parents had immigrated during the Irish potato famine. O'Hara studied at St. Paul's Seminary and in 1905 he was ordained to the priesthood. He served as a chaplain during World War I. After the war, he worked as a pastor in Portland, and worked to establish a minimum wage in Oregon, which became law in 1913. In 1917, he was the defendant when the law was tried (and upheld) before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1913, he was appointed chairman of Oregon's Industrial Welfare Commission. In 1923, he founded and became director of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference. In 1930, he was appointed Bishop of Great Falls, Montana by Pope Pius XI. In 1939 he was appointed Bishop of Kansas City, Missouri. In 1954, he was granted made Archbishop. He died in Milan, Italy, shortly after his 75th birthday. He is buried in Kansas City.

Works

Catholic history of Oregon

Report of the Social Survey Committee of the Consumers' League of Oregon on the wages, hours and conditions of work and cost and standard of living of women wage earners in Oregon with special reference to Portland

Oregon minimum wage cases

Pioneer Catholic history of Oregon

The church and the country community

Archbishop Ireland

1948

Minimum wage pamphlets

1903

Frank C. Stettler, plaintiff in error, vs. Edwin V. O'Hara, et al., constituting the Industrial Welfare Commission, defendants in error, Elmira Simpson, plaintiff in error, vs. Edwin V. O'Hara, et al., constituting the Industrial Welfare Commission, defendants in error

In the Supreme Court of the state of Oregon, October term, 1913, Frank C. Stettler, appellant, vs. Edwin V. O'Hara, Bertha Moores and Amedee M. Smith, constituting the Industrial Welfare Commission of the state of Oregon, respondents

Welfare legislation for women and minors

A program of Catholic rural action

The parish Confraternity of Christian doctrine in the United States of North America =