1. John Bernhard Stallo was a German-American academic, jurist, philosopher, and ambassador.
16 Facts About John Stallo
1. 2.
John Stallo studied at home and at a free, Catholic normal school at Vechta.
3.
John Stallo taught German and mathematics at the newly renamed St Xavier College from 1841 to 1844.
4.
John Stallo published his first book, ABC, Spelling and Reading Book, for the German Schools of America, which apparently sold very well.
5.
John Stallo then taught mathematics and science at another Jesuit institution, St John's College in Fordham, New York from 1844 to 1848.
6.
At St John's, Stallo wrote his first major work, General Principles of the Philosophy of Nature.
7.
John Stallo returned to Cincinnati and was there admitted to the bar in 1849, practicing law except for a brief stint as judge of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas.
Related searches
Grover Cleveland 8.
John Stallo helped organize the "Stallo Regiment" from the German-American community.
9.
John Stallo's becoming a Republican was all the more surprising because few Catholics did so in the 1850s.
10.
John Stallo however was a fairly Liberal Catholic and at times has been described as a free thinker.
11.
John Stallo represented the trustees of Holy Trinity Church in their struggle to maintain control of the Church against the attempt by the Archbishop of Cincinnati to establish the Roman Catholic Canon law method of having all diocese properties held by the bishop.
12.
John Stallo argued a famous and successful case favoring separation of church and state in the Ohio public schools.
13.
John Stallo took part in the Liberal Republican movement of 1872.
14.
John Stallo was rewarded for his support of the Democratic candidate, Grover Cleveland, in 1884, by appointment as Ambassador to Italy.
15.
Mach initiated a correspondence with John Stallo, cut short by the latter's death, whereupon Mach arranged for a German translation by Hans Kleinpeter, to which Mach contributed a foreword.
16.
In 1850, John Stallo was married to Helena Zimmerman of Cincinnati, with whom he had ten children, five of them surviving childhood, including:.