1. Martin Cone was a Catholic priest in the United States and served as the sixth president of St Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa from 1930 to 1937.
11 Facts About Martin Cone
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Martin Cone was a native of Clinton, Iowa, and studied for the priesthood at St Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, where he was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Davenport on June 12,1912.
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Martin Cone did graduate studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and the University of Iowa where he earned a doctorate.
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Martin Cone was assigned to the faculty of St Ambrose College after ordination.
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Martin Cone led the effort to bring Catholic Charities to the diocese in the late 1920s, and served as its first director from 1929 until his death in 1963.
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Martin Cone had an interest in St Vincent's Home in Davenport where he helped to improve the living conditions of the children and professionalized the staff.
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Martin Cone is credited with building the faculty, taking over at a time when priests were paid $15 a month for teaching.
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Martin Cone was instrumental in developing a college for women in Davenport that would become Marycrest College.
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Martin Cone was appointed pastor and rector of Sacred Heart Cathedral, and vicar general of the Diocese of Davenport.
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Martin Cone became administrator of the diocese until Bishop Ralph Leo Hayes was named Bishop of Davenport.
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Martin Cone died in Davenport in 1963 at the age of 80.