Roman Catholic Archbishop. Born to Owen O'Hara and Margaret Nugent on their farm in Lanesboro, Minnesota, as the last of their eight children, Edwin Vincent O'Hara along with his brothers and sisters attended the one-room school on an acre of land their father had donated and successively, all graduated from Lanesboro High School. Ordained priest for the Archdiocese of Oregon City on June 9, 1905, he served as superintendent of schools for the diocese from his ordination up to 1920, chairing during the period the Minimum Wage Commission for the State of Oregon and the Portland Housing Commission. His activities in the earliest years after ordination included lecturing Scripture and apologetics to high school girls and boys and to their teachers, organizing educational associations for adults, lecturing classics and history in the Portland Public Library, promoting temperance, making the first of many trips to Europe and spending a semester at The Catholic University of America. Earning a doctorate from the University of Notre Dame, he served as chaplain to the Knight of Columbus for a year in France during the Great War and in 1920 became pastor at Eugene, Oregon. Serving in the meantime as director of the National Catholic Welfare Council's Rural Life Bureau which ultimately became the National Catholic Rural Life Conference in 1923, O'Hara was elected bishop of Great Falls, Montana, by Pope Pius XI, receiving his episcopal consecration on October 28, 1930 from Archbishop Edward Daniel Howard. Transferred to the see of Kansas City, Missouri, on April 15, 1939, he served as chairman of the Episcopal Committee of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Under the latter's direction the complete Bible was issued in a new translation followed by a revision of the Baltimore Catechism. With the The Catholic Biblical Association of America initiated, O'Hara also served as chairman of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Council. Named assistant at the Pontifical throne by Pope Pius XII in 1949, on June 29, 1954 he received the title of archbishop 'ad personam' in recognition for his contributions to the Church. On September 11, 1956 while on a trip to Milan to speak to Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini on the work of the confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Archbishop O'Hara succumbed to a sudden heart attack. His body was flown back to Kansas City where some 13,000 people filed past his bier during the lying in state. Buried in crypt of Saint Pius X under the chapel of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration where the nuns used to chant the Liturgy of the Hours, former US President Harry S. Truman, wrote about him following his demise: "He was one of the finest men I ever knew." The Archbishop O'Hara Memorial High School of Kansas City, inaugurated in September 1965 by Cardinal Joseph Ritter of St. Louis and Bishop Charles Helmsing of Kansas City is named in his memory while Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan published his life in 2012 entitled "Some Seed Fell on Good Ground". When the Benedictine monastery housing his remains closed in 1984, his body was moved to Mount Olivet Cemetery and reburied at the foot of Tower of Ascension near the cemetery entrance, which designed along the lines of the Tower of Puissalicon, near Besier, France, that Archbishop O'Hara had visited during a European trip, having wanted a similar one built in his diocese, was completed in 1948 under his direction. The statue of the Sacred Heart located at Sacred Heart Garden, almost exactly in the center of the cemetery, is a personal gift to the cemetery by Archbishop O'Hara.