Edward Mary Fitzgerald was an Irishborn prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Little Rock from 1867 until his death in 1907.
Edward Fitzgerald was born in Limerick to James and Joanna Fitzgerald his father was Irish while his mother was German. In 1849 he and his parents immigrated to the United States following the Irish potato famine. He attended St. Marys of the Barrens Seminary at Perryville, Missouri from 1850 to 1852, and then completed his theological studies at Mount St. Marys Seminary of the West in Cincinnati, Ohio and at Mount St. Marys College in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
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