Person ID: I3855120149

Edward Baack Berry, S.J.

26 Nov 1899 – 22 May 1963

Male

Events

Father Edward Baach Berry, S.J. was the son of Joseph I. Berry, I and Eva Baach Berry. He was born in New York on the 26th of November 1899. He entered the Society of Jesus at St. Andrew's on Hudson on the 7th of December 1914. He completed his studies in philosophy and theology at Woodstock College in Maryland where he was ordained a priest by Archbishop Curley of Baltimore on the 20th of June in 1928. He pronounced his final vows on the 2nd of February 1932. He taught physics at Xavier High School for one year and at Georgetown Pre for seven years. In 1938, he was transferred to Fordham University where he spent the rest of his life. He was Assistant Professor of physics from 1938-39. He was then Professor of Math & Physics. He became the Head of the Math Department at Fordham University in New York in 1944 and held that position until his death on the 22nd of May 1963. It was Father Edward B. berry, S.J. who officiated at the marriage of Eugene R Berry, Sr. and Madeline Anna Burchill on the 26th of November 1949 at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Mount Vernon, New York. It was also Father Edward B. Berry, S.J. who baptized Father Eugene R. Berry.