COONEY, JOHN MICHAEL: 1874-1946.
Born in Louisville, Ky., in 1874, John Michael Cooney graduated from St. Mary's College in Baltimore in 1895, receiving the A.M. degree in 1896 and the Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1917.
He returned from Baltimore to Kentucky and became owner and editor of the NELSON RECORD and special correspondent for the LOUISVILLE HERALD. In 1905 he was an instructor at St. Mary's College, from 1906 to 1911 president of Columbia College in Kentucky , and in 1911 joined the faculty of the University of Notre Dame, where he remained until his death in 1946. At the time of his death he was head of the department of journalism.
Information from The University Library, University of Notre Dame.
- A Lecture on Parallel Lives. New
York, 1915.
- A Lecture on the Composers. New
York, 1916.
- Hills of Rest. St. Meinrad,
Ind., 1926.
