Frank McGloin, Gort

In connection with the following note taken from the Catholic Encyclopaedia the Editor would be thankful for any information on the McGloin Family of Gort:-

"Frank McGloin, jurist and publicist, was born at Gort, Co. Galway, on the 22nd February, 1846, and died in New Orleans in September, 1921. The son of Patrick and Nora (Comber) McGloin, he was brought to New Orleans in early childhood and fought in the Confederate Army, after which he was admitted to the bar. He was one of the chief assistants of Chief Justice White in his fight as an attorney against the Louisiana lotteries. In 1880 he was appointed Justice of the Louisiana State Court of Appeals. A zealous Catholic, he was one of the great forces in up-building the Church of Louisiana. He was editor of The Hibernian, The Holy Family, the founder and president of the Society of the Holy Spirit, the builder of St. George's Chapel, Siegen, Louisiana and one of the founders of the Catholic Winter School ... Among his writings are: The Story of Norodom; a romance of the Far East; The Conquest of Europe; The Light of the Faith (1905); and The Mystery of the Holy Trinity in Oldest Judaism(1916)."