Hugh Boyle was born in Johnstown , Pennsylvania , one of nine children of Charles and Anna ( née Keelan ) Boyle . His father was an Irish immigrant who worked as a coal miner . He received his early education at local parochial schools , and enrolled at St. Vincent College in Latrobe at age 14 . During the 1889 Johnstown Flood , his father and most of his siblings drowned ; only his mother and one brother survived . He began his studies for the priesthood at St. Vincent Seminary , also in Latrobe , in 1891
Johnstown Flood
Johnstown Flood
Hugh Charles Boyle