Walter Romig
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Walter Romig (1903-1977), American author and publisher.
Though Romig's date of birth is often officially listed as 1905, he was in fact born in 1903. Romig attended Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. He was not ordained as a Roman Catholic priest. Today, the Roman Catholic seminary awards an annual Walter Romig Award, which recognizes an outstanding lay alumnus.
[edit] Written works
Walter Romig's best-known work is Michigan Place Names: The History of the Founding and the Naming of More than Five Thousand Past and Present Michigan Communities. Romig also edited the six-part series The Book of Catholic Authors: Informal Self-Portraits of Famous Modern Catholic Writers and compiled the annual The American Catholic Who's Who.
