Catholic immigrants to Silver Lake, predominantly from Southern and Eastern Bohemia and Western Moravia along with neighboring Poles, French, and Germans, passed on their faith by forming St. Joseph's Parish, incorporated in 1895. The first Czech parish was the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Bear Creek, 4 miles south, built in 1873, with its cemetery founded in 1867. Assumption Church was a mission parish to St. Adalbert's in Silver Lake from 1877 to 1896, and as size and needs changed it was replaced by St. Joseph's in Silver Lake in 1896 and remained a mission of St. Joseph's until it was dismantled in 1930. Children of the parish attended St. Adalbert's School until St. Joseph's School opened in 1931; the school consolidated with St. Adalbert's in 1967 to form Silver Lake Catholic Schools, and the School Sisters of Notre Dame taught from 1931 to 1992. The church was enlarged in 1930, the priests helped serve Czech Catholics of Glencoe, Stewart, Olivia, Bechyn, and Renville, and 7 priests and 12 sisters came from the parish. Parish societies included the CCW, St. Martha's Society, the Men's Recreational Club, the Rosary Society, the St. Aloysius Society for young men, the St. Cecilia Young Ladies Society, the Holy Name Society, the Knights of St. George, the Mother Cabrini Knights of Columbus Council, the Western Bohemian Catholic Union, the St. Wenceslaus Catholic Workmen Society, and the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. In 1993 St. Joseph's united with St. Adalbert's to form Holy Family.