These biographical and historical sketches are highlights of Missouri history. This sketch is from the Dictionary of Missouri Biography , published by the Curators of the University of Missouri, 1999. Links are to related primary sources at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection on the four campuses of the University of Missouri system.
Previous sketches are also available.
The Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Heart opened a school for girls in St. Charles, September 14, 1818. Nuns in charge were Mother Rose Philippine Duchesne, and Sisters Octavie Berthold, Eugenie Aude, Marguerite Manteau, and Catherine Lamarre. In addition to teaching paying students, the school gave free instruction to the children of the poor in St. Charles. The Sisters established their school in a log house rented to them by the widow of Francois Duquette. Constructed of upright white oak posts on a low stone foundation with a slanting roof of pegged shingles, it was heated by an open fireplace.