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tuition into temporary hospital and
devoted themselves to caring for the
wounded soldiers. Andrew Jackson
personally visited their convent and
thanked the Sisters for their help.
The same Ursuline Academy and
free school is still prospecting at New
Orleans.
At Kaskaskia, ILL.,, and at Mackinaw
Straits, Mich, the Jesuits early estab-
lished schools.
Maryland Schools.
In 1884 Lord BaItimore's colony
landed permanent settlement at ST.
Mary's. Father Andrew White, one OF
the celebrated English Jesuits of the
time, another Jesuit father and a lay
brother came with this expedition
These fathers began their labors by
learning the savage tongue. They SC
won the confidence of the Indians that
the principal chief of that part of the
country soon brought his little seven
year-old daughter ito be educated
among the English"
The Jesuit schools in Maryland
hourished until there came an era OF
persecution. A later educational effect
was made by the establishment of a
school at Herman's Manor of Bohemia
in eastern Maryland. Many leading
Catholic families eagerly paUronized
this school and many famous Catholics
are found among it's graduates
Among them were John Carroll, first
Archbishop of Baltimore; Leonard
Neale, second Archbishop of Balti
more, and Charles Carroll of Carroll
town, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence
Pennsylvania Schools.
The friendly attitude of the Quakers
in Pennsylvania toward the Catholics
gave favorable opportunity for the
Jesuits to enter upon educational
work. In 1870 Father Creation organ
lied congregation, built church and
probably founded a school at Phila
delphia. In 1857 James White, the
great-grandfather of Supreme Court
Judge Edward Douglass White, by be
queathing the sum of $50 equal tc
$500 toward schoolhouse" became
the first lay benefactor of Catholic
schools in Pennsylvania. Many emf
nent German Jesuit fathers did splen
did work in the school at Goshenhop
pen. Father Wapeler and Father
Schneider were two of the most dis
tinguished among them. The history
of education in Philadelphia is not
complete without mention of the
names of Father Farmer and Father
Molyneux.
Philadelphia was at that time the
largest and richest Catholic parish in
the United States, and the 'free
school, of st. Mary's in that parish
has been called the mother school, Of
all the parochial schools in all of the
English colonies.
BY the time of the Revolution all Of
the Catholic schools for boys had beer
united under the Jesuit order.s The
training given in them was based upor
the Ratio Studiorum, or Book o.
Studies.
Catholic Education after the ReVoIu
ton.
The immediate effect of the Revolu
tionary war upon Catholic education
was excellent Religious persecution o
the Catholic orders at once ceased, I'm
just laws were repealed and increasing
immigration caused them to increase
steadily in numbers. The clergy exileC
by the French Revolution came il
great numbers to America and were o
incalculable benefit in assisting in re
ligious and educational fields. In 179.
college was founded at Georgetown
and the Sulpicians founded st. Mary
Seminary at Baltimore for the train
ing of priests. These two institution
are regarded as the parent institution
of the Catholic college and of tn,
Catholic Seminary in the Unite'
States.
In 1890 NJ. Herot, who afterward be
came Sulpician priest, founded
school at Pigeon Hills. The Sulpician
later founded at Pigeon Hills a schoo
known as the Seminary Farm"
preparatory school for st. Mary
Seminary in Baltimore. In 1907
was transferred to Emmittsburs
where it has grown into Mount 81
Maryss College and Seminary, tn
second oldest institution of its class i
this country. 1t, too, has long roll G
famous graduates.
Bishop Carroll of New York City i
1900 caused free school to be estat
lished at st. Peters Church on Bal
clay Street. This school, with regis
ter of one hundred children, soon be
came the largest parochial school i
that city.
In Pennsylvania, Kentucky and II
diana also great Catholic educationa
activity followed the end Of the RevC
luton.
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