The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-06-19
Some Recent Converts
BY S. 0'Neill

Mrs. Abbott Low Dow, New York,
born Helene Garcia Nancy Sanford,
widow of the late Abbott Low Dow,
cousin of Hon. Seth Low. She is
a daughter of the late Hon. Henry
Shelton Sanford, United States min
lister to Belgium; Episcopalian.
The Princess Ludovico Pignatelli
d,Aragon, of Rome; born Miss Ruth
Morgan Waters, daughter of G. Jas
on Waters, Esq. New York.
Rev. Wilmoth Alexander Farmer.
for fourteen years a missionary of the
Methodist Church South, in China;
graduate of Emory college, class Of
1898. Mr.. Farmer, who is a resident
of Atlanta, Ca. will study for the
priesthood.
The Rev. ]. A. Beaumont was re-
ceived into the Church by the Lord
Abbot of Galley on Holy Saturday.
Mr.. Beaumont was for fifteen years
incumbent of st. Johns church, st.
Johns Wood, London, and is an ex-
mayor and alderman of the Borough
of Marylebone.
Asa Elmo Ramsay, vicecllairman of
the Board of Realty and deputy fed
eral agent of the Federal Reserve
bank, Kansas City.
Miss Ellen Constance Palmer, of
New York, received in Rome; wife of
Count de Sylvia.
Mr.. Ernest Tocci, until recently a
student in the Presbyterian Theolog-
ical Seminary at Bloomfield, N. j.,
has been received into the church.
Misses Hilda and Edith Seeliger,
nurses, Walla Walla, Wash.
Miss Emma Purdy, Walla Walla,
Wash, sister of Methodist minister
in Chicago.
Miss Edith De Wolfe, Walla Walla,
WASH, formerly of Detroit.
The following converts have been
received in Denver: Miss Marie An
derson, of the Young Woman's Chris
tian Association; Mrs. B. l.. Walsh,
Miss Mildred Bagley, John ]. Bra
mer and Walter E. Neesby.
Albert Sidney Johnston, state fac
tory inspector, Jefferson City, Mo.
The late A. M. Prescott, San An
tonic, Texas; chief of the fire depart
ment for thirty years; received on his
deathbed.
Two converts from Brother Alphon-
sus' Christian Doctrine classes for
non-Catholics, were baptized at Notre
Dame university on Holy Saturday and
received their first holy communion on
Easter Sunday. They are Walter Ber-
nard de Grie, st. Cloud, Mimi, and
Harold Joseph Trotter, Charleston,
8. c.
Miss Dixie Wynne, who with her
mother turned Catholic in Denver re-
Gently, has been protested nun of
the Order of the Good Shepherd, st.
Paul, under the name of Sister Mary
of st. Serena.
The late Rev. Wesley Noble, Los
Angeles, for forty years Methodist
minister.
Miss Edna Mardian, Denver;
Christian Scientist.
William A. Haef1inger, Denver;
Lutheran.
Mrs. Eugene Tobin, born Miss
Lucy Herring, Fort Collins, Colo.
Charles Berger Lowell, Highland
Park, Richmond, Va.
L. w. Curry, attorney, indianapolis,
Indiana.
Miss Ina M. Chapman, daughter of
DR.. Jacob Chapman, Sterling, Colo.
The late Frank Conaley, New Or
leans; father of Rev. Father John
Conaley, also convert.
Daniel Emmons Smith, Smith Mills,
N. j.; of Dutch Reformed sect.
Miss Maize Caps, Memphis, Tenn,
granddaughter of leading Methodist
preacher.
DR.. E. J. Abbott, one of New York's
best known physicians.
On May Is, Bishop McCort con-
firlned SO adult converts in st. Ca
briefs church, Philadelphia.
Bishop Shahan confirmed 60 adult
converts in st. Patrick's church,
Washington, D. c., on May 16.
The Bishop of Monterey and Los
Angeles, on April II, confirmed IL
adult converts at st. Cecilia's church,
Los Angeles. The bishop on April
10 confirmed is adult converts in St.
Patrick's church, Los Angeles.
Thirty colored converts were con-
firmed at the Church of St. Benedict
the Moor, Kansas City, on April ii.
The Bishop of Monterey and Los
Angeles, on Easter Monday, confirmed
Z In Holy Cross church, Los Angeles, 40
4 adult converts.
On May %, the Bishop of Sacra-
mento, confirmed IS adult converts at
I the Cathedral.
Il The Bishop of Indianapolis con-
firmed 81 adult converts on April is,
u In st. Paul's church, Marion, Ind.
On April IS, the Bishop of Sacra-
u mento confirmed SO adult converts at
the Church of the Immaculate Con-
SSception, Sacramento, Cal.