St. Joseph's Society Sacred Heart - Biographcial Data., 01/01/1841-12/31/1915

File — Box: 1, Folder: 26

Identifier: 48078

Series-level Scope and Content Note

From the Series:

(Folders 25 - 27) Contains information gathered by the Josephite Archives in Baltimore, Maryland. Includes a Master of Arts thesis by Richard H. Steins on the history of the St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart for Foreign Missions. Entitled, 'The Mission of the Josephites to the Negro in America, 1871-1893.' Also includes biographical data on numerous missionaries, such as Canon Peter L. Benoit, rector of the society's headquarters at Mill Hill, London; fathers Cornelius Dowling the society's first American provincial, and James Noonan, second provincial. In addition, information has been collected about the society by Father Peter Hogan, S.S.J., archivist of the Josephite Archives. All material is in typescript.

Dates

01/01/1841-12/31/1915

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Extent

From the Collection: 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Shelf Location

08/10/07

Container Summary

Contains biographical data for individual missionaries of the St. Joseph's Society of the Sacred Heart for Foreign Missions. Includes: Canon Peter L. Benoit, Richard T. Burke, Cornelius Dowling, James and Richard Gore, John H. Greene (sp. var. Green), William Hooman, Denis F. Hurley, Edward Murphy, James Noonan, Frederick A. Schmitz (sp. var. Schmidtz, Schmitt, or Smith), Peter VanDaal, Charles J.F. Vigneront, and Michael F.J. Walsh.

Subjects and Associated Physical Materials

BENOIT, PETER L. - BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Manuscript

BURKE, RICHARD T. - BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Manuscript

DOWLING, CORNELIUS - BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Manuscript

GORE, JAMES - BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Manuscript

GORE, RICHARD - BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Manuscript

GREENE, JOHN H. - BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Manuscript

HOOMAN, WILLIAM - BIOGRAHICAL DATA: Manuscript

HURLEY, DENIS F. - BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Manuscript

MURPHY, EDWARD - BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Manuscript

NOONAN, JAMES - BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Manuscript

SCHMITZ, FREDERICK - BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Manuscript

VANDAAL, PETER - BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Manuscript

VIGNERONT, CHARLES J.F. - BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Manuscript

WALSH, MICHAEL - BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: Manuscript