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Illustrated Distory Saint Joseph's Church South Bend
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Donated to M. Palmer by man nowrede. March 7; 1972
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
OF
ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH,
SOUTH BEND, INDIANA.
1901.
PROFESIONAL DIRECTORY.
COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Circuit Judge, Prosecuting Attorney,
WALTER A. FUNK GEORGE E. CLARKE CHARLES E. MCCARTY
Sheriff,
Clerk, GEORGE M. FOUNTAIN JOHN M. BROWN
Auditor. Recorder.
JOSIAH P. REED
Treasurer,
JOHN W. ZIGLER
Surveyor. FREDERICK W. KELLER
Coroner, DR. CALLIE A. RENNOE
Superintendent of Schools, WILLIAM CLEM County Assessor, WILLIAM E. GELTZ
Superintendent County Asylum, WILLARD DICE
County Commissioners JOHN D FULMER SAMUEL BOWMAN ISAAC N. MILLER
CITY OFFICIALS.
SCHUYLER COLFAX
Mayor, Treasurer. WILLIAM A. RUTHERFORD Clerk, LOUIS A. HULL
EDWARD P. STANFIELD
Comptroller.
City Attorney. WILBERT WARD
City Engineer, A. L. HAMMOND
Health Officer, DR. C. M. BUTTERWORTH JACOB S. KERNER
Fire Chief,
Board of Public Works
EEWARD B. REYNOLDS SAMUEL LEEPER CHARLES L. GOETZ
Board of Public Safety ORCHARD R. COTTON GEORGE W FEASOR ANDREW J WARD
ATTORNEYS.
Guy & Pattee,
117 N. Main
Harris, A. B., 135 N. Main
Hastings & Wood ward, 131 N. Main
Henderson, J. D.,
Hibberd, John A.,
Rooms 9-10, I. O. O. F. Blk 228 S. Main 126 W. Washington Dean Bldg., S. Lafayette
Bates, D. D., 120 S. Main
Bettcher, Earl M.,
Bradshaw, George,
Dean Bldg., S. Lafayette
Boys, S. E .. Room 12. I. O. O. F. Blk
Bugbee, Willis A., 122 N. Main
Briek, A. L .. Rooms 5-8, 1. O. O. F. Blk
Case, Mills, 119 N. Main
Clarke, George E., Dean Bldg., S. Lafayette
Creed, J. P., Dean Bldg., S. Lafayette
Creed, Miss Aliee. Dean Bldg .. S. Lafayette Cunningham, O. M., Rooms 13-14, I. O. O. F. Bldg
Davey, Charles A .. 121 N. Main
DuComb, C. P.,
122 S. Main
Dunbar, R. E., Room 3, 1. O. O. F. Blk
Dunnahoo, Frank, 102 S. Miehigan 107 3. Michigan
Feldman, George G.,
Fish, George R , Arnold Bldg .. W. Jefferson
Fisher, John E., I34 W. Washington 216 W. Washington Cor. Chapin & Napier Sts 132 N. Main
Ford, George, Gurda, John C., Gardner & Gardner, Garst, Jasper E ,
112 S. Main
Arnold, J. B., Arnold Bldg., W. Jefferson Alward, S. S., 128 N. Main Holdeman, O. U., 120 S. Main Horne, A. J., Houlihan. P. J., 119 N. Main Dean Bldg., S. Lafayette Dean Bldg., S. Lafayette
Howard, T. T., Hoban, Thomas, Hubbard, Arthur L ..
118 N. Main
Hubbard, Lucius, 118 N. Main 115 N. Main 131 W. Washington 106 N. Main I. O. O. F. Bldg Rooms 9-10, I. O. O. F. Bldg 121 N. Main
Jackson, Franeis M., Judie, James A., Kurtz, George A., Lambert, Franeis, MaeKibbin, Stuart. Mears, A. J., Meyer, F. J. L., Room 4, I. O. O. F. Bldg Room I, I. O. O. F. Bldg
Miller, Ryell T., McInerny, Milliam A., 104 S. Michigan 218 W. Washington Oliver Opera Honse Bldg Neff, J. E., Orr, Joseph G., Parks, Isaae K., 120 S. Miehigan
Rieh & Rich, 123 W. Washington Romig & Kreighbaum, 121 W. Wa-hington St. Joseph Bank Bldg 122 N. Main
Russ, Fred, Sehoek. Harry G.,
Anderson, DuShane & Crabill. 122 N. Main
ST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH AND RECTORY.
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY.
ATTORNEYS.
PHYSICIANS.
Shively & Wair,
120 S. Michigan
Barandy, O. B.,
718 W. Jefferson
Shively Dudley M.,
104 S. Michigan
Barber, A. E.,
130 S. Michigan 609 W. Huston
Slick, Thomas M.,
119 N. Main
Berteling, J. B.,
Blackstone, W. B.,
216 W. Jefferson 417 S. Chapin 130 W. Washington
Miller, A. G., Mills, W. F.,
Talcott, Thad. M. Jr.,
116 N. Main
Borley, Edgar R ..
Boyd-Snee, Harry, 117 N. Michigan
Butterworth, C. M., 227 S. Main
Montgomery & Fink,
Schuenight. William J.,
125 E. Jefferson
Calvert, R. H.,
107 S. Michigan
Cannon, J. H.,
224 N. Main
Cassidy, Jno.,
305 W. Jefferson
Mulligan, J. W.,
Chaffee, Walter D.,
129 W. Colfax
Neinstedt, Geo. V.,
Partridge, J. M., 107 E. Wayne
Dean, E. R.,
Dean Bldg., S. Lafayette
Peffley, F. C., Colfax and Lafayette
Dickson. Wm. B.,
228 N. Lafayette
Rennoe, C. A., 234 S. Michigan
Drollinger, E. M.,
106 S. Michigan
Stockwell, Sarah F.,
119 S. Michigan
Dugdale, Richard B.,
203 S. Main
Stoltz, Chas.,
203 S. Main 131 S. Lafayette
Fromen, E. T.,
134 S. Scott
Van Benschoten G. W.,
213 W. Jefferson
Gish, John L.,
215 W. Jefferson
Varier, J. A.,
305 S. Michigan
Harris, Robert,
319 W. Jefferson
Vitou, H. C.,
748 S. Michigan
Hager, W. A.,
Lafayette and Washington
Wegner, W. G.,
139 S. Michigan
Hickman, C. J.,
228 N. Birdsell
White, Jno. W.,
108 W. Colfax
Hill, J. W .,
216 W. Washington
Wickham, W. A.,
101 S. Michigan
Kimble, Mrs. Dr. L.,
Kaple. J. D., Kilmer, S. L., Lent, E. J., McAllister, E. W.,
McDonald, R. M.,
Stach, S. D., 129 W. Washington
McNamara, D. W.,
Talbot & Talbot, 138 N. Main
Borisowicz, G.,
Ward, Wilbert, Room 12, I O. O. F. Bldg
Mitchell, Harry F.,
Wright, William B., 220 W. Washington
Moore, E. P., Myers, C. H.,
Daugherty & Sawyer,
133 S. Lafayette
Terry, C. C.,
l'astman, F. P.,
330 S. Main
819 W. Napier 215 W. Colfax 217 W. Jefferson 109 W. Washington Dean Bldg., S. Lafayette 402 W. Water 303 S. Michigan 225 S. Michigan 213 N. Main 113 S. Michigan 121 S. Michigan 101 S. Michigan 201 N. Main 216 W. Jefferson 219 W. Jefferson
CONTINUED.
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historical Sketch
. of .. . ... St. Joseph's Church.
T. Joseph's Church is the oldest Catholic establishment in South Bend. A short sketch of its history during the last fifty years is hereby submitted. For the material of the follow- ing pages the compiler depended on public and private records and the recollections of some of the oldest members of the parish.
THE FIRST CHURCH PROPERTY.
On the 18th day of September, 1847, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, before Justice Johnson Howell, the Right Rev. Celestin Gugnemere de la Hailandière, Bishop of the diocese, in trust for St. Joseph's Congregation, bought of Christopher W. Emrick and Catherine Bachmann, his wife, lots 133, 134 and 135 situate on Main street of the village of Lowell for the consideration of fifteen ($15 00) dollars; and Catherine, the wife of Christopher W. Emrick, in consideration of the sum of one ($1.00) dollar to her in hand paid "relinquished said Celestin Gugnemere de la Hailandiere to the aforesaid premises."
At that time South Bend belonged to the Diocese of Vin- cennes, and regular transfers of the trust were made as follows: At the end of 1847, to the Right Rev. Jobn S. Bazin; in 1848, to the Right Rev. Maurice de St. Palais; then in 1857, when the Diocese of Fort Wayne was established, to the Right Rev. J. H. Luers; in 1871, to the Right Rev. Joseph Dwenger; in 1893, to the Right Rev. Joseph Rademacher and in 1900, to the Right Rev. Herman Joseph Alerding, the present incumbent, who was consecrated Bishop of Fort Wayne on the 30th day of Nov- ember, the Feast of St. Andrew, 1900.
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Lots 133, 134 and 135 are the premises on which the present St. Joseph's church and parochial residence stand, the south- east corner of Hill and Water streets.
In the early forties the village of Lowell was owned by the elder Alexis Coquillard, the unele of our late Alexis and Benja- min Coquillard, and of the Mesdames Sherland, Miller, Decker, Rupel, Campean, Beanbien, Meeker and Mills. But in 1847 a large portion thereof had been ceded to Christopher W. Em- rick. Coquillard, Emrick and Sorin were considered the enter- prising spirits of the time, and, no doubt, a place for a church was donated by Emrick, though not a Catholic, in a spirit of enterprise.
The Catholics of South Bend, however, were not as yet numerous enough, and consequently not as yet able to erect a church, and, like their brethren of the neighboring woods, towns, cities and states, they continued to depend on Notre Dame for their spiritual wants, which were administered by the Rev. Fathers Edward Sorin, Alexis Granger, Francis Cointet, Richard Shortis, Thomas Flynn, B. S. Force, and other Fathers of the Congregation of the Holy Cross.
Father Sorin with his small band of six Brothers arrived here and founded Notre Dame on the 26th day of November, 1842. On his arrival he found at Notre Dame a small log chapel which had been erected by Father Badin, the first priest ordained in the United States of America.
Father Badin, it is said, never collected any pew rent, nor did he ever pay a cent for any services rendered to him. To boat captains and to ox-drivers calling for fare he would reply simply: "Iam Father Badin!"
In this chapel the earliest Catholic settlers joined in Divine worship the Indians who had been civilized, instructed and christianized by such early Missionaries as Father Badin, Father de Seille and Father Petit. The regularly kept records of these
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early Missionaries, as far as they have been seeured by Prof. James F. Edwards, the manager of the Archives of the Bishops' Memorial hall at Notre Dame, date baek to the year 1830.
The site of the chapel is religiously preserved at Notre Dame. An arbor vitae hedge marks the lines of the original foundations and a large stone eross with a suitable inseription tells the visitor that this is a saered spot.
It was in a small eell behind the altar of this chapel that the saintly Father de Seille sueeumbed to his labors in 1837. When he felt the end approaching he longed for the Last Saera- ments, those very consolations of religion which he had so many times administered unto others. His nearest brother priests then had stations in Chieago, in Logansport and in New Albany. He knew that even these were for the greater part of the time away from home on missionary fields, and to make sure of reeeiv- ing the rites of the church at the hands of one of them, he sent three of his faithful Indians for a priest, one to each of the above named posts. Father Louis Neyron, of New Albany, was the only one that eould be found. He followed his guide, through woodland traeks, without any other thought before his mind but the sad duty of ministering, as he thought, at the bed side of a dying brother priest. But when he arrived he found the chapel surrounded and filled with Indians who, in silent mourning were praying for the repose of the soul of the departed shepherd of their own souls.
Father de Seille was dead three days, and the Indians never thought of either touching or disposing of his body. In his last hour he had asked his Indians to earry him to the tabernacle of the altar, whenee his own dying hand drew forth the Blessed Saerament and administered It to him as the Holy Viatieum. Father Neyron made preparations for the burial, and one of his warmest reeollections in favor of the doeility of the Indians on the one hand, and the zeal of Father de Seille on the other was
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the faet that, at the funeral, the Indians sang the Requiem Mass from beginning to end, in a manner which would put to shame many a more pretentious church choir of the present day.
This same Father Neyron had charge of St. Joseph's con- gregation from 1864 to 1867. A native of Franee and an attaché of Napoleon's army previous to his ordination to the priesthood, he had labored in the Ameriean missions under Bishop's Bruté, de la Hailandière, Bazin, De St. Palais, Flaget and other pioneer prelates for 30 years when in 1862 his health failed and he retired to Notre Dame for rest. But to attend to the little parish of St. Joseph's at the very door of Notre Dame was for him but play.
THE FIRST CHURCH AND SCHOOL.
On the 14th day of September, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, in the year 1853, the Very Rev. Father Edward Sorin, then Provineial Superior of the Priests, Brothers and Sisters of the Order of the Holy Cross in America, bought of Samuel S. Cottrell and Catherine his wife, lots 124, 125 and 126 in the town of Lowell for the consideration of two hundred and fifty, ($250.00) dollars. As a part of the consideration the deed provides that the property be used "For the benefit of the Catholic School of St. Joseph's County, Indiana." This property, at present known as the north-east corner of Hill and Water streets, is now exelusively used for sehool purposes and is under the management of the Sisters of Holy Cross, the trust having been transferred to them for the consideration of one dollar
The same year, 1853, Father Sorin ereeted on the above- named property a briek strueture, 22 x 40 feet to serve as a school and at the same time as a ehureh for the Catholic popula- tion of South Bend. A little addition was made to the rear of the building toserve as a residenee for the Sisters who taught the sehool. This rear addition is still standing. It continues to
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serve as a kitchen and a dining room for the Sisters, but two years ago, was not considered strong enough to carry an addi- tional school-room which was to be built over it.
Both church and school were then under the patronage and the title of St. Alexis, which name, however, never belonged to the congregation that worshipped therein and which, even as far as the school is concerned, is no longer in existence.
Mass was said here every Sunday for the people of South Bend and the Indians of the neighboring woods, and once a week for the Sisters of the school and their pupils.
Thus hand in hand together started school and church, and the wise pioncers appreciated the fact that the school is the more important of the two. The school received from the be- ginning a full corps of resident teachers whose kitchen in the rear of the house was regularly supplied by the Commissioner of Notre Dame and who lived in palatial rooms in the garret of the shanty.
THE FIRST TEACHERS.
Among the first teachers whom a great many old people of South Bend will remember with pleasure and gratitude, and for whom they will, doubtless, breathe an Our Father and a Hail Mary on seeing their names in print, the following may be mentioned: Sisters M. Immaculate Conception, M. Misericorde, M. Peter, M. Faustine, M. Presentation, M. Raphael, M. Cir- cumcision, M. Patrick, M. Emiliana, M. Agatha, M. Clare, M. Anastasia, M. Cyprian, M. Bethlehem, M. Genevieve, M. Lydia, M. Isidore, M. Francis, M. Delphine, M. Assumption, M. Rita, M. Vincent de Paul, M. Justina, M. Albina, M. Bartholomew, M. Anatolie, M. Evangelista, M. Anaida, M. Anna, M. Holy Infancy, M. Margaret, M. Victoria, M. Marcina, M. Cosmas, M. Beniti, M. Visitation, M. Seraphim, M. Urbana, M. Eudoxia, M. M. Osmond, M. Damien, M. Simplicia, M. des Victoires, M. Cenacle, M. Irene, M. Donata, M. Scholastica, M. Leocadia,
M. Bonaventure, M. Carmelita, M. Marciana, M. Maura, etc., etc., and occasionally a Miss Sullivan, a Miss Aaron, etc. All these were members of the Order of Holy Cross. The majority of them were taught and trained by Mother M. Angela, whose name in the world was Gillespie and who was a cousin of the famous James Blaine, and they were sent forth to impart into the young that spirit of faith, that knowledge, and that superior patriotism which they had so freely imbibed under the wise direction of Father Sorin and the careful training of Mother Angela. They all taught, some for one, others for several years in the original St. Alexis' school, up to the year 1882, when the Sisters, at a cost of $5,000.00 and at their own expense replaced the old shanty by the spacious and beautiful school house of the present.
The name of Sister M. Martha must be inserted here, as the records do not contain it. She was not a teacher but she minis- tered to the material wants of the teachers from the beginning and with a short interruption until a few years ago. During the short interruption her place was filled by an equally holy soul, Sister M. Urbana, who went to her reward in 1894.
Sister Martha, with her wonderful influence over the Sis- ters of the school, and her glorious example to the children and their parents, would be with us yet, had she had her own way and had not her extreme old age and a serious malady brought her to the very door of death in the early winter of 1899. Her superiors at St. Mary's, all of them her juniors in age, deter- mined that she had done enough of hard labor and they gave her an obedience to live in the well equipped infirmary of her community and to pray for those for whom they no longer considered her able to work.
Most of these good Sisters have since gone to their reward. and the few surviving members may point, either with pride or otherwise, to a large number of now prominent men and women of South Bend and tell to what extent the latter, in the years gone by, relished the narrow limits of a school discipline
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THE FIRST PASTORS.
In the St. Alexis' church, which was opened in 1853 and was used for Divine worship until the year 1866, the following Rev. Fathers have taken charge of the spiritual wants of the congregation: Edward Sorin, Alexis Granger, J. Bourget, E. Leveque, P. P. Cooney, Thomas Carroll and other priests of Holy Cross. But these can scarcely be called pastors. They were not resident priests. They all resided at Notre Dame, taught there all week and then on Sundays would do missionary work for St. Joseph's congregation in South Bend, for the Catholic congregations of Laporte, Logansport, Goshen, Kalama- 200, Niles, Bertrand and other missions the very names of which would, after this comparatively short time, be lost from the memory of a more prosperous succeeding generation if it were not for the Baptismal, Marriage and Funeral records which they so faithfully kept and which are preserved at Notre Dame. Father Sorin, during this time and for many years to come may be put down as the real pastor, who would on Sundays and whenever on week days a priest was wanted, send the one who to him apppeared most available.
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