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Arranged on either side of the walls of the audience room are four- teen bas-reliefs, representing the passions of our Lord as mentioned in each of the last chapters of the gospel. These are the gifts of Father Perrier.
THE SANCTUARY.
The altar, manufactured by the Ferring Company, of Chicago, and presented by Father Maine and the bishop, is a composition of natural butternut wood and gold with agate columns. Its exquisite beauty cannot be described. Much of the decoration is in gold leaf and that part alone was procured by an outlay of something like three hundred dollars. The burnished gold was ap- VIEW OF THE ALTAR. plied by the manufacturers. Within the enclos- ure of the sanctuary is the bishop's throne, and seldom is one so rich and elegant in its equipment witnessed in this coun- try. The main and side altars, gorgeous with gold and precious stones,
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bishop's throne, bas-relief and the ceiling are all carried out in the same Gothic style of architecture, making one grand harmonious whole a perfect unity.
The beautiful statuary on the right is the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The emblem of this figure is Jesus burning with love for the salvation of man kind. The coloring in this figure is particularly soft, the drapery falling in long, graceful folds. It is exquisitely designed and exceedingly beauti- ful. On the left is St. Ann, the mother of Mary, teaching her beloved child to read the scriptures inscribed on the piece of parchment which she holds in her hands. The altars containing them are of the same Gothic design. Above the tabernacle of the sanctuary is the statue of Norte Dame Bonse- cours, or our Lady of Perpetual Health. To the right rests the statue of St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus, and on the left, St. Anthony, holding the child Jesus tenderly in his arms. On each side there are two angels in adoration before the altar, as God described the churches should be made. In a recess at the base of the altar the Lord's Supper is depicted in statuary. The handsome carpet which harmonizes with the other furnishings of the sanctuary was given by the Ladies of the Sacred Heart Altar and St. Ann societies.
The sacristy or dressing room, and where the sacraments and sacred vessels are kept, lies just back of the sanctuary. The dimensions of this room are thirty-seven feet. The seating capacity of the cathedral is ordinar- ily eight hundred, but if the occasion demands, twelve hundred could be seated. The cathedral has cost as it stands about thirty-two thousand dol- lars. As soon as the walls are in condition they will be frescoed at an addi- tional cost of from two to three thousand dollars. When this enterprise was first taken under consideration the consummation seemed an impossi- bility, but through the energy of the pastor, Father Perrier, and the bishops, it has been accomplished.
BISHOP JOHN F CUNNINGHAM.
Long years of training and practical experience admirably qualify Bishop Cunningham for the responsibilities of his holy office.
For thirty-eight years he has given his entire time and attention to Christian labors for the spiritual welfare of his people.
Bishop Cunningham was born in the Parish of Irremore, County Kerry, Ireland. in July, 1842. His parents were John and Catherine (Fitzgerald ) Cunningham. He received a preparatory course in the classical school of Listowel, Ireland, and graduated from St. Benedict's College, Atchison Kansas. in 1860. He then finished a theological course in St. Francis' Sem- inary, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (D. D.), and was ordained priest in the Leavenworth cathedral, Leavenworth. Kansas. August 8, 1865. He was the first Catholic resident pastor of Fort Scott, Kansas, he was there from 1865 until 1868, when he was transferred to St. John's church, Lawrence, June,
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1868, where he built a new church and added very materially to their pos- sessions, visited various parts of the east from 1873-6, collecting for Kan- sas sufferers and the Leavenworth cathedral debt. Bishop Cunningham was pastor of Assumption church, Topeka. Kansas, during 1876-82, and built the present handsome edifice there of that name, and also secured for that city valuable property for church purposes. January 1, 1881, he was made vicar general of the Leavenworth diocese and from 1882 to 1887 was rector of the Leavenworth cathedral, from which place he was consecrated bishop September 21, 1898.
Bishop Cunningham has witnessed a revolution in church work since his advent into the state. He has not only witnessed them develop but has been directly instrumental in the movement that has resulted in the spring- ing up like magic of many costly and magnificent edifices.
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VERY REVEREND JOSEPH PERRIER, VICAR GENERAL OF THE DIOCESE OF CONCORDIA.
The Reverend Joseph Perrier is a native of Savoy, France, born in 1839. His parents were John and Petronilla Perrier, of Savoy. Tlis paternal grandfather was a sutler or army furnisher under Napoleon.
Father Perrier's childhood was spent at Savoy, one of the loveliest spots in the universe, where many of the crown heads of Europe have castles.
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Hle was a student from the age of six to twenty-four years, a graduate of the College of St. Pierre I Albigny at eighteen years of age, then entered the University of Chambery, where he took up the science of philosophy and at twenty-three became a professor of languages.
One year later he became a priest and was sent to Gresy sur Nix, a famous resort established by Julius Creser, and celebrated for three thousand years. Napoleon had a castle there. also Queen Victoria. When twenty- seven years of age Father Perrier came to Lawrence, Kansas, as a mission- ary and as a recruit to the call of Bishop Miege. Ile came to Topeka as a teacher of classics in the Catholic seminary in 1871.
He was soon afterward sent to Emporia, where he organized about forty missions in a circuit of four hundred miles long and one hundred wide. The territory that he covered by his individual labors is now occupied by about twenty-five priests. He was with General Sheridan when he routed the Indians from the frontier, and administered to the sick and wounded soldiers. He also administered to the railroad forces from 1868 to 1875. He endured many hardships; there were no railroads, scarcely any wagon roads over some parts of the district. The streams were not bridged and on horseback he swam the swollen rivers and creeks.
In 1880 he came to Concordia, then a town of about eight hundred peo- ple, and where a church had been established by the Reverend Father Mol- lier, one of the first missionaries in northwest Kansas. Reverend Father Perrier was the first resident pastor of Concordia and has labored incessantly and untiringly for the good of his church ever since. He is held in rever- ence and distinction as a citizen and churchman by all classes of society.
NAZARETIt ACADEMY.
A boarding school for the practical education of young ladies, with a kindergarten and preparatory department for girls, was established in the year 1884, under the supervision of the Sisters of St. Joseph. The school thrived under their care until it has become one of the most successful in the state. The scope of work included in their curriculum is of a high standard, and every teacher loyally strives with that earnest devotion so characteristic of the sisters to develop every young student into the noblest and most intel- lectual womanhood. They are trained to think for themselves, and women go out from this institution of learning who not only grace the highest society with their accomplishments, but dignity and honor it by their many personal charms and virtues, and also fit them, should conditions and cir- cuinstances demand it, to gain an independent livelihood.
In 1901 the foundation of the Nazareth Academy was laid and the present writing (January, 1903) finds the elegant new building almost ready for occupancy. The structure, which is of brick and stone, is situated on the hill at the south end of Washington street, and is one of the most impos- ing in the northwest part of the state. The building site is one of the finest in the country, and the convent can be seen for miles around. The archi-
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tecture, like the cathedral, is Gothic, and like that stately edifice, the same style is applied throughout the convent. The present prosperous school has outgrown its site and facilities, necessitating more commodious quarters. and the new academy is the outgrowth of this need.
The building was designed by William P. Feth, a Lawrence architect. The foundation is one hundred and thirty feet with a depth of one hundred and nineteen feet. It is four stories in height, with a basement. The tower in the center of the building ascends to a height of one hundred and twenty- five feet. The exterior of the basement is of stone, and the interior is hand- somely finished in yellow pine. In this part of the structure is the students' dining room, the secretary's office, cloak room, wine room, toilet rooms, kitchen quarters, storage room, boiler and coal room. Here, also, is a room with a stage to be used in histrionic art entertainments pertaining to the academy. Ornamental steps of stone precede the entrance to the main build- ing and through a beautiful vestibule into the main hall. On one side and opposite the entrance the main stairway begins and extends to the top of the academy. There is another stairway in the rear, which begins in the base- ment reaching the top floor and is enclosed on its four sides by brick walls, as a safeguard against fire.
The parlor and reception rooms are on the first floor, and also the library, which will be stocked with the best books and literature obtainable. There are three music rooms on this floor, where the best instructors will be employed in all branches of the art. The chapel, which is situated at the end of the main hall, is two stories high. with vaulted ceilings : a balcony gives entrance through the second story of the main building. Upon the second floor will be found the bath and toilet rooms equipped with the latest improved plumbing. On this floor is also the novitiate rooms, locker rooms, sisters' apartments, three music rooms and an art studio.
Between the dispensary and two infirmaries, which are included in this floor, there will be a private bath for patients only. The third floor is divided into two dormitories for girls, a sisters' dormitory, private sleeping department, locker rooms, lavatory and bath rooms. The fourth story will be devoted to locker, trunk and storage rooms. That very necessary adjunct, the kitchen, is all that the most fastidious chef could desire. In time the grounds, now rough and broken by the debris of building material, will be made beautiful with spacious lawns, decorated with bright-hued flowers, fit emblems of the sacred lives of the Sisters of Nazareth Academy.
After the removal of the school to their new quarters the convent build- ing now used by the Sisters of St. Joseph will be converted into a hospital- a much needed factor in the city of Concordia, and one that will prove a lasting benefit. The Sisters are not only appreciated for the consecration of their devoted lives to ideal christian work, but are beloved by all denomina- tions and classes of people for their untiring and faithful ministrations to the sick and to the needy. In the capacity of teachers their standard is of the highest, spiritually and in an educational way they are unexcelled.
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HOSPITAL OF THE SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPHL.
In the entire history of the county no enterprise has been more timely than the founding of this institution by the Sisters of St. Joseph. The Imild- ing to be used for hospital services is the old Nazareth Academy, which is situate ] just east of the cathedral and recently vacated by the removal of the school to their magnificent and commodious new quarters, on the hill at the foot of Washington street. The building, a brick structure, surrounded by irces and a well-kept lawn, is being remodeled, thoroughly equipped with the latest appliances. a fine operating room, capacity for one hundred beds and fitted with every advantageous facility known to modern methods in medkeine and surgery. While Dr. W. R. Priest will be surgeon of the hos- pital. it will be a general establishment open to all the physicians of the county.
HONORABLE JAMES MANNY HLAGAMLAN.
The name of J. M. Hlagaman occurs frequently upon these pages and he is known to every household of Cloud county, yet many may not know of his career prior to taking up his abode on the frontier of Kansas on July 8. 1860, when he, with his family and a small company of friends, settled on Fhm creck. From that date down to the present he has been an active pro- nu ter of the best interests of Cloud county, and more especially of his own 1011. Concordia.
Mr. Hagaman is a native of Wayne county, New York, born on the' D'eak shores of Lake Ontario in July, 1830. He is a son of Joseph Nich- olas and Elizabeth ( O'Neil) Hagaman. His father was a farmer and car- peuter by occupation and a soldier in the war of 1812. He was murdered in JSON in Cloud county, where he had emigrated in 1866. The Hagaman ancestors were from Holland and pioneer settlers of Montgomery county, New York. Mr. Hagaman's father was a daring and courageous soldier ; was lieutenant of his company and taken prisoner with General Scott at the battle of Queenston, Canada. It was a great-uncle of Mr. Hagaman who built the Hagaman mills, manufacturers of cloth, in Montgomery county, New York. His maternal ancestors were from Holland and Ireland. His Irish ancestors, for taking sides with the colonies in the Revolutionary war, were exiled from Ireland by the British Crown.
Mr. Hagaman is the only surviving member of a family of seven chil- dren. He received a limited education at Hagaman's Mills and at the age of sixteen years had acquired what was taught at that time in the public schools. Though he did not take a collegiate course, many miles of travel would not produce a man of so wide a practical knowledge and experience of things generally. He considers that, while his life has not been a brilliant success, it by no means has been a failure : full success in some, and in all others par-
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tial success has resulted from his many undertakings and adventures. He has been self-supporting since nine years old.
Mr. Hagaman was married in 1855 to Mary Louisa Webster, who was born in the state of New York. Her parents were natives of Massachusetts and emigrated from New York to Wisconsin in 1850. Mr. and Mrs. Hagaman emigrated to Kansas with their one child in 1860. They came overland with two yoke of cattle. His financial possessions were one hun- dred and twenty-five dollars in gold, eight head of cattle and farm imple- ments ; four years later he gave his personal tax in as eighteen hundred dol- lars. He invested his surplus funds in calves and dealt in stock quite exten- sively.
Mr. and Mrs. Hagaman are the parents of seven children, six of whom are living : Alice C., wife of N. P. Buesenbark, now a resident of Kansas City, but formerly a merchant of Concordia. Mary Almina, who has been an invalid the greater part of her life. Adelina H., deceased wife of L. MI. Richardson, an employe of the Chicago Lumber Company and a merchant of Richburg, Mississippi. James F., now of Kansas City, formerly asso- ciated with his father in newspaper work Nicholas Alvin, a locomotive engineer in the employ of the B. & M. Railroad. Phenie, wife of James Lupton, express agent on the B. & M. Railroad, with residence at Lincoln, Nebraska. Fannie O., the first child born in Concordia.
Mr. Hagaman has represented his county in the legislature, founde.l the thriving and populous city of Concordia and has been its mayor two terms. For thirty-two years he has been an attorney at law and was the first to be admitted to practice in the district court of his county. Besides those mentioned he has held many other civil offices, and also a military commis- sion. and now, although past seventy-two years of age, his step is quick and his appearance is more like that of a man in the prime of life than one of his advanced years.
HORACE BUSHNELL, D. D.
The Reverend Mr. Bushnell, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Concordia, is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. born in 1836. His father was the Reverend Ilorace Bushnell. Sr., a native of Connecticut, born in 1802, who was also a Presbyterian minister for eighteen years and then became a Congregationalist. He located in Cincinnati about 1830 and pursued his theological studies in Lane Seminary after having had a training in the Manual Labor School of Whitestown, New York. After coming to Cin- cinnati Reverend Bushmell, Sr., taught school while studying at the sem- inary, and was licensed to preach about the same time this institution was organized as a theological school. At the expiration of two years' study he began his ministerial career and remained in the city of Cincinnati for fifty years or until his death in 1883. He organized the little society known as "Storrs Congregational church," and ministered to this congregation in
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connection with city missionary work for many years, and was well known throughout the city.
The Bushnell ancestors came to Boston about 1036, and subsequently settled in Connecticut Francis Bushnell was one of the colonists who founded the town of Guilford, now quite a city; then follows an issue through five generations to Jason Bushnell, who was the grandfather of Reverend Horace Bushnell. Jr., and like many of the family lived to an extreme old age, several of the Bushnell almost reaching the century mark. He was a man noted for his industry and integrity and was a soldier of the Revolution. Mr. Bushnell's mother was Caroline ( Hastings) Bushnell, who was of English origin : her ancestry came to America about 1636 and, like the Bushnells. settled in Connecticut. John Howard Payne, the author of "Home. Sweet Home." was a relative of Mrs. Bushnell. She was born in iSor and died in 1886.
Mr. Bushnell was educated in part at Oberlin College, but in 1859 grad- uated at Farmer's College, now absorbed in the Cincinnati University. His theological studies were pursued in Lane Seminary, where he graduated in 1862, and engaged in his pastoral work. He was ordained in 1863 at Madi- son, Indiana. Reverend Bushnell enlisted in the United States service in 1862 and was one of the one hundred thousand "squirrel hunters" sent out by Ohio to repel the invasion of General Bragg, but about nine days after- ward they were relieved and he was permitted to return to his field of labor. He received his discharge about ten years ago. During the war he labored at different times in the Christian commission. This was a volunteer move- ment, without pay, for the bodies and souls of the soldiers. Those who engaged in it had their needful expenses paid. but no more. They supple- mented the work of chaplains and nurses, and hesitated at nothing that could help or sustain the man who carried the gun.
Reverend Bushnell's first pastorate was in the village of Allensville, Indiana. Two years later he went to St. Louis Crossing, Indiana, and thence to Southport, Indiana, where he had charge of the congregation for ten years. Ile came to Minneapolis. Kansas, in the spring of 1877, where he labored for five years. and in January, 1882, came to Concordia, where he has since had charge of the First Presbyterian church. He was married in 1866 to MIrs. Verissa Bonham, the widow of Aaron E. Bonham, of Eliza- bethtown, Ohio. By her former marriage there were three children, Jolin L., a resident of Columbus, Indiana : Everett O., of Columbus, Indiana, and Kitty M., widow of Judge W. L. Harvey, of Chandler, Oklahoma.
Mrs. Bushnell is the daughter of Hiram and Sarah ( Fisher ) Olmstead, natives of Massachusetts. The Olinsteads came to West Meredith, New York, where Mrs. Bushnell was born, and later moved to Indiana. Her father was a teacher and under him she received her principal education. To Mr. and Mrs. Bushnell four children have been born, three of whom lived to maturity. Carrie H., wife of Dr. F. A. Butterfield, of Lawrence, Michigan. a physician of considerable prominence. She was a teacher for a number of
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years and held positions at Salina, Jewell City, Topeka and Concordia. They have two children, Claire and Horace. Alice F., deceased wife of F. C. Perkins, of Durango, Colorado, an attorney and registrar of land office. He was formerly a well-known educator in Beloit and Concordia, but removed to Colorado with the hope of benefiting Mrs. Perkins' health. She was a young woman of many natural personal charms, well known and beloved in the city of Concordia. She died in Durango, Colorado, in February 1898, leaving three children, viz: Harold Bushnell, Lewis Mayne and Dorothy Alice. Herbert H., a resident of Aspen, Colorado, is the manager of the Times, a morning daily paper. He finished a classical course from Wabash College, Indiana, read law for a time, but later turned his attention to newspaper work.
Mr. Bushnell is a man of orthodox views and not only enjoys the esteem and confidence of his congregation, but of the entire community wherein he labors.
LEWIS CRANS.
L. J. Crans, one of the best-known attorneys and an early settler of Cloud county, is a native of Philadelphia. The date of his birth was Jan- uary 26, 1826. He is a son of Peter and Harriet (Lewis) Crans. His father conducted a boot and shoe business in the early days of Philadelphia. He was a native of Orange county, New York, and was a soldier in the war of 1812. His family were numerous in New York; his ancestry were of German and Dutch origin and belonged to the early settlers of that section of the country. The paternal homestead went into the hands of the dis- tinguished William A. Seward, who was a relative by marriage. The ma- ternal ancestors were of English and Irish origin. His grandparents died when our subject was a mere child.
Mr. Crans is the eighth of a family of nine children and with the excep- tion of one, all lived to ripe old age. He has one unmarried sister living, who is ten years his senior; her residence is in Philadelphia. Mr. Crans' last brother. Peter, died about two years ago at the advanced age of eighty- six years. With the exception of a brief time in Kansas this brother spent the greater part of his life in the city of Philadelphia.
Mr. Crans received his education in the public schools of the Quaker City and graduated as a member of the second class from the Central high school and subsequently had conferred upon him by that institution the degree of master of arts. After his graduation he took up the study of law in the office of his brother, Peter Crans, but before his admission to the bar he removed to the town of Kirbysville, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in lumbering and mercantile business. Mr. Crans was admitted to the bar at Clearfield in the early 'fifties. He was unanimously elected district attorney of Clearfield county, and devoted his entire attention to the practice of law in that city.
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In the year 1861 he removed with his family to Philadelphia, where he continued the practice of law. He has striven for success in his profession and has been well rewarded for the effort made to gain the top round of the ladder of fame. While engaged in getting forces into the field for Governor Curtin. not as a soldier but as a private citizen, Mr. Crans, through an acci- dent. lost the use of a limb, which entirely unfitted him for service and pre- vented him from entering the army, and through this circumstance, he re- moved to Philadelphia.
Ile later located in Jersey City and in 1871 emigrated to Concordia, Kansas, after stopping a short time at Junction City, awaiting the opening of the land office at Concordia. From that date he has been actively engaged in the practice of law in Cloud and the northern counties of Kansas. His practice has been extensive and extended.
Mr. Crans was married on the 21st of July. 1847, to Margaret A. Peterson, a daughter of John and Naomi Peterson. Mrs. Crans' father was of Swedish ancestry who were early settlers on the Delaware river. Her maternal ancestors were among the English families who came over with William Penn. Mrs. Crans was born in Philadelphia.
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