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mas, 1876. The residence of the priests, as also the school building, were the work of Father Dunn's industry. His successor is the Rev. T. Lillis.
A third division of the original parish of Kansas City was made
Annunciation Parish. May 25, 1872, when Arch- bishop Kenrick formed the part of the city known as West Kansas into a new parish. The new parish was named Annunciation. The Rev. William J. Dalton, assistant at Annunciation Church, St. Louis, was assigned pastor. On Sunday, June 27th, Father Dalton said the first mass for the new congregation. An empty store on Twelfth Street, between Wyoming and Greene Streets, was tendered by its owner for tem- porary use. July 3, two lots of fifty feet each on the southwest corner of Fourteenth and Wyoming Streets were purchased. This property was then a portion of a corn field, and had just been platted into an addition known as Depot Addition. August 22d fol- lowing, 100 feet more were purchased on the southeast corner, facing the first pur- chase. July 13th a frame church building, thirty by forty feet, was completed and occit- pied. This building was enlarged fifty feet in length, and in September was moved across the street to the new property. Here the congregation worshiped until November 12, 1882, when the new brick church was dedicated. This edifice was sixty-eight by one hundred and thirty feet, and cost $20,- 000. Besides the old and new churches, An- nunciation Parish erected a large pastoral residence, a dwelling for the teaching Sisters, and a spacious schoolhouse. The growth of the parish from about fifty families in 1872 was remarkable. In 1882 there were on the church records over twelve hundred families. As the parish was that district of the city where the railroads, stock yards and machine shops were gathered, there were many board- ing houses kept and tenanted by Catholics. An innundation from the Missouri River in 1882, and the sweeping purchase of entire streets of property by the Stock Yards Com- pany and the Rock Island Railway Company, in 1883, 1886 and 1892, forced the parish- ioners to other parts of the city, and reduced the congregation to a number less than were present at the founding of the parish. In October, 1898, the church and pastoral resi- dence were bought by the Rock Island Rail-
way Company. It will be only a very short time until the parish will be abandoned. All the territory in West Kansas City, excepting a small portion, is now in the hands of rail- roads, stock yards and commercial interests. St. John's and St. Joseph's Parishes were taken from the territory of
New Parishes. St. Patrick's Parish. Both were founded at the same time. Father James Phelan organized St .. John's Parish in February, 1882, and is still its pastor. His first services were in the East Bottoms. He purchased the fifty feet on which the church stands, on Independence Avenue. The cornerstone of the church was laid Sunday, June 14, 1882. The parish grew until an addition of forty feet extended the building to its present proportions. He pur- chased the pastoral residence in 1892. Father James Kennedy, of St. Joseph's. Church, said mass in an empty hall on Eigh- teenth Street until he completed the basement of the church on Nineteenth and Harrison Streets. He purchased the location on which. he erected the parish school. In connection with the school property, he bought a lot and house for the Sisters. Father Clohessy be- came pastor in 1889 or 1890. He completed the church, and erected a pastoral residence.
In 1876 the Redemptorist Fathers came from New Orleans, Louisiana, and purchased ten acres of ground at Westport. The fol- lowing year they erected a church edifice and monastery at Thirty-third and Wyandotte Streets, at an outlay of $40,000. They soon opened a preparatory college for students, and in 1885 found it necessary to add to their buildings for educational purposes. In 1890- the preparatory department was removed to Kirkwood, Missouri, and the college was de- voted solely to use as the Theological Sem- inary of the Redemptorist Order. In addition to the college faculty and the parish priests, the monastery is the home of nearly a score of missioners who go out to various Western States. From 1878 until April, 1895, the people of the parish attended the Redemptor- ist Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. April 21, 1895, a parish church under that name was opened for divine worship.
St. Aloysitis' Parish was organized in Jan- uary, 1886, by the Rev. Henry A. Schapman, S. J. A lot at Eleventh Street and Prospect Avenue was purchased, and a church build- ing was completed by the Rev. James A.
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Dowling, S. J. Until its completion, services were held in the basement for some years. The church is conducted by the Jesuit Fathers.
The Church of the Holy Name was also founded in 1886. During the first year. Fathers Sheridan, Devereux and O'Dwyer served in turn, and services were held in three different dwelling houses. In 1887 a frame church building was erected at Twenty-third Street and College Avenue. The church is conducted by the Dominican Fathers, a band of whom are here stationed, and give mis- sions through the Western country as far as the Rocky Mountains. Of the rectors of Holy Name, the Rev. Father J. D. Fowler was, in 1900, elected prior of St. Louis Ber- trand's Convent, at Louisville, Kentucky.
In 1886 the Rev. William McCormack be- gan the organization of a parish in the East Bottoms, to which he gave the name of St. Francis the Seraph, or of Assissi. A church building was erected in 1887, and a school building in 1897. In 1891 the parish came under the care of the Franciscan Fathers. The congregation includes various national- ities, and the present pastor, the Rev. Mathew Schmidt, O. F. M., preaches and hears con- fessions in English, German, Plattdeutsch, Dutch or Flemish, and French.
In 1887, Sacred Heart Parish was estab- lished by the Rev. M. J. O'Dwyer, who has erected one of the most spacious and impos- ing church edifices in the city. In order to lessen expense, Father O'Dwyer utilized the earth removed in grading, for brick-making, and has built an academy and a residence.
In 1888 the Rev. R. M. Ryan was appointed to reorganize the parish at Westport, and he succeeded in renovating the old church build- ing, which had been in disuse from 1874 to that time. It is known as Our Lady of Good Counsel. The Rev. J. T. Walsh is pastor.
St. Stephen's Parish was formed in 1888 by the Rev. P. J. O'Donnell, then secretary of the diocese of Kansas City, and chaplain of St. Joseph's Hospital. The church building is a fine edifice at Sheffield, outside the east- ern limits of Kansas City.
Holy Trinity Parish, under the care of the Rev. M. J. Gleason, was also formed in 1888. It has a spacious edifice, occupying the sec- ond story, and the basement combining parsonage and school rooms. It is situated at Seventh Street and Cypress Avenue.
St. Vincent's Parish was founded in 1888 by the Rev. P. M. O'Regan, and a church building was erected soon afterward. This building was abandoned, and a new parish was established on the south side of the city. The new church and pastoral residence are situated at Flora and Thirty-first streets. The church is under the care of the Lazarist Fathers.
The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows was founded in 1888, by the Rev. Aloysius Kurts, and a building was completed in 1891. It is under the care of the Franciscan Order.
A congregation of Arabians was formed by Father John, an Arabian priest, in 1890. For want of a church building, services are held in a room at Second Street and Grand Avenue. Services are conducted in the Syro- Chaldaic tongue.
The Holy Rosary is an Italian Church, founded in 1895 by the Rev. Santo Paulo, and now under the care of the Rev. P. Lotti.
The churches of Kansas City are eighteen in number, and all, save four, have been established since the coming of Bishop Hogan.
St. Teresa's Academy, for young ladies, was opened on August 4, 1866. It ranks high among the best female academies in the West. In 1809 it numbered 220 pupils.
The Christian Brothers conduct an acad- emy and primary school for boys, and use the school building attached to the Cathedral. In 1899 one hundred and fifty students were reported.
There are thirteen parish schools in Kan- sas City, numbering about fifty teachers, and upwards of 1,600 pupils.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City was created Septem- Kansas City Diocese. ber 10, 1880, and com- prises all that part of Mis- souri south of the Missouri River, and west of the eastern boundary lines of the counties of Moniteau, Miller, Camden, Laclede, Wright, Douglas and Ozark. The Right Rev. John Joseph Hogan, bishop of St. Joseph, Mis- souri, was transferred to the new see, and took up his episcopal residence in Kansas City. He continued to act as administrator of the St. Joseph diocese until 1893, when Bishop Burke, of Cheyenne, was transferred to St. Joseph. Soon after his transfer to Kansas City, Bishop Hogan built anew the Church of the Immaculate Conception, to
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be known as the Cathedral. Ground was broken October 1, 1881 ; the cornerstone was laid May 14, 1882, and in 1883 the edifice was completed. The building is one hundred and seventy by seventy feet, with a fifty-feet sanctuary, and a tower one hundred and sixty feet in height. The latter contains a beautiful chime of eleven bells, the gift of the late Mrs. Thomas Corrigan, as a memorial to her deceased husband. The Cathedral was the scene of impressive religious observances August 27, 1895, on the return of Bishop Hogan from a visit to Ireland, whither he had gone to restore his shattered health. De- cember Sth of the same year was celebrated the golden jubilee of the coming of Father Donnelly to Westport Landing, and upon this occasion the chimes rang for the first time. In February, 1896, the visit of the apostolic delegate, Archbishop (now Car- dinal) Satolli, was made the occasion for other marked observances. Oppressed by increasing duties and the growing infirmities of age, Bishop Hogan petitioned Rome for a coadjutor, and the Very Rev. John J. Glen- non, since 1893 rector of the Cathedral Par- ish and vicar general of the Kansas City diocese, was elevated to the position. Father Glennon was consecrated bishop of Pinara (Asia Minor) June 29, 1896, by Archbishop Kain, of St. Louis; his coadjutorship bears with it right of succession in the episcopacy. In the Kansas City diocese are fifty-five churches with resident priests ; thirteen mis- sions with churches; twenty-seven stations ; nine chapels ; forty-eight secular priests, and forty-two priests of religious orders ; fifteen ecclesiastical students ; nine academies for young ladies ; parochial schools in forty-one parishes and missions ; two orphan asylums ; one industrial and reform school; five hos- pitals, and a Ilome for the Aged Poor. The Catholic population of the diocese is about 45,000. The only Catholic journal in the diocese is the "Catholic Register," founded in 1899.
WM. J. DALTON.
Catholic Knights and Ladies of America .- An organization similar in char- acter to the Catholic Knights of America, designed to admit both men and women to membership, and composed, as its name in- dicates, of persons affiliating with the Cath- olic Church. It was organized in Louisville,
Kentucky, in 1890, and has since established branches in the larger cities of Missouri.
Catholic Knights of America .-
A semi-religious organization of a fraternal character, having an insurance feature and admitting members of the Catholic Church, originated at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1878. The founder was John Mclaughlin, a layman of the Catholic Church, of modest worth, who, since his death, has had a monument erected to his memory in Nashville by the Knights. The organization started with eight members, but its object being approved by Bishop Pat- rick A. Feehan, afterward the archbishop of Chicago, it was chartered by special act of the Legislature of Kentucky, and under this charter has continued its work in that and other States. Within a comparatively short time 1,000 had been enrolled in Tennessee and Kentucky. Since then its membership has been extended to Indi- ana, Ohio, Missouri and other States. The first branch of the order in Missouri was organized in St. Louis in 1879, in St. Patrick's Parish, among the original mem- bers being Patrick Monahan, John Mertz, John Parkison and John P. Kelley. The order extended rapidly in the State, and in the year 1900 there were eighty-one branches. with 4,633 members in Missouri, St. Louis having thirty-six branches with 3,483 mem- bers; Kansas City seven branches, with 176 members. and St. Joseph two branches with 67 members. In the United States the membership was estimated at 23,500. Con- nected with the order is a uniformed body known as the Uniformed Rank, Catholic Knights of America.
Catlin, Daniel, manufacturer, was born in 1837 in Litchfield, Connecticut, son of Dan Catlin, who was one of the pioneer tobacco manufacturers of St. Louis. He was reared and educated in that city, and trained to the business in which he has since been so eminently successful, in early boyhood. His father's tobacco factory was founded in North St. Louis as early as 1840. In his young manhood, Daniel Catlin became the manager of this factory, and at once greatly expanded its operations. Giving special attention to the manufacture of fine-cut chewing and smoking tobaccos, he placed on the market
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the noted brands, known as "Golden Thread." "Meerschaum," "Old Style" and "Huntress," which have become known everywhere, and have carried the names and fame of the man- ufacturers to all parts of the country. Ex- panding trade brought about a proportionate expansion of manufacturing facilities, and the organization of the corporation known as the Catlin Tobacco Company, in 1876. Mr. Catlin became president of this corporation and remained at its head until 1898, when he and his associates sold the splendid prop- erty which they had built up to a mammoth corporation, which at that time consolidated many of the leading tobacco manufactories of the country under one management. Dur- ing the later years of its existence the Catlin Tobacco Company had in its employ more than four hundred persons and was numbered among the leading industrial institutions of St. Louis. The prosperity which has attended Mr. Catlin's manufacturing enterprise, and his accumulation of a fortune in that connec- tion, have caused him to become interested largely in real estate, banking and other en- terprises, and he is officially identified with some of the strongest financial institutions of the city. A successful manufacturer, he is also known as a sagacious and capable financier, and his connection with any enter- prise commands for it the confidence of the public. Mr. Catlin married Miss Justina Kayser, daughter of Henry Kayser, at one time city engineer of St. Louis, and a much esteemed citizen.
Catlin, Ephron, merchant, was born in 1840, in Litchfield, Connecticut, son of Dan Catlin, and brother of Daniel Catlin, whose business career in St. Louis has been briefly sketched above. He came with his parents to St. Louis when he was seven years of age. and obtained his education in the public schools of that city. In his early boyhood he was apprenticed to the drug business, and after having thoroughly mastered all the de- tails of that trade engaged in it on his own account, and has since been identified with that branch of commerce and other enter- prises in St. Louis, having had a long and successful business career in that city. Mr. Catlin married Miss Camilla Kayser, daugh- ter of Henry and Emilie (Lassen) Kayser. Mrs. Catlin's father, who was officially con- neeted with the city government of St. Louis
for many years, holding at different times the positions of city engineer and city comp- troller, died in 1884. Her mother is still living and is a resident of St. Louis.
Cattle-Breeding and Cattle-Feed- ing .- Missouri is endowed by nature with characteristics that, properly utilized, will perpetually maintain for her the leading posi- tion in the cattle industry. Bluegrass, the superior of all grazing grasses, grows with greater luxuriance than in its native State of Kentucky. The soil of Missouri appears to be the natural home of timothy, surest of meadow grasses; while Missouri clover fields are not surpassed in the world. Sorghum, Kaffir corn, millet, rape and other fodder crops can be depended on to make good any temporary shortage in the hay crop. Corn is a sure crop in Missouri, for a corn failure in this State has never been known. Oats, barley and other grains are successfully grown. The mangel-wurzel, or stock beet, grows to mammoth size in great abundance. Thus every requirement for scientific cattle-feeding is thoroughly met.
The chief reason why Missouri must always be a great cattle-breeding and grazing State is because its rich, rolling prairie lands are everywhere interspersed with rivers and creeks. Rolling prairies drain themselves. Self-drained lands are necessarily surface drained. The volume of water collecting in surface drains forms gullies or "washes." which grow (particularly in plowed lands) with each recurring rain. Hence, the intelli- gent farmer does not plow the land where these surface drains wash, but lays all such lauds down to pasture or meadow, so that the sod prevents the soil from washing away with the drainage. The more or less broken lands adjoining the many rivers and their tributaries throughout Missouri are, there- fore, naturally and most profitably adapted to grazing. If bluegrass grows better in one part of Missouri than another, it is on these timbered lands adjacent to the creeks and rivers. Hence, while these lands are dam- aged somewhat under the plow, they are unrivaled in the world as pastures, and ex- perience has demonstrated that the longer Missouri lands are intelligently pastured (avoiding overstocking), the more and better feed they afford. The rich table lands lying high, between these natural grazing lands,
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afford sufficient plow lands to raise all the grains for the fattening of all the cattle that can be reared on the grazing lands. When the agricultural lands are properly devoted to the rearing and fattening of cattle, Mis- souri will be without a rival in the industry.
Experience has proven that the soil of Missouri is unequaled in its gratitude for good treatment. It produces as good crops as any, under crude methods, but on cattle farms, where pains are taken to save the manures and return them to the soils by means of manure-spreading machinery, two bushels of grain is grown where one grew before. It has been demonstrated that farms in Missouri that have been cropped for half a century, as purely farming lands, can be taken in their run-down condition by cattle- raisers ; who, laying one-half the acreage down to pasture, and cropping the balance to cattle foods, saving the manures and re- turning them to the plow lands, will so fer- tilize these plow lands that the half of the farm under tillage will produce more than the entire farmi did under previous treat- ment. What we have said applies to the whole of the northern, or prairie, part of the State. The same is true of the fertile valleys of the mountainous part of Missouri. At the present time (1900) thousands of cattle are annually imported into Missouri to consume the surplus coarse grains and fodder. This is because much land in the northern part of the State is plowed when nature intended it for grazing, and an almost countless acreage of rough lands in south Missouri is not utilized at all. The favorable mild climate, abundant water and nutritious grasses of south Missouri make it an ideal breeding country. Bluegrass is native, and five acres to the cow will pasture her the year round and enable her to rear a better calf than can be raised by the cow that is allotted from twenty to forty acres of arid grazing lands in the ranching country of the West and Southwest. That day should come speedily when south Missouri will supply all the cattle required by the north Missouri feeders. With the hills of south Missouri affording feed and shelter for cattle, the nar- row valleys will produce fodder crops suffi- cient to carry the breeding herds during the few very severe storms of winter that inter- fere with grazing, the product of these herds being sold as calves at weaning time to the
feeders of the north, without the loss and shrinkage consequent in the long distance shipments from the southwest ranges.
The surface soil of the north half of Mis- souri varies from twelve to thirty-six inches in depth on the high lands. The subsoil is a clay which holds moisture that is the salva- tion of crops and pasture during a drouth. This subsoil also prevents the leaching of the liquid from the manure spread on the sur- face, so that none escapes until absorbed by the plants, thereby returning to the farmer more for his labor in fertilizing than any com- bination of soils known to agriculture. It, therefore, can only be a question of time when the population of the country will in- crease so as to enforce upon agriculturists the necessity of taking advantage of their opportunities, and these will, in turn, force and maintain by sheer merit, the State of Missouri in the first place among the cattle States. Missouri already holds first place as producer of the most perfect types of pure- bred live stock. No State has equaled the State of Missouri in the production of high class saddle horses. She is the peer of any in trotting and thoroughbred horses, and vastly the superior of all in the production of mules. In Hereford cattle, it is conceded she has more and better herds than any State in the Union, and even England, the native home of the Hereford, can not, in numbers and quality combined, successfully compete with her. The shorthorn cattle are well rep- resented in Missouri; likewise the very best herd of Polled Angus cattle that was ever collected in America-if not in the world- is the product of a Missouri breeder.
Kansas City has come to be the center of the pure-bred cattle trade. An extensive pavillion is erected there by the Kansas City Stock Yard Company exclusively for this trade, the only building of the sort in the world.
The export of pure-bred cattle from Mis- souri forms a very large source of income to the State, and there is not a State, Terri- tory, or province in North America that has not felt the influence of improving cattle blood from Missouri, and shipments have been made to South America.
No essential is lacking, therefore, in Mis- souri for cattle-breeding and feeding. But although Missouri is not now surpassed in profitable cattle-growing, her resources as a
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cattle State are but partially developed. While Missouri now boasts the largest feed lots and most extensive feeding plants that fatten the poorer grades of cattle supplied by the other States, it is the unsurpassed quality of her home-bred cattle that is the foundation of her high reputation as a cattle State.
The superiority of Missouri beef breeds of cattle is the chief glory of the agriculture of the State. Other States may equal or exceed Missouri in the number of cattle, but never in quality. Missouri, to-day, produces more prime cattle than any other State, and in the progressive twentieth century quality counts for more than quantity.
T. F. B. SOTHAM, President Am. Hereford Cattle- Breeders' Assn.
Cave Spring. - A town in Greene County, sixteen miles northwest of Spring- field, the county seat, and one and one-fourth miles from Pearl, its shipping point. In 1900 the estimated population was 100. It takes its name from a large spring issuing from a near-by cave on Asher Creek. John Grigs- by was the first settler. Mount Zion Pres- byterian Church is one of the oldest in Missouri, and claims to be the first regu- larly organized church of that denomination west of St. Louis. It was founded, in 1839, by the Rev. E. P. Noel. At first worship was held in cabins, and then in arbors and sheds which were used for general camp-meeting purposes. In 1845 a log building was erected, which was replaced in 1869 with the present structure, costing $3.500. An adja- cent school building, erected in 1872. is the third on that site : the first was a log building, in which David Dalzell was teacher. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, near the town, dates to 1838, under the pastorate of Elder William Tatem.
Caves, Ancient Mining Imple- ments in .- In the early working of the Valle mines in St. Francois County, in a few places at a distance of from twenty to thirty feet beneath the surface, caves were found in which were heaps of loose earth containing bits of lead and bones of buffalo, deer and elk, fashioned into rude mining im- plements. By some ethnologists these relics were supposed to have been used by a race
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