[16] Annals of the Sisters of Mercy.
[17] Many of the facts in the foregoing chapter have been gleaned from the annals of the Sisters of Mercy, which have been ably edited by Mother Mary Carroll.
[18] The author desires to express his thanks to General James R. O’Beirne, of New York city, who aided him very materially in obtaining the material in question.
[19] From the Congressional Globe containing the debates and proceedings of the second session of the Thirty-seventh Congress, page 158. Vol. 1.
[20] In an address delivered in Pittsburg about 1890.
[21] The fiftieth anniversary of the foundation in Philadelphia of the Sisters of St. Joseph was celebrated May 5, 1897, at the Mount St. Joseph’s Novitiate, in Chestnut Hill. About ninety priests from Philadelphia and adjacent dioceses were present, and the venerable Monsignor Cantwell, who, with Bishop O’Hara, of Scranton, was the only one then living who extended the hand of welcome to the three Sisters who came from St. Louis fifty years previous, was among the guests. There were present also about two hundred visiting Sisters from the various Catholic institutions in the city and several from Rochester, N. Y., and Flushing. L. I. Archbishop Ryan made a brief address of congratulation to the pupils and the community. He said that forty-five years ago he knew the Sisters of the St. Louis Community, and that he had watched their astounding growth with much interest. He paid a glowing tribute to the beneficence and charity of the community, and prayed that God would cause them to prosper in the future as He had done in the past.
[22] Father Lambert is one of the most notable priests in the United States. His ancestors on his mother’s side came over with William Penn and eventually settled in Mt. Holly, N. J. Father Lambert had some very interesting experiences as an army chaplain. He is a writer of some note and has been a worker in Catholic journalism for many years. His best known work is probably his “Notes on Ingersoll,” which had a tremendous sale.
[23] From Father Corby’s “Memoirs of Chaplain Life.”
[24] A “Story of Courage,” by Rose Hawthorne and George Parsons Lathrop.
[25] A “Woman’s Story of the War.”