[502] Woodson, "The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861," p. 139, quoting Special Report of U. S. Com. of Ed., 1871, pp. 205-206.
[503] McElrone, Memoir to "Bishop England's Works," Vol. I, XIV.
[504] Acts and Decrees of the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore, p. xxviii; also No. 484, p. 244.
[505] Acts and Decrees of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, No. 239, p. 134.
[506] This brings to mind the fact that, in one burial lot in Calvary Cemetery, Memphis, Tennessee, lie the bodies of twenty-one priests and some fifty Catholic Sisters who fell victims of yellow fever, while nursing the sick during the great epidemics which raged in that city during 1873 and 1878.
[507] Reilly, "Life and Times of Cardinal Gibbons," Vol. II, p. 47.
[508] Riley, "Passing Events in the Life of Cardinal Gibbons," App. X.
[509] Will, "Life of Cardinal Gibbons," p. 361.
[510] Judge Thomas Lee, in "America," p. 495, New York, March, 1917.
[511] Bragg, "Men of Maryland," p. 131.