History and government of New Mexico . e the long overlandjourney to St. Louis or elsewhere in the United Statesor Mexico. As a rule, girls and women received no educa-tion at all. In December, 1847, Governor Vigil reported that therewas but one public school in the Territory and that therewere no private schools or academies. The census of 1850indicated that about seven-eighths of the adult populationwere illiterate. In no part of the United States, saidthe legislature of 1853, are the means of education sodeficient, as in New Mexico. A year later (1854) theyagain urged, The Territory is enti
History and government of New Mexico . e the long overlandjourney to St. Louis or elsewhere in the United Statesor Mexico. As a rule, girls and women received no educa-tion at all. In December, 1847, Governor Vigil reported that therewas but one public school in the Territory and that therewere no private schools or academies. The census of 1850indicated that about seven-eighths of the adult populationwere illiterate. In no part of the United States, saidthe legislature of 1853, are the means of education sodeficient, as in New Mexico. A year later (1854) theyagain urged, The Territory is entirely without schools,except in the capital, in which there is one or two supportedby private subscription. 213 214 THE HISTORY OF NEW MEXICOI. PRIVATE SCHOOLS 251. Catholic Schools, 1850-1870. — In 1851, whenBishop John B. Lamy came to Santa Fe to take chargeof the work of the Catholic Church in the Territory, hereported the churches in ruins and no schools at all, thoughit appears that by that time there were a few private St. Michaels College, Santa Fe Reforms were badly needed; and Lamy had come as areformer believing in education as the principal agencyfor getting results. The very year of his arrival (1851)he established a free English school in Santa Fe. The nextyear (1852) he brought in five Sisters of Loretto and beganto establish convents and academies. The first of themwas the Loretto Academy and Convent at Santa Fe,founded January 1, 1853. In 1859 he brought the firstChristian Brothers and founded St. Michaels College EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SINCE 1850 215 at Santa Fe. The founding of the Jesuit college at LasVegas, 1877, was also the work of his hands. By 1865, he was able to report that he had thirty-sevenearnest priests and a half dozen other workers, had builtforty-five new churches, repaired eighteen or twenty others,and had laid the foundations for a system of Catholicschools. He became archbishop in 1875, and continued hislabors almost to the time
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