History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . REV. ^NCIS SOLANUS, 0. F. M. tion but made Vicar General for Michi-gan. To his customary signature, there-fore, is duly added, the V. G. Scarcely had Father Richard left theIsland wdien an unexpected visitor ar-rived. The long intervals between thepriests visits had not escaped the obser-vation of Protestant missionary societies. In the month of June, 1820,
History of the diocese of Sault Ste, Marie and Marquette; containing a full and accurate account of the development of the Catholic church in upper Michigan, with portraits of bishops, priests and illustrations of churches old and new . REV. ^NCIS SOLANUS, 0. F. M. tion but made Vicar General for Michi-gan. To his customary signature, there-fore, is duly added, the V. G. Scarcely had Father Richard left theIsland wdien an unexpected visitor ar-rived. The long intervals between thepriests visits had not escaped the obser-vation of Protestant missionary societies. In the month of June, 1820, a Rev. , father of the inventor of the tele- 176 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF graph, had visited the Island andpreached the first Protestant report to United Foreign Mission-ary Society of New York was so glowingof possibilities that, in 1822, the Societysent Rev. William Montague Ferry toexplore the field. We can surmise his re-port for a year later, he and his wife ar-rived on the Island with the intention ofopening a school and establishing a mis-. REV. ANTHONY C. KELLER, BORN IN MUNICH,BAVARIA, FEBRUARY 27. 1S66, ORDAINED BYCARDINAL-VICAR PAROCCHI IN ROME, NOVEMBERI, 1890; DIED AT HANCOCK, JUNE 21, 19OI. sion not only for the local natives but forall the Indians of the Northwest. arrived on Mackinac, October 19th,1823, and opened a school in the oldCourt house, November 2nd, with only afew children, but closed the year with anattendance of twelve day scholars. Twoyears later the building known as the Mission House was erected for schooland missionary purposes, and it becamethe very furnace where Catholic childrenand adults were melted and cast intoPresbyterians. Nor could the poor, igno-rant people be blamed for it. Eager tolearn something, they would have at-tended any school regardless of whatreligion it infused with the daily lessons.\Vhat Catholic poverty could not givethem Protestant abundance scatteredbefore them unto nausea. The atten
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