. History of the Catholic Church in the United States. as compelled to close. Thereverend president had labored to infuse a properspirit, publishing The Monthly, but the Catholicpublic did not respond. The University building wastransferred to the Sisters of St. Joseph for an orphanasylum. Bishop Duggan visited Rome, for the first time,on the occasion of the canonization of the Japanesemartyrs in 1862. A few years after the strong, vigor-ous mind showed alarming signs; Bishop Duggan Governor Bissell was baptized at Washington in 1854, by Rev. Donelan. He was attended in his last moments b
. History of the Catholic Church in the United States. as compelled to close. Thereverend president had labored to infuse a properspirit, publishing The Monthly, but the Catholicpublic did not respond. The University building wastransferred to the Sisters of St. Joseph for an orphanasylum. Bishop Duggan visited Rome, for the first time,on the occasion of the canonization of the Japanesemartyrs in 1862. A few years after the strong, vigor-ous mind showed alarming signs; Bishop Duggan Governor Bissell was baptized at Washington in 1854, by Rev. Donelan. He was attended in his last moments by Rev. J. Fitzgib-bon. Pittsburgh Catholic, xvii., p. 44. 624 THE CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES, became wayward, variable, and unjust in his treatmentof his best priests. Complaints arose, and Arch-bishop Kenrick was directed to make an investiga-tion. The plausible explanations of the Bishop seemedto justify his course, no one at the time suspecting thereal cause—incipient insanity. But after attendingthe Second Plenary Council in 1866, the sad fact. SIGNATURE OF BISHOP DUGGAN. became evident. He went the next year to the springsat Carlsbad, Austria, leaving Very Rev. ThomasHalligan and Rev. Peter Fisher, Vicars-General,in charge of the diocese. On his return his conditionwas such as to offer little hope of his ever recovering,and he was removed to an institution in St. Louis, wherehe died March 27, 1899. CHAPTER III. DIOCESE OF QUINCY, 1853-1857, DIOCESE OF ALTON, 1857. RT. EEV. HENRY DAMIAN JUNCKER, FIRST BISHOP OF ALTON, 1857--1868. When it was decided to divide the diocese ofChicago, a see was erected at Qiiincy in 1853, but asthe Very Rev. Joseph Melcher, who was appointed,declined the task of organizing it, the diocese was ad-ministered, at last, by Bishop ORegan. On the 9thof January, 1857, the see was transferred to Alton, andthe new diocese embraced Adams, Brown, Cass,Menard, Sangamon,Macon, Moultrie, Coles, and Edgarcounties, and all south of them. It contained fifty
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