SHC 1830-1905 . untary exile, bidding adieu toparents, friends and country. On arriving in this country he was first stationed in Cincinnati, where hediligently appHed himself to the study of the English language. His stay here,however, was not of long duration, for in July, 1846, the French province of Lyon,accepted the management of Spring Hill College from its founder, Bishop Portier,of Mobile, Ala. Under these circumstances he was called to New Orleans in February,1847, and was immediately sent to Spring Hill, which, with a brief interruptionwas the scene of his labors, teaching young boys
SHC 1830-1905 . untary exile, bidding adieu toparents, friends and country. On arriving in this country he was first stationed in Cincinnati, where hediligently appHed himself to the study of the English language. His stay here,however, was not of long duration, for in July, 1846, the French province of Lyon,accepted the management of Spring Hill College from its founder, Bishop Portier,of Mobile, Ala. Under these circumstances he was called to New Orleans in February,1847, and was immediately sent to Spring Hill, which, with a brief interruptionwas the scene of his labors, teaching young boys the fundamental principles ofthe Latin and Greek languages, until his death. The interruption just alluded to was caused by the burning of the Collegeon the night of February 5, 1869. After this untoward accident he and the students were transferred to GrandCoteau, La. His stay there was only temporary, for Spring Hill was soon rebuiltand reopened on the eighth of December following, when he returned never more. FATHERiiDOMlNIC YENNI, SPRING HILL COLLEGE. 121 to depart from the loved spot to which he had become so much attached untilcalled to his true home above. He expired on the morning of the eighth of July, 1882, in the seventy-sixthyear of his age and the fifty-eighth of his religious life, leaving this world of toiland care to receive the reward of his long and laborious life. REV. A. CORNETTE, S. J. Few priests in the early days of Spring Hill Col-lege were so well known as Father Cornette. But it was especially as a scientistthat he was distinguished. After the fire there remained nothing of the magnifi-cent museum and laboratory he had formed but a mass of cinders and molten Cornette, while trying to reduce this mass to its constituents, inhaled somepoisonous gases and died the same day, March, 1872. Father Cornette was anative of France, and was born at Fleury, Cote dOr, on the 5th of March, entered the Society on September 10, 1840. Father Co
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