. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . he wasaboutto remove to Cana-da, when she madethe acquaintance ofDr. William LouisDubourg, then presi-dent of St. Maryscollege, who invitedher to reside in Bal-timore and open a school for girls. Before this shehad formed the design of founding a congregationof women for the service of children and orphans,and $8,000, given by a young convert to Dr. Du-bourg for charitable uses and transferred by the lat-ter to Mrs. Seton, enabled her to carry out this pur-pose. A farm was purchased at Emmettsburg, Md.,and on 22 June, 1809, Mrs. Seton moved thit
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . he wasaboutto remove to Cana-da, when she madethe acquaintance ofDr. William LouisDubourg, then presi-dent of St. Maryscollege, who invitedher to reside in Bal-timore and open a school for girls. Before this shehad formed the design of founding a congregationof women for the service of children and orphans,and $8,000, given by a young convert to Dr. Du-bourg for charitable uses and transferred by the lat-ter to Mrs. Seton, enabled her to carry out this pur-pose. A farm was purchased at Emmettsburg, Md.,and on 22 June, 1809, Mrs. Seton moved thither,with three companions, forming the nucleus of anorder that afterward spread over the United community increased rapidly in numbers, andpupils flocked to the school. In 1811 Mother Setonadopted the rules and constitution of St. Vincentde Paul, with some modifications, and the institu-tion, having received the sanction of the highestecclesiastical authority, became a religious a group of buildings, embracing a resi-. ~?,->. C/4?/6Cr>l, dence for the Sisters, a novitiate, a boarding-schoolfor young girls, a school for poor children, andan orphan asylum, was erected. In 1814 MotherSeton sent a colony of Sisters to Philadelphiato take charge of the orphan asylum. In 1817,in response to another application from NewYork, another body came to that city. At herdeath there were more than twenty communities ofSisters of Charity, conducting free schools, orphan-ages, boarding-schools, and hospitals, in the statesof Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Delaware, Mas-sachusetts, Virginia, Missouri, and Louisiana, and inthe District of Columbia. Although, according tothe constitution of her order, no one could be electedto the office of mother-superior for more than twoterms successively, an exception was made in herfavor by the unanimous desire of her companions,and she held the office during life. See Memoirs of Mrs. S , written by Herself: A Fragment of Real H
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