. A centenary of Catholicity in Kansas, 1822-1922 ; the history of our cradle land (Miami and Linn Counties) ; Catholic Indian missions and missionaries of Kansas ; The pioneers on the prairies : notes on St. Mary's Mission, Sugar Creek, Linn County; Holy Trinity Church, Paola, Miami County; Holy Rosary Church, Wea; Immaculate Conception, , Louisburg; St. Philip's Church, Osawatomie; Church of the Assumption, Edgerton, Johnson County; to which is added a short sketch of the Ursuline Academy at Paola; the diary of Father Hoecken, and old Indian records. or of a .Jesuit preparatory school—
. A centenary of Catholicity in Kansas, 1822-1922 ; the history of our cradle land (Miami and Linn Counties) ; Catholic Indian missions and missionaries of Kansas ; The pioneers on the prairies : notes on St. Mary's Mission, Sugar Creek, Linn County; Holy Trinity Church, Paola, Miami County; Holy Rosary Church, Wea; Immaculate Conception, , Louisburg; St. Philip's Church, Osawatomie; Church of the Assumption, Edgerton, Johnson County; to which is added a short sketch of the Ursuline Academy at Paola; the diary of Father Hoecken, and old Indian records. or of a .Jesuit preparatory school—Purcell Mansion—in Cincin-nati, Ohio. In 1S4S b« retired from active work in America and is supposed to havedied in his native land. INDIAN DAYS 25 on the east bank of the Marais des Cygnes river, ten miles southeast ofPaola, in 1854, when the territory was organized, were grouped a dozenlog houses. The Osage River Agency proper was located on the hillimmediately north and adjoining the town site of Paola and around itwere grouped some big houses. An Indian Chapel existed at the PeoriaVillage (Paola) in 1846 and was dedicated to God under the patronage ofSt. Francis Xavier; its location is supposed to have been at or near thefamous old spring in the northwest part of the town. Here resided the chief, Baptiste Peoria. He was born in 1800, nearKaskaskia, 111. He did not receive a school education but by the naturalforce of his intellect acquired a number of Indian languages and alsoEnglish and French. He was for many years interpreter and for some. BAPTISTE PEORIA AND WIFE, time chief of the confederated tribes in Miami County, Kansas. He cameto Kansas in 1829 and settled near what is now Paola. AVhen the tribesremoved to the Indian Territory he went with them and died there in1874, The tribe moved to the Oklahoma Indian Territory in the fallof 1868. The story of the life of Baptiste Peoria, says B. J. Sheridan, isthreaded with the history of Miami County. He was an Indian,
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