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 . Fox was not oblivious of thisduty towards his flock. Early in1858 he obtained through CaptainHall from the National Mining Com-pany a lot in the platted town-site andbuilt a two-story school house andwith the help of a lay-teacher openedclasses to thirty pupils. It was here thatthe present Bishop taught school for sometime previous to his going to co
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 . Fox was not oblivious of thisduty towards his flock. Early in1858 he obtained through CaptainHall from the National Mining Com-pany a lot in the platted town-site andbuilt a two-story school house andwith the help of a lay-teacher openedclasses to thirty pupils. It was here thatthe present Bishop taught school for sometime previous to his going to him another lay-teacher kept theschool until the arrival of the Ursulinesat Ontonagon who provided the schoolwith a suitable teacher till the break-upof their insitution. In the summer of 1858 Ontonagon andRockland were again joined into a dual parish. No sooner had Father Fox ob-tained control of the St. Patricks con-gregation than he thought of re-openingthe school which closed with the depar-ture of Father Dunnes brother. To makeit permanent he sought to induce somereligious community to settle in Ontona-gon. In this he was not successful until1862 when the Ursuline Nuns came, un-der Mother Margareth Stehlin. They. TH E PRESENT ST. JOSEPHS (FRENCH) CHURCH, IRONMOUNTAIN, MICHIGAN. Opened, in connection with a graded gram-mar school an academy for girls. At firsta very prosperous institution, it broke upin 1867, much to the disgust of its found-er. This calamity together with the de-crease of mining activity, and conse-quently in population—Rockland andvicinity had in i860 a populaion of twothousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, 310 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF and ten years later not one-half of that—decided Father Fox to accept the pastor-ate of the Cathedral in Marquette, whichwas offered to him by Father Jacker, whowas then administrator of the last entry is on August 4, 1868. Father Fox was immediately succeededby Rev. Henry L. Thiele who remaine
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