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 . first he was elected bythe third territorial district of Michigan,and to the latter he was accommodatedfor non-payment of one thousand onehundred and sixteen dollars to which hehad been condemned on account of ex-communicating a parishioner who ob-tained a civil divorce and remarried, andwho brought suit against him. This timehe remained on the Island till the
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 . first he was elected bythe third territorial district of Michigan,and to the latter he was accommodatedfor non-payment of one thousand onehundred and sixteen dollars to which hehad been condemned on account of ex-communicating a parishioner who ob-tained a civil divorce and remarried, andwho brought suit against him. This timehe remained on the Island till the end ofAugust, his last record being on the 21stof August. This last entry is remarkablefor being in English; all entries to thisdate are in French. It reads: FrederickHenry Contriman has this day, the twen-ty-first (of) August, 1823, asked me torecord in this book, the Name of Nantcy, his daughter by ancestry of the OttawaNation, born along Illinois River, on theeighteenth of September in the year onethousand eight hundred and 19, 1821, the diocese of Cincin-nati was erected with the first bishop, theRt. Rev. Edward Fenwick, O. P., conse-crated January 13, 1822. Father Rich-ard was not only confirmed in his posi-. REV. ^NCIS SOLANUS, 0. F. M. tion but made Vicar General for Michi-gan. To his customary signature, there-fore, is duly added, the V. G. Scarcely had Father Richard left theIsland wdien an unexpected visitor ar-rived. The long intervals between thepriests visits had not escaped the obser-vation of Protestant missionary societies. In the month of June, 1820, a Rev. , father of the inventor of the tele- 176 HISTORY OF THE DIOCESE OF graph, had visited the Island andpreached the first Protestant report to United Foreign Mission-ary Society of New York was so glowingof possibilities that, in 1822, the Societysent Rev. William Montague Ferry toexplore the field. We can surmise his re-port for a year later, he and his wife ar-rived on
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