title:
Recollections of my Life and Reflections on Times and Events During it by W.J. Howlett (unpublished manuscript)
creator:
Howlett, W. J. (William J.)
subject:
Howlett, W. J. (William J.); Machebeuf, Joseph, 1812-1889; Catholic Church -- Colorado -- History; Paris (France) -- History -- 1870-1940; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
description:
Recollections of My Life and Reflections on Times and Events During It (unpublished) covers the period, ca. 1852-1927. Howlett, a priest and writer, first describes his childhood in New York, Michigan, and Colorado. He furnishes details of rural education and practice of religion and farming, and recalls the Civil War which he spent in Michigan, mentioning the 1864 presidential campaign and the fortunes of the 2nd and 12th Michigan Infantries. He goes on to recount his family's wagon journey to Denver along the Platte River in 1865, and his student days at St. Thomas Seminary, Kentucky, which he entered in 1868; at the Seminary of St. Sulpice in Paris, where he arrived in 1872 just after the fall of the Commune; and at the University of Wuertzburg, Germany. Returning to Colorado, he embarked on mission and parish work under Bishop Joseph Machebeuf, whose biography he later published. Through description of this work, he provides glimpses of the growth of the Colorado Church in the last quarter of the 19th century
publisher:
Unpublished
contributor:
date:
approximately 1852-1927
type:
Text
format:
PDF
identifier:
Series 172
source:
Photocopy of unpublished memoir. Original held at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
language:
English
relation:
coverage:
1852-1927; United States; Paris (France); Colorado
rights:
This resource is the property of the Jefferson County Archives and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of this resource are asked to please credit the Jefferson County Archives. Copyright not evaluated.
