Baptisms And The Beginnings Of Notre Dame

Entries in the book, Chicago's true founder, Thomas J. V. Owen... (text version here):

Father Badin doubtless showed Indian Agent Owen his entries made for Chicago baptisms in the famous record book, which was supposed to have been lost or destroyed for the past seventy-five years. It is now preserved in the archives of Notre Dame University. Permission was given by Very Rev. James A. Burns, C.S.C., Provincial of the Congregation of Holy Cross, to quote the following: 

"Father Badin was the first Catholic priest ordained in the United States. The ceremony was performed by Archbishop Carroll on May 23, 1793, at the Sulpician seminary in Baltimore. When Indian Agent Owen visited Governor Cass at Detroit in July, 1831, the priest had been just one year in the Chicago Indian agency. Enroute for home by way of Niles, Mr. Owen met Father Badin, and discussed with him, as the official director of the government Indian school, the educational affairs of his Indian charges. And at this visit a momentous enterprise was planned."

"...the founder of municipal Chicago with the first Catholic priest ordained in the United States germinated the idea of Notre Dame University — a Catholic college in the Chicago Indian agency."

Early Records In Niagara

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Is my Mary (maiden name unknown) Howard who was born in Canada circa 1791, hiding in plain sight in these records?  

A Texas Pioneer

A Texas Pioneer: Early Staging and Overland Freighting Days on the Frontiers ...,  By August Santleben

The author's Civil War participation was verified in the Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State Of Texas    NARA:

 

August Santleben's Texas death record:

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The House Of Unfulfilled Desire

The house of unfulfilled desire was written by Harlan P. Rowe and published in 1911.  Harlan was the nephew of Carrie (Merrill) Owen.  Was the Harlan Rowe who was born on 9 August 1881 in Bay County, Michigan, the same man who lived in France in 1935 and in Detroit as a merchandising manager in 1940 and even earlier? [Yes, it appears to be the case]


A deed between Carrie and her sister Mary (Merrill) Rowe Rawlings here (excerpt from blog post: *Mary's first husband was Harlan Page Rowe.)

Carrie was the mother of Grace (Owen) MacDonald, wife of Francis MacDonald.  Francis's sister, Harriet, was the 1st wife of Albert Edward Cameron; Harriet died in childbirth.

United States Census, 1900
Event Place: ED 26 Verona township Bad Axe village, Huron, Michigan, United States
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Elias P Rowe M 54 Michigan
Son Harlan P Rowe M 19 Michigan
Daughter Laura M Rowe F 9 Michigan
Mother Mary W Rawlings F 71 New York

Harlan Page Rowe was a graduate of the University of Michigan in 1905.

I  believe that the author was this Harlan Page Rowe who, because of the illness and death of his father, Elias P. Rowe, abandoned his literary career for the sake of the family.  He lived in France, a circumstance related in this newspaper column (Thumb Notes - Bad Axe).

He died in 1950.