Barquilla de Ia Santa Maria BULLETIN of the Catholic Record Society­ Diocese of Columbus

Vol. XXVIII, No. 12 December, AD. 2003

Students, including Ann 0 'Hare, at St. Mary's of the Springs Academy (Courtesy of St. Mary of the Springs)

A School and a Scholar: An American Story by Margaret E. Mooney

An Ohio Bicentennial marker was dedicated 136 pupils by September, 1869, including September 7, 2003 to honor a school whose Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish girls. doors first opened to 3 5 students 13 5 years before, on Sept. 7, 1868. The Dominican Sisters These Dominican Sisters were plucky, had hastened to open St. Mary's of the Springs innovative, and far-sighted American women. Academy just three months after moving from Their Academy embodied the traditional Somerset in Perry County, Ohio to Columbus to description of the Dominican Spirit authored by establish their new Motherhouse. The St. Thomas Aquinas: "Contemplare tradere . .. enrollment for this school for girls increased to to give to others the fruits of our contemplation."

91 Thus the Bicentennial marker details the child. No one's opinion of its merit and demerits would founding of an excellent school for young mean tnore to me than yours. And if by any chance you women, "The Academy," treasured by so many should wish extra copies, please let me know and it will to this day. give me great pleasure to send them. At the first opportunity, before long I hope, I'm going The reverse side ofthis marker celebrates the life to treat myself to a day at St. Mary's. I pray that the college of an excellent woman: Anne O'Hare flourishes and that you manage to sail as serenely and McCormick, who was a renowned New York humourously as ever on a "sea of troubles." Times Columnist and Editorial Board Member, My constant love to Sister M. Anthony and all the and who had been a St. Mary's student from Sisters. 1893 until her Academy Graduation in 1898. Always affectionately yours, Although Anne received many honors and Anne O'Hare McCormick honorary degrees during her successful career, Miami Hotel she was armed with only one diploma, the one Dayton, Ohio, she received from St. Mary's of the Springs November 19, 1928 AcademyonJune22, 1898.

During her eventful and busy career Anne In June of 1928 Mother Stephanie and her O'Hare McCormick kept in touch with two Council had voted to build two buildings at the cherished teachers: Sister (later Mother) M. same time to enhance the fledgling St. Mary of Stephanie Mohun O.P., and Sister M. Anthony the Springs College, begun in 1911 as "The Cohan 0.P. A signed copy of Anne's 1928 book, Ladies Literary Institute of St. Mary's of the The Hammer and the Scythe, published in late Springs" with a charter to open only as a 1928 and dedicated to her mother, Teresa "Literary Institute". This first college for women Beatrice O'Hare, was sent to St. Mary's with this in the Diocese of Columbus had been formally inscription, "To St. Mary's of the Springs from opened in 1924 and the first commencement was one of her grateful children." Signed: Anne held in June, 1928. An honorary degree was O'Hare McCormick. awarded to Anne O'Hare McCormick. The College Archives has a letter from the honoree in A note, dated November 19, 1928, preceded the which she expresses that she is pleased beyond book. This note was hand-written on an heavy measure to have the honorary degree, her first, vellum card, in an envelope now tucked in Ohio conferred on her, and that she was hopeful that Dominican University+s Rare Book Room copy the first commmencement would be the of The Hammer and the Scythe : beginning ofa brilliant epoch for the college.

Dear Mother Stephanie, After her Academy graduation thirty years I am sending by the post a copy of the book on I before, Anne had become a self-educated, life­ was working on last spring. It has just come from the long learner. Coupling a keen intelligence and a publishers, and one of the first copies must go to St. natural curiosity with a zestful acceptance of the Mary's Library as one of the grandchildren of my old challenge, Anne was a courageous reporter and Alma Mater. It was in that library that I first learned that journalist. She insisted that her reporting be there was such a place as Russia and such a thing as a based on first-hand, in-depth observations of all Revolution -- so here's one of the side effects of planting sorts of people and their reactions to their some seeds ofknowledge! circumstances, and how they related to the I hope you'll some day find time to examine my brain events or subjects she was covering. 92 THE O'HARE STORY Reading Circle, at St. Joseph's Academy, December27, 1895." Anne Elizabeth O'Hare was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England on May 29, 1880, the " .. . .In all undertakings fade doubt and fear daughter of Irish-American parents: Thomas J. By those magic words,'Our is here!' O'Hare, a life insurance regional manager who later deserted the family, and Teresa Beatrice Perhaps a more significant and telling poem is (Berry) O'Hare, a poet and a journalist. Anne "An Echo" : grew up in Columbus Ohio, attended St. Dominic Parochial School until 1893 when she I found a heart's echo, became a student at St. Mary's of the Springs A gladsome heart's echo. Academy. Anne was the eldest of three With notes full ofjoy daughters. The family made their home at 216 How it answered each throb! 22nd Street, (on Columbus' East Side.) The I lost a heart's echo, 1887-88 Polk's Columbus Directory lists Mr. A faithless heart's echo. O'Hare as "Superintendent, Metropolitan Life 'Twas silenced and hushed Insurance of New York." Until 1898 he was Bya tear-laden sob. involved in three other insurance companies. The most interesting to diocesan readers would Could this "faithless heart-;-s echo" refer to Mr. be his three years as the insurance agent and O'Hare's desertion? If so, imagine the family of Secretary of The Hibernian Savings and Loan mother and three daughters needing money so whose offices were in The Theatre Building at 3 5 urgently that Mrs. O'Hare sold this book door­ 112 North High at Hickory. Polk's 1895 to-door. Columbus City Directory also lists President: Thomas Dundon, and Treasurer: Frank J. A freshening wind was blowing. Mrs. O'Hare Macklin. and her girls moved to Cleveland shortly after Anne's graduation. Mrs. O'Hare wrote a column The year Anne graduated, 1898, her mother (The "Cosy Corner") and edited The Women's Teresa O'Hare was listed as having a dry goods Section of the Cleveland Catholic newspaper, store and residence at l 009 West Broad St., far The Catholic Universe (later the from the east side where they had lived a number Universe-Bulletin). Eventually Anne O'Hare ofyears . herself became Associate Editor for that paper, working on the paper until her marriage. When Anne was in high school, her father, by now a regional manager for Home Life Insurance In 1910, 30-year-old Anne married Francis J. Company, deserted the family. To earn money McCormick, eight years her senior. He was a Teresa O'Hare ran the dry goods store and sold Dayton engineer and an importer of industrial door-to-door a book ofher self-published poetry equipment. His company also produced (Songs at Twilight, Columbus Printing Co., plumbing supplies. They never established a 1897). There is a copy of this slim book in the home, choosing instead to live in their favorite Columbus Metropolitan Library. The book is hotels, in the United States and abroad. In dedicated to Rt. Rev. Bishop Watterson and Dayton they lived in the Miami Hotel. After includes a poem to the Bishop, "written by Mrs. , they made frequent and extensive O'Hare, and read by her for The Watterson business trips to Europe.

93 In the ten years following her marriage Anne page. Thus began a long association with the continued to write. She sold articles to Catholic paper. The Times said, at her death, that, " ... she World Reader and The New York Times brought light without heat to her readers out of Magazine and poetry to The Smart Set and The increasingly complex national and international Bookman. She also wrote a history of her former politics ... she became the expert the experts parish church community entitled, "St. Agnes looked up to." Church, Cleveland Ohio: An Interpretation" (1920). She brought to her column, "Abroad," the important European figures of her day: On the McCormicks' trips throughout Europe Mussolini, De Valera, Leon Blum, Hitler, Stalin Anne talked with a variety of everyday people, and countless others. She wrote about The and, with the same ease, interviewed noted North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Korean leaders. She wrote freelance articles for The Conflict, and the United Nations and covered the Catholic World, Reader Magazine, The 1947 guerrilla war in Greece at age sixty-seven. Saturday Evening Post, and The Atlantic She wrote, "The imagination cannot picture the Monthly. She had a talent for making astute desolation that this hit-and-run fighting leaves connections by listening and observing carefully and courteously. Anne had a keen memory. To behind it. .. everywhere ... suspense. In such keep those whom she interviewed at ease, she fearful quiet must the early settlers in the West rarely took notes. She was known for her have waited for the descent ofthe Indians." accuracy and attention to detail. About Anne, Time Magazine once wrote, In 1921 she wrote to Carr Van Ada, managing " .. . she ... was as tireless as a self-winding clock." editor of The New York Times, asking if he might Oh, but she had wit. James Reston wrote, "Anne be interested in some news stories that she would was full of mirth and spunk. This was the Irish in write during her overseas travels. He wired her! Everything and everybody interested her; back, "Try it!" Try it she did. Anne's interest in and she illuminated every subject she touched." foreign affairs grew as did the length of the Mr. Reston remembered that, at the 1952 McCormicks' travels. She began keeping a Republican Convention, " ... she wore a lovely journal of observations of Europe's recovery white silk dress patterned with tiny Democratic after World War I. One biographer called her donkeys, and, at the Democratic writings "impressionistic pieces." In 1922 The Convention ... another white silk dress ...with New York Times hired her as a regular small blue Republican elephants." Reston writes correspondent. Until her death she wrote of her "fierce pride in the American reporters exclusivelyfor The Times. who wrote early on about the rising dangers of Hitler and Mussolini." Anthony Eden, then In 1935 Arthur Hays Sulzberger, president and British Foreign Secretary, commented to Anne publisher of The Times, asked Mrs. McCormick (condescendingly), that American reporters had to join the editorial board: "You are to be the "also" realized the menace ofthe dictators. "As a 'freedom editor.' It will be your job to stand up on matter of fact," she replied, "they were ahead of your hind legs and shout whenever freedom is the diplomats who, after all, are only badly interfered with in any part ofthe world." In 1936, trained reporters." she joined the editorial staff, the first woman to serve as a regular contributor to its editorial (To be concluded)

94 Abstracts from The Catholic Telegraph (Continued, from Vol. XXVIII, No. 11) January 15, 1853 now quite evident, to select his friends from T. F. MEAGHER IN COLUMBUS. amongst those who never hear Mass on Sundays. On Thursday night the 6th inst., this He has an undoubted legal right to do as he distinguished patriot remained at Columbus en pleases in this respect, but those true men who route to New York. On Friday morning he was believe in Christianity and who think that the prevailed upon by a deputation of our citizens to service of God and Patriotism are not remain for the day, and give a lecture in the inconsistent, have also the privilege of treating evening; he lectured, and immediately after, with the "contempt" it so richly deserves, such started by the night train for Cleveland. peevish and impertinent speeches, as that which Mr. Meagher's accidental visit raised great he delivered in New York. Nothing has been said excitement and much anxiety to hear the far­ in Cincinnat~ so far as we can learn, to offend famed orator and patriot; it called forth a little him; no Catholic clergyman called on him, or gossip also as to the morality of his political authorized any other person to do so, to ascertain views and his notions of liberty. But all was soon his sentiments on any subject whatsoever. We, composed--he appeared, he spoke, he like others, were willing to treat him with convinced, he charmed and he satisfied the most respect, and have done so heretofore; but he has scrupulous rigidist as to the integrity, and strict thought proper to place himse1f in the position of morality ofhis political doctrines. an antagonist, and take up his quarters with those Why Mr. Meagher should have been who treat "pious admonitions" with "shouts of suspected of red republicanism, or of laughter." He will now find himse1f popular with Mazzinyism I cannot tell; I have never seen any those who have been ever prominent in hating the plausible proof of it. Let us judge the man fairly land of his birth. His hostility is already the by his words and his actions... His subject was subject oftheir applause. New South Wales and Australia, its origin, its present position and its prospects. The subject Circleville, Jan. 17, 1853. did not seem judiciously chosen; any other would VERY REV. SIR--While the rapid progress which have been more welcome to our anti-English the sacred cause of Catholicity has within a few hearts ... years been making in our great and flourishing ... He is to be here again in the month of Diocese, affords a subject of astonishment to March, and he will be heartily welcome. C. those not of the "household of the faith," and of serious alarm to the frenzied disciples of the No Subscriptions: James Joyce, Columbus; Edward Popery school: to the Catholic heart her onward Smith, Circleville; Elias Paget, Jacksontown, 0 . course is a source of purest consolation and holiest joy. The mind, enlightened by the rays of January22, 1853 divine faith, sees in the glories and triumphs of THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER the Church, only the development ofthat spirit of This gentleman's name has heretofore received vitality imported to her by her divine Founder, in no other than favorable notice in our columns, the memorable words: "Lo, I will be with you all but he has lately delivered a speech in New York days, even to the consummation ofthe world." to an audience chiefly Protestant, in which he has Some few years ago, a son of the Emerald Isle indulged in invectives and sneers, for which it is came to this town with a view of procuring a difficult to account. Mr. Meagher wishes, it is permanent home for himse1f and family: the day

95 after his arrival he was met by a brother Irishman industrious citizen. The subscription list for the who, in a good natured way, advised him to deny building of our church was opened on yesterday. the fact of his being a Catholic, for, said he, so It would please you to see that spirit of generous extravagant are the notions which the people emulation, which on such occastions so here have of the principles of your religion, that peculiarly belongs to the children of Old Ireland, its avowal will deprive you of all employment. nobly displying itself,--some of our own kind "Well," replied the stranger, "I will see myself neighbors have promised to assist us with the and family starve on the street rather than material aid, and tho' the capital and interest will conciliate their kindly feelings by the denial ofmy not be secured t othem in "Hungarian scrip," still religion." What has been the result? But a few they wil have the consolation of knowing that short years, and he who clung to the "good old their names will be recorded in the memory of church," "thro' good report and thro' evil report," Him, who has said, ,.a cup of cold water given in has lived to see the object of his wishes amply His name, will not pass without its reward." realized: a pious nad respectable family has We hope to see our good amongst us grown up around him; the little frame church--50 early in the Fall, to dedicate our new Church. by 25 feet--which the exertion s of the good and M . FORDE. piousPastorofLancaster,Rev. JosueM. Young, succeeded in erecting, four or five years ago, January 29, 1853 with every available inch occupied, does not now DREADFUL ACCIDENT NEAR COLUMBUS. --In a afford accommocation to half the Catholic gravel pit near the depot at Columbus, on the population. But "God tempers the wind for the Columbus and Indiana Railroad, two fine young shorn lamb." Our prospects of building a large Irishmen were killed on Friday, the 21st ult., by and commodious church this year, are bright and the falling of a gravel bank. Whilst they were cheering. We have a long line of railroad in filling the cars, the bank, which had been progress of construction thro' this town. There previously undermined, gave way, and the cars are employed on it some hundreds of warm, being drawn up too closely to the bank, allowed generous-hearted Irishmen; a more orderly, no passage for escape. peaceable, and industrious body of men it would These were two young men of excellent be difficult to find. Nimbers of them have taken character, and it must be a consolation to their the Temperance Pledge, and no exception to its afllicted friends to know that though they were strict observance has up to this occurred. hurried away before their God, without the last Modem philanthropists are every day giving to rites of their Church, they had lived good and the world their finely drawn theories for the Christian lives, and had faithfully complied with amelioration of the moral condition of all "ages, the holy rites of their faith, at the late festival of sexes, and conditions of men;" their Maine the Nativity. Liquor Law speculations, Women's Rights The name of one was William O'Brien, from Conventions, cum multis aliis, are the great the Parish ofEmly, in the County Tipperary; he levers by which humanity is to be raised from was 23 years old, and one of the tallest, stoutest, earth t oheaven.-- Time, however, is the great and best young men in the city ofColumbus. touchstone to test the soundness of such The other was John Moran, from the County theories. We can dispense with all of them. Let of Waterford, a fine young fellow, of a remark­ the Catholic be placed within the influence of his ably quiet temper, and an agreeable manner. religion; let her holy principles be brought to bear They were both much beloved by their upon his conduce, and soon will the reckless and companions, and sincerely regretted. dissolute be transformed into the steady and (To be continued) 96 Chapel Hill, Perry County, Baptismal Register

1840-1850

Two leaves of the baptismal register of St. and Ml. Olivetti AO Francis Church are now missing, comprising 1841 pages 3 through 6. Happily, these were among Jan. 3 [D], Andrew, son of Joseph and Agatha the records of 1841 transcribed by the late Richards; spons. Mary and Solomon Monsignor H. E. Mattingly and published in the Feny[?] AO 1977 Bulletin. His transcription and a partial Jan. 15 [SC], MichaeL son of John and Helen photo-copy of page 5 were used here. The Mitchel; spons. John Malan and Mary records do not list any locality. In brackets Skenna AO following the date has been placed the most likely Jan. 23 [D], Joseph Philip, son of Paul and location of each baptism, based on the residences Catharine George; spons. Ml. Olivetti and ofthe persons involved. Sunday Creek or Chapel Abigel Longstret Ml. Olivetti Hill St. Francis is indicated by [SC], Monday Jan. 24? [D], I supplied ceremonies of baptism Creek St. Peter by [MC], Deavertown St. for Daniel Dekes, age 27; spons. Ml Michael by [D], Chauncey Seven Dolors by [C], Olivetti and Abigail Longstreth AO and Athens County St. John the Baptist by [A]. Jan. 24 [SC], William son of Patrick and Keep in mind, however, that St. Peter's Church Bridget ----- [Heekan?]; spons. Andrew was not finished until 1850, so the people of that Leady and Tybia Curnean AO congregation may have traveled to Sunday Jan. 31 [C], Catharine, daughter of John and Creek for baptisms. This seems to have been the Mary Curtan; spons. John Swifth and case on some dates when names from both Tenix? Mcdearmat AO locations are present. Also, traditions state that same day, James, son of Thomas and Mary the Irish Catholics of Angel ridge, lying between Car?; spons. Patrick Mom and Mary Brufy Athens and St. John Church at Anthony, often AO would travel north to services at Seven Dolors at same day, I supplied ceremonies of baptism for Chauncey. From the combinations of names that Margaret , daughter of Thomas and appear in these records, it appears that the Catharine Bane; spons. Patrick Kendrik? Catholics of Bearfield Township, Perry County, and Ann Kennan AO site of the later St. Dominic Church at South Feb. 1 [C], Francis John, son of James and Fork, attended most often at Deavertown. Sylvia Alice prot[estant] Mcnamara; spons. Joseph Omeany and M. Denman AO 1840 same day, Elizabeth Mary, daughter of William page 1 [topportiontomaway] Emery? prot and Catharine Cant; spons. [torn ---] [SC], Rev. Mr. Mccaffrey baptized John Duffy and Mary Keaghy? AO conditionally George Thompson; spons. page 2 [top portion torn away] Patrick Masterson [signed "Rev. James Feb. 23 [SC], Mary Ann, daughter of Mathew Mccaffrey" but in the hand ofA Olivetti] and ---- [tom] Mcgouvern; spons. Thomas [torn ---], John, son of Timothy and Ann Walpol and Ann Smith AO Wright?; spons. James and Ann Mccarty Mar. 2 [C], Anastasius, son of Silvester and Aegidius 0 livetti Margaret --arm; spons. Joseph Meleon and [torn] 28, Thomas, son of Michael and Ann Ann Denman AO Cunningham; spons. Margaret Cunningham Mar. 3 [MC], I supplied ceremonies of baptism

97 to Julia daughter of Stephan and Alice Doyle; spons. Cornelius Clennen and Mary Feagan; spons. John Gret and Mary Ryan Schean AO ---- [SC}, Rose, daughter of John and Bridget same day, Mary, daughter of Stephen and Alice Cunn----; spons. Maatthew Walpol and Feagan; spons. Hugh Harrington and Mary Smith Catharine Dunning AO ----[SC], Angela, daughter of Hugh Donley Mar. 5, Mary, daughter ofN--- and Sarah and Helen Don---; spons. Andrew Harking; spons. John Shorlin and Catharine Masterson and Mary Donley Coesblen AO Apr. 24, Michael, son of Richard and Margaret same day, John, son of Joseph and Margaret Geordan; spons. Thomas Mcgloklin and Heartman; spons. Michael Mcdaniel and Catherine Mcgravy Alex [Alice?] Mccullaugh AO same day, Helen, daughter of James and same day, Mary, daughter ofCondy and Mary Bridget Berry; spons. Mary Enland and Gallagher; spons. Patrick Meconi and Hewgh Fitspatrik Catharine Mcoughlin AO Apr. 25 [SC], Helen, daughter of Michael and same day, Mary, age six years, daughter of Mary Heg; spons. Michael Molan and Helen John and Helen Mccluscky; spons. Charles Mourtough Breslin and Mary Gallagher AO May 2 [D], Philip, son of John and same day, I supplied ceremonies of baptism for Temperance Gaigher; spons. Patrick Canada Thomas Fitspatrik, age 27; spons. Aegs. and Mary Ann Begin Olivetti AO May 4 [MC}, Jesse, son of James and Ann same day, conditionally, Elizabeth Logan, age Haket; spons. Jesse and Mary Carpenter 48 years; spons. Aegidius Olivetti AO May 6, Mary Ann, daughter of Edward and same day, conditionally, Sarah Logan, age 25 Mary Kensley; spons. Thomas Gallagher years; spons. Aegidius Olivetti AO and Joanna Lee Mar. 19 [SC], Elizabeth, daughter of Michael same day, Joanna, daughter of Michael and and Catharine Welch; spons. Michael Helen Megra; spons. Laurence Footman and Cragan and Bridget Kensley AO Catherine Searlok? same day, James, son of James and Elenore May 10 [DJ, Ann Mary, daughter of Philip and Rain; sons. Thomas Sweeney and Bridget Ann Longstreth; spons. Aeg. Olivetti and Sweeney AO Abigail Longstreth [pages 3 and 4 and first record on page 5, as May 15, Samuel, son of Own and Helen transcribed by Msgr. H. E. Mattingly:] grennen [Brennan?]; spons. Patrick Tool page 3 and Ann Tool ----[SC], James, son of Michael and Judith (To be continued)

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