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File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Tina Hursh April 15, 2000 Transcribed by Karen Klaene *********************************************************************** Delhi Township - pgs 294-301 *********************************************************************** History of Hamilton County Ohio with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches. Compiled by Henry A. Ford, A.M. and Mrs. Kate B. Ford, L.A. William & Co., Publishers; 1881. pages 294-301 Claus DRUCKER, of Home City, deceased, came from Hanover, Germany, in the year 1842; married Elizabeth LAUDENBACH, of Oldenberg, in 1845; came to Cincinnati in 1846; was a sugar refiner, at first having his office where the Miami depot is now, but afterwards kept a shoe store on Fulton street and employed a number of young men to work for him. In 1851 he purchased from the Cincinnati Building association some lots in Delhi, and came here in 1852, where he carried on a store until he died, May 13, 1878. The mother died in 1873. Mr. DRUCKER was a prominent man of his township, took an active part in all public improvements, and during the war contributed much in many ways towards furthering the Union cause. The store is now owned by his son, John Drucker, and his son-in-law, Mr. BARMANN. Of the children, Kate DRUCKER was born October 13, 1837. She is the eldest of those living, and was married to Joseph BARMANN son of Lawrence BARMANN, an old settler of ANDERSON Ferry, in 1879. Anna Drucker married Herman HEGEBUSCH fresco painter of Home City, July 29, 1876; she died January 29, 1877. Frederick DRUCKER was born December, 1852; was married October 30, 1877, to Miss Sophia MAUER, of North Bend Her parents were old settlers of Miami township. John DRUCKER was married May 18, 1880, to Miss Clara BARMANN, of ANDERSON Ferry. Messrs DRUCKER and BARMANN are doing a lively business in Home City. James MAC'KINZIE, M. D., of Delhi, was born March 14, 1816, in Columbiana county, Ohio. His father, James MAC'KINZIE, a draughtsman was born September 21, 1771, in Edinburgh, Scotland; came to America in 1810; served in the War of 1812; came to Ohio in 1813, where he died at the advanced age of one hundred years, February 21, 1871. He was a temperance advocate, being the first farmer in the country to establish evening meals and harvest a crop without whiskey. His wife, Ellen BURROWS, was from the county Down, and of Scotch parentage; she died September 18, 1868, at her son's residence in Delhi. When James MAC'KINZIE was sixteen years of age he learned a trade, at nineteen years of age he became a partner in a dry goods store, and obtained his education by attending night-school, spending one year at Du Qusne college, Pittsburgh, also read medicine while in business, and afterwards completed his course in the Cincinnati Medical college, and practiced his profession before the war in Columbiana county. In 1849 went to California and built the fourth house that was erected in San Francisco. After Fort Sumter was fired on, he reported to President LINCOLN and General SCOTT entering the service as a private soldier, was afterwards in the commissary department, was promoted to the rank of major and served in the medical department before the war closed, since which time he has lived and practiced his profession in Delhi. In 1854, the eleventh of May, the doctor married Marion W. WASHINGTON, whose father was Samuel W., great nephew of General WASHINGTON'S brother, Lawrence WASHINGTON. Her father was legatee of General WASHINGTON'S estate. Mrs. MAC'KINZIE has in her possession a buckle of General WASHINGTON that has been handed down from one family to another till the present time. The family history of the WASHINGTON need not here be sketched, as it is familiar to our readers. Daniel WASHINGTON her father, was born February 14, 1787, near Charlestown, Virginia. He married Catharine WASHINGTON, a relative, and died March, 1867. His wife died at the age of seventy-four years. Peter CROSS, of Delhi, is a native of Prussia. His father, John CROSS, was a wagonmaker. Peter CROSS was born in 1827, left Prussia in 1851, landing in New Orleans, at which place he remained one year, but in 1852 removed to Delhi. In 1853 he was married; is a bricklayer and lives in easy circumstances. ~pg 298~ Valentine GIND, of Delhi, came from Germany when ten years of age - January, 1854. His father landed in New Orleans, coming from there to Delhi, where he has lived since, being a stonemason by trade. His father, Sebastian GIND, was a wagonmaker. His mother, Theresa YOUNKER, was from Baden; she died before the father and his children sailed for the New World. Valentine GIND owns a small farm adjoining Delhi. Peter SHIFFEL, basket-maker, came to Delhi town in 1862; .formerly lived in Cincinnati, where he was married in 1857. His father, Phillip SHIFFEL, was a basket-maker and carpet-weaver on Long Island; he died in 1849. In 1855 Peter SHIFFEL came to Cincinnati. He does not own any property. Charles GERTH, proprietor of the Eleven Mile house (saloon), is of Teutonic origin; came to the United States, and settled in Delhi in 1863, where he has been ever since. He was formerly a shoemaker, but left this trade and was section foreman on the Ohio & Mississippi road for ten years previous to his present proprietorship. Mr. GERTH has been married twice, and has two children dead. Shipley W. DAVIS, son of Zadock and Elizabeth DAVIS, --nee BASSETT- of Massachusetts, was born at Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, in the year 1816. His parents had thirteen children, of which he was the seventh. His mother, at the age of ninety-three, June 13, 1873, departed this life; his father died in June, 1819. In 1841 he married Harriet CULLOUR, of North Bend. One son, W. L. Davis, M. D., was hospital stewart in SHERMAN'S raid to the sea, and is now a practicing physician (Old School). Henry W. DAVIS, another son, has been teaching in MYERS' school district fourteen years. Edward DAVIS, a third son, is a physician at Dent, Ohio. Mr. DAVIS' farm is in Delhi township, and over a mile from the city limits. Peter MAC'FARLAN of Delhi, came from Dumbarkenshire, Scotland, to America, in 1840. After coming to this country he purchased a farm in Green township which he sold in 1872, and removed to Home City where he still lives. In 1850 he married Miss Jean BRODE, daughter of Peter BRODE and Katharine McKinley Spouses of Kirkhouse ROW. She was born January 2, 1805, and-baptized the same month, fifth day. Peter McFARLAN, son of Peter McFARLAN and Katharine BAIN Spouses of Estertown - name of farm - was born December 29, 1800, and baptized January 1, 1801. The aged couple have had but one daughter, who is now the wife of Adam TULLOCK. The parents were married in Scotland in May, 1830. Adam TULLOCK of Home City, was born in Scotland in the year 1815, in Dumferline, where Robert BRUCE was burried. His parents, John TULLOCK and Mary ROBERTSON, came to America in 1840, and both died soon after. They were married in 1799, had seven children, of which Adam TULLOCK was the youngest. He was married to Hellen MILLER, of Scotland, in 1837. She died in 1847. One son by this marriage lives in Home City. He has one daughter living in Colorado and one in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1851 he was married to his second wife. Catharine MAC'FARLAN, and came to Home City in 1872, where he still lives. William J. APPLEGATE, grocer and postmaster of Delhi, came here in 1872 from Green township, where he was born and reared. His father, Israel APPLEGATE, came to this township when quite young from Pennsylvania; lived fifty-five years on the farm he bought, and died in 1870 in the eighty-first year of his age. His mother, Mary Jane COLSHER also of Pennsylvania, died October, 1880, in the eighty-third year of her age. William J. APPLEGATE, born August 17, 1839, was reared a farther, but began business on a small scale in a grocery in 1872, and at the same time kept the post office of the village which helped to increase his patronage. In the year 1878 he built a large three-story brick house, the first results of his successful business. He was married October 15, 1864, to Miss Katie MYERS of Delhi, daughter of an old settler of the county. Mr. APPLEGATE is one of the trustees of the township at this time. Annie B. CALLOWAY, of Delhi, is of English parentage, and is the wife of Thomas B. CALLOWAY, of that place. Her great-grandfather, Thomas BOWLES of Cranbrook, Kent, England, married Sarah BOORMAN. Their daughter, Sarah, married the well known Robert COLGATE, father of the noted soap manufacturers of New York. They came to that city in 1800. Thomas BOWLES, her grandfather, married Anna SHIRLEY. They had eight children, and he died June 3, 1800. His youngest son, Robert BOWLES father of Annie B. CALLOWAY, was born at Eldorado, Kent, England, June 1, 1792; married Mercy BOOTS of the same place, November 30, 1816; came to America in 1822, and located on a farm near Harrison, Hamilton county, Ohio, and was the first English settler in Crosby township. January 24, 1837, his wife died, and he married Mrs. Anna CLOUGH of London, England, daughter of Samuel PEGG. By the first wife he had one son, Robert, now living in Indiana; and by the second Wife two sons: Samuel and John, and one daughter, Annie. Thomas B. CALLOWAY married Annie A. BOWLES, January 31, 1866. His grandfather, Jesse CALOWAY, and wife came from Delaware in 1818, and located in Dearborn county, Indiana. They had four sons and one daughter. William, the father, was born January 26, 1812; married his second wife, Mary Charlotte BONHAM, October 18, 1841. He is still living. The Bond family are traceable to the emigration of William PENN. One Samuel BOND was born November 19, 1722; his son, Joseph, born April 11, 1750, married Eleanor WILLIAMS; and their son, Samuel, born November 19, 1777, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, moved west May 10, 1810, landed at the mouth of Farmers' creek, near Lawrenceburgh, Indiana. In 1812 he moved to Whitewater, near Elizabethtown; died June 12, 1837. They had seven children, all dead except Eleanor, who was born in Virginia in 1808. The third child, Jane, was the only one of the family who married. She was born April 8, 1818; married William CALLOWAY September 7, 1837; died February 12, 1844, leaving one child, Thomas B. CALLOWAY. R. B. PRICE, of Home City, son of Rees PRICE (see biographical sketch), is the well known bee-keeper of (page 299) that place. Mr. PRICE was reared in the city of Cincinnati, but soon after his marriage (January 15, 1857) to Louise SEITER, of that place, he moved on his farm where he has since resided. In 1877 he built his new house, which he now occupies. Mr. PRICE has devoted much time and attention to the culture of bees. He has now over one hundred colonies under his care. Mrs. PRICE was born in Cincinnati, corner of Elm and Eighth streets, where her mother, Mrs. SEITER still resides. Her brothers, William, George, Joseph, and Lewis SEITER, are prominent and well known business men in the city. W. H. SMITH, of Delhi township, was born in Petersburgh, New York, March 22, 1814. When fifteen years of age he left home, and for ten years following drove a stage coach over the mountains, afterwards coming west, where he continued the business up to 1863. He was agent for some time for the Western Stage company, that had lines running from Cincinnati to various points. The line running from Cincinnati to Hamilton and Dayton, and afterwards to Indianapolis, was owned by SMITH, out of which he was successful in making money. In 1863 he removed to his farm, where he has since lived. He was elected president of the Delhi and Industry Turnpike company in 1868, and has held the office ever since. In 1854 he was married to Harriet ALTER. She died March 25, 1881. Her parents came to Cincinnati in 1812. Her father was one of the wealthy men of the city in his day. James H. SILVERS, of Delhi, wholesale leaf tobacco dealer, 49 and 51 Front street, Cincinnati, was born at North Bend, 1833. His paternal grandfather, Judge James SILVERS, of Pennsylvania, was an early settler of the county, having come here with Judge SYMMES, and was an associate judge of the court three consecutive terms of seven years each. He died near the expiration of the third term. Thomas J. SILVERS, his son, and father of James H., in 1831, married Miss Sarah A. MOORE, the daughter of Samuel and Adelia MOORE, nee West, of Pennsylvania, and old pioneers of ANDERSON Ferry. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch on his mother's side was in the War of 1812. He lived to be sixty-six years of age. The mother of James H. SILVERS still lives. She was born in 1814. Her mother was born in Paris, Kentucky, and lived to be sixty years of age. Mr. James H. SILVERS came to Delhi in 1873; February 13, 1878 was married in Nashville, Tennessee, to Miss Jennie HILLIS, formerly of Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the well known tobacco dealer on Front street, Cincinnati. His residence is in a beautiful situation, near Delhi, commanding a most delightful view of the Ohio river and the surrounding scenery. The family of Thomas J. and Sarah A. SILVERS consisted of James H. SILVERS, Mrs. Anna A. DODD, and Mrs. Ophelia MASSY. RIVERSIDE AND OTHER VILLAGES. Riverside is the first suburb encountered upon entering the township from the direction of the city, and immediately adjoins Sedamsvile, the outermost district of Cincinnati on the southwest. Five hundred and nine of its acres lie in Delhi township, and one hundred and twenty-four were taken from the old township of Storrs - eight hundred and thirty-three acres in all. For the following account of it, with interesting historical notes, the readers of this work are indebted to Mr. A. L. REEDER, postmaster at the Riverside office, who has kindly made a contribution of it to this chapter: The village of Riverside, made up of parts of Delhi and Storrs townships, lies immediately adjoining the western limit of the city of Cincinnati, and extends westwardly along the bank of the Ohio river to ANDERSON'S Ferry, a distance of about three miles, and had a population of twelve hundred and sixty-eight by the last census, with two hundred and forty-seven voters at the November election of 1880. The pioneers of early times were Colonel Cornelius R. SEDAM, on the east then Jeremiah REEDER William S. HATCH, Enoch ANDERSON, Squire CULLOM and Mr. SANDS, on the ministerial section at ANDERSON'S Ferry. All these old settlers passed away years ago. Their lands and homesteads have gone into other hands, and but few of their descendants are left in the village to note the wonderful changes that have been wrought by modern civilization and scientific research. Not one of those old settlers could have had the remotest conception of the thundering noise and lightning speed of the passing locomotive and attendant train of cars or of the multiplied lines of telegraph wires now in front of their doors, silently conveying with the speed of thought, to and fro, from the uttermost parts of the earth, knowledge and intelligence of all current events, or of the brilliant electric light, illuminating, with a dazzling intensity, only excelled by the midday beams of the summer sun, the mysterious telephone, by which we talk with friends miles away, or say to our grocer in the city "Hello! Send me down a box of matches, and be quick about it." The writer of this, one of those descendants, and not a very old man either, remembers well that when a lad. he had to go early in the morning to a neighbor's house, half a mile off, to borrow a shovel of live coals to start the fire on the ancestral hearth, that had died out during the night for want of careful covering up; and this was not a rare occurrence either, for nobody had a match to lend in those days. The village of Riverside is appropriately named, lying as it does in the valley of the Ohio river, and extending up the romantic slopes of the beautiful hillside, dotted here and there with handsome residences, peering out from glossy bowers of coolest shade, musical with birds, with enchanting views of the far-reaching river and the picturesque and undulating hills of Kentucky. The geographical position of the village, and the facilities it affords for travel to and from the adjacent city, make it peculiarly adapted for the suburban residence of persons engaged in business there. The Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago, and the Ohio & Mississippi railroads run frequent accommodation trains: and in addition there is a street ear line from the city post office to about the center of the village, running every fifteen minutes, and at very low fare. The public buildings and manufacturing establishments are quite creditable. Two large and handsome school-houses, recently erected, give evidence that the cause of education is prominent in the minds of the citizens. The one church is Episcopal, a blue limestone structure of quaint, old English style. It has quite a fair attendance, considering that many citizens of other denominations attend churches in the city, which they can so readily do on what is called the church train. A large, plain, two-story brick building, called READER's Hall, stands nearly opposite the church. It has in the second story a fair sized public hall, capable of seating two hundred and fifty people, and is occasionally used for concerts, lectures, amateur dramatic entertainments, balls, etc. The lower story is divided up into different apartments, used as council-chamber, store and post office. The new rolling mill at "Cullom's Ripple," recently gone into successful operation, is a very extensive and complete establishment of the kind, and will, no doubt, add to and accelerate the prosperity of the village in a marked degree. The large distillery of GOFF, FLEISHMAN & Company has been in operation for several years, and is a model in all its appointments and manner of conducting its business. A leading feature of this establishment is the manufacture of "compressed yeast," in a building separate and specially adapted for the purpose, and gives employment to a large number of girls and boys in cutting up into cakes, wrapping in tinfoil and packing into boxes for shipment to the Northern, Southeastern and Western cities. Immediately west of the distillery is a very large and imposing edifice, ~pg 300~ recently erected by the Cincinnati Cooperage company, on the site of the old factory lately destroyed by fire. The new building is perhaps the most complete and extensive concern in the United States, and is fitted up with a vast amount of costly wood-working machinery, giving employment to several hundred men in the manufacture of all kinds of barrels, kegs. etc. The building is lighted by the Brush electric light, enabling the company to run at night as well as by day, when necessary. The certificate of incorporation of Riverside village was filed with the Secretary of State, August 20, 1867. The mayor for the first year was Peter ZINN, an old resident here and in Cincinnati, prominently connected with the rolling mill at CULLOM's station, who died in the village in the early winter of 1880-1. In 1869, 1870 and 1871 the mayor was George A. PETER; 1872-4, Allen A. REEDER. Within the limits of this corporation the railroads have a number of stations as Riverside, the first beyond Sedamsville; Mineola, a plat laid out in 1873 by the Riverside Land association; Southside, a station on the Indianapolis railroad between the two; West Riverside, or CULLOM's, where the rolling-mill is situated; and just beyond Riverside, on the west, is the ANDERSON'S Ferry station. Further west and northwest are Gilead; South Bend or TRAUTMAN'S station, where THOMPSON & Company's extensive fertilizing establishment is located; Rapid Run; Industry, a village laid out in 1847 by Messrs. James and Samuel GOUDIN; Delhi, Home City, Riverdale, and other small stations, which are much used by surburban residents transacting business in the city. At Industry is located a Catholic church, in charge of Rev. Father H. KESSING. Nearly opposite this place is the village of Taylorsville, on the Kentucky side of the Ohio. At Home City, almost immediately adjoining Delhi, is a remarkably large mound, undoubtedly a genuine relic of the Mound Builders. Its regularity has been somewhat impaired by the blowing over of a tree that formerly stood upon it, making a large hole upon one side. Its base is oval - about two hundred by one hundred feet in its principal diameters and its height nearly forty feet. It is now in the field of Mr. R. B. PRICE, a little way northeast of the railroad, but was once the property of Major Daniel GANO, the veteran clerk of Hamilton county, whose farm covered most of what is now Home City. It is said that the major had a mile-track laid out around this ancient work, upon which he was wont to exercise, train; and speed his numerous and famous hoses. He once entertained the old hero of LUNDY's Lane, General Winfield SCOTT at dinner, and afterwards mounted the general on one of his finest horses, the well-remembered "Wyandot," which moved as if it knew and took pride in his rider, and invited his guest to take his station upon or near the mound, and view the evolutions of the horses about the tracks, which the general did to much satisfaction. The farm here was one of three country estates then owned by Major GANO, the others being at Carthage (this one now occupied as the county infirmary premises) and on Brush creek, in Champaign county. He was noted while here for his fine horses, among which were Wyandot, Arab, Conqueror, Comet, and others; Home City was laid out in 1849 by Stephen MAXON and David REDDINGTON, and was incorporated on the twenty-fifth of July, 1879. Delphi was platted by Peter ZINN in 1866. It has a large population, numbering over two thousand. Here are a number of notable Catholic institutions; as the church of Our Lady of Victories, in charge of the Rev. Father F. SCHUMACHER; the parochial school attached to the same, with about seventy pupils; the principal novitiate of the Sisters of Charity; and the Boys' Protectory (formerly the residence of the Hon. George W. SKAATS, of Cincinnati), in charge of the Brotherhood of St. Francis, with about two hundred boys for inmates. The last is described as "a home for the education and maintenance of orphan and other destitute boys between the ages of five and seventeen years, who are taught the rudiments of an education and a useful trade. A little over two miles north of the Southside station, and about half a mile west of the city limits, near the north line of the township, is the little village of Warsaw, on the turnpike which bears its name. A mile west of it, also upon the turnpike, and intersected by the headwaters of Rapid run, is an extensive cemetery, used by the inhabitants of the township. Two miles from Warsaw, on the same much-travelled road, is the German village of Petersborough, with a population of perhaps a hundred. Moscow is an old village of Delhi, now extinct. The glass-works of Messrs. PUGH & TEATER of Cincinnati, the first in this part of the Ohio valley, were located here before 1826. POPULATION. Delhi township shows a satisfactory increase in the number of its inhabitants, as the comparative figures in the census-table, in a previous part of this book exhibit. In 1830, for example, the township had 1,527 people; in 1870, 2,620; in 1880, 4,738. MOUNT ST. VINCENT ACADEMY CEDAR GROVE. Mr. St. Vincent academy, Cedar Grove, situated to the northwest of Cincinnati, and distant nearly two miles directly west from Price's Inclined Plane, is an old established boarding-school for girls and young ladies. The school is under the charge of the Sisters of Charity, who are a branch of the original order founded in the beginning of this century at Emmettsburgh, Maryland, and who still follow the rules and retain the costume and venerable traditions of their foundress. The buildings are delightfully situated on an elevation remarkable for beauty and variety of scenery, and commanding a charming view of the surrounding country. The grounds, which are greatly undulating and tastefully laid out, include some fifty-four acres, in the center of which, on a rising plateau, stands the main building of the academy, a brick structure, four stories high, erected in the year 1858. To the west, is the chapel, built in 1875, and adjoining this, the Sisters' convent, an old building, which, previous to the year 1857, had been the residence of Mr. ALDERSON. This venerable mansion has acquired a degree of literary celebrity, owing to its having been the ~pg 301~ home of "Our Cousins in Ohio," who are described in a story bearing that title, written by Mary HOWETT and published in England. The homestead, including thirty-three acres of land, was purchased by the Sisters March 3, 1857. From Mr. ALDERSON it had received the designation of "The Cedars," which the Sisters, on coming into possession of the place, changed into Cedar Grove. The academy, built in the following year, was called Mt. St. Vincent, but Cedar Grove is still the more familiar name, dear to the hearts of hundreds who have been educated within its walls and still lovingly cherish its memories. The sisters having charge of the academy aim at giving young ladies a thorough education in all branches of useful and polite learning, with which they endeavor to combine the sympathetic care, the assiduous watchfulness, the comforts and the genial influences of home-life, so essential to the proper training of girls, and so greatly valued by parents and guardians. While all branches necessary to the complete education of a young lady are taught (including vocal and instrumental music, Latin and the modern language, mathematics and the physical sciences), special attention is given to the study of English, and written compositions on subjects adapted to the capacities and acquirements of each pupil, are required throughout the entire course of studies. A long experience in the class-room has convinced the Sisters that ease and accuracy in the use of a language, can be gained in no way so rapidly and so satisfactorily as by assiduous practice in composition, under the guidance of efficient teachers. The drill is supplemented by the study of the most approved textbooks on grammar, rhetoric, and the history of English literature, and by the analysis of selections from English classics. To still further facilitate this study and render it attractive, the Sisters have collected a library of above four thousand volumes, selected with great care by competent persons, and embracing all the more valuable works of the language, to which the pupils have free access, and in the use of which they are encouraged and directed by their teachers. There is also in the academy a philosophical and chemical apparatus of the most approved pattern and workmanship, sufficiently complete to illustrate all the important principles of these sciences, in the study of both of which theoretical teaching is accompanied by experiment. A rich collection of globes, maps, and charts, and a cabinet containing the most important minerals and geological formations, carefully classified and labelled for reference together with Indian relics and specimens illustrating the religion, arts, and domestic economy of foreign countries and ancient peoples, are a possession highly valued by the Sisters and of great advantage to the pupils in the prosecution of their studies. Screened from the public gaze by groves of cedar, locust, and maple trees, the school enjoys a seclusion and privacy eminently favorable to study, while the picturesque lawns and extensive play-grounds offer every facility for healthy recreation and pleasant exercise. At convenient intervals on the play-ground, and shaded by the clustering vines, are summer-houses, cozy arbors, and secluded nooks, where the pupils gather of summer evenings to enjoy the fresh breezes of the western hills and the glories of the setting sun, or whither the more studious retire form noise and distraction, to be alone with their books. To the east of the academy, and entirely hidden from it by the dense foliage, stands a small frame building now called "SETON cottage" but formerly the homestead of Mr. HOTCHKISS. Seton cottage, together with ten acres of ground, now laid out in orchards of pear, apple, and cherry trees, a garden and a deer park, was purchased by the Sisters in the year 1868. To the west of the convent are the barn, poultry yard, pastures, laundry, bakery, etc. Previous to 1869 the Mother house and Novitiate of the community were at Cedar Grove; but in the autumn of that year both were transferred to the BIGGS' homestead, in Delhi township, now known as St. Joseph's Mother house, Novitiate and Training school. Here novices enjoy every facility for the acquisition of knowledge and receive full and thorough instruction in all the branches necessary to fit them to become efficient and competent teachers in parochial schools, above thirty of which the Sisters have at present under their direction in different States of the Union.