Detroit R L Polk City Directory 1856 - JewishGen KehilaLinks

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DETROIT TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION.
Meets on Firr;t Saturday of each month, in Desnoyer's Building.
Officers for 1866-7.
THOMAS ALTON, P~esident. WM. GRAHAM,
D. C. EIAKT, Vice President. G. E. ATKINS, I
THODfAS CRANE, Rec. aadCcr. See. E. A. JUDD, ,) Boa.idof D'.ect7s
F. D. ROSS, Fina~zcic~l Sect'y . M. D. HAMILTON,
HENRY RCI-IMITT, Treasure?*. S. BARROW.
~ICHLGAN MARINE HOSPITAL.
This Superb Home for oltl and disabled setlinen is at present in progress of erection
011 ;i lot of ground comprising eight acres, situated just above the city, Messrs. I. W.
Ingel-sol1 and J ogeph Grainger am the contractors for the bnilding, and the general
superintendency of its erection bas been entrusted by the C~ovemmeot to William
Barclay. The ground cost $23,000. The building is estimated to cost $100,000.
It is to be fir0 proof; all the floors are to be arclicd, tho joists arc to be of iron, as also
the roof. The building is to be enclosed with an or~~smental iron verandah.
STATISTICS OF CATHOLIC SOCIETIES, SCHOOLS, &c
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followit~g statistical notices of the C;itholic Schools of Detroit, &c., are ssuppllied
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Sisters of Motre Dame.
These Sisters havo charge of the female department in the school attached to
St. &faryVs church. Number of Scholars, 180. Those Ladies have also under their
charge an Orphiin Asylum for girls of St. Mary's congregatjon, it1 which there are'
now 3 5 o~phans.
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St. Vincert's select school for Girls, and Female Orphan Asylum.
Tllis i;cilool is conducteil by the Sisters of' the conlmunity at Emmittsbur,g. In this
school all the branches of x plain and ulsef~d edocntioil are taug1ltt, and the moral ancl
the religious education of the s~holal-s is particularly ~ttended to. Ia addition, these
Sisters have under their charge an O$lall Asylum for girls, in which there are 75
orphan cllildrcn, and they also teach anotller school for poor children, numbering 250
scholnrfi. Instruction is attended to 011 every Wednesday afternoon, and one hour
before high mass on Sbnila~rs. and also one hour before vespers. Sister Mary Lucretia,
Sr. Servant.
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St, Mary's Hospital.
The Sisters of Charity extend also their benevolence to the sufferers of afflicted hu-