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privileges, March, 1617. A change in the rules and constitution was made in 1645, and received the ap- proval of pope Innocent X. The Congregations of Our Lady have flourished ever since in Europe, and espe- cially in Pelgium and Fratice. In America they have their head-quarters in Montreal, where they number 431 professed sisters, 80 novices and postulants, and 13.337 pupils in the boarding-schools, academies, and free schools, which they direct principally in Canada and British America. The only establishments in the United States known to be connected with that at Montreal are the " Convent and Academy of the Ladies of the Congregation of Notre Dame," at Portland, Me., which reports 14 members and 90 pupils, also 840 pu- pils in two parochial schools, of which the ladies have charge ; and St. Joseph's Convent, at Cambridgeport, Mass., with 7 sisters, who have charge of schools with 375 pupils. Other establishments, however, as those at Waterbury, Conn., and Bourbonnais Grove, 111., may also belong to this Congregation. The Catholic A Imanac, under January 12, says : " Margaret Bourgeoys, founder of the Sisters of the Congregation, died at Montreal, 1706." There are, however, in the United States many others who are styled in the Catholic Directory of 1871 " Sisters of Notre Dame," or " School-Sisters of Notre Dame," or " Poor School-Sisters of Notre Dame," pos- sibly all belonging with those who are thus reported from Milwaukee : " Convent of the School-Sisters of Notre Dame, Mother House and Novitiate, corner of Milwaukee and Knapp Streets, Sister Mary Caroline, superioress. Members, Go ; novices, 88 ; postulants, 80 ; mission-houses, 78 ; with 620 sisters, having under their charge, throughout the United States, 27,900 parish school-children, over 1375 orphans, 640 boarders." The establishments named in the Catholic Directory for 1871 as belonging to the " School-Sisters of Notre Dame" are in Baltimore and Annapolis, Md. ; Philadelphia, Taco- ny, and Alleghany City, Pa.; Chicago, 111.; Milwau- kee and Elm Grove, and twelve other places, Wiscon- sin. To these the Directory for 1870 aclded IJochester, N. Y., and Pittsburgh, Pa. The '• Poor School-Sisters of Notre Dame" are reported oidy at Quincy and Belle- ville, in the diocese of Alton; while the "Sisters of Notre Dame" are reported in that diocese at Quincy, Belleville, Highland, St. Liborius, Shoal Creek Station, Springfield, and Teutopolis, 111. The " Sisters of Notre Dame,'' or the " Sisters of the Congregation," are re- ported at Boston (including East and South Boston and Boston Highlands), Lowell, Salem, Lawrence, Chicopee, and Holyoke, Mass.; Waterbury, Conn. ; New York City, Rochester, and Buffalo, N. Y. ; Newark, N. .T. ; Phila- del[ihia and Pittsburgh, Pa. ; Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio; Louisville, Kj". ; Detroit, Mich.; Green Bay, Wis. ; Mankato and Ilokah, Min. ; West Point, Iowa ; Chicago, Henry, and Bourbonnais Grove, 111.; St. Louis, Mo.; New Orleans, La. ; San Francisco, Pueblo of San Jose, and JMarysville, Cal. See Histoire du Clerye Seculier et Requlier, iii, 384-395 ; Barnum, Romanism as it is, p. 327, 328. (J. H. W.)
Nott, Eliphalet, D.D., LL.D., an eminent Pres- byterian divine, and one of the most noted of American educators, deservedly spoken of as "one of the historical monuments of this country" — a man, in short, of very extraordinary characteristics — was born at Ashford, Windham Co., Conn., June 25, 1773. His early train- ing was received under the Avatchful and intelligent supervision of a most excellent mother. At the age of four years he had read the Bible through, and so in- satiable was his thirst for knowledge that, under the direction of his mother, he was constantly adding to his acquisitions from every source within his reach. At one time he was thoroughly bent on becoming a physician, but being present on a certain occasion when a cancer was to be cut from a woman's breast, his services were put in requisition in some part of the process; he went through it manfully, but when it was all over he faint- ed; and this was an effectual damper upon his zeal for
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