Central Catholic High School - Centripetal Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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1-4-L' :Eel 1-O-4 41 ,, lb-2 ferent parts to admlmster to the Cathol1c people The d1ocese grew under h1s gentle gu1dance and by 1840 there were churches at Fremont San dusky Glandorf Provldence New Rlegel Shelby Settlement and other local1t1es Toledo havxng become a flourxshmg town felt the need of a res1 dent pastor The Reverend Amadeus Rappe was sent to Toledo m order to establlsh a par1sh He xmmedlately plunged lnto securlng a per manent church for h1s congregatlon and ln the same year bought a rude frame bulldmg on Supe r1or Street near Cherry dedxcatmg It to St Fran c1s de Sales Thxs anclent bu1ld1ng IS now used for the elementary school of th1s parlsh When Bishop Fenwick X f 152 3 2 in sus!! ll :galil U' 'E ff, mv 1-all If i vga: I ll II 'v 4' l' I 5' l .rf- Y ,-.mnlrn The Old St FTZHCIS de Sales the Fxrst Church ln Toledo the Cleveland dxocese was establ1shed Father Rappe became first b1shop From 1845 to 1870 Ger man and Irmsh settlers came xnto thls reglon many of whom were Cathol1c Many of these settlers were of a fine class of people The Irlsh congregated mn the towns and C1t16S the Ger mans more agrxcultural With the openlng of the par1shes the Sxsters came to Toledo the Ursu llnes IH 1854 the Grey Nuns a year later and 1n 1877 the Sisters of Notre Dame Two mterestmg addltxons to the populatlon of Toledo were made ln 1870 and about 1888 wlth the comxng of the Pollsh and Hungarlan lmmlgratxons re spectlvely In 1912 the Cleveland dlocese was dxvxded and northwestern Ohlo became the dlocese of Toledo Rt Rev Joseph Schrembs was ap pomted B1shop of the new dlocese He served 1n thls capacity untxl 1921 when he was made B1shop of Cleveland Bxshop Schrembs was succeeded by the Most Rev Samuel A Strxtch who 041470 one W3-'X X llsl x 'l 4, 1 V, 1 X X Q N l RGMT RiViRE D A ADEU5 RAPPE D D .- -4 8 4 E5 -fs at A x -o , - 9 1 l Y l Y ' Y v ' . , . l ' . A . ll . . . . , Y ' - Ei: -. viii? 252152 E, 5 E -Ag fel' 1 sg.f2,,gaY a2 if ,ga 5, .l r or 1.. A ' f ' fnImnzlrlrruzlleuvflanonuluw , .. lrnnlnlllfnlenlenun nn u n in u 7 1 4 , 8 ' ' ' ' ,Aa i., -pi? ' 35' 1. 7 'l , .-v.,-, ae ' Settled 011 farms nearby- ! 9 . . . . I ' X S . - l 4' . sf 1 ' VI ' Sift' r l , ' 4. Sfkfillngl X f , J :Q .17 , I ' Wt' -'A i Vt , N Ns li . I - Z 'le ' . f x I ll . .X N' X 'Q 1-f. lv: ' ll' X' lla . - .in X-1 -Lx my ,r X , XXX . . 7 ll q., tiny X- K X - X, .I . . . ,M lg, . X3 7 V .W ' Q t 142 4 xx. 1 . . . . zap- x A Q '-AMEX, , X My . at lg ggm,,t.l-1, a To m , li ,A i., X 'xci Y I- -. f.:J I RQ XXX' . . , N 'F , A ,

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t- 5 iff u-of mee just west of Perrysburg Oh1o It covered about n1ne acres of ground and was named n honor of the patrlotxc governor of Oh1o Return Jonathan Melgs The Brxtlsh commanded by General Proctor were statxoned dxrectly across the rlver whxle Tecumseh the great Shawnee 1n the grmp of h1s ldeal to defend the red men from the mvasxon of the wh1tes had h1s Indlans scat tered on both sldes of the r1ver Two S16geS oc curred one 1n May and one ln July The Brltlsh unsuccessful at length retreated On all sldes of the fort are graves of soldlers who fell 1n that v1c1n1ty durxng that war H fo -fc 0123 fl lllc Gt 1 5 7 fffr f if I, X HARRISON J-A On the lakes too the Amerlcans carr1ed on a glorlous campalgn On September 10 1813 Perry met and defeated w1th a home made fleet a large Br1t1sh fleet from Detroit takmg more pr1soners than h1s entlre force Th1s opened the way for Harr1sons operatlons at Detrolt where he defeated Proctor and Tecumseh at the battle of the Thames December 5 1813 breakmg the Indlan power for all t1me By the Treaty of Ghent December 1814 war was ended and the west reglon agam became peaceful In 1817 the Indlans rel1nqu1shed clalms and began the sad m1grat1ons westward They cast long farewell glances at the fertxle reglon as they slowly moved to the Indlan reservatlons west of the M1ss1ss1pp1 The Delawares left 1n 1829 the Ottawas ln 1838 and the Wyandots rn 1842 In 1832 the settlement Incllans Leaxlng the Maumee Valley 04 13 DO of Toledo was begun and 1ts rlse ln the last one hundred years has been phenomenal The Cathollc development of Oh1o has been even more remarkable than 1ts C1V1l h1s tory The labors of the early jesuxts have been rewarded by the spread of Cathol1c1ty throughout the west Th1s year the Cathollc Church cel ebrates the centennary of the first church bullt ln northwest ern Oh1o that of St Mary s at Txffln At the t1me It was erected, the dnocese of C1nc1n natx covered the entlre states of Oh1o and M1ch1gan and the eastern part of Wlsconsm Th1s great terrltory was pre s1ded over by Blshop Edward Fenwxck, who traveled w1th great dxfflculty, especlally m the wlnter months, to the d1f X YY: Q . l I ,fi 1 8 ' 5? Q MJ: f ig, W WS' ' ri v v v 'f' C , I g si. 51,77 K - . 5 r f!! . . . . S X. 3 1 Y ' I if -5 S . . . J X . , - , 1 5 9 - X 1 1 K ' v a ' , . . . , . . , I ! , . 7 5 Y ' 5 7 Y A A . . - . . ' 9 , .

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6 5-Q-gay 1-O-f fi-jf Q-B-2 m August of 1930 was made Archblshop of Milwaukee Wnsconsm The thxrd Blshop of Toledo who w111 be consecrated ln June xs a natxve Toledoan Rev Karl J Alter at the tlme of hrs appomtment Dlrector of the Natxonal Catholxc School of Socxal Servxce at the Catholxc Un1ver slty m Washmgton One hundred years ago there was one Catholxc church ln northwestern Ohlo St Marys T1ff1n Today one hun dred and fifty four churches dot thxs drstrxct The month of June w1ll mark the complete Howerlng of Cathollcxty m this section wxth the ded1cat1on of the Cathe dral of the Most Holy Rosary the center of Cathollc llfe wh1ch IS as lovely as has been called an archltectural sym ,. , phony 1n stone 211' f-JY' -0-fl Y.. New Cathedral of the Most Holy Rosary 04 15 lo Us T , X Y- - Q- . . i . - gui ' lplll '. 1 '--fa, K' 9 f li Q F Y T 4' A W , w V 9 5' ,V V' - -' ff X . r I J v l a A A 5 , K 1 2 1 i r ' ,l , ,Q 3 5 In 1 I-5 l ,-I , f 25 .ff