HISTORICAL HISTORICAL SKETCH The name of St. Marys is intimately connected with the early history of Kansas and of the Middle West. The narrative fibres of the following sketch are closely woven into the warp and the woof of the state and the work accomplished at the St. Mary’s mission in the pioneer days stands out in bold relief on the completed pattern. Before California was settled, or Kansas City laid out, and seventeen years before Kansas was proclaimed a territory by the bill of Stephen A. Douglas, St. Mary’s was in existence—a thriving mission in the heart of an Indian country whose total population failed to exceed a hundred souls. In the early history of the m.ssion, which developed by slow degrees into the splendid scholastic institution of today, events arc marked by small notches, but they are deep cut and will endure. HEROIC DAYS In 1837, years previous to the passage of the initial prairie-schooner caravan across the l osom of the trackless plains, before the report of the first axe echoed in the virgin forests, a band of Pottawatomie Indians, migrating from Indiana, where they had been baptized by the Revs. Stephen Badin and Deseille, set up their wigwams on the banks of the Osage River, Linn County, Kansas. Their chief, Nesfwawke, learning of the presence of Fathers Christian Hoecken and Felix L. Verreydt among the Kickapoos, sent an invitation by a trapper to the Fathers to visit him and teach his people religion. In January, 1838, in the very heart of winter, Father Hoecken arrived among the Pottawatomies, and found them in dire straits, living in huts and subsisting on scant allowances of government corn. To this first visit of this Jesuit missionary which terminated at the end of two weeks, St. Mary’s owes its existence. In May, 1838. he again visited them, remaining y v One Hundred Seventy-Four
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