FLORIDA—The Peninsular or Everglade State, the most southern in the American Union and second largest east of the Mississippi, lies between parallels 24° 38′ and 31° N. latitude and meridians 79° 48′ and 87° 38′ W. longitude. Its name, commemorative of its discovery by Ponce de ...
Switzerland, on April 3, 1868. He was schooled in the Order of St. Benedict at St. Meinrad Academy in Indiana. He was ordained in 1894 at St. Boniface in New Orleans and took his vows in 1897 when assigned to St. Augustine in Florida. ...