PRISONS.—The state penitentiary is at Nashville. A branch prison is located at Brushy Mountain, east Tennessee, where the State owns extensive coal mines, in which a large number of prisoners are worked. The operation of these mines has been very profitable to the State. At the main prison...
At a meeting of the National Educational Association at Nashville, Tennessee in July, 1889, both Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, and Archbishop Keane, then rector of the Catholic University of America, stated the case in favor of denominational schools, and made it clear that, so far...
The dissemination of religious literature is obtained by the foundation of “Book Concerns” (located at New York and Cincinnati for the Methodist Episcopal Church; at Nashville, Tennessee, for the Methodist Episcopal Church South) and a periodical press, for the publications of which the title of...
Cecilia’s Convent, Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1860 by sisters from St. Mary’s, Somerset, Ohio. Sisters, 98; novices, 15; academy, 1; orphan asylum, 1; institute for young ladies, 1; schools, 6; pupils, 1042. (3) Congregation of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, with mother-...
In April, 1883, he was appointed Bishop of Nashville, Tennessee, and was consecrated June 24. At Fort Wayne Bishop Rademacher applied himself assiduously to increase the number of churches, schools, anct missions. In 1896 he remodeled the cathedral at an expense of $75,000. In 1898 his ...
He was followed (1893) by Joseph Rademacher, who was transferred from Nashville, Tennessee, where he was consecrated (1883). This zealous administrator died in 1900, and was succeeded by the present incumbent, Herman Joseph Alerding. Principal Religious Denominations.—Few states (if any) of ...