Duerinck carrell (1 risultati)

2 pp. (Jesuits. Missouri) Duerinck, John Baptiste, George A. Carrell et al. Manuscript Document Signed, regarding college expenses, signed by Jesuit botanist John Baptiste Duerinck and several others. 2pp. including stampless address leaf (both sides of single sheet), mailed to Rev. Carrell as President of St. Louis University. 40x24.5 cm. (15¾x9¾). Cincinnati & St. Louis: 184,46. A long legal document, making the University's claim for college expenses incurred by Chouteau Smith (apparently named for the famous family of Missouri fur traders) while a student at St. Xavier College, a Jesuit school in Cincinnati which drew its faculty from the Catholic St. Louis University, oldest university west of the Mississippi. The first scholar to make the trek from Missouri to Ohio was Duerinck (1809,1857), a Belgian Jesuit who had come to America as a missionary and took the opportunity to pursue his botanical interests, collecting plants throughout the Midwest, making important ethnobotanical observations, one new plant he had discovered being named in his honor. He later headed a Jesuit college in a frontier region of Kansas, which was regarded as an island of civilization by travelers on the Oregon Trail" A few short tears at folds, very good. Signed.…