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Rev. Henry Churchill Semple
Facts and Events
References
- Newspaper: New York Evening Post, Monday
29 June 1925.
The Rev. Henry C. Semple
Jesuit Scholar, Former New York Moderator, Dies in New Orleans
The Rev. Henry Churchill Semple, a member of the Jesuit Order for half a century is dead in New Orleans, according to word received here by his brother, Lorenzo Semple.
Father Semple was a native of Montogmery, Ala. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1879. He taught in several Southern cities and at Georgetown University, and in 1895 became president of the College of the Immaculate Conception in New Orleans, where he remained four years. From 1905 to 1919 he was moderator of theological conferences of the Archdiocese of New York. Since then he had held the same position in New Orleans.
- Newspaper: St. Petersburg Times, Section One, Page 2
Section One, Page 2, 28 Jun 1925.
Noted Catholic Clergymen Dies In New Orleans
New Orleans June 27th – (A. P.) – Father Henry Churchill Semple well know Catholic clergyman and educator, died at Loyola university here today after a heart attack. He was born in Montgomery, Ala., in 1853, and has taught in Catholic colleges in Mobile, Macon and Washington, D. C., and had written extensively.
Father Semple, who was a Jesuit, was a personal friend and confessor to the late Cardinal Farley. For the last six years he had been at Loyola devoting his time to wrting.
Internment will be at Mobile.
- Emily Virginia Semple; Henry Churchill Semple; Michael Shannon. Reminiscences of My Early Life and Relatives: by request of my son Henry C. Semple, S. J. (Santa Barbara, California: Independent Print, 1904)
24 Pages.
Typescript. Author was daughter of John Scott, orginally of Scottsboro, Milledgeville, GA, who, with Jett Thomas, was one of the builders of the Old Capitol, or Statehouse, in Milledgeville. Most of the author's life was spent on plantation in Alabama.
- SPRINGHILL COLLEGE ARCHIVES
Address: Thomas Byrne Memorial Library, 4000 Dauphin Street, Mobile, Alabama 36608
The Memoirs of Father Henry Churchill Semple record his experiences as a student at Spring Hill College (which also had a pre-high school course of preparation) from 1864 to 1866. The memoirs contain observations about the lives of the students during the war. Father Semple (1853-1925) wrote a series of articles on his days at Spring Hill for the school newspaper (The Springhillian) in 1925.
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