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Corby, William, 1833-1897

 Person

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Congregation of Holy Cross. Indiana Province Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: SCM
Scope and Content Papers of the founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Father Basil Anthony Moreau; reports of Fathers Edward Sorin and William Corby to the superior general of the congregation concerning the affairs of the University of Notre Dame; material concerning the history and role of Holy Cross Brothers and Sisters at Notre Dame; minutes and deliberations of provincial meetings; weight receipts and minutes from the Notre Dame Farm Committee; reports on schools and missions operated by the...
Dates: 1842-1967.

Congregation of Holy Cross Indiana Province Records

 Fonds
Identifier: UIP
Scope and Content Records and papers from the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross (CSC); representing the careers of Fr. Edward Sorin 1830-1896; Fr. Alexis Granger 1832-1893; Fr. William Corby 1858-1897; Fr. John A. Zahm 1873-1922; and the provincial administrations of Fr. Andrew Morrissey 1906-1920; Fr. Charles O'Donnell 1920-1926; Fr. George Finnigan 1926-1927; Fr. James Burns 1927-1938; and Fr. Thomas Steiner 1938-1950. Also 1841-1926 records of the Notre Dame CSC Community; 1840-1982...
Dates: 1828-1973.

Congregation of Holy Cross Priests Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: SCP
Scope and Content

Correspondence of Holy Cross fathers Peter P. Cooney, William Corby, James M. Dillon, Gilbert Francais, Julius A. Freré, and Basil Anthony Moreau; last wills (1844- 1861), manuscripts of poems, sermons, and speeches, instructions from superiors, military service records, notebooks, and other papers of many Holy Cross priests at Notre Dame.

Dates: 1842-1964.

Grand Army of the Republic. Notre Dame Post 569 (Notre Dame, Ind.) Records

 Fonds
Identifier: GAR
Scope and Content

Minutes, 1897-1915; correspondence, 1897-1931; clippings, 1897-1915; and a medal and certificate from a GAR reunion held in 1900; with material on Peter Paul Cooney, William Corby, and James A. McLain.

Dates: 1897-1931, bulk 1897-1915.

James A. Burns Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: BUR
Scope and Content

Correspondence, 1905-1938, primarily with Francis W. Howard, having to do with the National Catholic Educational Association; copies of his diary, 1895-1900,1926; and research notes and printed material.

Dates: 1895-1938

Mary Sullivan Papers

 Fonds — Box UNDA-CC-0004
Identifier: ZCB
Scope and Content

Photocopies of her brief memoirs concerning James Cardinal Gibbons; priests of the Congregation of Holy Cross at Notre Dame including Edward Sorin, William Corby, John Zahm, Charles Doremus, Thomas Walsh, Charles O'Donnell, James Burns, John W. Cavanaugh; and Notre Dame laymen James Edwards, Jerome Green, and Knute Rockne. Also an article about Mary Sullivan, 1985.

Dates: 1900s-1985

Paul Wood Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: WOD
Scope and Content

Correspondence, manuscripts of essays, poems, diary entries, biographical sketch, obituary, and a pencil sketch of Father William Corby. Correspondents include James F. Edwards.

Dates: 1887-1892.

Peter Rosen Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: RSN
Scope and Content Correspondence (1882-1887) involving Bishop Martin Marty, OSB, Edward Sorin, CSC, William Corby, CSC, Alexis Granger, CSC, and Alexander Kirsch, CSC, concerning financial problems of the mission at Deadwood, South Dakota, and other problems of clergy in the Dakotas; pamphlets, clippings, and a photograph of Rosen (1894); a tour book he wrote, Hundert Tage In Europa (St. Louis: Druck der Amerika, 1895); and a broadside describing a religious conversion in South Dakota; with information on the...
Dates: 1882-1887.

Priests' Eucharistic League Records

 Fonds
Identifier: EUL
Scope and Content Letters and other material relating to the Eucharistic Convention held at the University of Notre Dame, August 7th and 8th, 1894. Correspondents include Rev. William Corby, C.S.C. (1833-1897), President of the University of Notre Dame. Also other letters from bishops and priests in reply to invitations to the Eucharistic Conventions at the University of Notre Dame (1894, 1897) and the first National Eucharistic Congress in Washington, DC (1895); addressed to Bishop Camillus Maes, president...
Dates: 1894-1897.

Sorin Jubilee and Monument Correspondence

 Fonds
Identifier: SRJ
Scope and Contents

Letters received from donors regarding the Jubilee of Father Sorin (1888) and the fundraising for a memorial statue to Father Sorin (1905-1906). Letters were received by Professors Orville Chamberlain and J. A. Lyons, James Cardinal Gibbons, John Zahm, CSC, William J. Marr, CSC, John W. Cavanaugh, CSC, Thomas E. Walsh, CSC, and William Corby, CSC, from friends of the University.

Dates: 1888-1906.

William Corby Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: COR
Scope and Content

Correspondence, 1862-1897; sermons, 1887-1897; clippings on the Corby family; records of financial services rendered Civil War soldiers, 1862-1865; a manuscript in which an unnamed regular army officer writes about chaplains he knew in the Army of the Potomac, 1864; and printed material concerning Corby, his death, and the monuments erected in his honor at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and at the University of Notre Dame.

Dates: 1862-1897.