Lindesmith, Father E.W.J., Chaplain, U.S. Army Rootstown, Portage Co., Ohio to James F. Edwards, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1901 November 18

On the 19th he attended the funeral of President McKinley. He marched with the veterans of Canton and was proud to show himself as a patriotic American priest. He hopes Edwards will make a good arrangement of his relics so that they will be a constant sermon of his twelve years labor in the army as chaplain, in the Rocky Mountains among the soldiers and frontiersmen and Indians. He was instrumental in getting Bishop Richard Gilmour of Cleveland to send six nuns. Ursuline to begin a mission among the Cheyennes on the Tongue River in Montana. Those first six nuns have increased to 75. He had too much to do at Doylestown so he asked for a smaller place. :: XI-2-d A.L.S. 4pp.