Robert Seton Family Papers
Scope and Content
Correspondence, mostly of the Seton Family, 1782-1908, including among their correspondents James Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Winand M. Wigger; photographs, clippings, pamphlets and sermons; St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's prayer book and Robert Seton's diaries and books; paintings and family lithographs; an expense account book, a family genealogy, a book of sermons, and four notice books of St. Joseph Church, New Jersey, 1880-1899.
Calendared
Dates
- Creation: 1782-1908
Creator
- Seton, Robert, 1839-1927 (Person)
Language of Materials
English.
Background
Titular archbishop of Heliopolis; fourth of William and Emily (Prime) Seton's seven children; the grandson of St. Elizabeth Ann (Bayley) Seton, founder of the American Sisters of Charity in 1809; and cousin of Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, first bishop of Newark and founder of Seton Hall University in 1856.
Extent
8 linear feet. 1 linear foot of photographs.
Subject
- Seton, Robert, 1839-1927. (Person)
- Seton, Elizabeth Ann, Saint, 1774-1821. (Person)
- Bayley, James Roosevelt, 1814-1877 (Person)
- Gibbons, James, 1834-1921 (Person)
- Wigger, Winand Michael, 1841-1901. (Person)
- Seton Family (Family)
- Title
- Robert Seton Family Papers
- Subtitle
- Guide
- Author
- University of Notre Dame Archives
- Date
- 2013
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Notre Dame Archives Repository