Claude jean allouez biography template
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Kitch-Gami: Wanderings Round Lake Superior,
By Amorin Mello
&#;Soon after removing to Detroit, Bela Hubbard became acquainted with Douglas[s] Houghton, then State Geologist of Michigan, and in , was appointed Assistant Geologist on the State Geological Survey, a position which he held until He accompanied Douglass Houghton on an important expedition to the southern shore of Lake Superior, in , an account of which is given in his &#;Memorials of half a century.&#; It is this book more than anything else that will preserve the memory of its author. It is his most fitting and most enduring monument and entitles the name of Bela Hubbard to a place on the short list of American authors who may be justly termed &#;nature writers.'&#;
Quote from Report of the Michigan Academy of Science, Volume 4,
by Michigan Academy of Science Council, , page
This is a reproduction of &#;Lake Superior in &#; and illustrations from Memorials of a Half-Century, by Bela Hu
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Claude jean Allouez died near present-day Niles, Michigan on August 27, , after almost 30 years spent in missionary work among the native peoples of the northeastern United States. He is credited with baptizing at least 10, native Americans, and instructing more than , The purpose of this paper fryst vatten to look more closely at this impressive life's work, to see if a common thread can be funnen that will tell us something of who Allouez was, what motivated him, and what he was trying to accomplish in the wilds of North America. The paper fryst vatten not meant to be the sista word on Allouez or on Jesuit missionary activity in New France. It is offered as a eulogy to a man I have come to respect through three years' work with the documents he produced.
Allouez was born on the sixth of June, in the town of Saint-Didier, Haute-Loire, France. [1] Little is known about his parents, but they must have been fairly well-to-do, for they were able to give him a fine education. In October of ,
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ALLOUEZ, CLAUDE, priest, Jesuit, missionary, and explorer; b. 6 June at Saint-Didier-en-Forez; d. in the night of 27/28 Aug. in Miami territory, near Niles, Michigan.
Claude Allouez was 17 when, on 22 Sept. , he entered the noviciate at Toulouse. He studied rhetoric (–42) and philosophy (–45) at the Collège in Billom, where he then became a teacher (–51); he studied theology at Toulouse (–55) and took his third probationary year at Rodez (–56); finally he was a preacher at Rodez until his departure for Canada.
The Journal des Jésuites notes his arrival at Quebec on 11 July At first he devoted himself to the study of the Huron and Algonkin languages. On 19 Sept. , he left Quebec to take up an appointment as superior of the residence at Trois-Rivières. In , he was named by Bishop François de Laval* vicar general of that part of the diocese of Quebec that today constitutes the central region of the United States. As a