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of buildings erected by Trappist monks. Towards the end of the last century they were driven from their home in Europe by the storms of the revolution then raging; and first fled to Switzerland, from which country, threatened by the French, they went to Russia, thence to Prussia; and at last a small band of them, under the guidance of Rev. Urban Guillet, came to the place above described. It seems though, that our severe winter climate did not agree with them; so in June, 1805, they abandoned their settlement and went to Kentucky."
The Young Men's Society of St. Augustine -
Organized June 20, 1857.
Original Members: John Behe, E. R. Dunegan, M. J. Dunegan, Francis Hoover and J. Z. Zerbee.
Subsequently admitted: J. E. Neason, James Sweeney, Joseph Moyer, Wm. Little, J. H. Douglass, Washington Neason, Celestine McMullen, Charles A. McMullen, John Storm, H. F. Wagner, H. B. Noel, John E. McMullen, Patrick Kearney, M. J. Gibbons, Henry Mellon, Joseph Conrad, Fulgentius Burgoon, Edward Watt, Patrick Donaghe, R. J. Maloney, Wm. Mullen, Wm. J. Hammond, Zachariah Wills, August Cassidy, Peter Cassidy, James Trexler, James McGuire, James B. Faber, Henry McKenzie, Francis Tierney and Michael A. McDermitt.
E. R. Dunegan was elected marshal of the Society to lead parades and see to the proper formation of the members when attending Mass in a body and receiving the Blessed Sacrament.
The Society possessed a choice selection of Catholic books, periodical magazines, and much other useful and edifying literature.
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