Virgil Horace Barber

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OrdinationDecember 1822
Personal details
Born(1782-05-09)May 9, 1782
Claremont, New Hampshire
DiedMarch 25, 1847(1847-03-25) (aged 64)
Georgetown, District of Columbia
DenominationCatholic Church
Alma materDartmouth College

Virgil Horace Barber (May 9, 1782, in

Jesuit
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Life

Virgil Barber was born May 9, 1782, in Claremont, New Hampshire, where his father, Daniel Barber was an Episcopal priest. Virgil was educated at the Cheshire Academy, then went to Springfield, Vermont, to study surveying. In 1801 he entered Dartmouth College. Virgil was ordained an Episcopal priest and in 1807 became pastor of St. John's Episcopal Church in Waterbury, Connecticut. He then married Jerusha Booth of Vergennes, Vermont.[1]

In 1814, Barber became principal of the Episcopalian

John H. Hobart, and other Episcopalian ministers could not solve for him.[2] By this time, his father had begun to have some religious reservations and shared with Virgil some books he had been given by Roman Catholic Bishop of Boston, Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus.[1]

During a visit to New York City, in 1816, he called on

Visitation Order. Under the direction of Fenwick, in June 1817 they set out for Georgetown, D. C., where Barber and his son Samuel went to the college of the Jesuit Fathers. Jerusha entered the Georgetown Visitation Monastery, where the three oldest girls were received as boarding students. The youngest child, Josephine, then ten months old, was taken care of by Fenwick's mother.[2]

The superior at Georgetown,

Georgetown College, where he passed the remainder of his days.[2]

Nearly three years after their separation, February 23, 1820, husband and wife met in the chapel of Georgetown Visitation Monastery to make their vows in religion. She first went through the formula of the profession of a Visitation nun, and he the vows of a member of the Society of Jesus. Their five children, the eldest being ten and the youngest three and a half years old, were present. Jerusha Barber had been admitted into the Visitation monastery on July 26, 1817, taking the name of Sister Mary Augustine.[1] Her novitiate was one of severe trials, as well on account of her affection for her husband as on account of her children, who were a burden to the community then in a state of poverty. She served in the monastery of Georgetown, and the convents of Kaskaskia, St. Louis, and Mobile, where she died January 1, 1860.

Mary, the eldest daughter, entered the

Three Rivers, Canada
, January 24, 1837. Samuel, the son, graduated at Georgetown College in 1831 and immediately entered the Society of Jesus. After his novitiate he was sent to Rome, where he was ordained. He returned to Georgetown in 1840, and died, aged fifty years, at St. Thomas's Manor, Maryland on February 23, 1864.

References

  1. ^ a b c Mitchell, Hudson. "Virgil Horace Barber", Woodstock Letters, Volume LXXIX, Number 4, November 1, 1950
  2. ^ a b c Meehan, Thomas. "The Barber Family." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 21 August 2019Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ "Old St. Mary's, Old Church Rd., Claremont", St. Mary's RC Church, Claremont, New Hampshire
Attribution
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "The Barber Family". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
    • De Goesbriand, Catholic Memoirs of Vermont and New Hampshire (Burlington, Vermont, 1886);
    • Lathrop, A Story of Courage (Boston, 1894);
    • John Gilmary Shea, The Catholic Church in the United States (New York, 1856);
    • John Gilmary Shea, Memorial History of Georgetown College (Washington, 1891);
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