User:RWIR/Edmund Quincy Sheafe Waldron

Was a Protestant Episcopal Lay Deputy in 1839 though he was marked not present at their convention in Philadelphia. He was with All Saints Church, Moyamensing, Philadelphia County.

"The school was opened in 1835; in 1842 Waldron opened a law practice in Cincinnati (Appleton’s cyclop. of Amer. hist.)"

"FIRST CHURCH IX SALEM.

"Samuel Ward, a Protestant gentleman, kindly donated the use of the hall over his blacksmith shop, on the corner of Broad and Griffith streets, where services were held until the church was erected. In May, 1848, the Rev. E. S. O. Wal- dron was appointed b)' Rt. Rev. Bishop Kenrick, of Phila- delphia, to attend Salem and other missior.s in South Jersc)'. With zeal and energy P'ather Waldron devoted himself to his laborious missionary work, going from place to place, say- ing Mass in public halls and private houses, instructing the chil- dren, and preaching to the small bands of Catholics in the places he visited. Towartl the close of the }ear 1848 the good missionary and his faithful i^eople in Salem deemed it advisable to secure ground for a church. In those )'ears wages were low, farm labor- ers receiving but si.\ and eight dollars a month, and living-out girls seventy cents and a dollar a week.

"The work of raising funds begun by Dr. O'Hara was carried on by the zeal of Father Waldron. October 25th, 1848, the lot on which the church is located was i)urchased from George Bovven for ;^540. A new impetus was given to the ardent zeal of the good pastor and his devoted people b}' the purchase of a site for a church edifice. Work was commenced on the foundation in the year 1849, but had to be discontinued later for want of funds. Father Waldron was transferred to other fields of labor...."

"The idea of making Gloucester a parish took shape in 1848, when a petition was presented to Bishop Kenrick of Philadelphia and the Rev. E.Q.S. Waldron was appointed.

"Mass was first said in a private house, but the accommodations soon proved too small for the growing congregation. The superintendent of the school hall, though a non-Catholic, gave the use of the hall to Father Waldron, who for a time said Mass there every Sunday. Soon, however, the little flock lost this privilege. "

He was transfered from Gloucester, New Jersey, in May 1849

In 1850 he is a "pastor" who consults with Mr. Alexander Jackson Davis regarding a competition to design the front of a "Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul". He had an appointment to meet Davis, an architect, in New York.

In Feb 1857 he is "Father E.Q.S. Waldron of Philadelphia" "Father (E.Q.S.) Waldron is quite impracticable. They hardly know what to do with him. His ecclesiastical education has been sadly neglected and he is not all docibilis."

In 1859 he was a "prominent clergyman in Washington" who unwittingly recommended Louis J. Weichmann and then John Surratt as prospective students in the priesthood. One was later a witness, the other a suspect, in the Lincoln assassination conspiracy trial. In 1862 Weichmann taught about two months for Waldron in Pikesville, Maryland. Waldron himself was never suspected of involvement.

Waldron became in charge of the congregation at Pikesville Catholic Church in about 1859 or 60 and "remained in charge of the parish from that time until the present, a period of more than twenty years." It was "under the patronage of St. Charles Borromeo."

By 1867 he was president of Borromeo College, Pikesville, Philadelphia County. In the same book, the institution is described as "St. Charles Borromeo" in Pikesville. There was another St. Charles college in Ellicott City, Maryland

, that Wiechmann and Surratt appear to have attended. Borromeo College was established in 1860.

"Borromeo College, Baltimore Co., Md.

"EIGHT MILES FROM BALTIMORE CITY, AND EASY OF A00BS8 FROM ALL PARTS 01 THE UNITED STATES.

"This Institution is situated in a most pleasant, retired, and healthy part of the country. Its design is to ^ve young gentlemen, who are admitted ' at anv age after ten years old, a thorough English, Mathematical, and dasal- cal education, and to prepare them, by a practical application of the branches taught, to pursue the various occupations of life.

"It is a private Institution with all the comforts and restrictions of a well- regulated family. Great care is taken to maintain a strictly moral and po- lite deportment on the part of each pupil, and to develop the health and strength of his body, as well as the faculties of his mind and heart.

"The number of pupils is so limited, that each one receives all the atten- tion he would receive under the eye of a careful and educated parent, aided by learned and experienced teachers, \

"The terms are $800 per year ; but this sum not only includes instruction ' in Modern and Ancient Languages, Phonography, Music, and Drawing, bnt also all the books and stationery necessary throughout the year, wilJi all, other expenses usually charged as extra in other Institutions.

"P. O. address, REV. E. Q. S. WALDRON, Principal, B.C.,

"Pikesville, Baltimore Co., Md."

In 1877 the new Church of the Sacred Heart was dedicated in Reisterstown, near Baltimore, and Waldron became the rector.

In 1886 Hoffmann's Catholic directory, almanac and clergy list, Volume 1898 shows him as "Reisterstown, Sacred Heart, Rev. E.Q.S. Waldron" within the Archdiocese of Baltimore (p. 40). http://books.google.ca/books?id=WuDQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&dq=%22e.q.+s.+waldron%22&source=bl&ots=0Ns3vCNrXs&sig=_u-J_y6oF2KpwP-liz3E6rYffFs&hl=en&ei=1IXaTIHhLIn0swOfztC6Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAjgU#v=onepage&q=%22e.q.%20s.%20waldron%22&f=false accessed 10 Nov 2010. The same book shows him as of Jersey City, Maryland within the Archdiocese of Baltimore. (p. 390)

Was of Pikesville, Maryland on 20 May 1886 when he gave the strongbox to the Maine Historical Society through William Goold. (http://books.google.ca/books?id=ovhuTqZLeakC&pg=PA331&lpg=PA331&dq=%22e.q.+s.+waldron%22&source=bl&ots=tMeQNaRyVE&sig=rWMjlcC9uSxecD3kBO1BKq4_7u8&hl=en&ei=SmLaTOWkGYOWsgO1mvmVCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CBcQ6AEwATgK#)

He was "priest of the Catholic church of St. Charles Bonares, at Pikesville, Maryland" by the time William Goold wrote of him in his Portland in the Past (1886).