Kent, REVEREND WILLIAM HENRY

0O.8.C., writer, b. in London, 9 December, 1857, son of Charles Kent Ketcham, RreverEND WILLIAM HENRY, A.B., b. at Sumner, Iowa, 1 June, 1868. Education: private and Ann, daughter of Murdo Young of Ro shire, schools, Wills Point and Hubbard City, Texas; St. Scotland, authore of ‘‘Evelyn Stuart’’, etc., great- Charles College, Grand Coteau, Louisiana; Seminary grandson of Captain William Kent, R.N., discoverer of Mt. St. Mary’s of the West, Cincinnati, Ohio. of Kent Islands, and grand-nephew of Bishop Baggs, Became a Catholic 1885; ordained 1892; mi ionary former rector of the English College, Rome. Educa-~ to Creek and Cherokee Indians and the eight tribes tion: St. Charles College, London. Entered Congreof the Quapaw Agency, resident at Muskogee, Indian gation of Oblates of St. Charles 1876; ordained 1881; Territory, 1891-1897; mi ionary to the Choctaws, profe or of dogmatic theology, Oblate scholasticate, resident at Antlers, Indian Territory, 1897-1900; London, 1882-1898; at present, devotes most of his and director (1901- yy time to writing; official biographer of Cardinal a istant (1900-1901) Catholic Bureau of Indian Mi ions, Washington; Manning; resident in London. Translated several United States Indian Commi ioner 1913-. As hymns from Greek, Syriac, Armenian, Coptic, and mi ionary in Indian Territory, built numerous Ethiopic; contributor to: ‘Weekly Register’; churches and schools and established many mi ion “Tablet”; “Irish Ecclesiastical Review”; “ Dublin Review”; “American Catholic Quarterly Review”’; stations; converted to the Church a large number of “Ave Maria”’. Indians and whites; brought about the establishment ARTICLES: Ansevtm, Saint; ATONEMENT, Day or; AT ONE of cordial relations between the government and the MENT, DoOcTRINE OF THE; Bec, ABBEY OF; DEMON; DEMONIACS; Catholic Indian Bureau, the abolition of the ‘ Brown- Demo no toey; Dervit; Drvi-WorsuHiprers; INDULGENCES; ing Ruling”, the recognition of the right of Catholic Indian children in government schools to attend INDULGENCES, APposToLic; JupAs IscarioT; LANGTON, STEPHEN; Mannine, Henry Epwarp; Rawzs, Henry AvGusTusS; SABBATARIANS, SABBATARIAN ISM. Catholic services, securing priests for this purpose, the use of Indian “Tribal Funds” for the support