Missouri Province Map Collection
Jesuits labored tirelessly in their missionary activities among Native Americans in the Northwestern and Midwestern United States throughout the nineteenth century. In the encounters with these groups, Jesuits shared their customs, learned new traditions, and produced dictionaries, grammars, maps, and prayer books. The Map of the Northern Rocky Mountains and Plateau, one of several maps in the extensive Missouri Province Map Collection, provides you a detailed representation of the geography and native communities in the region of the Columbia River.
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Francis X. Weninger Collection
The personal papers and publications of Jesuit Francis X. Weninger (1805-1888) detail the expeditions of a successful Catholic missionary in nineteenth-century America.
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The Jesuits of the Middle United States
Jesuit Gilbert J. Garraghan was born on August 14, 1871, in Chicago. Garraghan held many posts throughout his life as a Jesuit. He served in a leadership position in the Missouri Province and held administrative, research, and teaching posts at Xavier College in Cincinnati, Creighton University in Omaha, Loyola University in Chicago, and Saint Louis University.

While Garraghan published extensively, including a history of the Catholic Church in Chicago, he is perhaps most well known for his The Jesuits of the Middle United States. Originally published in 1938, the three-volume work is an indispensable resource for researchers of Catholic, Jesuit history in the United States. In cooperation with Loyola University Press, the Midwest Jesuit Archives is pleased to provide you with Virtually Garraghan. The accessible and searchable format allows you to click on any title to begin a keyword search.
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Catalogus Defunctorum
Jesuit Rufo Mendizabal compiled information in order to facilitate research about the Society of Jesus. The text principally includes biographical data about Jesuits who died between 7 August 1814 and 30 September 1970. The information often identifies a Jesuit’s date and city of birth, his year of entrance into the order, his date of final profession, and his province affiliation at the time of death. Catalogus Defunctorum serves as a starting point for historical research about members of the order.
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Moses Linton Album
Moses Lewis Linton served at Saint Louis University’s School of Medicine for nearly 30 years. There he met Father Peter John De Smet SJ, priest and missionary to Native Americans, and the two became close friends. After Linton received an album as a Christmas gift from a patient in 1850, De Smet began his work on it as a personal scrapbook for his friend.

The Moses Linton Album, numbering over 200 pages, chronicles De Smet’s work and travels from 1821 to 1871. A selection of the Moses Linton Album is in the portfolio of images. It provides an historical resource about the missionary activities of Jesuits in the Northwestern and Midwestern United States in the 1800s.
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Nicolas Point Gallery
The Nicolas Point Gallery introduces the missionary activities of the Jesuits among Native American in the Northwestern and Midwestern United States. Pencil sketches and watercolor drawings by Father Nicolas Point SJ (1799-1868) depict the encounter between the various groups. The portfolio of images will hopefully serve your research interests. (The file may take a few minutes to load, and your computer may prompt you to install the current version of Adobe Reader.) You may learn more about Nicolas Point, as well as images from our gallery, in an article, Father Nicolas Point: Missionary and Artist, written by Thomas M. Rochford SJ for the Oregon Historical Quarterly. This article is reprinted with permission from the Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 97, No. 1, Spring, 1996. Courtesy of the Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon.
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Woodstock Letters
The Jesuits in the United States circulated Woodstock Letters among its members and institutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The publication, in short, offers detailed first-hand accounts of events, ideas, and persons through the decades (1872 to 1969). As a primary source of historical and theological information, it chronicles central movements and characters upon whom turned the changes in religious history. The journal numbers almost 50,000 pages and occupies 12.5 feet of shelf space. Approximately 45 libraries list the serial in their print collections; in addition, several institutions have microfilm or microfiche editions.
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