Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1856

pg 295                                 4.  Susquehanna
                  This house was founded in the month of October with the 
             surplus members of New York for whom there was scarcely lodging.  
             Twelve little girls and three Sisters were sent there to continue 
             an academy opened some years before by the V. R. Mr. O'Reilly, V. 
             G. of Philadelphia.  Having heard of the Sisters of Holy Cross 
             recently established at Philadelphia, he did not cease to make 
             urgent demands for some of them until he had obtained the promise 
             of two or three to take charge of his academy at Susquehanna, 
             about a mile from the college also founded by him and offered 
             unconditionally to the priests of Holy Cross.
                  Susquehanna is in the northern part of Pennsylvania, in a 
             mountainous country famous for the salubrity of its climate.  The 
             place where the college and the academy are situated is a Catholic 
             centre forming four parishes for which priests of Holy Cross are 
             asked.  The Bishop especially is very desirous to have this matter 
             settled thus.