IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES
IOWA CITY, IOWA
SISTER MARY DOMINICA URBANY
(1864-1936)
PAPERS, 1866-1936
8 items
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ACQUISITION: |
The papers
(donor no. 389) were donated by Dorothy
Clark in 1996. |
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ACCESS: |
The papers
are open for research. |
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COPYRIGHT: |
Copyright has been transferred to the University of Iowa. |
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PROCESSED BY: |
Kristen Rassbach, 1997.
[Urbany.doc] |
Biography
Born in Hobscheid, Luxemburg, Germany,
Anna Urbany immigrated with her sister Mary to Festina, Iowa, in 1871 after her
parents died. In 1876, at the age of approximately
thirteen, she entered St. Rose Convent in La Crosse, Wisconsin as a member of
the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, where she took the name Sister
Mary Dominica Urbany. She served as the
first Sister Superior at the St. Angela Institute (now Kuemper High School at
Carroll, Iowa) for ten years. Sister
Mary Dominica Urbany then left the United States to pursue missionary work in
China until her death in 1936.
Scope and
Content Note
The Sister Mary Dominica Urbany papers date from 1866 to 1936 and contain 8
items. The papers consist chiefly of
photocopies of letters written by Sister Mary Dominica Urbany to her family
while she was in China. Two newspaper
clippings and a tribute to Sister Mary Dominica Urbany written by her students
as she left for China are also included.
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