GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 1: Eastern United States
Pennsylvania: PA-3

St. Patrick Church
140 East Pomfret Street 
Carlisle, PA 17013

Phone: 717-243-4411
Email: See website

 

History: St. Patrick Church, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, has been a predominantly non-Native American parish in the Diocese of Harrisburg (Archives: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania). Harrisburg diocesan priests at St. Patrick’s attended to Native American students at Carlisle Government Indian School.

1890-1918	Rev. Henry G. Ganss (1855-1912) and his successor, attended to the Carlisle students
1904	Father Ganss founded the Marquette League for Catholic Indian Missions (Archives: Milwaukee, Wisconsin), a New York City based businessmen’s fundraising organization allied to the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (Archives: Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
1913	Carlisle student Jim Thorpe (Sauk and Fox, 1888-1953) married at St. Patrick’s

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1890-1918

Volume: Several entries

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Native American students at the Carlisle Government Indian School.

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.

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