CONTENTS.
The Statue Unveiled | 1 |
LOCAL HISTORICAL NOTES | |
| First Settlement on the Alleghenies | 27 |
| Inscription on Tombstone of Capt. Michael McGuire | 31 |
| Captain Richard McGuire | 31 |
| Other Pioneers | 32 |
| Father Gallitzin | 33 |
| Father Gallitzin at Wilmore | 38 |
| The Wilmore Family | 39 |
| Extracts from Father Gallitzin's Letters | 40 |
| His Chief Persecutor Retracts | 43 |
| He is a Total Abstainer | 45 |
| He Endeavors to have Loretto made an Episcopal See | 48 |
| His Opinion of Mendicant Friars, and His Defence | |
| of Father McGirr | 49 |
| He is Empowered by Act of Assembly to Resume | |
| His Family Surname | 53 |
| Captain McGuire's Company | 53 |
| Father Gallitzin's Life in Peril | 54 |
| His Death and Funeral | 57 |
| His Monument | 59 |
| Mission at Loretto, 1851 | 60 |
| Visit of Monsignor Bedini, the Papal Nunzio | 62 |
| Dedication of the Brick Church | 64 |
| Collapse of Church Floor | 66 |
| Pastors and Assistants since 1840 | 66 |
| Index of Parish Records, 1800-1896 | 69 |
| The Borough of Loretto | 71 |
| Act Incorporating the Borough | 72 |
| Supplement to the above | 75 |
| Loretto Notes | 76 |
| Memoranda of Rev. M. W. Gibson | 79 |
| Dates in Local History | 88 |