is still in print today. Father Deshon was elected superior general of the Paulist Institute in 1897. At that time houses had been founded in San Francisco, and at Winchester, Tennessee. The last important act of his life was the founding of the Paulist house in Chicago, for which he arranged with Archbishop Quigley in the fall of 1903. Deshon died suddenly of heart failure about midnight 30 December 1903. See also Institutes of consecrated life References Sources Searle, The Very Rev. George Deshon, C.S.P., in The Catholic World (1904), LXXXVIII, 569-73. See also contemporary files, The Catholic News (New York). Attribution External links Service profile 1823 births 1903 deaths Redemptorists Paulist Order