the United States that became Dominicans of St. Catharine (now the Dominican Sisters of Peace). In 1829 Bishop Fenwick established the St. Francis Xavier Seminary. This was the third oldest Catholic seminary in the United States and the oldest Catholic seminary west of the Appalachian Mountains. The Athenaeum of Ohio-Mount St. Mary Seminary claims its roots through the St. Francis Xavier Seminary and is located in Cincinnati In her book Domestic Manners of the Americans, Fanny Trollope wrote of Fenwick: I had the pleasure of being introduced to the Catholic bishop of Cincinnati, and have never known in any country a priest of a character and bearing more truly apostolic. He was an American, but I should never have discovered it from his pronunciation or manner. He received his education partly in England, and partly in France. His manners were highly polished; his piety active and sincere, and infinitely more mild and tolerant than that of the factious Sectarians who form the great majority of the American priesthood. In 1831 Bishop Fenwick initiated publication of The Catholic Telegraph diocesan newspaper. The weekly newspaper was carried by stage and riverboat to areas within the diocese's government, as well as to cities in Kentucky, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The Catholic Telegraph is still in existence today as the oldest continuously-published Catholic newspaper in the United States. Also in 1831, Bishop Fenwick founded The Athenaeum, which later evolved into Xavier University and St. Xavier High School. After the college was established he returned to missionary work, visiting the Indian tribes in the Northwestern territory. Stricken by cholera, he died in Wooster, Ohio on September 26, 1832, aged 64. He is buried in a mausoleum in the new St. Joseph Cemetery, Delhi Township, Hamilton County, OH. Legacy Several schools are named in his honor: Bishop Fenwick High School, Franklin Township, Ohio Fenwick High School, Oak Park, Illinois Fenwick High School, Lancaster, Ohio (now the William V. Fisher Catholic High School) Bishop Fenwick Middle School, Zanesville, Ohio Notes References Lamott, S.T.D., John H., History of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, (1921) External links Bio of Edward Fenwick History of St Rose Priory History of the Athenaeum of Ohio Episcopal lineage of Bishop Edward Dominic Fenwick, O.P. Fenwick High School (Franklin, Ohio) Fenwick High School (Oak Park, Illinois) 1768 births 1832 deaths Deaths from cholera American Dominicans Dominican bishops 19th-century Roman Catholic bishops