July 26, 1911. In attendance at his installation was the likes of Mayor John E. Reyburn and Judge Mayer Sulzberger. Due to his own advanced age (68), he received John Joseph McCort as an auxiliary in 1912. During his episcopate, he was known as a master builder and a real-estate genius. He increased the number of parishes and parochial schools for the great number of Italian and Eastern European immigrants in Philadelphia. In 1913 he opened the Archbishop Memorial Institute for the Deaf. He founded Saint Francis Country Home for Convalescents and in 1916 established Saint Edmond's Home to meet the needs of children affected by the polio epidemic. In 1917 he founded St. Vincent's Orphanage, which would later become Archbishop Prendergast High School. Archbishop Prendergast was esteemed by priests and laity as a friend and solicitous father. He died at the episcopal residence on February 26, 1918. In 2005 Archbishop Prendergast High School for Young Women in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, merged with Monsignor Bonner High School for Young Men to create Monsignor Bonner & Archbishop Prendergast Catholic High School. References External links 1843 births 1918 deaths 19th-century Irish people 20th-century Irish people 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the United States Roman Catholic archbishops of Philadelphia American Roman Catholic clergy of Irish descent Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) People from County Tipperary Clergy from Philadelphia Burials at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul (Philadelphia)