The John Hughes Cabin

John Hughes, born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1797, immigrated in 1817 and was employed on November 10, 1819, by Fr. John DuBois, founder of Mount Saint Mary's in 1808 and third bishop of New York from 1826 to 1838, as a gardener and mason, receiving board, lodging, and private instruction. Hughes, class of 1826, later became the fourth bishop of New York in 1838 and the first archbishop of New York from 1850 to 1864. Until the fall of 1820, when he moved into a two-story log house on the terrace built in 1809, he lodged in this cabin. Hughes was noted as a scholar, a protagonist of the church, a force against trusteeism, and a supporter of Catholic education. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln sent Hughes to Europe to further the Northern cause. He founded St. Joseph's seminary in Troy, the forerunner of St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, Yonkers, New York, and St. John's College, Fordham, subsequently Fordham University, and he planned and began St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York in 1858.

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