Sister Dorothy Dotterweich, OSB
Scope and Contents
Includes a personal data sheet, a brief biography, a photograph of her and her sisters, photocopies of her art, email and print correspondence regarding research requests.
Dates
- Creation: 1902-2007
Creator
- Dotterweich, Dorothy, 1875-1902 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research, material is unrestricted.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Dorothy Dotterweich, OSB was born Blandina (Blanche) Dotterweich to Bavarian parents in Youngstown, Pennsylvania on April 11th, 1875. She attended SS Benedict and Scholastica Academy in Chicago, where she specialised in art and was an accomplished violinist. Some of her artwork was even included in the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. She joined the community on October 15th, 1895, making her perpetual vows in 1900. She was the second of three sisters to do so (see Sisters Pauline and Eleanor). Sister died at the age of 27 on September 13th, 1902, and is buired in Calvary Cemetery in Evanston, Illinois.
Extent
.1 Linear Feet (1 hanging file)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Dorothy Dotterweich, OSB papers
- Author
- Clara Finkelstein
- Date
- 2025-09-23
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago Archives Repository
Archives
Benedictine Sisters of Chicago
7430 N. Ridge Blvd.
Chicago Illinois 60645 United States
(773) 764-2413 ext. 203
archives@osbchicago.org