Sister Pauline Dotterweich, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
Includes short biographies, photocopied vows, newsletters, and articles, research request correspondence, a gift of sheet music from her students at St. Scholastica, a personal information sheet, and photographs.
Dates
- Creation: 1881-2003
Creator
- Dotterweich, Pauline, 1860-1945 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is unrestricted. Materials are open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Pauline Dotterweich, OSB was born Elisabeth Dotterweich on June 2nd, 1860 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She joined the community on September 20th, 1884, pronouncing the three Benedictine vows in Latin upon her triennial vows in 1885. She gave her perpetual vows in 1888 in St. Gertrude's Convent in Breckenridge, Colorado. Her first assignments were to teach needlework, music, and choir at St. Gertrude's Academy, the Academy of St. Scholastica, Canon City, and St. Mary's School in Aspen. She was later reassigned to the Academy in Canon City where she remained until her death on April 16th, 1945 at 85 years old. Sister Pauline is buried in Lakeside Cemetery south of Canon City.
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 Pauline 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
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