Sister Anna Grimm, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs, community obituaries, a brief note on her illness, and a personal data sheet.
Dates
- Creation: c. 1891-1928
Conditions Governing Access
The material in this collection is unrestricted. It is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Anna Grimm, OSB was born Bertha on March 9th, 1872 in Bavaria, Germany. She joined the community on November 19th, 1891, making her perpetual vows in 1897.
Sister taught at St. George School in Chicago and St. Michael School in Delta, Colorado, upon it's opening in 1923.
When she returned from Colorado in 1928, she was very ill and taken directly to St. Francis Hospital. She died at 56 years old on September 30th, 1928, and is buried 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.
Subject
- Grimm, Anna, 1872-1928 (Person)
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Anna Grimm, OSB papers
- Author
- Clara Finkelstein
- Date
- 2025-10-15
- 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