Sister Adalberta Kuhn, OSB papers
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of limited biographical information. It includes community obituaries, a personal data sheet, notes containing recollections of Sister and biographical details, autographed and annotated prayer cards, and photocopied German language vow forms. A photocopy of a page from the community publication "Our Community," gives a description of Sister's handmade scrapbooks, which unfortunately cannot be located. This collection also includes photographs, but whether or not the photographs are of Sister Adalberta is uncertain.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1881-1937
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is unrestricted. All material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Sister Adalberta Kuhn, OSB was born Anna on November 7th, 1853, in Bieschwind, Bavaria (now Germany). She entered the community on June 28th, 1880, making her first vows on February 10th, 1882. She made her final profession three years later, on February 10th, 1885.
Little is known of Sister's life in religion, although her primary service was likely as a cook. Sister Geraldine Stock remembers Sister Adalberta washing, starching, and ironing her pianfore in the fourth grade after she had dirtied it falling on the ice.
Sister died on February 25th, 1937 at the age of 84. She is buried in Saint Boniface Cemetery.
Extent
.1 Linear Feet
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
- Kuhn, Adalbert, 1853-1937 (Person)
- Title
- A Guide to Sister Adalberta Kuhn, OSB papers
- Author
- Clara Finkelstein
- Date
- 2025-12-02
- 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
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