Edward D. Boone
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{{Short description|American Jesuit educator}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Edward D. Boone
| office = President of the College of the Holy Cross
| order = 11th
| honorific_prefix = The Reverend
| honorific_suffix = SJ
| death_date = {{death date and age|1916|01|16|1833|02|27}}
| death_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
| birth_date = {{birth date|1833|02|27}}
| birth_place = City of Washington, D.C.,{{Efn|name=dc|The District of Columbia was not consolidated into a single entity, Washington, D.C., until the passage of the Organic Act of 1871.{{harvnb|Dodd|1909|p=40}}}} U.S.
| termstart = 1878
| termend = 1883
| predecessor = Joseph B. O'Hagan
| successor = Robert W. Brady
| module = {{Infobox Christian leader
| child = yes
| ordination = July 2, 1866
| ordained_by = Martin John Spalding
}}
| resting_place = Woodstock College cemetery
| education = College of the Holy Cross (AB)
}}
Edward D. Boone {{post-nominals|list=SJ}} (February 27, 1833 – January 16, 1916) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was the president of the College of the Holy Cross from 1878 to 1883. Born in Washington, D.C., he graduated from Holy Cross in 1851 and entered the Society of Jesus the following year. Before becoming president, he taught at various Jesuit colleges. He spent the last twenty-five years of his life at Loyola College in Maryland and as a prison chaplain.
Early life
Boone was born on February 27, 1833, in the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia,{{Efn|name=dc}} to an old Maryland family. His father, John, was a graduate of Gonzaga College in Washington, D.C.{{harvnb|Woodstock Letters|1889|p=282}} Boone was educated at private schools in the city before enrolling at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1851. The following year, Boone entered the Society of Jesus, proceeding to the Jesuit novitiate in Frederick, Maryland,{{Harvnb|Woodstock Letters|1916|p=254}} on September 8, 1852.{{harvnb|Woodstock Letters|1912|p=368}}
After completing his novitiate, Boone was assigned to work at Georgetown University. He later taught at the novitiate in Frederick and then at Saint Joseph's College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1860, Boone began his philosophical studies at Boston College, followed by theological studies at Georgetown. On July 2, 1866, he was ordained a priest by Martin John Spalding, the Archbishop of Baltimore, at the chapel of St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland.
Ministry and teaching
After his ordination, Boone became a parish priest at St. Francis Xavier Church in Leonardtown, Maryland. From 1867 to 1870, he served as the vice president of Loyola College in Maryland. Afterward, he worked as a professor at various Jesuit colleges.
= College of the Holy Cross =
Following the death of Joseph B. O'Hagan, Boone became the president of the College of the Holy Cross on April 9, 1879.{{harvnb|Devitt|1935|p=231}} He was the first alumnus of the college to become its president. He oversaw the renovation of the interiors of several college buildings, creating a new dormitory, adding a billiard and reading room, and creating an outdoor handball alley. In 1880, Boone had plans drafted for a new building that would contain a gymnasium, laboratory, lecture hall, library, and billiard rooms. However, work on this project did not begin until 1890.{{harvnb|Kuzniewski|1999|p=148}} In the 1880s, fundraising, for the first time, began to play a significant role for the college. The college catalogue of 1879–1880 solicited donations of up to $50,000 (equivalent to approximately ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US-GDP|50000|1879}}}} in {{Inflation/year|index=US-GDP}}){{Inflation/fn|US-GDP}} and offered naming privileges in exchange for such donations.{{harvnb|Kuzniewski|1999|p=135}} In 1883, due to poor health, Boone asked the Jesuit Superior General, Peter Jan Beckx, to appoint a replacement. In June of that year, Boone was succeeded by Robert W. Brady.{{harvnb|Kuzniewski|1999|p=134}}
Later years
In 1884, Boone became the vice president of Gonzaga College in Washington, D.C. In 1890, he returned to Loyola College, where he spent the remainder of his life. During this time, he served as a confessor and from 1890 to 1904, he was the head chaplain at the Baltimore City Jail and the Maryland House of Correction. He spent his later years engaged in literature and was interested in the history of the state of Maryland.
In December 1915, after several months of declining health, he was taken to Mercy Hospital in Baltimore. On January 16, 1916, he died there. He was the last surviving member of his Holy Cross graduating class. His funeral was held the following day at St. Ignatius Church, and later that day, his body was taken by train to Woodstock, Maryland, and was buried at the Woodstock College cemetery.{{Harvnb|Woodstock Letters|1916|p=255}}
References
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- {{Cite journal |last=Devitt |first=Edward I. |author-link=Edward I. Devitt |date=June 1935 |title=History of the Maryland-New York Province XV: College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., 1843–1914 |url=http://jesuitarchives.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/woodstock-064.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Woodstock Letters |volume=64 |issue=2 |pages=204–237 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126191122/http://jesuitarchives.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/woodstock-064.pdf |archive-date=November 26, 2022 |access-date=May 18, 2023 |via=Jesuit Archives & Research Center}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/governmentdistr01doddgoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/governmentdistr01doddgoog/page/n46 40]|title=The Government of the District of Columbia: A Study in Federal and Municipal Administration|last=Dodd|first=Walter Farleigh|publisher=John Byrne & Co.|year=1909|location=Washington, D.C.|oclc=2485653|access-date=May 18, 2023|via=Internet Archive}}
- {{Cite journal |date=October 1889 |title=Gonzaga College |url=http://jesuitarchives.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/woodstock-033.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Woodstock Letters |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=269–284 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018204637/http://jesuitarchives.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/woodstock-033.pdf |archive-date=October 18, 2022 |access-date=May 18, 2023 |ref={{harvid|Woodstock Letters|1889}} |via=Jesuit Archives & Research Center}}
- {{Cite book|last=Kuzniewski|first=Anthony J.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C04IVksMcN0C&pg=PA0%23V%3D|title=Thy Honored Name: A History of the College of the Holy Cross, 1843–1994|publisher=Catholic University of America Press|year=1999|isbn=978-0-81320-911-1|location=Washington, D.C.|pages=|access-date=May 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325033222/https://books.google.com/books?id=C04IVksMcN0C&pg=PA0%23v%3Donepage&q=&f=false|archive-date=March 25, 2020|url-status=live|via=Google Books}}
- {{Cite journal |date=June 1916 |title=Obituary: Father Edward D. Boone |url=http://jesuitarchives.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/woodstock-045.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Woodstock Letters |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=254–255 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221126192917/http://jesuitarchives.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/woodstock-045.pdf |archive-date=November 26, 2022 |access-date=May 17, 2023 |ref={{harvid|Woodstock Letters|1916}} |via=Jesuit Archives & Research Center}}
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