Adrian Louis Rosecrans

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Born in Newport, Rhode Island, the son of Union Civil War General William S. Rosecrans, the young Adrian moved around the country a great deal as his father took on various military assignments. He was educated at Mt. St. Mary's College in Cincinnati and Notre Dame. After the war, he worked with his father at a mine company near Stockton, California.

In 1867 while working in San Francisco, Rosecrans' spiritual reading inspired him to move to New York to enter the Paulists. He joined a cultural amalgam of classmates that included Elliott (a Union veteran) Robinson (a Confederate veteran) and Brown (a recent arrival from England.) He was professed on May 22, 1872, and was ordained only three days later, on May 25, 1872.

Never a healthy man, the rigors of the missions took their toll on Rosecrans. He contracted malaria in May of 1874. But he slowly regained enough strength to join Deshon (a close friend of his father's from their West Point days) on the 1874-75 mission to California.

In May 1875 Rosencrans fell ill again, retired from mission work and began to write for "The Catholic World." His health continued to decline and he died at the New York home of Mr. Thomas O'Connor, whose son Charles sold his Lake George estate to the Paulists and was attorney to ex-Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

A gifted speaker and an articulate writer, Fr Rosecrans died at the age of 26 only four years after his ordination.

NB: Fr Rosecrans' date of birth on his tomb is June 1, 1849. The official register of the Paulist community, however, gives his birthdate as May 28, 1849.

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