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Anna Coombs Upjohn Brown

Birth
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Death
21 Dec 1917 (aged 79–80)
Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, USA
Burial
Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
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The daughter of architect, Richard Upjohn, Esq., and Elizabeth Parry.

Married:
The Rev. John Henry Hobart Brown
29 July 1856
St. Philip's Church in the Highlands,
Garrison, New York.
Years later she and her husband adopted two girls, Jane Campbell, and Clementine Boem.

After the death of her husband, she entered the Order of St. Monica, and took the name, Sister Anna Hobart.
The Order of St. Monica was founded by Bishop John H.H. Brown as a diocesan Sisterhood that facilitated academic classes at St. Monica's School for Girls.
The Sisters relinquished charge of the school in 1893; the building was later renamed Grafton Hall.

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Sister Anna Hobart, O.S.M.

BROWN - Died at the home of her sister, at Ithaca, New York, December 21, in her eighty-second year, Anna Coombs (Upjohn) Brown, widow of the Rt. Rev. J. H. Hobart Brown, first Bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The burial services were help Monday, December 24, at St. Paul's Cathedral, where forty-one years of service had been given.. Sister Anna Hobart was the last member of the Oder of St, Monica. "Make her to be numbered with thy Saints in Glory Everlasting."
(The Churchman, Volume 117)

The daughter of architect, Richard Upjohn, Esq., and Elizabeth Parry.

Married:
The Rev. John Henry Hobart Brown
29 July 1856
St. Philip's Church in the Highlands,
Garrison, New York.
Years later she and her husband adopted two girls, Jane Campbell, and Clementine Boem.

After the death of her husband, she entered the Order of St. Monica, and took the name, Sister Anna Hobart.
The Order of St. Monica was founded by Bishop John H.H. Brown as a diocesan Sisterhood that facilitated academic classes at St. Monica's School for Girls.
The Sisters relinquished charge of the school in 1893; the building was later renamed Grafton Hall.

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Sister Anna Hobart, O.S.M.

BROWN - Died at the home of her sister, at Ithaca, New York, December 21, in her eighty-second year, Anna Coombs (Upjohn) Brown, widow of the Rt. Rev. J. H. Hobart Brown, first Bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. The burial services were help Monday, December 24, at St. Paul's Cathedral, where forty-one years of service had been given.. Sister Anna Hobart was the last member of the Oder of St, Monica. "Make her to be numbered with thy Saints in Glory Everlasting."
(The Churchman, Volume 117)



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