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Sabin (Joseph). A | dictiouary | of | 

 Books relating to America, | from its 

 discovery to the present time. | By 

 .loseph Sabin. | Volume I [-XIX]. | 

 [Three lines quotation.] | 



Xew-York: | Joseph Sabin, S4 Nassau 

 street. | 1868 [-1891]. 



19 vols. 8<^. Still iu course of pubUcation. 

 P.'irts cxv-cxvi, commeuciug vol. 20 and reach- 

 ing the entry "Smith," were jiuljlislutl in 

 March, 1892. Now edited by IHr. WilUerforce 

 Eames. 



Contains, passim, titles of a number of boots 

 relating to the Wakaslian languages. 



Copies seen: Congress, Eames, (lectlogical 

 Survey, Lenox. 



See Field (T.W.) 



St. Onge (Pire Ijouis Nai)oleon). See 

 Bulmer (T. S.) 



"The subject of this sketch, the Rev. Louis 

 N. St. Onge, of St. Alphonse de Liguori parish, 

 was born [in the village of St. Cesaire] a few 

 miles south of Montreal, Can.ida, April 14, 1842. 

 He finished his classical course when yet very 

 young, after which he studied law for two years. 

 Feeling called to another field, ho gave up this 

 career in order to prepare himself to work for 

 God"s glory as an Indian missionary in the 

 diocese of Nesqually,^A'ashington Territory. 



"A year Jind a half before his ordination. 

 Right Rev. A. M. Blancliet, his bishop, ordered 

 him to Vancouver, W. T., where he wasoccupied 

 as a professor of natural philosopbj-, astron- 

 omy, and other branches in the Holy Angel's 

 College. All his spare time was consecrated to 

 the study of the Indian languages, in which he 

 is to-day one of the most expert, so that lie was 

 ready to go on active missionary work as soon 

 as ordained. 



" The first years of his missionary life were 

 occupied in visiting dili'erent tribes of Indians 

 and doing other missionary work in tlie Terri- 

 tories of W.ishingtou , Idaho, Montana, and other 

 Rocky Mountain districts, among Indians and 

 miners. After such labors he w.as then appointed 

 to take charge of the Yakamas, Klikitats, 

 Winatchas, Wishrams, Pshwanwapams, Nar- 

 chez, and otlier Indian tribes inhabiting the 

 central part of Washington Territory. Having 

 no means of support in his new mission. Bishop 

 Blanchet, in his self-sacrificing charily for the 

 Indians of his extensive diocese, furnished him 

 with the necessary outfit; and with a number 

 of willing though unskilled Indians as appren- 

 tice carpenters, the young missionary set to 

 work to rebuild the St. Joseph's mission, 

 destroyed in 1856 by a party of vandals called 

 the Oregon Volunteers, wlin had been sent to 

 tight the Yakamas. 



St. Onge (L. N.) — Continued. 



"After four years (if labor, he and his devoted 

 companion, Mr. J. B. Binilet (now ordained and 

 stationed among the Tulalip Indians) had the 

 .satisfaction to see not only a comfortable resi- 

 dence, but also a neat church, erected, and a fine 

 tract of land planted with fruit trees, and iu a 

 profitable state of cultivation, where formerly 

 only ruin and desolation reigned. 



"His health breaking down entirely, he was 

 forced to leave his present and daily increasing 

 congregation of neophytes. Wishing to give hiru 

 the bestmedical treatment. Bishop Blanchet sent 

 Father St. Onge to his native land with a le.ave 

 of absence until his health would be restored. 

 During his eighteen months' stay in a hospital 

 he, however, utilized his time by composing and 

 printing two small Indian books, containing 

 rules of grammar, catechism, hymns, and Chris- 

 tian prayers in Yakama and Chinook lan- 

 guages—the former for children, the latter for 

 the use of missionaries on the Pacific coast. 



" By the ad vice of his physician he then under- 

 took a voyage to Europe, where he spent nearly 

 a year in search of health. Back again to this 

 country, he had charge of a congregatiou for a 

 couple of years in Vermont ; and now he is the 

 pastor of tlie two French churches of Glens 

 Falls and Sandy Hill, in the diocese of Albany, 

 N. Y. 



"Father St. Onge, though amau of uncommon 

 physical appearance, stoutly built, and six feet 

 and four inches in height, has not yet entirely 

 recovered his health and strength. The French 

 population of Glens Falls have good cause for 

 feelingverymuchgratified with the pre sent ciiu- 

 ditionof the affairs of the parish of St. Alphonse 

 de Liguori, and should receive the hearty con- 

 gratulations of the entire community. Father 

 St. Onge, a man of great erudition, a devoted 

 servant to the church, and possessing a person- 

 ality whose geniality and courtesy have Wi;n 

 him a place in the hearts of his people, has l)y 

 his faithful application to his parish developed 

 it and brought out all that was to inure to its 

 benefit and further advance its interests."' — 

 (•lens Falh {X. T.) liepuhlican, March 2S, 18S9. 



Father St. Onge remained at Glens Falls until 

 October, 1891, when increasing infirmities com- 

 pelled him to retire permanently from the min- 

 istry. He is now living with his brother, the 

 rector of St. -lean Baptiste church, iu Troy, N". 

 Y. Since his retirement he has compiled an 

 English-Chinook Jargon dictionary of about six 

 thousand words, and this he intends to supple- 

 ment witha corresponding Jargon-English part. 

 He has also begun the preparation of a Yakama 

 dictionary, which he hopes to make much mora 

 complete than that of Father Pandosy, pub- 

 lished in Dr. Shea's Library of American lin- 

 guistics. 



I have adopted t lie spelling of his name asit 



