[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] in charge until 1873, when Rev. Win. P. Flannelly was appointed pastor. He continued to exercise the office until 1879, when Rev. Michael Callaghan was ap-pointed pastor, with Rev. T. A. McCabe as assistant. The church is a modest and pretty brick building of the Gothic style of architecture, situated on Union Street, and is capable of seating about five hundred people. The number of members is about thirteen hundred. The lay members of the board of trustees in 1884 were James Oates and Peter McGovern. • About one and a half miles from the centre of Peekskill, on Mt. Florence, on the Furnace Woods road, on the properly formerly owned by D. H. Craig, is an institution belonging to the Order of Sisters of the Good Shepherd. It was purchased by them eight or nine years ago for the purpose of establishing a Novitiate of their order. The design of the Novitiate is to train Sisters for the work of caring for and re-forming those of their own sex who have fallen from virtue. Near Cortlandville is the Poland Farm2 of two hundred and forty acres of land, purchased from James Sherwood by the managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum of New York about 1871, out of a fund bequeathed for the purpose by a sea-captain named Boland, which, with the accumu-lated interest, amounted at the time of the pur-chase to fifty thousand dollars. In 1875 a four-story brick building, forty by one hundred feet in extent, was erected, containing accommodations for one hun-1 lly tlir inuttiir.