The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 5, July 1901 - April, 1902 Page: 209
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Father Edmond John Peter Schmitt. 209
biography was greatly interrupted, and he died leaving the volume
still incomplete, but in such shape that another may easily finish
it. He lived to see some results of his labor in this field, however,
in the publication of the Records of Vincennes, in two installments,
in the Catholic Historical Magazine for the present year. He also
found time for occasional historical or religious contributions to
periodicals, and for one or two evangelistic booklets. At this time
he also assisted the Honorable W. H. English in the preparation
of the latter's account of the life and campaigns of George Rogers
Clarke. Thus he has aided materially in the important work of
recording the history of the French and German pioneers of his
native State.
In the midst of his busy life, he was suddenly called to another
scene of labor. In a distant State and amid unfamiliar surround-
ings, his delicate health permitting no vigorous occupation, he
found occasional opportunities for his chosen field of work, the his-
tory of his beloved church, from another point of view--the Span-
ish. The early work of the Franciscans in Texas aroused the same
interest as that of the Benedictines or Jesuits in Indiana. The
gloom of the daily struggle for life was lightened by the joy of
assisting to exploit a virgin field of historical research. During the
five years that preceded his death, he succeeded as no other student
of our early history has done in making himself master of the
enchanting details of the career of the Franciscans in Texas.
When one considers the burden of ill-health under which he
labored this statement is significant, and the amount of work
turned out by him really marvelous.
His first article published in the QUARTERLY appeared in the
number for October, 1897, and bore the title Ven. Maria Jesus De
Agreda: A Correction. This was followed, in the number for
January, 1898, by Sieur Louis de Saint Denis. Although contrib-
uting no more formal articles, his name frequently appeared in the
magazine appended to some note or question. The most important
of these appeared in the number for July, 1899, on The Name
Alamo; his last in April, 1900, relating to the church of San Fer-
nando. These contributions all show his careful and painstaking
research, and his desire to assist the cause of exact scholarship.
Father Schmitt was elected to a life membership in the Associa-
tion a few months before his death.
His work for the QUARTERLY by no means exhausts his produc-
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