Judge Mitchell and his wife offered the Sisters ten acres of land northwest of Davenport to operate an academy for girls. In 1855 the BVM Sisters returned to Davenport to staff St. Mitchell petitioned Bishop Loras to send religious to Davenport to staff a school for Catholic children. After Pelamourges returned to France to visit his ailing father in 1852, Antoine LeClaire, who was the principle founder of the city of Davenport, and Judge G.C.R.
Because of low attendance and little money, the Sisters were forced to close the school in 1847.įather Pelamourges continued to petition the bishop to send Sisters and Brothers to Davenport to open schools. At the same time membership in the congregation had dropped by half as many settlers stopped in Davenport for only a short time as they headed west to their permanent home. Anthony's, then Davenport's only parish, were mostly poor Irish immigrants. Unfortunately, most of the parishioners at St. Philomena's Academy in a three-story brick house that was still under construction. Five BVM Sisters arrived the same year and established St. Anthony's Church in Davenport petitioned Bishop Mathias Loras of Dubuque for Sisters to teach in the parish school and to open a girls' school in the town. The academy building remains in use as an academic building on the campus of Palmer College of Chiropractic. Ambrose Academy in 1958 to form Assumption High School. It was begun by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVM) in 1859 and it remained in operation until it merged with St. Immaculate Conception Academy, known locally as ICA, was a Catholic girls' high school located in Davenport, Iowa, United States. Location of Immaculate Conception Academy in Iowa
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