The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Engelhardt, Zephyrin

ENGELHARDT, Zephyrin, American writer and missionary: b. Bilshausen, Hanover, Germany, 13 Nov. 1851. He came to the United States in 1852, was educated in the parish schools and Saint Francis Seraph College, Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1872 he entered the Franciscan order, was ordained to the priesthood in 1878 and in 1878-80 was teacher at Saint Joseph's College, Cleveland, Ohio. From 1880 to 1885 he was missionary to the Menominee Indians in Wisconsin and from 1885 to 1887 was stationed at Superior City, Wis. He was vice-commissary for the Holy Land and editor of the Weekly Pilgrim of Palestine at New York in 1887-88 and for the ensuing two years was missionary in Mendocino County, Cal. From 1890 to 1894 he was stationed at Saint Joseph's Monastery, Cleveland, and from 1894 to 1900 was superior of the missions of his order in northern Michigan and of the Indian Boarding School, Harbor Springs, Mich. In 1901 he was stationed in California. In 1895 he founded and for five years edited the Anishinabe Enamiad, a periodical in the Ottawa-Chippewa language. He is a member of the Texas Historical Association and of the National Geographical Society and has published 'Kachkenohamatwon Kesekoch' (1882); 'Kateshim' (1883); 'The Franciscans in California' (1897); 'Missions and Missionaries of California' (5 vols., 1908-16); 'The Holy Man of Santa Clara, or Life of Father Magin Catala' (1909). He is a contributor to Katholische Missionen, California Volksfreund, Sankt Josephsblatt. He writes in German under the nom-de-plume of “Der Bergmann” and in English of “Esperanza.”