Br. Alnoth

After his novitiate, from 1857 to 1869, Brother Alnoth taught in the schools of Montreal, Quebec, Foulons, Detroit, at Manhattan College in New York City and at Rock Hill College in Ellicott Mills, Maryland. In 1869 he was stationed at San Francisco and two years later he was sent to Santa Fe, New Mexico. His journey of two thousand miles was a perilous one in those days, but not even an attack of hostile Indians prevented his arriving safe at the new community of Saint Michael where he taught in the college for four years. In 1875 he was assigned to St. Brigid's School in Chicago, Illinois, and a year later to prefect at St. Joseph's School in Montreal. In 1877 Brother Alnoth went to Christian Brothers High School in St. Louis, Missouri, where he remained until 1883 when he was assigned to Christian Brothers High School in Memphis, Tennessee. He returned to CBCHS in St. Louis from 1887 to 1896 when he retired to Glencoe, Missouri, due to health. In 1899 his health had improved enough for him to work at the orphanage at Feehanville, Illinois, but for only seven months. When the French Brothers, who would later found the District of New Orleans-Santa Fe, began their work in Mexico, Brother Alnoth, with his fluency in Spanish and French, volunteered and taught for two years in Puebla and Morelia before his infirmities obligated him to return to Glencoe, Missouri, where he died on January 24, 1911, at age seventy-six and in his fifty-fourth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother. For many years he held undisputed right to the title of the "Most Traveled Brother in the United States".