Br. Hugh Thomas

In 1868, having taught for two years in Philadelphia, Brother Hugh Thomas was appointed there as Director of the Cathedral School. Because of ill health he was sent to Rock Hill College in Maryland. From 1870 to 1876 he taught at Manhattan College, was prefect of studies at St. Joseph's Academy in Buffalo, New York, and for three years taught at the orphanage at Utica, New York. Ill health forced his transfer to the dryer climate of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He went on to teach in St. Louis, Chicago, and the Novitiate at Glencoe, Missouri. In 1897 he returned to Rock Hill College and in December of 1918 he retired to Ammendale, Maryland. On January 27, 1919, he died at age seventy-one and in his fifty-sixth year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.