Br. Rumwald

During his early religious life Brother Rumwald served as Director of the Community in Kingston, Canada; Chicago, Illinois; Baltimore, Maryland; Carondelet and St. Louis, Missouri; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and San Francisco, California. He uniquely served as the Brother Visitor for two different Districts, the St. Louis District from 1875 to 1878 and the Baltimore District from 1885 until his death in 1896. When he was the Brother Visitor of the St. Louis District his administrative territory extended from St. Paul, Minnesota, in the North, to New Orleans, Louisiana, in the South, and from Chicago, Illinois, in the East, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the western frontier. In 1886, it was Brother Rumwald who approved the building of an addition to Christian Brothers College located at 612 Adams Street, Memphis, Tennessee. He died at age sixty-six on January 2, 1896, in his forty-second year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.