Br. Icarion of Mary

Henry Havighorst was born the son of Bernard and Maria Angels Kemmel Havighorst on December 8, 1845, in Wallenhorst, Hanover, Germany. At age twenty, Henry took part in the "Hanover Campaign" where he was wounded. He emigrated to the United States and at age twenty-three entered the Carondelet Novitiate in March of 1868. Henry received the habit of the Brothers and the religious name of Brother Icarion of Mary in August of the same year. His first teaching assignment brought him to St. Louis from 1868 to 1877 when he was named Director of Cretin High School in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1884 he was named Director of CBC, St. Joseph, Missouri, and 1887 he was Sub-Director of CBC in Memphis. Brother Icarion was named Director of St. Vincent's in St. Louis in 1891 and returned to Memphis in 1895. He taught at St. Bridget's in St. Louis from 1898 to 1901 when he was transferred to De La Salle High School in Chicago, Illinois, where he was named Director. He served as Director in Memphis in 1902 and Minneapolis in 1904, returning to De La Salle, Chicago, in 1905. In 1906 he was Director of the school in Glencoe and in 1907 he was Sub-Director at CBC in St. Louis. Brother Icarion served as Director in Kansas City in 1908; St. Vincent in 1910, Winona in 1911, and Bernalillo in 1913. He was assigned to Rochester in 1916; De La Salle, Chicago, in 1918 and was named Director of the Community of Ancients in Glencoe in 1919 where he retired. He died there at age eighty-seven, having been a De La Salle Christian Brother for sixty-four years.