Orphan Group Photo (1)

photo courtesy of St. Benedict Monastery Archives. This is a photo circa 1882 of the St. Benedictine Orphan Asylum residents. These were orphans who gathered for a group photo in front of the St. Benedict Orphan Asylum one day in the late 1880s. The boy sitting in the middle of the front step is John Joseph Simon, who died at age 5 of an illness. John's brother, Frank Simon Jr., is the boy standing to the right of the boy on the far right. And their little sister, Louisa, is one of the girls sitting on the stairs, though the Newsleaders could not confirm which one she is.