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Show I NOTED WOMAN HONORED 1 Miss Kathcrlno Elcnnor Conwny, editor of tho sll? Boston Pilot nnd poot nnd essayist of note, who Z wns awnrdod tho Lactaro modal for dlstln-t IJJA gulshcd sorvlco In tho causo of tho Ilonian '2 Sfc .wBw Catholic church by tho University of Notre Damo, I aa mxS&B wnB uorn ,n Rochester, Now York. Sho was IJmT I Jls!$r educated in tho schools ot tho Sisters of Charity ImW ' nml of tno Ilo,,B,ous Sisters of tho Sacred Heart, ''WSli INiSr Will atul Graduated with high honors from St. Mary's W ATOfk ' ncmlomy Buffalo. Whllo still a girl sho published MMMijW her first poem, and was In her teens when sho bo-MvvWSP'1 bo-MvvWSP'1 gan work 011 n Kochcstor paper. In 1878 bIio bo-' bo-' Q&ipyiPS cnmo n niombor of tho staff of the Buffnlo Cnthollo Vy Union nnd Times, nnd In 1880 Its nBslstnnt editor. lr Her first published volume was "Christian Sym- - ' bols und Stories of Saints." Among hor other hooks nro "A Dream ot Lilies," "Mnklng Friends and Keeping Them," nnd "Questions of Honor In Christian Llfo." ' Dr. John Gllmary Shea received tho first medal In 1883. Others who hnvo received It since then nro: Patrick J. Keely, architect; Eliza Allon Starr, art critic; General John Nowton, civil engineer; Pntrlck V. Hlckey, editor; Anna Hanson Dorsoy, novelist; Wllllnm J. Ohahan, publicist; Daniel Dougherty, orator; Mnjor Henry W. F. Bronson, soldier nnd scholar; Patrick Donuhue, editor; Augustln Daly, thentrlcal manngor; Gonornl William S. Hosecrnns, soldlor; Anna T. Sadler, nuthor; Dr. Thomas A. Emmott, physician; Timothy E. Hownrd, Jurist; John Crolghton, philanthropist; WlUlam Bourko Cockran, lawyer and orator; Dr. John Benjamin Murphy, surgeon; Charles Joromo Bonaparte, lawyer and statesman; Hlchard C. Kearens, Jurist; Thomas E. Fltzpatrlck, financier; Frnncls J. Qulnlan, Burgeon.. |