With the encouragement and support of Sarah Peter, daughter of a early Governor of Ohio and a noted convert to Catholicism, the city stepped in and purchased the property from the heir.
In 1862 she volunteered as a nurse, and went with the sisters who followed General Grant's army in the south-west after the battle of Pittsburg Landing.
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The foundations of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, the Sisters of Mercy, the Little Sisters of the Poor in Cincinnati, and other institutions, owed much to her generosity.
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