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Abbott Hall Brisbane (December 4, 1804 – September 28, 1861) was a prominent South Carolinian whose accomplishments included an extensive military career, engineering work, a professorship, authorship of a major Roman Catholic inspirational novel, and eventually, in retirement, a slave-holding plantation owner before the U.S. Civil War.〔(''The Brisbanes'' ), pp.175 ff. (at 179-180 ). ''South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine'' Vol. XIV:4, October, 1913. Charleston: South Carolina Historical Society (1912-1913 bound together). Accessed April 16, 2009.〕 ==Family== Abbott Hall Brisbane was born the son of John S. Brisbane on December 4, 1804. Although he is famed for his devotion to Roman Catholicism, "Abbott" was a traditional name in his family and not an ecclesiastical title.〔 On March 26, 1829, he married Adeline E. White, herself born in Charleston January 17, 1807, the "daughter of the distinguished painter John Blake White."〔〔(Brisbane Family Genealogy ). Accessed April 16, 2009.〕 They had one son together, who died in infancy, "and his loss nearly broke his father's heart."〔 According to a family member, as a result of the comfort and counseling they received from Bishop John England after this tragedy, both John and Adeline converted to Roman Catholicism.〔 A researcher revisiting the issue over 170 years later attributes his conversion to his admiration of the Irish Catholics who served with him in the Seminole War.〔 As anti-Catholicism was seriously on the rise in the 1830s and 1840s, this conversion - to which they both remained faithful to the end of their lives - was particularly remarkable.〔〔Thorp, Willard. ''Catholic Novelists in Defense of Their Faith, 1829-1865.'' New York: Arno Press, A New York Times Company (1978).〕 Though he had no children of his own who survived to adulthood, Brisbane's niece Mary Catharine Brisbane Hickox (1832–1913) wrote a brief reflection about his life. Her report of their married life reveals a very affectionate and balanced relationship, with Adeline "calm and self-reliant as a man" and having the good spirits to lift Brisbane from depression. "He always called her ‘Wifie’ and she called him Mr. Brisbane as did most of the wives at that time in Charleston. I don’t know what the custom was elsewhere....Fortunately for him he died some years before she did, just after the opening of the civil war in 1861. I am sure he could never have lived without her protecting love." Hickox writes that Brisbane was about to engage in the "War of Secession" — the U.S. Civil War — at the time of his death.〔〔Hickox, Mary Catharine Brisbane. (''Abbott Hall Brisbane 1804 - 1861'' )〕 After Brisbane died, his widow traveled first to Albany to settle family financial affairs.〔 In 1870, Adeline moved back to South Carolina into the Ursuline Convent in Columbia.〔〔 Although some sources reported that she became a nun, her niece stated that her aunt merely lived there without taking vows: "She contemplated taking the black veil, but I am not sure that she ever did. We heard afterwards that she did not do so."〔〔 However, a diocesan archivist wrote in 2002 that she had uncovered records indicating that Adeline E. White Brisbane took vows with the Ursulines after her 1870 return, becoming "Sister Borgia" until her death in 1872.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abbott Hall Brisbane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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