Rev. Edward D. Boone, S.J.

   Edward Boone, the first alumnus President of Holy Cross, was born in Washington, D.C. on February 27, 1833. He was educated in private schools and entered Holy Cross in 1847, graduating in 1851. He then entered the Society of Jesus on September 8, 1852. 
   After several years of teaching Humanities at Jesuit schools, he completed his theological studies at Georgetown where he was ordained on July 2, 1866. He resumed his teaching career and also served in Jesuit churches in Leonardtown, MD and Boston, MA. In 1878, he was appointed President of Holy Cross, leaving that office in 1883. He again served as parish priest in the Church of the Gesu, Philadelphia, and in 1890 he was also a prison chaplain in Baltimore. He died at Loyola College, Baltimore on January 16, 1916.

Link to papers of President Boone RG 12.9 (.pdf file)