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By Elizabeth B. Scott
Collection Overview
Title: SSE Manuscripts. Rev. Joseph Couture, SSE Collection, 1937-1987
ID: SSE 15/SSE 15.1/
Primary Creator: Couture, Joseph (1906-1993)
Extent: 9.0 Linear Feet
Arrangement: The material is arranged into series: Vermont Clergy; SSE history; Personal; Photographs.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection includes a number of the histories written by Fr. Couture, as well as research materials for the works. Diaries, correspondence, sermons, and other writings are also included. The material is arranged into series.
Collection Historical Note
Father Joseph Couture was born in Burlington, VT on June 15, 1906. He attended high school at Saint Anne’s Academy in Swanton, VT and entered the SSE novitiate in 1927. He attended Saint Michael’s College, graduating in 1930. After his ordination to the priesthood in 1934, he became an instructor at St. Edmund’s Juniorate in Swanton. He went to Pontigny, France in 1936, where he served as novice master until 1941. He also worked in a number of parishes during his years in France. At the outbreak of World War II, he returned to the US and began teaching at the new SSE seminary in Randolph. He also worked for a time at Saint Michael’s. From 1947-1956 Fr. Couture served in the Edmundite Southern Missions. Between 1956-66, he worked at Saint Michael’s College, where he had briefly worked in 1946-47. He returned to the Southern Missions in 1966 and he remained there until his death in 1993.
Fr. Couture was an avid amateur historian. He spent a great deal of time working on histories of both the Edmundites (In Vermont and other locations) He also wrote biographies of Catholic Clergy in Vermont and produced a number of parish histories for SSE parishes. His body of work is extensive and includes much information not found elsewhere.
Biographical Note
Father Joseph Couture was born in Burlington, VT on June 15, 1906. He attended high school at Saint Anne’s Academy in Swanton, VT and entered the SSE novitiate in 1927. He attended Saint Michael’s College, graduating in 1930. After his ordination to the priesthood in 1934, he became an instructor at St. Edmund’s Juniorate in Swanton. He went to Pontigny, France in 1936, where he served as novice master until 1941. He also worked in a number of parishes during his years in France. At the outbreak of World War II, he returned to the US and began teaching at the new SSE seminary in Randolph. He also worked for a time at Saint Michael’s. From 1947-1956 Fr. Couture served in the Edmundite Southern Missions. Between 1956-66, he worked at Saint Michael’s College, where he had briefly worked in 1946-47. He returned to the Southern Missions in 1966 and he remained there until his death in 1993.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Saint Michael's College Archives & Special Collections
Related Materials:
SSE 6.8 Local Administration. Southern Missions
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: 15.1.1 Vermont Clergy],
[
Series 2: 15.1.2 SSE History],
[
Series 3: 15.1.3 Personal],
[
Series 4: 15.1.4 Photographs],
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All]
- Series 1: 15.1.1 Vermont Clergy
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Vermont Clergy Catholic Clergy of Vt pp. 1-135
- Folder 2: Vermont Clergy Catholic Clergy of Vt pp. 136-277
- Folder 3: Vermont Clergy Catholic Clergy of Vt pp. 278-418
- Folder 4: Vermont Clergy Catholic Clergy of Vt pp. 419-553
- Folder 5: Vermont Clergy Catholic Clergy of Vt Contemporary A-F
- Folder 6: Vermont Clergy Catholic Clergy of Vt Contemporary G-Mc
- Folder 7: Vermont Clergy Catholic Clergy of Vt Contemporary Mc-Y
- Folder 8: Vermont Clergy Catholic Clergy of Vt The Vol Necrology 2nd Ed. 1977 pp. 1-188
- Folder 9: Vermont Clergy Catholic Clergy of Vt Vol 1 Necrology 2nd Ed. 1977 pp. 189-362
- Folder 10: Vermont Clergy Catholic Clergy of Vt Supplement
- Folder 11: Vermont Clergy Catholic Clergy of Vt Supplement II
- Folder 12: Vermont Clergy pp. 294-493
- Folder 13: Vermont Clergy pp. 494-682
- Folder 14: Vermont Clergy Alphabetical Index pp. 767-791
- Folder 15: Vermont Clergy Diocesan Administration Board
- Folder 16: Vermont Clergy Institution Notebooks 1-3
- Folder 17: Vermont Clergy Institution Notebooks 4-6
- Folder 18: Vermont Clergy Institution Notebooks 7-11
- Folder 19: Vermont Clergy Native Vermonters and Rel. in Vermont
- Folder 20: Vermont Clergy Necrology List of Deceased SSE
- Folder 21: Vermont Clergy Newspaper Clippings
- Folder 22: Vermont Clergy Odds and Ends
- Folder 23: Vermont Clergy Religious having served in Vermont
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Vermont Clergy Research Nuns
- Folder 2: Vermont Clergy Research Island Pond
- Folder 3: Vermont Clergy Research Putney
- Folder 4: Vermont Clergy Research Randolph
- Folder 5: Vermont Clergy Research Rel. History of Lake Champlain
- Folder 6: Vermont Clergy Research St. Joseph's Burlington
- Folder 7: Vermont Clergy Research Swanton
- Folder 8: Vermont Clergy Section 4 Bishop Brady's Episcopate Priests Ordained or Admitted into the Dicese between 1938-1945 pp. 683-766
- Folder 9: Vermont Clergy Section 5 Priests Ordained or Admitted into the Diocese since 1957 pp. 1-97 Notes pp. 98-115
- Folder 10: Vermont Clergy Statistics
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: 15.1.1 Vermont Clergy],
[
Series 2: 15.1.2 SSE History],
[
Series 3: 15.1.3 Personal],
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Series 4: 15.1.4 Photographs],
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All]
SSE Manuscripts 
