Michael Cudahy Science Hall
Jesuit Heritage
Michael Cudahy Science Hall
The Cudahys: Irish Catholic Immigrant Philanthropists
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Michael Cudahy Science Hall (1910) was the first Loyola University classroom building on the Lake Shore Campus. The donors, Michael and Catherine “Kate” (née Sullivan) Cudahy, became renowned for generous philanthropy to Catholic institutions. Irish Catholic immigrants who arrived in the United States in the 1840s, they developed strong Jesuit ties. In April 1866, their wedding at Milwaukee’s Jesuit parish, St. Gall Church, was officiated by Fr. Stanislas P. Lalumiere, S.J., founder of present-day Marquette University. In the late 1890s, their sons Edward Ignatius and Joseph Michael attended St. Ignatius College. In 1917, Pope Benedict XV honored Catherine with the title “Countess.”
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Portrait of Michael F. Cudahy (1841–1910) from The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago, Milwaukee and the World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago and New York, 1892).

Michael Cudahy Science Hall (1910) cornerstone. The Latin inscription reads: “SCIENTIÆ ET RELIGIONI” [“SCIENCE AND RELIGION”]. Photo: LUC UMC.

March 1917 news clip: Catherine Cudahy made a papal countess. Credit: Loyola Archives and Special Collections.