The Catholic Industrial School is incorporated. The school began operations in 1877 on the shores of St. Paul's Lake Menith, later drained and used as the site of the University of St. Thomas. In 1879 the school moved to Clontarf, where Franciscan teachers instructed white and Native American boys in agricultural and industrial arts. Funding for such institutions was later cut, and the school was sold to the federal government in 1897.