St. Mary's University (Galveston, Texas)

Founded in Galveston in 1855, it closed in 1922 when its operator, the Jesuit Order, decided to concentrate their efforts on universities in New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama.

[1] In 1926 its charter was transferred to St. Mary's Seminary in La Porte, Texas (now in Houston).

The University was founded as a seminary for the training and education of native-born men into the priesthood.

However, to help make the seminary self-supporting, and at the same time provide a Catholic education for the youth in the area, Odin decided to include in the project a college for boys.

The initial enrollment of St. Mary's University was sixty traditional college students and a handful of seminarians.