Miss Anne Kirchner and Miss Ida Durkin become the first nurses to graduate from the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing
A committee of Catholics living in Glassport, formed to explore the possibility of creating a parish in Glassport, purchased land for a church, which became St. Cecilia
The first Mass celebrated in the first Sacred Heart Church, McKeesport
Ground broken for St. Robert Bellarmine School, East McKeesport
Bishop John Wright established the diocesan Fund for Aid of Neighbors in Need to assist groups created to help people help themselves alleviate problems with poverty
| The first class of Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, 1895. Anne Kirchner and Ida Durkin graduated. Viola Hoffman withdrew from school before graduation. |