Levi Silliman Ives was an American theologian and Episcopal bishop of North Carolina. In 1852, he converted to Roman Catholicism. Ives subsequently became a noted professor at colleges in the New York area. He was the founder and first president of the New York Catholic Protectory, an institution for the shelter and education of destitute and abandoned children. He was also a founder of Manhattan College.
Levi Silliman Ives
"The apostles doctrine and fellowship." Five sermons preached in the principal churches of his diocese, during his spring visitation, 1844
A protectory was a Roman Catholic institution for the shelter and training of the young, designed to afford neglected or abandoned children shelter, food, raiment and the rudiments of an education in religion, morals, science and manual training or industrial pursuits.
New York Catholic Protectory, Bronx, New York (circa. 1897)
View of St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys c. early 1900s
New York Catholic Protectory