Sister Benvin Sansbury, OP founded the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs. She was born Elizabeth Sansbury in 1797 in Prince George's County Maryland and became a Dominican Sister at Cartwright Creek, Kentucky in 1823. The OP after her name indicates that she is a member of the Order of Preachers founded by Saint Dominic in the thirteenth century. At the request of Bishop Edward Fenwick of the Diocese of Cincinnati, Sr. Benvin and three other sisters traveled to Somerset, Ohio and founded St. Mary's Academy. The school burned in 1866, forcing the sisters to occupy borrowed space until 1868, when Columbus businessman Theodore Leonard offered to donate land in the capital city for the sisters to open a school to educate his five daughters and other girls in central Ohio. The academy closed in 1966. Because the land that Leonard donated to the congregation had numerous natural springs, the name of the school and the congregation became St. Mary of the Springs. This photograph measures 5" x 7"(12.7 x 17.78 cm).