The Bishop’s Bank

...itely. Impatience should never be shown. Payment should never be made in “uncurrent” money (a constant concern during this period) but should be in gold or city notes. Concerning disagreements over money owed he wrote, "With depositors never contend on small matters; if you cannot mildly convince them, pay; it

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Friendly and Adopted Sons

...grants from Ireland.[11] With that the society has continued to meet and function with the city as a social and charitable organization. [1] List of members of the Hibernian Society for the Relief of Emigrants from Ireland, together with the list of members of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick,

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Research Request Forms

...chools: Ascension of Our Lord, St. Catharine of Sienna, St. Donato, St. Frances Cabrini Regional School, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Gertrude, St. Hugh, St. Joan of Arc, St. Madeline Sophie, Mater Dolorosa, St. Michael of the Saints, Most Blessed Sacrament, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Our Lady of

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1832 Cholera Outbreak in Philadelphia and Duffy’s Cut

...nd Visitation Record of the Rt. Rev. Francis Patrick Kenrick, 1830-1851. Lancaster, Pa: Wickersham Printing Co., 1916. Watson, William. "The Sisters of Charity, the 1832 Cholera Epidemic in Philadelphia and Duffy's Cut." U.S. Catholic Historian 27, no. 4 (Fall 2009): 1-16. For more information on Duffy's Cut see: Watson, William

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