Mark Antony Frenaye papers, 1807-1868 (MC 16)

no date Mark Antony Frenaye (1783-1873) was a prominent Philadelphia Catholic businessman who served for many years as the financier and treasurer of the Diocese of Philadelphia. Frenaye also was the largest financial contributor of St. John the Evangelist Church (1830), which Bishop Francis P. Kenrick erected as a way

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Lawrence Francis Flick papers, 1889-1930 (MC 18)

A graduate of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia (1879), Lawrence F. Flick (1856-1938) was a pioneer in the antituberculosis campaign and one of the first to discover that disease was not hereditary but contagious. He organized the first American tuberculosis society in 1892, the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of

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