Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items
...83-1872), an Irish immigrant who settled in Philadelphia, was the first American patentee of a graduated galvanic battery with insulated poles. Coad was a noted teacher and lecturer of medicine and the natural sciences, but gained wider notoriety after he invented and patented his galvanic battery in March 1842. The
Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...tered Protestant beliefs that the Catholic Church was incompatible with American values. In 1842, the American Protestant Association was formed in Philadelphia by more than 50 Protestant clergymen from every denomination. The APA’s objective was to alert the public, through lectures, publications, and revivals, to the dangers of popery, or
Carmelite Monastery
...the Poplar Street location was proving to be inadequate. Like the early American pioneers, the nuns looked west and found a home across the Schuylkill River at 44th and Spruce Streets. The location had once been part of the Satterlee Hospital, a hospital used during the American Civil War and
The Bishop’s Bank
...individual accounts for each depositor, and serve as a rich source of historical information. In addition to account information, they include notations on the depositors. Most of these notations are brief and contain only age and place of origin or residence. Although the bank was intended to serve the needs