Martin I. J. Griffin papers, 1842-1950 (MC 8)

...al Researches and Griffin’s Journal. He edited a Sunday School journal from 1867 to 1870 before serving as assistant editor to the newly established Catholic Standard and Times, the official Philadelphia diocesan newspaper, from 1870 to 1873. Griffin founded the American Catholic Historical Society in 1884 and served as its

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Thomas Cooke Middleton papers, 1859-1917 (MC 7)

...ved for almost 60 years. He served as the University’s tenth president from 1876 to 1878. He had also served as a teacher, archivist, librarian, and vice-president of the university. Middleton was the first president of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia (ACHS), an organization he helped found in

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Bartholomew F. Fair papers, 1906-1966 (MC 24)

.... Fair served as president of the American Catholic Historical Society from 1957 until 1966. He was then named to the newly created post of executive director. He had been active in the Society for over 23 years, also serving as its librarian and curator. He supervised the move of

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The Church and Labor

...4 [3] Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Letter on Social Reconstruction, (New York: American Press, 1936), P008.334 [4] George J. Lucas, The Magna Charta of the Rights of Labor; A synopsis of Pope Leo XIII's Encyclical Rerum Novarum (Brooklyn: International Catholic Truth Society, 1929), P002.2029 [5] John Ryan, The Catholic Teaching

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