Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items

...ad Family Papers (MC 37). An online finding aid will soon be available. Patrick Coad, undated Patrick Coad (1783-1872), 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

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Newman Centers

...Catholic devotion and establish means to keep alive in their souls their priceless Catholic heritage.”[13] Indeed, the importance of providing strong Catholic spiritual and educational support to students at secular colleges, led to the National Association of Newman Club Chaplains. The NANCC sought to better train and provide aid to

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Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia

...holic immigrants, however, as well as the increasingly aggressive and authoritarian stance of the papacy, which became more outspoken in its denunciations of modernism and liberalism, established a fear that Catholics posed a genuine threat. Conspiracy theories of a papal takeover of the United States abounded. A large dimension of

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Carmelite Monastery

...e location had once been part of the Satterlee Hospital, a hospital used during the American Civil War and staffed by the Daughters of Charity. This new home was more spacious than their previous location, although the home would not serve as a full-fledged convent. When the time came to

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