The Centennial Fountain
...ates Navy, Archbishop John Carroll, first Bishop of Baltimore, Father Matthew, founder of the total abstinence movement in Ireland and America, and Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence.[3] CHRC The committee in charge of the fountain began to accept proposals for the statues in October of 1874. They
Patrick Coad, patentee of the galvanic battery, and interesting miscellaneous items
...two items that I felt warranted some attention: 1. A document listing the number of those in the city who died during the Yellow Fever epidemic in (possibly?) August and September 1798. The deaths are broken down by religion, church, and section of the city. (These obviously are in need
Newman Centers
...s was the publication of periodicals, such as the Newman Quarterly (later Newman News), which ran from 1917 to 1947.[10] In 1938, the FCCC would change its name to the Newman Club Federation and by the 1950s would have 600 local clubs around the world.[11] One of the main problems
Anti-Catholicism in Jacksonian Philadelphia
...e 1808-2008. Strasbourg : Editions du Signe, 2007. PAHRC has a significant number of 19th-century pamphlets in its General Pamphlet Collection. The Archives also has an almost complete run of official Philadelphia Diocesan newspapers up to the current Archdiocesan paper, The Catholic Standard and Times. More information on the riots