Robert M. O’Reilly, Surgeon General

...Surgeon of the First Independent Division at the beginning of the Spanish-American War, and delegate at the International Conference for the Revision of the Geneva Convention in Geneva in 1906. The collection contains correspondence, general orders, assignments, certificates of appointment, circulars, clippings, invitations, a notebook and a scrapbook. O’Reilly led

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John W. Keogh papers, 1906-1960 (MC 50)

...movement. He served as president of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of American. He also served as president and was instrumental in the founding of the Priests’ Total Abstinence League of America. The collection is mostly comprised of correspondence, both personal and professional, that mainly documents his work as chaplain

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Temperance Movement

...ini, “A Celebration of Moral Force: The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of American Centennial Fountain,” Master’s Thesis (University of Pennsylvania, 2002), 47. [3] Ibid., 47. [4] Ibid., 49. [5] Gibbs, History of the Catholic, 19. [6] Gasparini, “A Celebration of Moral Force,” 49. [7] Ibid. 50. [8] Ibid., 51. [9]

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Thomas Nast (1840-1902)

Thomas Nast (1840-1902) Described as the father of the American political cartoon, Thomas Nast is an influential figure in U.S. history. Published in Harper’s Weekly, his cartoons were famous for attacking the New York City political machine of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall. Nast is also credited with creating the

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