...s of birth and death are unknown) was an Irish Catholic Union soldier from Philadelphia. White began his Civil War service as a volunteer with the 69th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers on August 19, 1861 and served in some of the bloodiest and most important battles of the War –

no date Mark Antony Frenaye (1783-1873) was a prominent Philadelphia Catholic businessman who served for many years as the financier and treasurer of the Diocese of Philadelphia. Frenaye also was the largest financial contributor of St. John the Evangelist Church (1830), which Bishop Francis P. Kenrick erected as a way

Lawrence E. McCrossin, a Philadelphia native, was a field secretary for the Knights of Columbus Committee on War Activities in France towards the end of World War I. Prior to this, McCrossin was secretary for the Philadelphia Typographical Union No. 2. The Lawrence E. McCrossin papers date from 1917 to

Born into a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family, Thomas Middleton Cooke (1842-1923) converted to Catholicism and joined the Augustinian order. After his ordination, Middleton was assigned to Villanova University (then Villanova College) where he served for almost 60 years. He served as the University’s tenth president from 1876 to 1878. He