Catholic Standard and Times records, 1909-1941 (MC 27)
...includes correspondence documenting the business activities and development of the newspaper. 6 boxes, 2.4 linear ft....
Robert M. O’Reilly, Surgeon General
...t collection that I recently finished processing is the Robert M. O’Reilly papers (MC 34). Robert Maitland O'Reilly (1845-1912) was the 20th Surgeon General of the United States Army serving from September 7, 1902 to January 14, 1909. O'Reilly served a long military medical career beginning as a medical cadet
Irish Catholics and Secret Societies
...rea of Northeastern Pennsylvania, mainly in Carbon and Schuylkill counties.[2] The Fenian Brotherhood was a military group that sought the overthrow of English rule in Ireland. Their annual operating budget spent tens of thousands of dollars on their war department, including buying surplus arms and armaments from the Civil War.[3]
Archbishop John Carroll
...would enter the Jesuit novitiate, beginning his studies for the priesthood.[2] Despite the suppression of the Jesuits in France, Carroll was ordained a priest in 1769 and took his final vows in 1771, two years before the order would be suppressed by the Pope.[3] He would return to American in