The Other Drexel: Louise Drexel Morrell

...om complications resulting from Katherine’s birth. Francis later married Emma Mary Bouvier in April 1860 and Louise was born on October 2, 1863. The Drexels were one of the richest families in Philadelphia and the three sisters were raised in a style suitable to such wealth. They enjoyed private tutors

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Thomas Nast Anti-Irish Cartoons

...ova.edu/chaos-in-the-streets-the-philadelphia-riots-of-1844. [7] Allison O’Mahen Malcom, “Loyal Orangemen and Republican Nativists: Anti-Catholicism and Historical Memory in Canada and the United States, 1837-67,” in The Loyal Atlantic: Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era, eds. Jerry Bannister, Liam Riordan, (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2012), 218. [8] Benjamin Justice, “Thomas Nast

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World War One Army Chaplains

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Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

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