The Other Drexel: Louise Drexel Morrell

...from her Walnut Street home. Francis A. Drexel When Anthony Drexel died in 1885 he left an estate worth over 15 million dollars, a staggering total at that time. One tenth of this was to be distributed to various Catholic institutions. The remainder was divided between the three sisters. According

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James Buchanan materials at the Archdiocesan Archives?

...llection that seems to fall within this category is the David Lynch Papers, 1830-1865 (MC 13), possibly collected by the ACHS due to the mere fact that Lynch may have been Catholic. A tobacconist from Pittsburgh, PA, David Lynch (1793-1860) had served as a major in the land and marine

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Prague Spring

...before they had time to blossom. McGovern, “Return to Normalcy,” August 30, 1968 With the Soviets in charge of the country, they overturned the earlier reforms with a period of “normalization.” McGovern equates this normalcy with the oppression of the Czechs. McGovern, “Who’s Next,” September 6, 1968 McGovern questions which

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Mary Brackett Willcox papers, 1807-1864 (MC 10)

...le Parish, the oldest parish in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. During the 1840s and 1850s, students and the Vincentian administrators of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary spent their summers at the Willcox estate. The letters in the collection are from Vincentians, seminarians, and other priests serving the Archdiocese of Philadelphia who

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