The Louis Aloysius Lambert papers. 1863-1914.

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The Louis Aloysius Lambert papers. 1863-1914.

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The Lambert Papers contain letters (forming the bulk of the papers), a memorial scrapbook and newspaper clippings. Lambert, a parish priest, educator, editor and writer, was widely known both for his apologetic work for the Church--particularly his replies to Robert Green Ingersoll's agnostic arguments, and for a well publicized dispute with his Bishop, Bernard McQuaid of Rochester, New York that was eventually settled in Rome. Material on both topics is prominent among the papers. Of interest is a 1863 Civil War letter written by General Michael K. Lawler during the siege of Vicksburg, and some seventeen letters from McQuaid in Rome for Vatican Council I, describing events there.

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McQuaid, Bernard J., 1823-1909

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Lambert, L. A. (Louis Aloisius), 1835-1910

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Louis Aloysius Lambert was born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania on April 13, 1835. His father was an Irish immigrant from County Wexford and his mother, Lydia Jones, was a Quaker who converted to the Catholic faith. He was educated at St. Vincent's College in Pennsylvania and the St. Louis Archdiocesan Theological Seminary in Carondelet, Missouri. After ordination on February 11, 1859, he did pastoral work in Cairo, Alton and Shawneetown, Illinois. When the Civil War broke out, he was appointed chapl...