Family papers, 1782-1908.

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Family papers, 1782-1908.

Correspondence, mostly of the Seton Family, 1782-1908, including among their correspondents James Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Winand M. Wigger; photographs, clippings, pamphlets and sermons; St. Elizabeth Ann Seton's prayer book and Robert Seton's diaries and books; paintings and family lithographs; an expense account book, a family genealogy, a book of sermons, and four notice books of St. Joseph Church, New Jersey, 1880-1899.

8 linear feet.1 linear foot of photographs.

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Seton, Elizabeth Ann, Saint, 1774-1821

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Elizabeth Ann Bayley was born in New York City in 1774. She married William Magee Seton, a New York merchant, in 1794. In 1797, with Isabella Graham and others, she founded a society for the relief of widows, the first charitable organization in New York City. Her husband died in 1803. In 1805 she converted to Catholicism, and in 1808 she began a girls' school in Baltimore, Maryland. In the spring of 1809 she and four others formed a community called Sisters of St. Joseph. That summer they moved...

Bayley, James Roosevelt, 1814-1877

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First bishop of Newark and eighth archbishop of Baltimore. From the description of Papers, 1839-1872. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 22982481 Epithet: RC Bishop of Newark, USA British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001091.0x000069 ...

Seton, Robert, 1839-1927

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Roman Catholic bishop of Newark and archbishop of the titular see of Heliopoli; grandson of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. From the description of Robert Seton papers, ca. 1889 - ca. 1925. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58780545 Titular archbishop of Heliopolis; fourth of William and Emily (Prime) Seton's seven children; the grandson of St. Elizabeth Ann (Bayley) Seton, founder of the American Sisters of Charity in 1809; and cousin of Archbishop James ...

Seton family.

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Wigger, Winand Michael, 1841-1901.

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Gibbons, James, 1834-1921

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Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore; second American Cardinal. From the description of Letter : Baltimore, to A.P. Gorman, 1892 March 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22476270 James Cardinal Gibbons (1834-1921) was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and a leader of the American Catholic community. His 1876 book, The Faith of Our Fathers was a best-selling apologetic and explanation of the Catholic faith. From the guide to the James Cardinal Gi...