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Podcast #7 – Father Augustine Tolton
Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.
When the time came for Augustine to be ordained, the cardinal prefect of the congregation announced that if the Americans had never seen a black priest, it was now time for them to see one. After his ordination on April 24, 1886, Father Tolton was sent home to Quincy, Illinois, where he had a triumphal return.
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Podcast #6 – Cora Benneson
Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.
Cora Agnes Benneson was an opinionated woman and a proponent of woman’s suffrage, yet most of her public energies were spent outside the suffrage arena. She was born in Quincy, Illinois, on June 10, 1851 to Robert Smith and Electra Ann (Park) Benneson, who was known as Annie.
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Podcast #4 – Melinda Knapheide Germann
Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.
Melinda Germann is a pioneer. Born in Quincy, Illinois in July 1863 during the War Between the States to Henry and Kate Knapheide, she considered herself a physician who tried hard to serve her patients as well as a wife and mother. Her father was born in 1824 in Zingrich, Muenster, Germany, but did not know much about her mother and her family except they were Prussians.
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Podcast #1 – Candace Reed
Posted on 21. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.
Mrs. Warren A. Reed, also known as Candace McCormick Reed was born on June 17, 1818 in Crab Orchard, Tennessee. Her father was Jourdain M. McCormick., son of James McCormick who was a close relative of Cyrus H. McCormick the inventor of the reaper. Much is not known of Mrs. Reed’s mother except she was the granddaughter of William A. Vardeman and of the Vardeman’s from Kentucky. Candace McCormick married Warren A. Reed in 1842.
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