biography
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McQuaid, Bernard (John)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1823–1909)
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| biography:
| Catholic prelate, born in New York City, New York, USA. Raised in a Catholic orphanage after his parents died, he was ordained in 1848. He was a co-founder (1856) and first president of Seton Hall University (South Orange, NJ) before being named Bishop of Rochester, NY (1868). Regarded as a conservative, he opposed the Knights of Labor as a secret society, and led a clerical faction that strongly promoted parochial schools while attacking ‘godless’ public education. |
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