biography
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McMaster, James A(lphonsus)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1820–86)
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| biography:
| Religious journalist, born in Duanesburg, New York, USA. An arch-conservative Catholic convert and anti-abolitionist, he founded the Catholic Freeman's Journal (1848) and edited it thereafter. In 1861 he was imprisoned and his journal temporarily suppressed for attacks on Abraham Lincoln. |
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