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. “IMMACULATE WIRGIN, PR: PRAY “FOR Us= 25
VoL. XIItt.
PHILADELPHIA. MARCHE 15, 1886. NO. 186
, | #re given apparently for the same priest this city ; and in Virginia it was received
{ Th AGUA, while according to Debue’s will he was with universal gratification, not on!
es
. pupuisue on MONTULY B
MARTIN I. J. GRIFFIN,
711 Sansom SrREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
Devoted to the advancement of
THE IRISH CATHOLIC BENEVOLENT UNION
UNITED STATES.
TERMS:
_50 Cents a Year in advance.
CATHOLICITY
| PHILADELPHIA.
S (CoprRicHTED, 1883.) ©
By Maxti
1. J. GRrerin,
SECOND SERIES.
FAtuer Satu.
The will of Peter Debue who died in
Philadetpia October 1693, bequeathed
50 to Fatt her Smith now, or late of
Taluot Co., M:
Who was Father Sinith? ‘The latest
Treacy, in Am,
wo. Jan, 1886 claims that this
was an alias for Rev. Henry Harrison
and that he was the old priest of 1686
who said ‘* Mass occasionally in some
private bonse onthe banks of the Dele-
pare’ That we think is guesswork, It
taking a priest and making him fit the
evidence instead of bringing the evidence
to prove t the pries'
We the land and testamentary
, Tecords of Talbot County examined but
_ One Jesuit wrote
‘ould not have
been a Catholic as the title “ Pather ”
was not in use then... This started us on
thebunt among the Quakers and Episco-
palians,° Our investigations resulted in
use then as applicable to Catholic priests.
The earliest reference we have of Father
"Smith is of him in
ork,
1985 Feb, 27. papositio! on of -‘Thomas
Masters in relation U ‘to the oath of alle-
3 ‘taken by James’
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Deposition of Thos Masters, bricklayer
aged about 50 years, declares that he was
in East Jersey at the house of James
Emmot, coming from New York, was
saluted by his wife and asked from
whence he came; whereupon ihe said
Emmot replied he came from New York
alive in 1693,
Oliver’s Collections p. 113 has a Rey. |
Father Harrison as dying in 1701, age
49, in S. J.-28, us «
We are interested in this Father
Smith.’? It is evidence of the usefuluess
of our historical Pez cation to lind that
since, in March, 1884, we spoke of this
~Father Smith’ asa Catholie, although
had letters from two bistorically
well-informed Jesuits expressing their
opinions that le was not, our belief
so well founded that in the
leading Catholic publication of our coun-
try he is now declared not only to lave
been a priest, bata name is found for him.
f Rev. Henry Harrison died in 1691
Troe he is not likely to have been the
(alleged) old priest of 1686,” as Father
Tr ims, Aged 49
reacy cla’ at death in
1701, according to Oliver, he would pave
been born hour 1652, he would hav
entered 3, J. in 1673 and have bee ore
dained in 1685, while the alleged “old
priest of 1686”? was in Philadelphia in
1684, when William Penn was her
f*John Smith’ **must. certainly be”?
Father Harrison, as Father Treacy, S.
asserts, and the Hatrisous reported
ay ing in 1691 or 10L be not the Harrison
erica, we 1 soggest the poset,
bility that the eye Smith, gentlem:
whom the JOURNAL of April, 15th, 1884,
showed to be in Philadelphia in 1713,
may have been the Sather oun Smith’?
or previous years, charges of
immorality against Rev. Pa Phillips,
Episcopalian, and was one of the wit-
nesses, Phillips was indicted, prosecuted
and disowned. J Pi hillips denounced Smith
“as oue who goes by the name of Smith
and as having been obliged to leave his
native country, drinking confusion to
King William, his Council and Parlia-
2S
mons testimony ot 1715 seemingly sus-
tains the testimony of ‘Thomas Masters,
688, Father Smith, ‘fon
board the ship Beaver,” minister-
ing. the oath of iterates to King James,
title ‘* gentleman” indicated in
at ts it does to-day—one not engaged
in business, - When we remember that
the settlers of that time were toilers and
that, Catholics, few wt the’ ey were, must
n ney are today,in the
humblest life, it is tvident, that any Ca-
tholic, knownlas such and titled in law
proceedings * * gentleman,’”? must have
been above the ordinary social and intel-
lectual rank of his fellow Catholics, Add
to this the charge then made, that “Jobo
Smith’? was but ‘an assumed name,”
and we have enough to warrant us in
asking who was this Joln Smith? The
record of wills and property gave us no
been on board the Ship Beaver, and | clue.
had taken before Father Smith the oath
March
last, and further that Thomas Stevens
and Daniel Whitehead was name
amongst others by ‘the said Emmot to
have taken the like oath, at the same
time and further sayeth n
sears before me this oth, “day of Feb,
Pr, pe Lanoy.
Mayor.
[N. Y, Tis. Mss, English]
aus Father Smith might perhaps be
termed chaplain to Thomas Dongan
the Gathotie Governor of New York,
ongan governed from 1683 to 1688.
Te was “essentially a man for the times
and one of the best of New York’s|j;
nial governors,” [Mag. Am, Ilis.
Mar, °86 p 119.
ca
‘Aiter his removal from office and while
Nicholson, his Deputy was i authority
the following proceedings took place,
Deposition of Andries and Jan Meyer ;
that Dep. Gov. Nicholson ordered them
to help remove the priest Johu Smith for
d
off but ina better room in the fort and
ordered to make all things for said priest
according to his will and perfectly, and
to arrange all things : as he ordered from
that time—d ne ith Peter
King—26th. day of Tber. 1689. [Doc.
Ulis. N.Y. vol. 2p. 2]
‘About this tinge 80 or 100 men coming
from Boston and that several were Irish
and Papists—that a good part of the
Soldiers that were in the fort were already
Papists” at James Fort New York.
Whether this ‘ Father Smith ” was
named jlarrison or Harvey we are not
“attsfied to je.
ree Treacy S. J. concludes
that i was ‘Tasion “ind t that Harvey
own by the alias of Thomas| ©
tai arrison ‘‘must cer-
inly be the priest John Smith.” Per-
Indeed likely a0 if proof exist
it our ex-
of Society
did not confirm the belief that
Smi thas we eee that
7 Harrison who nai
mith died in 1641 or ‘001, as path a dates
2
his is another nut for historians to
¢
g
‘When we remember the report ma
to London of the public celebration of
Mass in 1707-8 and the “‘ill-use made of
it” there, may not a more reserved policy
have been adopted, and “John Smith,
gentleman,” have been the priest Jiving
here and serving the few Catho!
John Smith was a common Dame then
as itis now. There was one of the name
presented to the Grand Jury in 1702 for
being ‘‘maskt and disguised in women’s
appara) at Christmas [ Vol. I, Col., itis.
c., Pa., page 251], but he, of cours
could ae’, been the ‘gentleman ”” oF
the **
In 1ii0 a “Fohin Smith was naturalized.
Ile appears among a of Germans of
Germantown, —|[ His. Bh ila, Vol. 1, p.
186.] A Catholic could not have been
naturalized as he could not take the
n 1717 a John Smith, Wheelwright
was 3 admitted asa Hreeman of the City,
—|[Minutes of C. Council ] ne. could
not have been the Catholie “gentleman”? | ¢¢.
0 aa
the JournaL of August, 1883, we
suggested that pater Harvey may hav ve
nm the one the public. Mass | of
1707-8, but. Father | Treacy, 8. J.. in bh
Father Molyneux article, says ‘Pather
Harvey died in 1696, according to the
records at the Gesu’ in Rome and in
Brother Pye Records.
But Dr. Shea gives 1719, as the date
on authority of Roman “Catalogue of
Society of Jesus and writes as if he ha
full copy before im {Let tter to O’Cal-
laghan i be
le Harrison or Harvey could
have een “we ‘* Father Smith” Of “7893
(not 1636), neither could have been the
priest to say Mass in 1707. rv the
‘John Smith, gentleman, ” of 13, un-
less Father Treacy isin error as to ‘Gate
of Harvey’s death of 1696,
John Gilmary Shea in O’Callahan’s
Doc. His. N. Ye ives the ‘date, 1719, and
Tom. Cato. 8. thority. This al-
lows Harvey e been ‘ ‘Smith, ”
either ‘Father’? or “*gentlemal
Fr. Treacy simply nye, Gage Pond Har-
vey are accounted for, 30 “Smith must
certainly be Harrison.” That way of ma-
king history dont suit us, roof.
TION.
MICHAEL GLENNAN.
Above we present from The Bait
morean a portrait of one well know;
our readers by name and to the delegates
nventious person-
ally. Mr. ‘Glennan has been identified ac-
s
c
s
lent Union singe the Louisville Conven-
tion in 1871, a o him. mainly is the
Union indebied for the draft of its adui- | r:
rable Constitution and, chiefly, also for
its emblematic Pa
Wis career is indeed a rormarkable one,
and proof“ of “his “sterling: ability” and
e
Ate
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was: born in 1845, at Maynooth,
County Kildare, Ireland.
We giv herewith the sketch of Mr.
Glennan’s career as given iby The Balti-
morean of February 6th:
‘he recent twentieth anniversary edt:
tion of the Norfolk Virginian, compri
ing twenty pages, including a handsomely
embellished cover, attracted more than
ordinary attention to its owner, Michael
Glennan, Esq.,
this able representative jeurnal dates
de | from January, 1867, eighteen years ago.
his publication placed him in the
front rank of American journalists, and
elicited the warm and flattering com-
ments of the press of the country. .
The career om ML, Glenna: has been a
marked In 1857, atrthe age of
twelve, he obtained employment as mail-
ing clerk of the Norfolk Southern Argus.
r, A, F. Leonard, the editor of the
me us, was on the point of refusing
young Glennan employment on account
of his extreme youth and frail appear-
ance, but, after trial, concluded to en-
gage him, He remained at the Argus
oflice until the war began; when Gen.
W. B. Talioferro took command of the
Confederate forces of Norfolk, he made
Glennan his orderly. The youth after-
wards attem join a volunteer
Company forming at Norfolk, but was
rejected on account of his age and Jame-
ness,
In the fall of 1861 he jolantarily joined
the 36th Regiment of North Carolina
ate Troops organized at Fort Ander-
son on the Cape Fear river, and remained
in service throughout the wi .
Ile was appointed Post Onuirtermaster
Sergeant of Fort Fisher, ané frequently
discharged the duties of Quartermaster
at this important At the fall
Fort Fisher, he ras taken Pr isoner, and
carried to nor’s Island, ew
York Harbor ; he was afterwards paroled,
and returning to the Confederate live,
was present at the surrender of Genera!
Jonhson, at Gree:
On his return’ to Nortel at the close
the war, he secured employment at a
salary of four dollars a week.
this unremunerative position, he opened
aschool in Portsmouth, Va., beginning
with three pupils, two of whom he made
no charge for ; pupils, however, soon in-
n num r, and he continued to
teach until called upon in January, 1867,
to take charge of the business of the
Norfolk Virginian, the frst number of
which was issued November 21st, 1865,
with the Hon, A. K. Keiley, late Minis-
ter to Austria, as its editor. In Novem-
ber, 1867, Mr. Glennan purchesed a ffch
interest in the paper, and in 1876 he
came its sole own!
gs
The success of the Virginian has been
1
tively with the Irish Catholic Benevo- | ti
whose connectien with | in
offon the fie
remarkable in ‘the history of Southern
journalism, As a factor in the prosperity
and growth of the ‘Norfolk its influence
terests of the community, and attracting
the attention of the country, he inaugu-
the publication i in Norfolk of eight
and twelve page special mammoth illus-
trated editio ions. of which
were cirenlated all over the States of the
Union and in foreign countries, These
editions contained the first general ex-
hibit of the trade and commerce of Nor-|#
folk; all the branéhes of which it ex-
plained by tables of statistics showing
with the brevity of figures the kind and
uality of the business done in Norfolk.
The press of the country compiled state-
ments of Norfolk’s trade from these edi-
tions of the Virginian, and from an ex-
hibit of a business of $38,000,000 in 1879,
the showing in 1884 was $55,000,000
crease of nearly 33 per cent., and a like
increase in population was indicated,
while the amount of capital invested in
various enterprises was also slow!
uence of the nm was
signally illustrated by the success of the
inaugurated by Mr. Glennan
to se ecu’ a national celebration of the
Centennial of the surrender o'
Cornwallis at Yorktown and the erection
of the monument commemorative of that
event, in compliance with the resolutions
adopted by the Continental Congress on
the 29th of October, 17:
was after the celebration of the
Bunker Hill Centennial in 1875 that Mr.
Glennan opened correspondence with the
Tate Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby, President
of the Virginia Historical Bociety and
Chancellor of the ancient # m0Us
William and Mary College, in elation to
the subject. rwards he advocated
it in the columns of the Virginian, and
soliciting the co-operation of the press of
he country, the matter was brought to
the attention ‘of the Congress of the
United States, resulting in the passage
of a Bill appropriating the necessary
money for the celebration of the event
and the Construction of the monument,
Thus it in October, 1881, upon
the cael at the surrender, the Na-
tional celebration of the event took place
of Yorktown, aud thus it
was that the majestic monument that
now marks the famous spet where oc:
curred the most important event in the
history of the American Republic was
Se
5S
ected, .
In the politics of his State Mr, Glen-
nan—aside from his a duous duties as
editor and manager ot his paper—has
been active, and he Js one of the most
prominen! “f£ his party, For
years, and appointisent as
Postmaster of Nortcuik, in July last, a
position he did_no.’ apply for, he was a
member of the Democratic State Central
Committee. .
_ ile as ‘Alternate to represent the
Second Virginia District at the St. Louis
Convention. and represented the State as
Delegate-at-Large at the Cincinnati Na-
tional Convention, Mr. Glennan never
held office previous to his appointment
The appointment to this
responsible position by President Cleve-
land met with general approbation in
qd | duty,
a recognition of the Young Democracy,
but of m
Repaiens as well as Democrats con-
ceded its fitness, and a feature connected
bond required, Democrats and Republi-
cans alike became his sureties, voluntar-
ily and without solicitatio
On "taking charge of the it Office,
Mr. Glennan vacated the aitorial chair
of the Virginian, and has oted his
entire time to the duties of his office;
is administration of the office has been
marked by diligent attention to the pub-
lie service, and has given general satis-
Personally the subject of this sketch is
aman of much ability and many attrac-
tions; he is genial in his manners, hand-
some in appearance, prompt and decisive
in action, of the highest courage and
onor. As a writer and speaker he is
clear and forcible.
of Irish’ birth and has always
taken & 1 deep interest in all m
lating to his native country.
for a number of years a member of the
Executive Committee of the I. C. B.
Union, and at the recent National Con-
vention of the influential organization,
held in Brooklyn, N. Y., he presented
the resolutions concerning the rejection
of the Hon, A. M. Keiley as U. S. Min-
ister, aupporsine them in eloquent re-
marks reprobating the insult o of Austria,
as trenching upon of speech
esitate to uphold these great preroga-
tives of American citizenship.
The Evening News of Norfolk says of
Mr. Glennan ; ‘As a watchman on the
walls of the city and demi ing it tobea
not only to censure where it is de-
served, ise when merit-
ed, we: take pleasure in ‘beari ‘ing our testi-
mony in behalf of the faithful and ener-
getic services of our master, who has
labored. night and day and given his best
efforts to improve in every m:
business of his department, an:
the very best possible mail Taetlities to
our people.”? ° . oe
It then names the improvements made
and accommodations given the people.
“All this is ores of what b 6 has
done and is doing, and we sure we
bat reflect the sentiment of ‘the entire
community when e has given
very general satisfaction in he manage-
ment of the im; ant interests commit-
0 his care and in the discharge of
tis duties and so earnest have been his
‘orts in this direction that Inspecsor
. A, Wilson, who is a Republican, in
his report to ‘the post sttice department
expressed himself as follows: ** I cannot
speak too highly of the intelligent interest |
and zeal of the postmaster at Norfolk.
He bas been constantly conferring with
me und slows a Getermination t
personally familiar, not only with the
rd main features of the postal business, but
also minutest details, I anticipate
improvement in the postal service at.
Norfolk.”
WHAT THE I. 0. B. U. ARE DOING.
—Our Polish Society at Mount Carmel,
Pa., has 95 members and $530.
—St. Patrick's, at Martinsburg, W.
Va., has just 33 members, as a year ago,
at
$50 more in cash.
—The Young Men’s Benevolent, of
Bridgewater, Mass. run up to 34
Members and $: It is doing well.
—No. 111, St. Bernard’s of Lancaster,
Pa., has a members and $1921, That’s
a very solid condition. Deputy Post-
master Hegener is the President,
—No, 362, of Detroit, Mich., has 30
members and $475, These Tilbernians
are one less in number but $125 richer
than a year ago.
—St. Jobn’s, of. Westminster, has 56
members, $1150 and Chas, E, Fink, ex-
Vice-President of the nion, for its
President and Postmaster Boyle for its
‘Treasurer,
—The Y. M. C. B. A., of Toledo, 0.,
0. 475, is running down. It has but
32 members, when it had 50 a year ago.
Its money is nearly all gone too—has
but $85.
~The, Celtic Society, of Soar
lost 40 members 1885,
It now has 80 members a od s0, +The
pro vata in moveyis good enough, but
the a ciety needs advertising in order ti
build 1! up.
—St, Bernard's of Lancaster, Pa. has
elected the following officers ; Pres, G.
iw. Ilegener, V.-Pres. John Tose.
See. Dr. H. E, Westhaetier, Cor, See,
Thos, P, McManus. Treas, M, Haber-
bush. Standing Committee, W. Keyser,
I. Smith, T. "McManus. G, Bradel. J?
Dougherty. IH. Fisher, M. Carey. RK
Iliemenz. Mess, J, Hoch. Fin. Com. J.
Lowell, B. Yecker. H, R. McConomy,