Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . rist. Then came Baltimores descendant (LeonardCalvert), with a Roman Catholic colony, and first settled that beautiful countrybetween North and South Virginia;(named Maryland, after Henrietta Maria,the Queen of Charles the First,) and to this day, men of that faith have held acontrolling influence in the affairs of the colony and state, in civil, military,political, and religious life. One of the most eminent lights of the Roman Cath-olic Church in
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . rist. Then came Baltimores descendant (LeonardCalvert), with a Roman Catholic colony, and first settled that beautiful countrybetween North and South Virginia;(named Maryland, after Henrietta Maria,the Queen of Charles the First,) and to this day, men of that faith have held acontrolling influence in the affairs of the colony and state, in civil, military,political, and religious life. One of the most eminent lights of the Roman Cath-olic Church in Maryland, was John Carroll, a relative of one of the signers ofthe Declaration of Independence, and for many years a faithful and highlyesteemed archbishop, of the archiepiscopal see of Baltimore. He was born onthe 8th of January, 1735, at Upper Marlborough, in Maryland, and was remark-able for his docility in childhood, and activity of mind during his earlier the age of thirteen he was sent to the college of St. Omer, in French Flan-ders, where he remained until he was transferred to the Jesuits college, at Liege, 50 JOHN six years afterward. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1769, renounced allclaims to the estate left him by his father, and then became a teacher at , and afterward at Liege, Jn 1773, the Jesuits were expelled from France,and he was obliged to abandon his professorsliip in the college at Bruges, towhich he had been lately appointed, and retire to England, He wrote an ablevindication of the Jesuits, but it availed nothing, for he dared not print it, andthe manuscript is lost. In England, the accomplislied young ecclesiastic becamesecretary to the Jesuit Fathers there. He also accompanied the son of LordStourton (an English nobleman) on a continental tour, as governor, duringwhich time he kept an interesting journal. On his return to England he be-came a resident in Lord Arundels family. The quarrel between England andher colonies wa
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