John Baptist Purcell
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John Baptist Purcell was an Irish-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of Cincinnati in Ohio from 1833 to his death in 1883, and he was elevated to the rank of archbishop
John Baptist Purcell
Cathedral Basilica of Saint Peter in Chains, Cincinnati, Ohio (2008)
William Henry Elder
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William Henry Elder was an American Catholic prelate who served as bishop of Natchez in Mississippi from 1857 to 1880 and as archbishop of Cincinnati in Ohio from 1883 until he died in 1904.
John Baptist Purcell
…came to an end when the court found the amount due (with compound interest) from the cathedral and diocesan institutions to be $140,000. Archbishop William Henry Elder, who succeeded Archbishop Purcell, accepted the findings in 1892 and assessed parishes to meet the loans made to pay the judgment, and all the loans…
Archbishop Elder (1903)
Archbishop Elder and his six brothers (1883)