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ACH166: The Forrest Gump of early 19th-century US Catholics? Tom and Noëlle Crowe tell us about this priest who seemed to know every important US Catholic of his time and yet is almost unheard of. So why was Fr. Samuel Cooper so important?

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• “Samuel Sutherland Cooper,” Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Vol. 27, No. 4 (December 1926)

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