Samuel Harden Church
1800-75; author of had 12 children with his wife Mary; manufacturer, Kensington Iron Works, and preacher for 17 years at the First Christian Church of Allegheny, for which he took no salary; John Marmaduke: A Romance of the English Invasion of Irela
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1800-75; author of had 12 children with his wife Mary; manufacturer, Kensington Iron Works, and preacher for 17 years at the First Christian Church of Allegheny, for which he took no salary; John Marmaduke: A Romance of the English Invasion of Ireland in 1649 (1897), and a biography of Cromwell in which the subject is said to have ‘overthrown bloody rebellion in Ireland, and transformed the environment of that mad people into industry and peace’; the author of the novel professes to have gone to Ireland, ‘traced again the line of Cromwell’s Invasion, and gave some studious attention to the language and the literature of the country’ [cited in Brown, Ireland in Fiction, 1919].
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