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I had never spent a night in a strange house in my life until Mr. Stokes of
Greensburg, chief counsel of the Pennsylvania Railroad, invited me to his beautiful home in the country to pass a Sunday. It was an odd thing for Mr. Stokes to do, for I could little interest a brilliant and educated man like
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Sisters of Charity, the mansion was used as a Mother House for the sisters. The mansion was later turned into Saint Mary's School for boys. The building still stands today on Seton Hill University's campus, though it has undergone many changes and uses, and
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Stokes was married twice, once to Mary
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In 2018, James Bosco, assistant professor of hospitality and tourism at Seton Hill
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Speech of Maj. Wm. A. Stokes, U.S. Army, Delivered at the Union
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These noble words thrilled me. I said to myself, "Some day, some day, I'll have a library" (that was a look ahead) "and these words shall grace the mantel as here." And so they do in New York and Skibo
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Examiners Appointment Letter, from William Strumberg Stokley, Mayor of Philadelphia to William A. Stokes, March 20, 1874. Villanova University Digital Library, Stokes Collection.
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