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Becker, Thomas Albert, clergyman, bishop, was born in 1832 in Pittsburg. Pa.
He was created bishop of the new diocese of Wilmington, Del. He contributed largely to reviews and periodicals; especially a series of articles in the American Catholic Quarterly
on the idea of a true university attracted wide attention. He died July 29, 1899, in Washington. Ga.
Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 - Transcribed by Therman Kellar
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