St. Anthony: The Wonder-Worker of Padua. (1896) By: Charles Warren Stoddard - Softcover

Stoddard, Charles Warren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1533093873 ISBN 13: 9781533093875

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

Charles Warren Stoddard (August 7, 1843, – April 23, 1909) was an American author and editor.Charles Warren Stoddard was born in Rochester, New York on August 7, 1843. He was descended in a direct line from Anthony Stoddard of England, who settled at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1639. While he was still a child, he moved with his parents to New York City. In 1855, the family migrated to San Francisco, California when his father found a job at a mercantile firm. Stoddard was 11 and was immediately smitten with the city and, as he recalled, its "natural tendency to overdress, to over-decorate, to overdo almost everything". In 1857, joined his ill brother Ned on a restorative trip East, where they stayed at their grandfather's farm in western New York. He rejoined his family in San Francisco by 1859.

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About the Author:

Charles Warren Stoddard was born at Rochester, New York in 1843. He began his writing career with various letters and poems, which received high praise. While visiting Molokai he became well acquainted with Father Damien, about whom he wrote The Lepers of Molokai, a work which did much for the priest's esteem. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1867, and held a tender devotion for the faith. Charles Stoddard is the author of Idyls, A Troubled Heart and How It Was Comforted, For the Pleasure of His Company, and St. Anthony, the Wonder Worker of Padua. He died in 1909 at Monterey, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1533093873
• ISBN 13: 9781533093875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 50