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Deshon had the good fortune to arrive safe and brought me Letters only six weeks old
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 17 June 1782, with a List of Articles wanted from Holland 1973
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Deshon, Taylor, and Myers, etc., and on the 19th of December took passage in the steamboat Bourbon for Montgomery, Alabama, by way of the Alabama River.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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Mobile city, and, through the agency of Messrs. Deshon, Taylor, and Myers, merchants, procured all essentials for the troops, and returned to the post.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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Father Deshon spent a considerable part of his time on the missions, in which he was specially eminent in the practical instructions, though his sermons were also most effective.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Deshon was promoted to the rank of captain, but resigned his commission, was received into the Church in 1851, and soon after became a novice in the Redemptorist Order.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Father Deshon was elected superior general of the Paulist
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Professor Bartlett and Deshon were both satisfied, and I got "max" on that fortunate effort of mine, and went up seventeen files in my standing.
Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil wars, 1894
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Father Deshon, from whom he parted with deep emotion at Ragatz, a health resort in Switzerland.
Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885
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Fathers Walworth, Hewit, and Deshon have survived their companions of those early days, and may they long remain with us, calm and beautiful and devout old veterans of the divine warfare of peace!
Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885
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Father Deshon had been ordained not long before, and soon began to share the instructions with Father Hecker.
Life of Father Hecker Walter Elliott 1885
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