Peter Yorke

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Father Peter C. Yorke was an Irish-American Catholic priest and a noted Irish Republican and Labor activist in San Francisco. He was pastor of St. Peter's in 1914.

[edit] References

  • Joseph S. Brusher, Consecrated Thunderbolt: Father Yorke of San Francisco (Hawthorne, New Jersey: Joseph F. Wagner, Inc., 1973)
  • Sr. Mary Camilla Fitzmaurice, Historical Development of the Educational Thought of the Reverend Peter C. Yorke, 1893-1925 (1963)
  • James P. Walsh, Ethnic Militancy: An Irish Catholic Prototype (San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1972)
  • Priscilla F. Knuth, Nativism in California, 1886-1897.
  • God give us men.
  • The Virtual Museum of the Ciy of San Fracisco
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