"The story of Margaret Haughery is one of the sweetest ever told. Her life is a lesson of love in charity which this age needs to learn. While philanthropists and social workers vainly talk about problems, she solved them; for she met those problems with the wisdom that came from the love of her big Irish heart. In her simple life we read again the lesson that there is but one way to become great in the Kingdom of God. And because she found that way, Margaret Haughery, the "Mother of the Orphans," is entitled to a high place among the great wives and mothers who have brought glory to the Catholic Church."
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Immigrants to the United StatesWomen born in the 19th centuryPhilanthropistsCatholics from IrelandWomen from Ireland
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Hugh Francis Blunt, Great Wives and Mothers (1917)
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Margaret Haughery
Margaret Gaffney Haughery (1813 – 9 February 1882) was an Irish philanthropist, known as "the mother of the orphans", who was a beloved historical figure in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the 1880s. She devoted her life's work to the care and feeding of the poor and hungry, and to fund and build orphanages throughout the city.
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