John Farley 
Life of John, Cardinal McCloskey, First Prince of the Church in America, 1810-1885 [PDF ebook] 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The white flower of a blameless life might well serve as an epitaph for John Cardinal mccloskey. He looked upon all life as a gift of God, — a divine gift placed within his own hands for the betterment of his fellow-man and for his own eternal happiness. How well he used that gift, it is the reader’s pleasure to follow year by year in this biography.