Paul A. McNally, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-200106
The Paul A. McNally, SJ Papers contain various writings--such as retreat notes, sermons, and addresses--as well as correspondence, certificates/authorizations, mass intentions, passports, and several photographs. Also within the collection are two late ninteenth-century artifacts--a chain cilice and a rope discipline (or scourge).
The Paul A. McNally, SJ Papers are on deposit at Georgetown University and are the property of the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus. As stewards of the Archives, the Georgetown University Library’s Booth Family Center for Special Collections is responsible for managing access to the material based on policies set forth by the USA East Province. Researchers may view these materials in the Reading Room of the Booth Family Center for Special Collections. General policies for using Special Collections can be found here.
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Paul A. McNally (1890-1955) was born in Philadelphia to parents Charles S. (1863-1955) and Martha V. Tully McNally (1863-1944) alongside siblings John T. (1885-1966), Rodger C. (1887-1922), Mary E. (1894-1962), Herbert P. (1897-1967), and Eugene J. (1901-1963). After attending St. Joseph's College High School he entered the Society at St. Andrew-on-Hudson (Poughkeepsie) where he completed his novitiate and juniorate (1908-1912). For philosophical studies he was at Woodstock College (1913, 1915) and Innsbruck, Austria (1914), receiving his BA from Woodstock in 1915. Between 1916 and 1919 he was a professor of mathematics at Boston College and received his MA from Woodstock in 1917. Fr. McNally continued teaching mathematics at the College of St. Francis Xavier (New York, 1920) and at Fordham University (1921-1922), where he also received a PhD in astronomy in 1921. Next he completed theological studies at Woodstock (1923-1925) and was ordained in 1923.
While assistant director of the Georgetown University observatory (1925-1928) he completed his tertianship at St. Andrew-on-Hudson (1926) and took his final vows (1927). Between 1927 and 1928 he completed post-graduate studies at the University of San Francisco before returning to Georgetown as director of the observatory (1929-1948). While director, Fr. McNally participated in solar eclipse expeditions to Fryeberg, Maine (1932); Kustanay, USSR (1936); Canton Island in the South Pacific (1937); and Patos, Brazil (1940). At Georgetown he also held the positions of regent and dean of the medical school; regent of the dental and nursing schools; and director of the medical center (1946-1954), for which he received an honorary degree in 1952. After retiring from these positions he was briefly chairman of the physics department at Georgetown before his death in 1955.
0.2 Cubic Feet (10 folders and two artifacts)
English
Likely transferred from the Georgetown University Jesuit residence with other house materials in the 1990s or 2000s
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository