Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan
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Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, (probably 27 February 1797 – 29 May, 1880) born in Mallow, Ireland, was a doctor and journalist. He studied medecine in Paris and immigrated to Lower Canada in 1823 where he became involved in the political movement of the Patriotes. He began practicing medicine in Montreal as of 1827.
On the death of Daniel Tracey, owner of the Montreal Vindicator newspaper, in 1832 O'Callaghan became the editor and brought in Thomas Storrow Brown to work on the paper. They proved to be an irreducible adversary of Lord Gosford and the status quo.
In 1837, during the Lower Canada Rebellion, a mandate of arrest was issued against him, and he sought refuge at St-Denis, then crossed the United States border with friend, Louis-Joseph Papineau. Later, O'Callaghan became secretary-archivist of the State of New York, and died there in 1880.
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- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=39315)
- Biographical notice at the National Assembly of Quebec (http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/Membres/notices/o-p/OCALEB.htm) (in French)
- Article in the New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11194a.htm)