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Born February 27, 1797 ( 1797-02-27 ) Mallow, Ireland Occupation doctor, journalist, member of provincial parliament, secretary-archivist Died 29 May 1880, New York City, New York, United States People also search for Berthold Fernow, John Romeyn Brodhead, Joseph-Antoine de La Barre, Adriaen van der Donck Books History of New Netherlan, The Register of New Neth, The Records of New Ams, History of New Netherlan, Documents Relative to the Colon | ||
Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, (probably 27 February 1797 – 29 May 1880) was a doctor and journalist.
Born in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, he studied medicine in Paris and immigrated to Lower Canada in 1823 where he became involved in the political reform movement of the Parti patriote. He was registered to practice medicine in Lower Canada on 16 October 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 1834, O'Callaghan was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Yamaska.
In 1837, during the Lower Canada Rebellion, a mandate of arrest was issued against him, and he sought refuge at Saint-Denis, then crossed the United States border with his friend, Louis-Joseph Papineau. Later, O'Callaghan became secretary-archivist of the State of New York, and died there in 1880.