Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan

Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan
Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan
Born	(1797-02-27)27 February 1797 Mallow, Ireland
Died	29 May 1880(1880-05-29) (aged 83) New York City, New York
Occupation(s)	doctor, journalist, member of provincial parliament, secretary-archivist

Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, (probably 27 February 1797 – 29 May 1880) was an Irish doctor, historian and journalist.[1]

Career

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.^[citation needed]

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 office, he was a close supporter of Louis Joseph Papineau.[2]

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,[3] and died there in 1880.[2]

Works

• A Biographical Sketch of the Hon. Louis Joseph Papineau, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. 1838. Printed at the Sentinel office in Saratoga Springs, New York (online). OCLC 890967329 (all editions).
• History of New Netherland; or New York Under the Dutch. D. Appleton & Company (publisher). 9 November 2021. LCCN 66-25099, LCCN 01-27967, LCCN 16-8170; OCLC 321026748 (all editions).

1. 1846: Vol. 1 (1st ed.) – via Google Books (UC San Diego).
2. 1848: Vol. 2 (1st ed.) – via Google Books (UC Riverside).
3. 1855: Vol. 1 (2nd ed.) – via Google Books (University of Michigan).
4. 1855: Vol. 2 (2nd ed.) – via Google Books (Stanford).

• Jesuit Relations of Discoveries and Other Occurrences in Canada and the Northern and Western States of the Union, 1632–1672, New York, 1847
• Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638–1674 – Compiled and Translated From the Original Dutch Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company. 1868. Retrieved 26 October 2021 – via Google Books (Harvard University).
• A list of Editions of the Holy Scriptures, and Parts Thereof, Printed in America Previous to 1860, Albany, 1861.
• The Register of New Netherland ; 1626 to 1674, Albany, 1865.

Notes

1. "Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
2. "Biography – O'CALLAGHAN, EDMUND BAILEY – Volume X (1871-1880)". www.biographi.ca. Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
3. Klein, MILTON (November 2005), The Empire State: A History of New York, Cornell University Press, ISBN 9780801489914

References

• "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
• "Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
• John T. Driscoll. "Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan", in New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911
• Maureen Slattery. "Irish Radicalism and the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec and Ireland, 1833–1834: O'Callaghan and O'Connell Compared", in Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Historical Studies, 63 (1997), pp. 29–58
• Maureen Slattery Durley. "Dr. Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, His Early Years in Medicine, Montreal, 1823–1828", in Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Study Sessions, 47 (1980), pp. 23–40
• Jack Verney. O'Callaghan. The Making and Unmaking of a Rebel, Montréal: McGill-Queen's Press, 1994, 350 pages ISBN 0-88629-233-6 (online excerpt)
• Edward W. Nash. Catalogue of the Library of the Late E. B. O'Callaghan, M. D., LL. D., Historian of New York, New York: Douglas Taylor Printer, 1882 (on line)

See also

• Timeline of Quebec history
• Lower Canada