Mathew Carey

...grant who helped shape the intellectual landscape of Philadelphia. Born on January 26, 1760 in Dublin, Carey entered a printing apprentice at the age of 15.[1] He wrote his first essay in 1777 against dueling but soon had to flee Ireland because of an anti-Penal Laws article he wrote.[2] Arriving

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Robert M. O’Reilly papers, 1862-1925 (MC 34)

...urgeon General of the United States Army serving from September 7, 1902 to January 14, 1909. O’Reilly served a long military medical career beginning as a medical cadet in August 1862 during the Civil War. Other notable appointments include physician at the White House during both of President Grover Cleveland’s

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