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{{short description|Lower Canada politician, physician and journalist}}
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{{Infobox person
|name        = Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan
|image       = Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan.jpg
|caption     = Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan
|birth_date  = {{Birth date|df=yes|1797|02|27}}
|birth_place = [[Mallow, County Cork|Mallow]], [[Ireland]]
|death_date  = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1880|05|29|1797|02|27}}
|death_place = [[New York City]], [[New York State|New York]]
|occupation  = doctor, journalist, member of provincial parliament, secretary-archivist
}}

'''Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan''', (probably 27 February 1797 – 29 May 1880) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] doctor, historian and journalist.<ref>{{Cite DCB|5193}}</ref>

== Career ==
Born in [[Mallow, County Cork|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|date=March 2023}}

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]].<ref name="CanadianBiography">{{cite web |title=Biography – O’CALLAGHAN, EDMUND BAILEY – Volume X (1871-1880) |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/o_callaghan_edmund_bailey_10E.html |website=www.biographi.ca |publisher=Dictionary of Canadian Biography}}</ref>

In 1837, during the [[Lower Canada Rebellion]], a mandate of arrest was issued against him, and he sought refuge at [[Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu, Quebec|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]],<ref>{{Citation   | last = Klein   | first = MILTON   | title = The Empire State: A History of New York   | date = November 2005 | publisher = Cornell University Press   | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=P8gdX3Wr76MC&q=%2C+O%27Callaghan%27s+manuscript+translation+Dutch+Manuscripts&pg=PA738   | isbn = 9780801489914   }}</ref> and died there in 1880.<ref name="CanadianBiography"/>

==Works==
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* {{cite book |date=1838 |title=A Biographical Sketch of the Hon. Louis Joseph Papineau, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada |postscript=.{{space|1}}Printed at the ''Sentinel'' office in [[Saratoga Springs, New York]] }} ([http://english.republiquelibre.org/A_Biographical_Sketch_of_the_Hon._Louis_Joseph_Papineau%2C_Speaker_of_the_House_of_Assembly_of_Lower_Canada online]). {{OCLC|890967329|show=all}}.
* {{cite book |title=History of New Netherland; or New York Under the Dutch |publisher=[[D. Appleton & Company]] (publisher) |postscript=.{{space|1}}9 November 2021. }} {{LCCN|66025099}}, {{LCCN|01027967}}, {{LCCN|16008170}}; {{OCLC|321026748|show=all}}.
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* ''Jesuit Relations of Discoveries and Other Occurrences in Canada and the Northern and Western States of the Union, 1632–1672'', New York, 1847
* {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|O'Callaghan,|1868|p=}} |date=1868 |title=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. |url={{GBurl|qOz33EqwG1UC&|pg=PR1|}} |location=[[Albany, New York|Albany]] |publisher=[[Thurlow Weed|Weed, Parsons and Company]] |access-date=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.
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
* {{Quebec MNA biography|o-callaghan-edmund-bailey-4641}}
* {{Cite DCB|5193}}
* John T. Driscoll. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11194a.htm "Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan"], in [http://www.newadvent.org/ ''New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia''], 1911
* Maureen Slattery. "[http://www.umanitoba.ca/colleges/st_pauls/ccha/Back%20Issues/CCHA1997/Slattery.pdf 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.&nbsp;29–58
* Maureen Slattery Durley. "[http://www.umanitoba.ca/colleges/st_pauls/ccha/Back%20Issues/CCHA1980/Durley.html Dr. Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, His Early Years in Medicine, Montreal, 1823–1828]", in Canadian Catholic Historical Association, ''Study Sessions'', 47 (1980), pp.&nbsp;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}} ([https://books.google.com/books?id=FLvXg4O3isUC&hl=fr 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 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=dVYQo_OKRlYC&hl=fr on line])

==See also==
*[[Timeline of Quebec history]]
*[[Lower Canada]]

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