Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan
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Image:EBOCALLAGHAN.jpgEdmund Bailey O'Callaghan, (probably 27 February 1797 – 29 May, 1880) born in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, was a doctor and journalist. He studied medicine in Paris and immigrated to Lower Canada in 1823 where he became involved in the political movement that wanted to reform of the Parti patriote. 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 Saint-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.