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Mathew Carey (January 28, 1760 – September 16, 1839) was an Irish-born American publisher and economist who lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Dublin, he had engaged in the cause of parliamentary reform, and in America, attracting the wrath of Federalists, retained his democratic sympathies.
Mathew Carey reported that it took some time before the curious fever attracted the attention of the public. Its symptoms were new to most of the city’s doctors. The last outbreak in Philadelphia had occurred thirty-one years before. After a bout of chills, the victims’ skin turned yellow.
27 de abr. de 2020 · A major figure in the fields of literature, religion, and economics in the post Revolution America, has often been overlooked and forgotten. That figure is Mathew Carey, an Irish Catholic immigrant who helped shape the intellectual landscape of Philadelphia.
Mathew Carey was a printer, publisher, bookseller, and political economist. He first gained national recognition publishing the American Museum , a magazine read throughout the United States by influential figures.
Carey’s Douai Bible. Mathew Carey published the first Douai Bible in the United States in 1790. Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia. The population of the United States in 1790 was less than four million people. Of those, an estimated 35,000 were Roman Catholics living in Maryland, Philadelphia and French settlements further west.
19 de sept. de 2014 · Library Company of Philadelphia. Gift of Mary Hudson, 1991. Carey was born in Dublin in 1760, emigrated to the United States in 1784 after several times tangling with the British parliament over his writings in favor of Irish nationalism and Catholic emancipation and settled in Philadelphia.
Mathew Carey was an influential publisher and political economist in the Early Republic of the United States. A native of Ireland, he became a printer’s apprentice and served a portion of his apprenticeship under Benjamin Franklin in Paris, where he met the Marquis de Lafayette who later recommended him to George Washington and gave him the ...
