1. Mathew Carey was an Irish-born American publisher and economist who lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
21 Facts About Mathew Carey
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Mathew Carey was the father of economist Henry Charles Carey.
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Mathew Carey entered the bookselling and printing business in 1775, apprenticing with the Hibernian Journal, or Chronicle of Liberty, one the most radical newspapers in the country.
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In 1777, at the age of seventeen, Mathew Carey published a pamphlet criticizing dueling.
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Mathew Carey followed this with a work criticizing the severity of the Irish penal code, and another criticizing the Irish Parliament, then the exclusive reserve of the landed Protestant Ascendancy.
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In 1781 Mathew Carey fled to Paris as a political refugee.
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Mathew Carey worked for Franklin for a year before returning to Ireland, where he edited two Irish patriot newspapers committed to the cause of parliamentary reform, The Freeman's Journal and The Volunteer's Journal.
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Mathew Carey used this money to set up a new publishing business and a book shop.
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Mathew Carey printed numerous editions of the King James Version, fundamental to English-speaking peoples.
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Mathew Carey frequently wrote articles on various social topics, including events during the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, which proved a crisis for the city.
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Mathew Carey reported on debates in the state legislature as well as providing political commentary in his essays.
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Mathew Carey was a Catholic and a founding member of the American Sunday-School Society, along with Quaker merchant Thomas P Cope, Benjamin Rush and Episcopal bishop William White.
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Mathew Carey had refused to publish Cobbett's Observations on the Emigration of Dr Joseph Priestly.
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In 1822 Mathew Carey published Essays on Political Economy; or, The Most Certain Means of Promoting the Wealth, Power, Resources, and Happiness of Nations, Applied Particularly to the United States.
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Mathew Carey retired in 1825, leaving the publishing business to his son, Henry Charles Mathew Carey and son-in-law Isaac Lea.
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Lea and Henry Mathew Carey made the business economically successful and, for a time, it was one of the most prominent publishers in the country.
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In 1821, Mathew Carey was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
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Mathew Carey's published works are credited with swaying public opinion toward the establishment of a powerful American navy.
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Mathew Carey tried to eliminate competition between the two American political parties to create unity during the War of 1812.
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Mathew Carey was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1815.
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Mathew Carey died on September 16,1839, and was buried in St Mary's Catholic Churchyard in Philadelphia.