Peter Irving was an American physician, author, and politician who was the brother of Washington Irving, William Irving and John T Irving.
11 Facts About Peter Irving
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Peter Irving was one of eleven children born to William Irving Sr.
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Peter Irving studied medicine at Columbia College, taking his degree in 1794.
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Peter Irving was editor of the Democratic paper The Morning Herald, and the weekly Corrector, to which his friend William Alexander Duer contributed and which supported Aaron Burr in his contest with Morgan Lewis for New York Governor.
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Peter Irving was too reserved to print obvious lies, or to pass on ugly rumors and pitch abusive words at Burr's enemies.
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Civil Peter Irving knew whom he could turn to for help: Washington resented Cheetham's unprovoked assaults on his brother, including the suggestion that he was merely the slavish follower of a known libertine.
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From 1802 to 1803, Irving served in the New York State Assembly as a member of the 26th New York State Legislature, representing New York County alongside John Burger, William Few, Speaker Thomas Storm, and Daniel D Tompkins.
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Peter Irving ran for reelection, and lost, as a Burrite.
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Peter Irving wrote the first five chapters of his brother Washington's 1809 satirical novel, Knickerbocker's History.
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From 1809 until 1836, Peter Irving lived in Europe for nearly 25 years, returning just two years before his eventual death in 1838.
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Peter Irving's papers are held variously at the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, the Miriam Lutcher Stark Library, the University of Texas and The New York Public Library.