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Patrick Francis Healy
Birth: 2-27-1834
Death: 1-10-1910
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Patrick Francis Healy was a Catholic and Jesuit Reverend, and the first African American man to obtain a PhD. Later in his career he became an influential President of Georgetown University, transforming it from a liberal arts college to the modern university it is today. He is mentioned in Frances "Fanny" Adeline Seward's 1866 diary.
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Patrick Francis Healy was a Catholic and Jesuit Reverend, and the first African American man to obtain a PhD. Later in his career he became an influential President of Georgetown University, transforming it from a liberal arts college to the modern university it is today. He is mentioned in Frances "Fanny" Adeline Seward's 1866 diary.
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https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/552740
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Georgetown University: Digital Georgetown
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https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/552740
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Georgetown University: Digital Georgetown
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