![]() ![]() ![]() He quit the Catholic Church some time in the 1850s, and thereafter was never active in any religious group. In 1855, he resigned his clerkship, entered politics, and participated in communal home building schemes. In 1855, he married Katherine McCaffrey, with whom he had three children. Donnelly was admitted to the bar in 1852. Hart, excelling primarily in literature.ĭonnelly decided to become a lawyer, and became a clerk for Benjamin Brewster, who later became Attorney-General of the United States. There he studied under the presidency of John S. Ignatius, her youngest son, was admitted to the prestigious Central High School, the second oldest public high school in the United States. He later contracted typhus from a patient and died at age 31, leaving his wife with five children.Ĭatherine provided for her children by operating a pawn shop. On June 29, 1826, Philip had married Catherine Gavin, a second generation American of Irish ancestry.Īfter starting as a peddler, Philip studied medicine at the Philadelphia College of Medicine. Donnelly was the son of Philip Carrol Donnelly, an Irish Catholic immigrant who had settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ![]()
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