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4 unusual facts about Patrick Francis Healy


James Augustine Healy

Patrick Francis Healy became a Jesuit, earned a PhD in Paris, and is now considered the first African American to have gained the degree.

Patrick Francis Healy

His brother Sherwood Healy also became a priest and earned a doctorate at Saint-Sulpice in Paris.

Patrick, as he was known, was born into slavery in Macon, Georgia, to the Irish-American plantation owner Michael Healy and his bi-racial slave Mary Eliza.

Patrick Healy

Patrick Francis Healy (1830–1910), African American Jesuit and President of Georgetown University



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