Richard Bayley
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Richard Bayley was a New York City physician and the first chief health officer of the city. An expert in yellow fever, he helped discover its epidemiology, improved city sanitation, and authored the
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Elizabeth Ann Seton
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Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was an American Catholic educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system. Born in New York and reared as an Episcopalian, she married and had five chil
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…of St. Andrew's Church (Staten Island, New York). The couple had three children, Mary Magdalen (b. 1768, m. 1790 to Wright Post, d. April 9, 1856), Elizabeth Ann (1774-1821, later known as Mother Seton, and the first native-born citizen of the United States to be declared a saint), and Catherine (1776–8). Richard…
Elizabeth Ann Seton portrait by Amabilia Filicchi
Elizabeth Ann Seton, from Appleton's Cyclopaedia
The Seton home in New York City was located at the site on which a church now stands in her honor, with the adjacent James Watson House serving as the rectory.
St. Peter's, Barclay Street, 1785