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Show mm OP CATHOLIC -PUBLISHERS IS DEAD NEW YORK, March 6.-Patrick O'Bhea. the Nestor of the . Catholic publishers in America, is dead -at his home In Summit, N. J., In his 74th year, having been born March 17, 1832, In Klnkenny, Ireland. "- H came to this' country in' his nineteenth nine-teenth year, and In 1864 began business In this cMy. During the fifty-two years that his business had been established, he published pub-lished a great number of Catholic story, school and standard books. Ha was the author and editor, as well as .publisher, of most of (hls text-books.,' ., During, the Civil war Mr, O'Bhea was an earnest advocate of the cause of. the Union and his letters,' signed "An American Ameri-can Citlsen," published In-the Boston Pilot and the Dublin Nation, excited much interest- - " . |