Healy, Patrick Francis, 1834-1910

[Patrick Francis Healy (1830-1910) was a Jesuit priest and 29th President of Georgetown University (1874-1882). Healy initiated Georgetown's transformation from a small school to a modern university. In the post-Civil War years, he modernized the curriculum and his reforms included a new emphasis on science, expanding and upgrading the law and medical schools, and centralizing the university's libraries. Healy Hall, a National Historic Landmark, was constructed during Healy's tenure and is named after him. Healy is recognized as one of the first African Americans to receive a PhD and the first to head a predominantly white university.] http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul31.html

found: O'Toole, James M. Passing for white, 2002:page 20 (Patrick Francis Healy, born February 27, 1834, son of Eliza Healy, an enslaved woman, and Michael Morris Healy, her enslaver) page 56 (entered the Society of Jesus in September 1950) page 219 (died January 10, 1910, and buried in the small priests' graveyard on the Georgetown campus; Healy's racial background was rediscovered during the 1950s)

found: Woodstock Letters, vol. 39, no. 3 (October 1910):page 387 (Father Patrick F. Healy, died January 10, 1910 at Georgetown; president of Georgetown from 1873 to 1882; born in Macon, Georgia, February 27, 1834; became a Jesuit novice at Frederick, September 17, 1850)

found: Patrick F. Healy, SJ, papers: finding aid(Patrick Francis Healy, son of Michael Morris Healy, a plantation owner and slaveholder, and Eliza Smith, who was enslaved by Michael Healy; ordained to the priesthood in 1864 and took his final Jesuit vows in 1867; became acting President of Georgetown College in 1873; oversaw the contruction of the building that would become Healy Hall; resigned from the presidency in 1882; neither Healy nor the Jesuits ever acknowledged his racial background, nor the fact that he was technically born enslaved) - https://findingaids.library.georgetown.edu/repositories/15/resources/10344

found: Wikipedia, June 18, 2013(Patrick Francis Healy; born February 27, 1830 in Macon, Ga.; died January 10, 1910 in the Georgetown campus infirmary; Jesuit priest; 29th President of Georgetown University and known for expanding the school. In the 1960s the history of Healy's mixed-race ancestry became more widely known, and he was recognized as the first American of African ancestry to earn a PhD; the first to become a Jesuit priest; and the first to be president of a predominantly white college)

[Patrick Francis Healy (1830-1910) was a Jesuit priest and 29th President of Georgetown University (1874-1882). Healy initiated Georgetown's transformation from a small school to a modern university. In the post-Civil War years, he modernized the curriculum and his reforms included a new emphasis on science, expanding and upgrading the law and medical schools, and centralizing the university's libraries. Healy Hall, a National Historic Landmark, was constructed during Healy's tenure and is named after him. Healy is recognized as one of the first African Americans to receive a PhD and the first to head a predominantly white university.] http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jul31.html