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Mathew Carey was an influential publisher and economist in the Early Republic. He was born in Ireland. He became an apprentice to Benjamin Franklin in Paris where he met the Marquis de Lafayette who later recommended him to George Washington and gave him the funds to buy a printing press in Philadelphia. He published a newspaper, The Pennsylvania Evening Herald, and a national magazine, the American Museum.
