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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Irish (In Countries Other Than Ireland) |
 | | William Thompson, William Maxwell, James Hogan, John Rutledge, brother of Edward Rutledge, one of the signers, Colonel Charles Lynch, son of John Lynch, an Irish immigrant who with his brother John founded the settlement now known as Lynchburg, Va., besides many others whose names would unduly extend this list. |
 | | Asa Gray, the famous botanist, was the grandson of an immigrant from Ulster. |
 | | In horticulture, John Barry and William Doogue, who laid out the grounds of the Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia, and the Public Gardens at Boston, were of Irish birth. |
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