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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Theodore O'Hara |
 | | Born in Danville, Kentucky, U.S.A., 11 February, 1822; died in Guerryton, Alabama, 6 June, 1867. |
 | | The son of Kane O'Hara, and Irish political exile, who became a prominent educator in Kentucky, O'Hara graduated from St. Joseph's College, Bardstown, Kentucky, studied law, and in the Mexican Was attained the brevet rank of major, after which he made several filibustering expeditions to Cuba and Central America. |
 | | The former was written when the State of Kentucky brought back the remains of her sons who had fallen in the Mexican War to the cemetery at Frankfort. |
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