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Peter Doyle (transit worker)

American transit worker close to Walt Whitman (1843–1907)


Peter Doyle (transit worker)
Peter Doyle (transit worker)

Peter George Doyle was an Irish-born American transit worker, known for being an intimate companion of Walt Whitman from around 1865 to 1876, and to some extent to Whitman's death in 1892. Doyle also witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

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