Henry C. Carey
The son of an Irish immigrant, Henry Carey was a nineteenth-century
economist, debater and political muckraker. He wrote on economics and
tariffs, authoring such works as Harmony of Interest and
Principles of Political Economy, and headed the American
Philosophical Society.
Carey lived in Alcazar, just two buildings
from the Camden & Amboy railroad
through Burlington. He hated the concept of business monopolies,
and wrote a series of letters against the monopoly of the Camden &
Amboy beginning in the late 1840's.
When Burlington was the site of a devastating railroad accident in 1855,
Carey authored essays and pamphlets revealing that the Camden and Amboy
was not following ethical management and operation practices - for example,
schedules.
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