Peter Doyle (transit worker)

Peter Doyle
Doyle (right) with Walt Whitman
Born
Peter George Doyle

June 1843
Ireland
DiedApril 19, 1907(1907-04-19) (aged 63)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationTransit worker

Peter George Doyle (June 1843 – April 19, 1907) 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.