Thomas Francis and Maria (O’Farrell) Kerney; educated in parochial
schools; married Miss Sarah Mullen, of Trenton, October 4, 1897;
employed as clerk in store 1887–1891; stenographer, Trenton and New
York, 1891–1895; became reporter, 1895; editor of Trenton Times since
1903; vice-president Times Corporation; director Trenton Trust Company.
Civil Service Commissioner for New Jersey, named by Governor Fort in
1908. Inaugurated movement for establishment of national park at
Washington’s Crossing to commemorate place where the revolutionary
general made his famous strategic move on night of Christmas, 1776;
member of New Jersey Commission to coöperate with similar commission
from Pennsylvania in establishing park. Independent in politics. Roman
Catholic; member of Knights of Columbus, Lotus and Country Clubs. Home
373 West State street, Trenton.
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LALLY, PATRICK E. C., was born about June 8, 1856, in the Townland of
Slyngan Roe, Parish of Kilmaclasser, in the Barony of Burrishool South,
County of Mayo, Ireland, the fifth child in a family of seven children,
born to Peter and Nancy Corcoran Lally. In his eighteenth year he came
to the United States, without a dollar, and took hold of the first thing
that came to hand, to wit: working in a grocery store in Chicago, but
not liking that method of making a livelihood, he left, went farther
West, finally studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1880. On the first
day of September of the same year, he married Kittie Hughes Lally, and
they have been blessed with a family of eleven children, each and all
alive and well. He is a Fourth Degree member of the Knights of Columbus,
and tries to maintain an ideal Catholic home, surrounding his family
with everything that makes for Christian refinement. There is scarcely a
valuable book on Catholic topics, in the English language, for sale in
American book stores, that has not a place on his library shelves, one
of his aims and purposes being that his children shall know and be able
to give a reason for the faith that is in them. He is a grandfather,
four times over, and his daughters all graduated, those old enough, from
convent schools. His oldest son graduated from the University of Notre
Dame, and later from the law department of Harvard.
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LARKIN, ROBERT E., was born May 9, 1879, on a farm in Eagle Township
about two miles west of Streator, Illinois, to Thomas Larkin and Delia
(Conners) Larkin, both of whom were born in County Galway, Ireland, and
were married in Eagle Township in 1863. He received his education in the
public school at Kangley, Illinois, and in the high school at Streator,
Illinois, completing the classical course at St. Bede College at Peru,
Illinois. He then commenced the study of law in the law office of Lloyd
Painter of Streator, Ill., in the Fall of 1903, under whom he studied
law until his admission to the Illinois Bar, October 11, 1906.
Immediately thereafter he opened up a law office at Streator and
practiced alone until September 4, 1907, when he formed a law
partnership with Patrick J. Lucey of that city, with whom he is still
connected. He is unmarried and is a member of the Knights of Columbus.
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LONERGAN, JOHN E., of Philadelphia, was born at Nicholastown, Parish of
Grange, County of Tipperary, Ireland, May 25, 1841, of Pierce and Mary
Tobin-Lonergan; when about five years of age, attended private school;
later attended the “Model School” in Clonmell. In March, 1852, father,
mother and three children, comprising entire family, came to America,
settled in Bennington Co., Vermont; in 1862, moved into Massachusetts,
where he learned the machinist’s trade. In 1867, he married Miss Mary A.
Bowes, of Saxonville, Mass. He continued to follow his trade in various
capacities for several years, and later engaged in locomotive
engineering for a number of years and left it to engage in the
manufacturing of mechanical appliances, under United States patents,
which were granted him in 1872, first in Sacramento City, California,
and in Philadelphia, Pa., since 1875. He is now president of the J. E.
Lonergan Company, vice-president of the H. Brinton Company, both of
Philadelphia, Pa., and president of the Cuba Fruit Company, of Von
Tanamo, Cuba. His father died in 1884, in his seventy-fourth year, at
North Adams, Mass., where his mother still lives in her ninety-seventh
year, enjoying good health and retaining all her faculties practically
unimpaired.
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LONERGAN, THOMAS S., 408 East One Hundred and Forty-Ninth street, New
York City, was born in Mitchelstown, Ireland, in the year 1864. He
received his education in the schools of the Christian Brothers of his
native town and at St. Colman’s College, Fermoy. He came to America in
1883 and became a full-fledged citizen in 1888. He had been only two
weeks a citizen when his name was placed on the list of campaign
speakers by the Democratic State Committee of New York. He is the author
of “The Golden Age of Ireland,” and “The Fallacies of Socialism,” and
numerous magazine articles on Irish, historical and political subjects.
He is an able writer and brilliant lecturer. His eulogy on “Abraham
Lincoln” is a master-piece. He is one of the lecturers of the Knights of
Columbus. During the past ten years he has devoted considerable time and
labor to historical research. His article entitled: “St. Brendan,
America’s First Discoverer,” which was written specially for Volume IX.
of the Journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, speaks for
itself. He is very much interested in the history of the Irish element
in America. He has been with the New York World during the past sixteen
years and has been for the past four years manager of its Bronx office.
Mr. Lonergan is the author of “St. Brendan, America’s First Discoverer,”
published elsewhere in this volume.
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LUCEY, HON. D. B.—One of the best known citizens of Ogdensburg is the
Hon. Dennis B. Lucey. In his infancy, Mr. Lucey, who was born in
Massachusetts, moved with his parents to St. Lawrence County, N. Y.
After some time spent on a farm he graduated from the classical course
of the Potsdam Normal School and for three years taught mathematics in
the Ogdensburg Free Academy. In 1886 he was admitted to the bar. He
entered partnership with the Hon. George R. Malby, and today the firm of
Malby & Lucey is one of the most highly esteemed in the State. Mr. Lucey
is a member of the State and National Bar Associations and also of the
Bar of the U. S. District and Circuit Courts. His energies have been
principally devoted to trial court work. In his work of referee in
important cases referred to him, his decisions have been well sustained
by the appellate courts. Politically Mr. Lucey is a Democrat. He has
served as Mayor of Ogdensburg with great benefit to the city at large.
He has also been president of the Board of Education, where his counsel
has always been of valuable service. Mr. Lucey has also taken an active
interest in commercial matters. He has been for a number of years a
director of the National Bank of Ogdensburg. He is also a director of
the O’Connor & Jones Tobacco Company and of the John B. Tyo & Sons Dry
Goods Company, and a Trustee of St. Lawrence County Savings Bank and its
attorney. He is also a veteran of the Spanish-American War. Socially Mr.
Lucey is a member of the Century Club and of the Ogdensburg Club, and
his home on Washington street is one which helps to make Ogdensburg
noted as a city of beautiful homes.
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MAHONEY, DANIEL EMMET, was born in St. Louis, Mo., on October 25, 1860,
where his father, Daniel Q. Mahoney, a carpenter and builder, erected
some fine churches, and served in the militia guarding government
property on and along the Mississippi River at the time of the war
between the North and South. His father was born in County Kerry,
Ireland, near the Lake of Killarney, and his mother was born in County
Kerry also. About the closing of the war his parents moved to New York
City where they lived a few years, then moved to or near Matawan,
Monmouth County, New Jersey. There the subject of this sketch began to
till a few acres of land, and sell the vegetables from it, later moving
to Keyport, where he opened a store for the sale of vegetables and
fruits, then adding groceries, hay and grain, which he continues with
his four other stores in neighboring towns, and his two farms to supply
fruits and vegetables for the stores and hay for the horses. Strictly
attending to business, and taking no part in politics, he styles himself
a farmer and merchant.
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MCBREEN, PATRICK FRANCIS, 404 Monroe street, Brooklyn, N. Y., of P. F.
McBreen & Sons, printers, 47 Ann street, New York City.
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MCGINNEY, JOHN H., No. 766 McAllister Street, San Francisco, Cal.; born
in Providence, R. I., April 28, 1853, being the eldest son of Thomas and
Margaret (Smith) McGinney; educated in the public schools of Providence
until the age of eleven, when the family removed to San Francisco;
education was completed in this city, and the trade of carriage
blacksmithing was learned; worked at blacksmithing for twenty years and
was appointed State Wharfinger April 7, 1887, serving for four years;
married in June, 1889, Miss Mary Elizabeth Russell of Boston, two
children being born of this union; appointed Deputy Superintendent of
Streets in 1894; later was appointed Deputy Surveyor in the Engineering
Department, Board of Public Works, which position he holds at the
present time; has been treasurer of the St. Patrick’s Mutual Alliance
Association of California for thirteen years, and a trustee of the
Knights of St. Patrick for four years.
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MCGUIRE, FRANK A., M. D., was born in the old Sixth Ward, No. 78 Bayard
street, New York City, July 1, 1851, his father, James, keeping a bakery
there. James McGuire was the eldest son of Philip and Ellen McGuire, his
grandmother not changing her name when she married, all from Cloues,
County Monaghan, North of Ireland, he coming here in 1847, and bringing
out all his people, one of his sisters marrying a Fitzsimmons, who
settled in Lonsdale, R. I., bringing up a large and respectable family
among the number being the Hon. Frank E. Fitzsimmons, chairman of the
Democratic State Committee of Rhode Island. His mother was a native New
Yorker, her name being Catherine Ann McGuire. Her father was Daniel
Joshua Thomas, born in Camavon, Wales; he served in the artillery in
Canada, in the 1812 war on the American side, and her mother was a
native of Philadelphia. The subject of this sketch was educated in De La
Salle Institute, going there in the Fall of 1860, his father dying in
December, 1860, being then a well-known flour merchant, member of the
firm of Coulter & McGuire, 30 Front street. He afterwards went to
Manhattan College, but took no degree, leaving school in 1868 and began
the study of medicine in 1873, entering the University Medical College
of the City of New York and graduated in 1877; was connected later with
the Northeastern Dispensary and also assistant in the Demalt Dispensary
Heart and Lung Division. Was President of the Metropolitan Medical
Society and also of the Celtic Medical Society, serving two terms in the
latter. Is a member of the County Medical Society, State Medical
Society, American Medical and Physicians Mutual Association. He entered
the public service receiving the appointment of visiting physician to
the Penitentiary and Work House, Blackwell’s Island, on April 27, 1899,
and on May 23, 1904, was transferred to the City Prison (or Tombs) with
the title of City Physician. He has contributed to medical literature, a
report of a case of bloody sweating (Hæmadrosions) before the
Neurological Section of the Academy of Medicine, in 1879, a case of
tumor of the Corpus Callosur (with autopsy), a contribution of work done
and reported from the laboratory of Dr. E. C. Spitzka, the distinguished
alienist and neurologist, and various other scientific papers. He has
testified many times before lunacy commissions and in celebrated trials
like that of Harry K. Thaw for murder. August 15, 1873, he married Emma
L. Denmark, daughter of Alexander and Eleanor Denmark of Ireland, and
they have five children living: Emma Frances, wife of Mr. William F.
O’Connor of Syracuse, N. Y.; James Alexander, Harriet Lewis, wife of
William Henry Herbst; L. Marion and Gertrude Eleanor, the latter in
Normal College.
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MCGUIRE, PATRICK HENRY, was born in the city of Pittsburg, County of
Allegheny, State of Pennsylvania, August 13, 1869, the ninth child and
sixth son of Patrick McGuire and Margaret Wheeler, both Irish immigrants
who came to this country about the year 1849, settled and were married
in the city of Philadelphia, and came to Pittsburg about the year 1860.
Two years after his birth, his folks moved to the city of Allegheny,
Pennsylvania, where they lived until he was twenty years of age; in
September, 1889, they moved to the Borough of Homestead, Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania, where he has since lived. He attended the public
and parochial schools of the city of Allegheny until he was thirteen
years of age, at which time he went to work in a rolling mill; and
followed the iron and steel mills until the month of August, 1897. From
1889 to 1897 was employed in the Homestead Steel Works as a steel
worker. February 18, 1895, was married to Mollie A. Boyle, of Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, by Rev. Daniel Devlin, in St. Stephen’s R. C. Church,
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and at once started housekeeping in Homestead.
They have five children, all living, as follows: Margaret, fourteen
years of age, January 20, 1910; Paul, twelve years of age, September 23,
1909; Francis, ten years of age, September 5, 1909; Mary Paulus, six
years of age, February 14, 1910, and Patrick Henry, Jr., two years of
age, August 5, 1909. In 1897, he was elected Grand Secretary of the
Pennsylvania Grand Council Jurisdiction of the Young Men’s Institute, at
a salary of $1,000.00 per year—when he quit the mill,—to which office he
was re-elected five times and filled for nine consecutive years; after
which he was elected Grand President. Almost immediately after his
election as Grand Secretary of the Young Men’s Institute, he began to
prepare himself for the study of law. This required him to pass a
preliminary examination consisting of all the common school branches,
natural science, civil government, Latin and higher mathematics, to do
which he engaged private tutors, who instructed him during the evening
hours. In addition, the Very Reverend John Murphy, C. S. Sp., and the
Very Reverend M. A. Hehir, C. S. Sp., successive Presidents of the
Pittsburg College of the Holy Ghost, very kindly assigned professors of
that institution to teach him Latin and natural science, before the
regular school hours in the morning. To Very Reverend John Murphy, C. S.
Sp., he owes a debt of gratitude. After six years and a half of close
study, he was admitted as a member of the Bar of Allegheny County,
Pennsylvania, of the State Courts and of the United States Courts, where
he is still practicing. The last three of said six and one-half years
were spent at the Pittsburg Law School, from which institution he was
graduated on the sixteenth day of June, 1904, with the degree of LL. B.
Served two terms as Solicitor of the Borough of Homestead—1905–1906 and
1906–1907, and is now serving as a member of the town council. He is a
member of the Young Men’s Institute, Knights of Columbus, Ancient Order
of Hibernians, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Grand
Fraternity.
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MCHUGH, JAMES, was born in the townland of Kelleter, Parish of Kel,
County of Longfed, January 1, 1847. Got a very limited education; went
to serve apprenticeship at Grog business in Longfed when thirteen years
old. Later went to Liverpool, England, and served as clerk in gents’
furnishing goods. Left Liverpool the same day the Abyssinia expedition
sailed, September 26, 1867; arrived in New York September 26. Left New
York October 2 for New Orleans, La., where he went in the grocery
business again as clerk. Opened business for himself in 1869 and
married, from which union there were three children. In 1874 he moved to
Pensacola. The city then had 4,000 population and now has 35,000. After
vicissitudes his business was put on a foundation. He lost his first
wife in 1878 and was again married in 1884, from which union there is a
daughter that will be graduated from the Convent of Visitation, Mobile,
Ala., in June next. His father was Patrick McHugh and his mother Anne
Byrne, both of the County of Longfed. They arrived in America with six
other children in 1869 and moved to St. Clair County, Mo., where the
elder McHugh operated a large farm and died in 1901. A younger brother
now operates the farm. The subject of this sketch has served the City of
Pensacola as an Alderman for eighteen years and his last term would not
expire until 1911, but having moved from his district he resigned. He
served for seven years as a member of a volunteer fire company and also
in the Escaubie Rifles of which company he was second sergeant. He has
travelled extensively in the north and west. Mr. McHugh is Deputy Grand
Knight, K. of C., Pensacola Court No. 778.
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MCKEE, EDWARD L., of Indianapolis, is the son of Robert S. McKee, son of
James and Agnes McMillan McKee. Robert S. McKee was born January 8,
1823, at Tully Carey, County Down, Ireland. His mother died in 1836, and
was buried at Slan in County Down. His father died in 1864 at Wheeling,
West Virginia. Robert S. McKee died June 10, 1904, at Indianapolis. He
was the youngest of six children, William, James, Sophie, Margaret and
Eliza. Edward was born at Madison, Indiana, March 13, 1856, his mother
being Celine Lodge McKee, born January 16, 1826, died April 2, 1861.
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MCNABOE, JAMES F., attorney-at-law, 68 William street, New York City;
born at Manchester, Vermont, in 1866; son of Owen McNaboe and Mary
(Kelly) McNaboe, both parents born in Ireland. Prepared for college in
Burr and Burton Seminary; graduate of Middlebury College; studied law in
New York Law School and New York University.
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MEAGHER, FREDERICK JEFFERSON—Born December 21, 1876, at Binghamton, N.
Y.; educated Binghamton public schools; graduated Hamilton College,
1899, Phi Beta Kappa Key; studied law at Binghamton 1899–1901; admitted
to bar November, 1901; practiced law at Binghamton 1902–1907;
consolidator with State Board of Statutory Consolidation, 1905–1907, at
Albany; assistant corporation counsel of Binghamton, 1908; January 1,
1909, appointed district attorney of Broome County by Governor Hughes.
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MITCHELL, RICHARD H., was born in McKeesport, Pa., in 1869. He was
educated at the Morrisania public school, then known as Grammar School
No. 61, at the College of the City of New York, where he graduated in
1888, and at Columbia University Law School in 1890 and 1891, and in
June of the latter year was admitted to the bar. He associated himself
with Morgan & Ives, a well-known law firm of New York City, and soon
after became a member of the firm with Rollin M. Morgan. The firm of
Morgan & Mitchell has, during the last ten years, taken charge of much
important litigation, and both members of the firm have been active in
public affairs.
Mr. Mitchell is the younger son of Dr. James B. Mitchell and Emma Henry
Mitchell. He is a descendant of Irish and German ancestors, his
grandfather, James Henry, having been a native of the town of Coleraine,
County of Londonderry, Ireland, and he is also related to the Eckfeldt
family, of whom Adam Eckfeldt was an appointee of President Washington
in the United States Mint. He has lived for the last thirty-four years
in the Borough of the Bronx, in the part formerly known as Morrisania,
and since 1890 has been well-known as a Democrat and a strong adherent
of Tammany Hall. In 1897 he was elected Member of Assembly for the
Thirty-Fifth Assembly District by a majority of 1,462 and the following
year, 1898, he was elected Senator by a majority of 6,606. He remained
in the Senate during the years 1899 and 1900, serving on the Judiciary
Committee and the Committee on Privileges and Elections. In February,
1904, Corporation Counsel Delaney selected Senator Mitchell as one of
his assistants, and placed him in charge of the Corporation Counsel’s
Office in the Borough of the Bronx. He was continued in that office by
Corporation Counsel Ellison and Pendleton. Mr. Mitchell is now a member
of the Bar Association of the City of New York, Democratic Club, New
York Yacht Club, Larchmont Yacht Club, Fordham Club, Jackson Democratic
Club, Schnorer Club, Jefferson Tammany Club, Friendly Sons of St.
Patrick, Kane Lodge, No. 454, F. and A. M., Jerusalem Chapter, Cœur de
Lion Commandery, Pennsylvania Society, Pawnee Club League of American
Wheelmen, Bar Association of the Borough of the Bronx, Alumni
Association of College of City of New York, and Bronx West Side
Association. Mr. Mitchell resides at 1362 Franklin avenue, Borough of
the Bronx, New York City.
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MORAN, JAMES T., lawyer and business man; born North Haven, Conn.,
September 19, 1864; son of Thomas and Maria (Cullom) Moran; grad.
Hillhouse High School, New Haven, 1883; LL. B. Yale Law School, 1884; M.
L., 1885; married, New Haven, April 27, 1898, Mary E. McKenzie. Has
practised in New Haven since 1884; vice-president, director and general
attorney, the Southern New England Telephone Co.; president New Haven
Union Co. (newspaper); director Merchants’ National Bank, National
Folding Box and Paper Co., Acme Wire Co.; trustee Conn. Savings Bank;
member New Haven Board of Education, 1893–1909. Roman Catholic. Clubs,
Graduates’, Knights of St. Patrick (New Haven); Yale (New York).
Residence, 221 Sherman Avenue. Office, Southern New England Telephone
Co., New Haven, Conn.
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MULHERN, JOHN, 140 Second Street, San Francisco, Cal., is a dealer in
soda water machinery and supplies; was born in County Roscommon,
Ireland, in 1848; came to Dorchester, Mass., in 1853, where he attended
the old Mather School on Meeting House Hill; arrived in San Francisco in
1874. Member of Knights of St. Patrick, Celtic Union and Celtic Union
Hall Association. Life member of the Society.
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O’BRIEN, JAMES, LL. D., was born at Castle Tymon, parish of Barn Dearig,
in the County of Wicklow, Ireland, on Whit Monday, 1836. Left there with
parents in May, 1849. Settled in Clark County, Ohio. Father was a
carpenter. He attended school in Springfield, Ohio, till 1851, then went
to Catholic colleges, winding up with Notre Dame University, where he
was graduated as A. B. in 1859. He was then employed there as teacher
till 1862, and thereafter studied law, and was admitted to practice in
Dubuque, Iowa, in 1866. Practiced there and in Lansing, same state, till
1870, when he settled in Minnesota at Caledonia, the county seat of
Houston County. Was soon after elected District Attorney, and re-elected
successively for about twelve years. Was elected State Senator
thereafter serving in that capacity in the years 1883 and 1885. Was
chosen delegate to the National Republican Convention which nominated
General Harrison for president, acting as chairman of the delegation.
Was afterwards appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New
Mexico, by President Harrison, which position he held till October,
1893. He then returned to Caledonia, where he has since resided. The
University of Notre Dame, Ind., conferred on him the degree of LL. D. in
1908. Was married to Catherine Lyons, daughter of Michael and Mary
Lyons, in 1864, at Galena, Ill. Ten children were the fruit of the
union, five of whom survive. His life has been wholly uneventful,
devoting himself exclusively to the study of law, and to the history of
the Middle Ages. He has made a specialty of the Inquisition,
particularly that of Spain.
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