business man. He had the reputation everywhere of having a very high
regard for his word. In his long life and connection with the grocery
business he was associated with many of the pioneers of Binghamton
business life and many of the old aristocrats of the business circle.
He was a well educated and well read man, being a scholar in Latin,
Spanish, Celtic and French. He was always improving his mind, and, it is
said, started in to learn Greek when past the age of sixty, finally
mastering it so that he read it with pleasure.
The decease of this estimable man has left vacant a place hard to fill,
and the entire city of Binghamton was filled with sorrow at his sudden
death.
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HISTORICAL SOCIETY_:
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MEMBERSHIP ROLL OF THE AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
[For officers of the Society see pages 19–21.]
ADAMS, HON. SAMUEL, President and Treasurer of the O’Neill-Adams
Company, Twentieth to Twenty-second Street, Sixth Avenue, New York
City; director, Garfield National Bank; member of the New York Chamber
of Commerce; trustee, Excelsior Savings Bank; an ex-State senator of
Colorado.
ADAMS, T. ALBEUS, President, Manhattan Refrigerating Company, 525 West
Street, New York City; President, Adams & Company, New York; President
Union Terminal Cold Storage Company, Jersey City, N. J.
ASPELL, JOHN, M. D., 139 West Seventy-seventh Street, New York City; a
member of the Academy of Medicine; of the County Medical Association,
and of the Celtic Medical Society; recently President of the latter;
visiting surgeon to St. Vincent’s Hospital.
BANNIN, MICHAEL E., of Converse, Stanton & Company, dry goods
commission merchants, 83 and 85 Worth Street, New York City; member of
the Merchants Association, New York; director, Emigrant Industrial
Savings Bank; member of the Merchants and Catholic clubs, New York, of
the Montauk Club, Brooklyn, and of the Brooklyn Arts and Science
Institute; director, the Columbian National Life Insurance Company;
director, American Investment Securities Company; director Citizen
Trust Company, Brooklyn.
BANNON, HENRY G., 107 East Fifty-fifth Street, New York City;
President of the Irish National Club; Secretary, Celtic-American
Publishing Company.
BARRETT, MICHAEL F., of Barrett Bros., wholesale and retail dealers in
teas and coffees, 308 Spring Street and 574 Hudson Street, New York
City.
BARRY, HON. PATRICK T., Vice-President-General and life member of the
Society, 87–97 South Jefferson Street, Chicago, Ill.; advertising
manager, Chicago Newspaper Union; director, First National Bank of
Englewood, Ill.; director, The _Chicago Citizen_ Company; has been a
member of the State Legislature of Illinois; prominently identified
with educational interests.
BARRY, THOMAS H., Major-General in the United States Army,
Headquarters Army of Cuban Pacification, Marianao, Havana, Cuba.
BARRY, WILLIAM F., 249 Magnolia Avenue, Elizabeth, N. J.,
superintendent of the Money Order Department of the Elizabeth
postoffice.
BARRY, WILLIAM J., attorney at law, Barristers’ Hall, Boston, Mass.
BAXTER, REV. JAMES J., D. D., 9 Whitmore Street, Boston, Mass.
BAYNE, WILLIAM, 53 Third Avenue, New York City, for the past
twenty-six years leader of the famous Sixty-Ninth Regiment Band of New
York City. Professor Bayne has the best collection of Irish music of
any band master in the United States.
BLAKE, MICHAEL, of John Leonard & Company, iron and steel, 149
Broadway, New York City.
BODFISH, REV. JOSHUA P. L., 60 Robinwood Avenue, Jamaica Plain, Mass.;
formerly chancellor of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston; a
director of the Bunker Hill Monument Association.
BOURLET, JOHN W., of the Rumford Printing Company, Concord, N. H.,
printers to the Society.
BOYLE, JOHN J., 251 West Fifty-first Street, New York City, a talented
sculptor.
BOYLE, HON. PATRICK J., Newport, R. I.; has been mayor of that city
eleven terms, and is mayor at present.
BRADY, REV. CYRUS TOWNSEND, LL. D., rector of St. George’s Church;
residence, Haddon Hall, Kansas City, Mo.; member of the Society of
Colonial Wars, of the Sons of the Revolution, of the Military Order of
Foreign Wars, and of other patriotic organizations; chaplain of the
First Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, war with Spain; formerly
Protestant Episcopal archdeacon of Pennsylvania; author of “For Love
of Country,” “For the Freedom of the Sea,” “Stephen Decatur,”
“Commodore Paul Jones,” “Border Fights and Fighters,” “The True Andrew
Jackson,” and other works. Member of the Executive Council of the
Society.
BRADY, DANIEL M., President Brady Brass Company of Jersey City, N. J.,
95 Liberty Street, New York City, was born in New York in 1854. His
parents were American born, while his grandparents on both sides were
natives of Ireland.
BRADY, JAMES B., 170 Broadway, New York City.
BRADY, OWEN J., with The H. B. Claflin Company, 224 Church Street, New
York City.
BRANAGAN, WILLIAM I., Emmetsburg, Ia., editor of the _Emmetsburg
Democrat_ and director of the Emmetsburg National Bank.
BRANDON, EDWARD J., attorney at law, city clerk, Cambridge, Mass.
BRANN, REV. HENRY A., D. D., LL. D., 141 East Forty-third Street, New
York City (Life member of the Society).
BREEN, HENRY J., attorney at law, 243 West Ninety-ninth Street, New
York City.
BREEN, HON. MATTHEW P., a city magistrate, 243 West Ninety-ninth
Street, New York City.
BRENNAN, HON. JAMES F., attorney at law, Peterborough, N. H.; a
trustee of the New Hampshire State Library. Historiographer of the
Society and Vice-President for New Hampshire.
BRENNAN, JAMES F., contractor, 203 Maple Street, New Haven, Conn.
BRENNAN, P. J., 788 West End Avenue, New York City.
BRETT, FRANK P., town clerk and attorney, Waterbury, Conn.; member of
the Connecticut Legislature. He is town clerk of Waterbury, in which
city he was born December 13, 1869. He was educated in the public
schools, graduating from the high school in 1888 and from the Yale Law
School in 1892. He was a member of the Town Board of School Visitors
from 1892 to 1897; was elected to the Legislature in 1899; was town
clerk from 1900 to 1904 and from 1906 to the present time. Mr. Brett
is a son of Patrick Brett, formerly Secretary of the Waterbury Buckle
Company. Mrs. Brett before marriage was Miss Elizabeth Slater, and
taught in the first Catholic school in Waterbury, being one of the
five Slater sisters, all of whom taught there. She also taught in
Worcester, Mass., and in Newark, N. J., with Father McQuade, the
present bishop of Rochester, N. Y. Address, 3 East Main Street.
BRIERLY, FRANK, 268 West One Hundred Thirty-first Street, New York
City.
BRITT, PHILIP J., attorney at law, 27 William Street, New York City.
BRODERICK, WILLIAM J., 52 Morton Street, New York City.
BROSNAHAN, REV. TIMOTHY, rector of St. Mary’s Church, Waltham, Mass.
BROSNAN, REV. JOHN, Cornwall-on-Hudson, N. Y.
BRYAN, HON. J. P. KENNEDY, attorney at law, 11 Broad Street,
Charleston, S. C.
BUCKLEY, JOHN J., attorney at law, 99 Nassau Street, New York City.
BURKE, JOHN, 60 West Fifty-first Street, New York City.
BURKE, ROBERT E., attorney at law, recently city solicitor,
Newburyport, Mass.
BURR, WILLIAM P., office of the Corporation Counsel, New York City.
BUTLER, FRANCIS X., attorney at law, member of the law firm of Knabe &
Butler, 280 Broadway, New York City.
BUTLER, M. J., real estate and insurance, Morris Avenue, corner of One
Hundred Forty-fourth Street, New York City.
BUTLER, T. VINCENT, 120 Central Park South, New York City; with R. G.
Dun & Company.
BUTTIMER, THOMAS H., attorney at law, Hingham and Boston, Mass.
BYRNE, DR. C. E. of the C. E. Byrne Piano Company, 229 East
Forty-first Street, New York City.
BYRNE, JOSEPH M., insurance, 800 Broad Street, Newark, N. J.
BYRNE, THOMAS F., 105 East Seventy-eighth Street, New York City.
BYRNE, RT. REV. MGR. WILLIAM, D. D., V. G., rector of St. Cecelia’s
Church, St. Cecelia Street, Boston, Mass.
BYRNE, WILLIAM MICHAEL, attorney at law, 220 Broadway, New York City.
BYRNS, WILLIAM FRANCIS, M. D., 1509 U Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
CAHILL, JOHN H., attorney at law, 15 Dey Street, New York City;
prominently identified with telephone interests; Vice-President,
Secretary, attorney and director of the New York Telephone Company;
director of the Empire City Subway Company; also a director of the
American District Telephone Company; the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company; the Holmes Protective Company; the New England
Telephone and Telegraph Company; the Delaware Telegraph and Telephone
Company; Northwestern Telephone and Telegraph Company, and the
Southwestern Telephone and Telegraph Company.
CALNIN, JAMES, 101–107 Lakeview Avenue, Lowell, Mass.
CANNON, THOMAS H., of the law firm Cannon & Poage, Stock Exchange
Building, Chicago, Ill.
CAREY, PETER J., 536 West Twenty-third Street, New York City.
CARMODY, T. F., attorney at law, Burpee & Carmody, Waterbury, Conn.
CARNEY, MICHAEL, of M. Carney & Company, Lawrence, Mass.
CARROLL, EDWARD, Cashier of Leavenworth National Bank, Leavenworth,
Kansas.
CARROLL, EDWARD R., 333 East Fifty-first Street, New York City;
clerk’s office, Court of General Sessions of the Peace, City and
County of New York.
CARROLL, JOHN L., Secretary, American Oil & Supply Company, 23
Division Place, Newark, N. J.
CARROLL, THOMAS F., M. D., 219 Central Street, Lowell, Mass.
CARTER, PATRICK, real estate, mortgages and insurance, 32 Westminster
Street, Providence, R. I. Member of the Executive Council of the
Society.
CARTER, HON. THOMAS H., United States Senator from Montana,
Washington, D. C.
CARTY, JOHN J., Short Hills, N. J.
CASEY, MICHAEL, of Casey & Bacon, wholesale grocers, Pittsfield, Mass.
CASSIDY, JOHN J., 509 West Street, Wilmington, Del. Vice-President of
the Society for Delaware.
CASSIDY, GEN. PATRICK, M. D., Norwich, Conn.; was surgeon-general on
the staff of Gov. Luzon B. Morris of Connecticut, ranking as
brigadier-general.
CAVANAUGH, F. J., 31 Union Square, New York City; merchant.
CHITTICK, REV. JAMES J., 5 Oak Street, Hyde Park, Mass.
CLANCY, LAURENCE, dry goods merchant, West Bridge Street, Oswego, N.
Y.; President of L. Clancy, Sons & Company; trustee Oswego County
Savings Bank; director, electric street railway; member, Normal school
board; has repeatedly declined a nomination for mayor of Oswego.
CLARE, WILLIAM F., attorney at law, 71 Nassau Street, New York City.
CLARKE, JAMES, of James Clarke & Company, booksellers and publishers,
29 West Thirty-second Street, New York City.
CLARKE, JOSEPH I. C., with Standard Oil Company, 26 Broadway, New York
City; is Vice-President of the Society for New York.
CLARY, CHARLES H., Hallowell, Me.; a descendant of John Clary, “of
Newcastle, Province of New Hampshire,” who married Jane Mahoney of
Georgetown, Me., 1750. Four children were born to them before 1760;
was one of the founders of the Clary Reunion Family which meets
annually.
COCKRAN, HON. W. BOURKE, 31 Nassau Street, New York City; ex-member of
Congress. (Life member of the Society.)
COFFEY, REV. MICHAEL J., East Cambridge, Mass.
COGHLAN, REV. GERALD P., 2141 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
COHALAN, DANIEL F., attorney at law, 2 Rector Street, New York City.
COLEMAN, CAPT. JOHN, capitalist, 1100 Fourth Avenue, Louisville, Ky.
COLLIER, PETER FENELON, publisher, 416 West Thirteenth Street, New
York City.
COLLINS, JAMES M., 6 Sexton Avenue, Concord, N. H.
COLLINS, HON. JOHN S., Gilsum, N. H.; manufacturer of woolens; an
ex-State senator of New Hampshire.
COLLINS, BRIG.-GEN. D. F., 637 Pearl Street, Elizabeth, N. J.
COLTON, RT. REV. CHARLES HENRY, D. D., Roman Catholic Bishop of
Buffalo, 1025 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y.
COLTON, FRANK S., 227 Riverside Drive, New York City.
CONATY, BERNARD, 30 Cypress Street, Providence, R. I.
CONATY, REV. B. S., 340 Cambridge Street, Worcester, Mass.
CONATY, RT. REV. THOMAS J., D. D., Los Angeles, Cal., Bishop of the
Roman Catholic diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles.
CONDON, E. O’MEAGHER, Nashville, Tenn.
CONEY, PATRICK H., attorney at law, 316 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kan. He
entered the Union army in 1863, at the age of 15 years, enlisting in
the One Hundred and Eleventh New York Infantry. He was detailed as
dispatch bearer on General McDougall’s staff, promoted as an orderly
dispatch bearer on Gen. Nelson A. Miles’ staff, served in this
capacity to Appomatox and Lee’s surrender, and was transferred June 5,
1865, to Company H, Fourth New York Heavy Artillery. He served until
October 5, 1865, when he was honorably discharged at Hart’s Island, N.
Y. He was wounded at the battle of Peach Orchard in front of
Petersburg, Va., on June 16, 1864, and rejoined his command from the
hospital after sixty days’ convalescence. In addition to his law
practice, he is President and manager of the National Investment and
Development Company, which is engaged in the promotion and development
of 11,000 acres of mineral, gas and oil lands in Benton County, Mo.;
is Vice-President of the Society for Kansas.
CONLON, WILLIAM L., Portsmouth, N. H.
CONNELL, JOHN H., 1949 Seventh Avenue, New York City.
CONNELLY, L. J., Lieutenant U. S. Navy, Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y.
CONNERY, WILLIAM P., Wheeler and Pleasant Streets, Lynn, Mass.;
recently candidate for mayor of Lynn.
CONNICK, ANDREW J., 244 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
CONNOLLY, CAPT. JAMES, real estate, Coronado, Cal. He was born in
County Cavan, Ireland, 1842; came to this country when he was but ten
years of age, and spent much of his youth at East Dennis, Cape Cod,
Mass. His early love for the sea was gratified later in life when he
became captain of some of the finest deep-water ships sailing from
Baltimore, Boston and elsewhere. His first command was the bark _May
Queen_, a regular Baltimore and Rio packet, 1872. He then had command
of the ship _Pilgrim_ of Boston, and made several voyages to the East
Indies. In 1884 he was given command of the _Charger_, a larger and
finer ship than the _Pilgrim_, and sailed to ports in Japan. He next
had command of the _South American_, “the commodore’s ship,” of the
Hastings fleet (Boston), and took her to Australia and other parts. He
made several record voyages during his career, and some of these
records still stand, having never been equalled. On one occasion he
was wrecked off the coast of Africa; he and his wife upon being
rescued were hospitably entertained by the Boers of the adjacent
country. Returning to East Dennis, Mass., his wife’s health became
poor and so he removed with her to Coronado, Cal., hoping that the
change of climate would benefit her, but she died in 1901. She had
accompanied her husband on several of his voyages, and had with him
visited many parts of the world. Captain Connolly has written much and
entertainingly. He has at present in manuscript form a novel of ocean
life entitled “The Magic of the Sea”; is Vice-President of the Society
for California.
CONNOLLY, REV. ARTHUR T., Center and Creighton Streets, Roxbury, Mass.
CONNOR, MICHAEL, 509 Beech Street, Manchester, N. H.
CONWAY, JAMES L., 113 Worth Street, New York City.
CONWAY, JAMES P., 296 East Third Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; attorney at
law and assistant chief examiner, Municipal Civil Service, New York
City.
CONWAY, PATRICK J., 159 East Sixtieth Street, New York City. President
of Irish American Athletic Association and greatly interested in
international athletics.
COOKE, REV. MICHAEL J., Fall River, Mass. (Life member of the
Society.)
COONEY, BRIG.-GEN. MICHAEL, U. S. A., retired, 500 T Street, N. W.,
Washington, D. C.; born in Ireland; private, corporal and sergeant,
Company A, First United States Cavalry, December 4, 1856, to December
4, 1861; quartermaster-sergeant, Sixth Cavalry, December, 1864; first
lieutenant, Ninth Cavalry, July 28, 1866; captain, January 1, 1868;
major, Fourth Cavalry, December 10, 1888; lieutenant-colonel, Seventh
Cavalry, June 2, 1897; colonel, Fourth Cavalry, June 9, 1899;
brigadier-general, retired, April 23, 1904.
COONEY, TERRENCE, JR., Pittsfield, Mass.
CORBETT, MICHEL J., Wilmington, N. C., born in Lismore, County of
Waterford, Ireland, August 4, 1856, the son of John Corbett, a small
farmer and contractor; was educated in the national schools and
remained in Ireland until his eighteenth year, arriving in Wilmington,
N. C., March 28, 1878, where he has since resided. He entered the
commission business, and in due course became a partner in the firm of
W. I. Gore & Company; later, on the withdrawal of Mr. Gore, the
commission business, which had largely increased, was incorporated
under the name and style of The Corbett Company, under which the
business is now conducted. Mr. Corbett is one of the most potent
factors in the industrial life of Wilmington, and, in addition to the
successful conduct of his regular business, has been largely
instrumental in the promotion, organization and management of many
important and flourishing enterprises in Wilmington; is Vice-President
and one of the original directors of the People’s Savings Bank; one of
the original directors of the Murchison National Bank; President of
the Wilmington, Southport & Little River Company; member of the firm
of Stone & Company, and one of the Board of Managers of the James
Walker Memorial Hospital; is a member of the Cape Fear Club, Carolina
Yacht Club and Cape Fear Golf Club. In 1884 Mr. Corbett was married to
Miss Mary Josephine Deans, and to her inspiration and counsel
attributes in a large measure the credit for his success in life. The
union has been signally blessed, ten children having been born to
them, nine of whom are still living. Is Vice-President of the Society
for North Carolina.
COSGROVE, HON. JAMES, was born at Charleston, S. C., Aug. 28, 1861.
His father, a native of Bally Connell, County Cavan, Ireland, settled
in Charleston in February, 1839; became a prosperous merchant; was one
of the aldermen of the city for two terms and one of the
Representatives from Charleston County in the General Assembly of
South Carolina in 1874–’75. His mother was Catherine Daily. The family
have been Charlestonians for over seventy years and during this period
father and son have been closely identified with the commercial and
political life of the community. Mr. Cosgrove attended first a private
school, then the parochial school attached to St. Finbar’s Cathedral
and later the high school of Charleston, where he was graduated at the
age of sixteen years. He then went into his father’s office and later
established himself in the real estate and general insurance business,
which he still successfully conducts. About twenty years ago he became
interested in the experiments conducted by Sir Patrick Manson, an
Irishman, Leveran, a Frenchman, and the Italians Celli, Golgi and
Bignam, concerning the inoculation of the human body with the virus of
malaria fever by the bite of a species of the mosquito known as the
“Anopheles.” He followed the investigations closely and as a result of
what was proven commenced agitation for the drainage of wet and low
lands of the United States, to remove breeding places of this species
of insect. At that time there was a “death line” around the coastal
section of the Southern States and many other sections of the United
States, within which line it was thought to be dangerous to live in
the summer for fear of malarial fever. At first his efforts met with
poor success, and in 1898 he determined to become a candidate for the
State Legislature to have enacted legislation necessary for the proper
and systematic drainage of the wet lands of South Carolina. He was
re-elected in 1900, but such was the opposition to the new movement
that not until 1902 did he succeed in having created for Charleston
County “The Sanitary and Drainage Commission.” Indeed, it required a
man of the most untiring industry and indomitable will to have
successfully carried his purpose during these four years of
antagonism. The work of sanitary drainage in Charleston County was
commenced under the direction of this commission, but it was soon
found that it absolutely required some one to take the direction of
the work who would be willing to sacrifice his self-interest for the
good of the public. The commissioners, comprising some of the best
citizens of the city, with one accord turned to Mr. Cosgrove and
requested him to take entire direction. He did so, and has since
remained in charge. The result is that thousands of acres of fertile
lands have been made habitable, affording dwelling places, and
manufacturing enterprises have been inaugurated, affording employment
to thousands on land, which a few years ago was worthless. In 1902 Mr.
Cosgrove was defeated for re-election by a small majority, owing to
opposition to the idea of drainage. He determined to retire from
politics, but in 1906, answering the call of his people as voiced in
leading editorials in the press of Charleston, he consented to again
become a candidate and was elected by a flattering vote and re-elected
by a still larger vote in 1908. He is chairman of the Charleston
Delegation in the House of Representatives and chairman of the
Committee on Banking and Insurance. Mr. Cosgrove’s efforts in behalf
of the drainage of the low lands of the United States have been
recognized by his appointment as member of the Executive Committee of
the National Drainage Congress and Honorary Vice-President of the
Seventeenth National Irrigation Congress. As a corollary of his
drainage work, Mr. Cosgrove has been giving much attention to the
subject of good roads, and has now on the calendar of the Legislature
a measure providing for state aid to the building of good roads. In
1885 Mr. Cosgrove was married to Miss Mathilde Griffith Forsythe,
daughter of a prominent and wealthy dry goods merchant of Charleston.
COUGHLIN, JOHN, 177 Water Street, Augusta, Me.
COX, HUGH M., M. D., 285 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York City.
COX, MICHAEL FRANCIS, M. D., F. R. C. P. I., M. R. I. A., 26 Merrion
Square, Dublin, Ireland. Member of Senate of Royal and of National
University of Ireland; Vice-President of National Literary Society;
member Society for Preservation of the Irish Language, Dante Society
and Council Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland; Vice-President of
the American Irish Historical Society for Ireland.
COX, MICHAEL H., 28 Windemere Road, Dorchester, Mass.
COX, WILLIAM T., 12 South Second Street, Elizabeth, N. J., owner of
Cox’s Towing Line; for some years chairman of the fire commissioners
of Elizabeth; ex-chief of the Elizabeth Volunteer Fire Department.
COYLE, REV. JAMES, Taunton, Mass.
COYLE, REV. JOHN D., 79 Davenport Avenue, New Haven, Conn.
CREAGH, REV. JOHN T., J. U. L., S. T. L., J. C. D., Catholic
University, Washington, D. C.; associate professor of canon law.
CREAMER, WALTER H., 4 Prescott Place, Lynn, Mass. His
great-grandfather, Edward Creamer, was born in Kinsale, Ireland, 1756,
was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, and in 1784 settled in
Salem, Mass. He was a physician there. This Edward had a son, George,
who married Hannah Gardner whose mother was Mary Sullivan, a sister of
Gen. John Sullivan of the Revolution and of Gov. James Sullivan of
Massachusetts. Walter H. Creamer, here mentioned, is a grandson of the
said George and Hannah (Gardner) Creamer.
CRIMMINS, CYRIL, of the Crimmins Realty Company, 624 Madison Avenue,
New York City. (Life member of the Society.)