Lixnan, County Kerry, Ireland, on the 20th of July, 1850; is the son
of Cornelius O’Leary and Jane Stack, being the seventh and last child
of the family; has ever felt a pride in being descended from the
O’Learys and McSheehys on the one side and Stacks and O’Connors on the
other—names held in honor and respect throughout the classic Kingdom
of Ireland. From early youth he attended the national schools of the
parish, and later was afforded the blessing and superior advantage of
an education at the hands of the Christian Brothers of Tralee. At
fifteen years of age he was induced by his honorable cousin, Thomas R.
Wilson, Attorney at Killarney, to enter his office and prepare for the
study of law. He soon grew discontented with the tedious forms and
complexities of the law, returned to Tralee and entered the Classical
School conducted by Charles McCarthy, a graduate of Trinity College,
Dublin. At seventeen, it next became his fortune to come to America
and he settled in the West, “Where the mighty Missouri rolls down to
the sea.” With true Irish courage he accommodated himself to
circumstances, looked neither to the right or to the left until he
reached the goal of his pious ambition, receiving Holy Orders at the
hands of Archbishop Ryan, then of St. Louis, in May, 1873. Rector of
Notre Dame Church, Wellston, Mo.
O’LEARY, JEREMIAH A., attorney at law, 38 Park Row, New York City.
O’LEARY, JEREMIAH, 275 Fifty-eighth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
O’LEARY, COL. M. J., director Exchange Bank, 122 Bay Street, East,
Savannah, Ga.
O’LEARY, P. J., 161 West Thirteenth Street, New York City.
O’LOUGHLIN, PATRICK, attorney at law, 18 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass.
O’MEARA, MAURICE, President of the Maurice O’Meara Company, paper
manufacturers, 448 Pearl Street, New York City.
O’NEIL, FRANK S., attorney at law, O’Neil Building, Binghamton, N. Y.
O’NEIL, HON. GEORGE F., Binghamton, N. Y. (Life member of the
Society.) Was born in Ireland, and came to America at a very early age
with his parents. After learning the machinery trade in Binghamton, he
went West and engaged in mining in California. Retiring to Binghamton,
he went into the grocery business and real estate business and bought
a controlling interest in a Democratic paper, which naturally brought
him into politics. Never having had any taste for public office, he
was, however, named as a presidential elector in 1892 for Grover
Cleveland. He was appointed a member of the state committee, and
served as a commissioner for the World’s Fair at Chicago by
appointment of Governor Flower of New York. Having confidence in the
growth of Binghamton, he became interested in its progress and general
development. He became a stockholder in the electric light plant, a
director in the First National Bank, and a trustee of the Susquehanna
Valley Savings Bank. He is a prominent member of the Chamber of
Commerce and attends to his large real estate investments, being at
the present time the largest tax-payer in the city of Binghamton and
county of Broome.
O’NEIL, HON. JOSEPH H., President of the Federal Trust Company,
Boston, Mass.; formerly a member of Congress; was later U. S.
Treasurer at Boston.
O’NEIL, JOSEPH S., attorney at law, 38 Front Street, Binghamton, N. Y.
O’NEIL, REV. JOHN P., Peterborough, N. H.
O’NEILL, REV. DANIEL H., 935 Main Street, Worcester, Mass.
O’NEILL, REV. D. P., Westchester, N. Y.
O’NEILL, EUGENE M., Pittsburg, Pa. (Life member of the Society.)
O’NEILL, JAMES L., 220 Franklin Street, Elizabeth, N. J.; connected
with the Elizabeth postoffice for many years past; he has been
President of the Young Men’s Father Matthew T. A. Society, and
Treasurer of St. Patrick’s Alliance, Elizabeth. He was one of the
prime movers in the projection and completion of a monument to the
late Mayor Mack of Elizabeth. Member of the Executive Council of the
Society.
O’ROURKE, HON. JEREMIAH, of J. O’Rourke & Sons, architects, 756 Broad
Street, Newark, N. J.; U. S. supervising architect under President
Cleveland. (Life member of the Society.)
O’SHAUGHNESSY, MAJOR EDWARD J., 912 St. Nicholas Avenue, New York
City.
O’SHEA, D. G., Red Lodge, Montana, born near Bantry, Ireland, February
6, 1862, of native parents. Attended the rudimentary schools of the
locality until 13 years of age; then employed for six years in a small
mercantile establishment in the town of Bantry. Hon. T. M. Healy was
at that time a clerk in this store, and one of Mr. O’Shea’s
instructors at the Bantry school was Hon. Timothy Harrington, later a
prominent member of the Irish Parliamentary party, and also Lord Mayor
of Dublin. Bantry being a town where the revolutionary spirit was much
in evidence, there was a secret society there of which Mr. O’Shea
became a member while still a boy; he also participated actively in
the doings of the Land League. He came to America in March, 1881, and
after several months of searching about for a suitable opening,
settled in Montana, where he has since resided. The state was then
very sparsely settled, and there were no railroads. Mr. O’Shea spent
some time in prospecting and working in mines, etc., and in 1887 went
to Red Lodge with the pioneers of that locality. He entered the employ
of the Rocky Fork Coal Company, remaining with that concern for 15
years until it was absorbed by the Northern Pacific Railway. He then
engaged in banking and real estate, and has since been connected with
affairs of that nature. He was married in 1901 to Miss Eleanor
Cavenagh, a native of Dublin, and at that time living in Chicago.
There are three children, two boys and a girl.
O’SHEA, JAMES, 31 West Eighty-eighth Street, New York City.
O’SULLIVAN, HUMPHREY, Treasurer of the O’Sullivan Rubber Company,
Lowell, Mass.
O’SULLIVAN, JAMES, President of the O’Sullivan Rubber Company, Lowell,
Mass.
O’SULLIVAN, JOHN, with the H. B. Claflin Company, Church Street, New
York City.
O’SULLIVAN, SYLVESTER J., 66 Liberty Street, New York City, manager of
the New York office of the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company
of Baltimore, Md.
OLCOTT, CHAUNCEY, actor, 1193 Broadway, New York City. (Life member of
the Society.)
OVER, SPENCER H., manager Narragansett Brewing Company, 18 Medway
Street, Providence, R. I.
PATTERSON, REV. GEORGE J., V. G., the Cathedral rectory, Boston, Mass.
PERRY, CHARLES J., Perry’s Pharmacy, World Building, Park Row, New
York City.
PHELAN, JOHN J., attorney at law, 7 Wall Street, New York City;
graduate of Manhattan College and of the Columbia Law School; member
of the Xavier Alumni Sodality, the N. Y. Catholic Club, and the
Manhattan Alumni Society.
PHELAN, REV. J., Marcus, Ia.
PHILBIN, HON. EUGENE A., attorney at law, 52–54 William Street, New
York City; a regent of the University of the State of New York;
ex-District Attorney of New York.
PIGGOTT, MICHAEL, 1634 Vermont Street, Quincy, Ill.; a veteran of the
Civil War. He was made second lieutenant of Company F, Western
Sharpshooters., in 1861, while at Camp Benton, St. Louis, Mo.; was
promoted first lieutenant, and while at Fort Donaldson, in the spring
of 1862, was made captain; lost a leg at Resaca, Ga., in May, 1864;
was subsequently connected with the U. S. revenue service; messenger
in the national House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.; was made
postmaster of Quincy, Ill., during President Grant’s first term, and
held the position for over sixteen years; was appointed special Indian
agent by President Harrison, and in that, as in every position held,
displayed eminent ability.
PIGOTT, WILLIAM, iron and steel, Alaska Building, Seattle, Wash. (Life
member of the Society.)
PLUNKETT, THOMAS, 326 Sixth Street, East Liverpool, O.
POWER, REV. JAMES W., 47 East One Hundred Twenty-ninth Street, New
York City.
POWERS, JOHN F., 518 Hudson Avenue, Weehawken, N. J.
POWERS, PATRICK H., President of the Emerson Piano Company, Danube
Street, Roxbury, Mass.
PRENDERGAST, WILLIAM A., 20 Nassau Street, New York City, Register of
Kings County.
QUIN, R. A., M. D., President of the Home Savings Bank of Vicksburg,
P. O. Box 234, Vicksburg, Miss. Is Vice-President of the Society for
Mississippi.
QUINLAN, FRANCIS J., A. M., M. D., LL. D., eighth President-General of
the American Irish Historical Society, was born in the City of New
York, December 24th, 1853. Both his parents were Irish born, coming to
these shores when the great exodus took place, about 1845. His early
education was obtained at the Parochial School of St. Francis Xavier,
under the guidance of the Christian Brothers. Later he attended
Manhattan Academy, then at Thirty-second Street, and afterwards the
College of St. Francis Xavier. While preparing for the study of
medicine he taught school. In 1878 he was graduated from the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia College, and soon after accepted
an appointment at St. Vincent’s Hospital, which he shortly resigned to
enter the United States Indian Service, serving on the frontier four
years. In 1883 Doctor Quinlan returned to New York and devoted himself
especially to diseases of the ear, nose and throat. Such was the skill
he displayed that in a comparatively few years he was among the most
prominent of his profession and today is a recognized authority in his
specialty. Doctor Quinlan’s prominence in the medical field is
attested by the number of important posts he holds. He is Professor of
diseases of the nose and throat in the medical department of Fordham
University and the New York Polyclinic; attending Laryngologist and
Otologist to the New York City and the St. Vincent Hospitals;
Consulting Throat and Nose Surgeon of the New York Foundling Hospital,
St. Joseph’s Hospital, Yonkers, and Jamaica Hospital, N. Y., and
Consulting Ear, Throat and Nose Surgeon of St. Agnes Hospital, White
Plains, N. Y. He is President of the New York Celtic Medical Society,
Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, a member of the American
Medical and the State Medical Associations, the New York Otological
and the Medico Surgical Societies, the Society of Medical
Jurisprudence and a former President of the New York County Medical
Association. In addition to these organizations of his profession, he
is President of the Alumni Sodality of the College of St. Francis
Xavier; is a member of the society of the Friendly Sons of St.
Patrick, the Catholic Club of New York, of which he is a former
President, the Manhattan, New York Athletic and Lambs’ Clubs and is
connected with various religious, racial and charitable organizations
of New York City. Doctor Quinlan is a liberal contributor to the
periodicals of his department of medicine and has devised many
ingenious surgical instruments. Since his election to the office of
President-General, the American Irish Historical Society has steadily
gained favor with our people, and it is safe to say that the increase
of three hundred members since he has been at the head of the Society
is due in a great measure to his untiring efforts and a genial
disposition which earns for him wherever he goes a host of friends. As
an orator Doctor Quinlan is above mediocrity. His delivery is
enthusiastic and has the true ring of sincerity, carrying along
conviction. Especially was this noticeable in his addresses delivered
at Washington and Providence. Doctor Quinlan is an ardent lover of the
beautiful in nature, and is an art enthusiast, and although one of the
busiest men in the great metropolis, he manages occasionally to find
leisure to examine rare pieces of art that have found their way to the
art collector’s, and to add to his already large collection of
statuary and paintings. So judicious is the taste he displays that he
is regarded as a connoisseur, and his artistic opinion has, on various
occasions, been solicited. In 1906 Doctor Quinlan was the recipient of
the Lætare Medal.
QUINN, JOHN, attorney at law, 31 Nassau Street, New York City.
RAMSEY, CLARENCE J., 132 West Twelfth Street, New York City; public
appraiser; ex-President Catholic Club of New York.
REARDON, EDMUND, manufacturer, Cambridge, Mass.
REARDON, TIMOTHY, 726 Dayton Avenue, St. Paul, Minn.
REGAN, JOHN H., attorney at law, 261 Broadway, Manhattan, New York
City.
REGAN, W. P., architect, 296 Essex Street, Lawrence, Mass.
REILLY, F. JAMES, electrician, 122–130 Centre Street, New York City.
REILLY, JOHN P., M. D., President of Board of Education and Trustee of
Public Library, 215 Elizabeth Avenue, Elizabeth, N. J.
RICHARDSON, STEPHEN J., 1785 Madison Avenue, New York City.
RODDY, JOHN T., 254 Meeting Street, Charleston, S. C., Secretary of
Molony & Carter Company.
ROGAN, JOHN H., attorney at law, 145 Nassau Street, New York City.
ROHAN, JOHN D., manager of N. H. Halsey & Company, 49 Wall Street, New
York City.
ROONEY, JOHN JEROME, of Rooney & Spence, customs and insurance
brokers, forwarding agents, 66, 68 and 70 Beaver Street, New York
City.
RORKE, JAMES, 40 Barclay Street, New York City.
ROWAN, JOSEPH, attorney at law, 32 Liberty Street, New York City.
RYAN, CHARLES V., Springfield, Mass.
RYAN, CHRISTOPHER S., Lexington, Mass.
RYAN, DANIEL C., Adjuster, 461 Fargo Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y.
RYAN, JAMES T., Phenix Insurance Company, P. O. Box 1010, New York
City.
RYAN, JOHN J., 280 Broadway, Room 207, New York City.
RYAN, JOSEPH E. G., Chicago Inter Ocean, Chicago, Ill.
RYAN, JOSEPH T., attorney at law, 149 Broadway, New York City.
RYAN, GEN. MICHAEL, Cincinnati Abattoir Company, Spring Grove Avenue,
Cincinnati, O.
RYAN, MICHAEL J., Waterbury, Conn.
RYAN, MICHAEL P., 377 Broadway, New York City.
RYAN, HON. MORGAN M. L., attorney at law; Justice of Court of Special
Sessions, Brooklyn, N. Y.; born Batavia, New York, July 10, 1867, son
of Michael and Catharine (O’Brien) Ryan; graduated from Batavia Union
School 1889, Cornell University 1896 (won post-graduate scholarship
1896); selected as a prize debater of senior class, Cornell Law School
1896; unmarried; visited principal countries in Europe in 1902 and
1905; counsel for Richmond Light and Railroad Company, S. I. Midland
Railroad Company, Southfield Beach Railroad Company (director), New
York & Richmond Gas Company, New Jersey & Staten Island Ferry Company,
Staten Island Transit Railroad Company, and other corporations; member
firm of Ryan & Innes; director and counsel of New Brighton
Co-operative Savings and Loan Association; director Richmond County
Power Company; Roman Catholic; member Delta Chi fraternity. Address,
30 Westervelt Avenue, New Brighton, Richmond County, N. Y.
RYAN, NICHOLAS W., 1444 Boston Road, borough of the Bronx, New York
City.
RYAN, HON. PATRICK J., mayor of Elizabeth, N. J.; is of the firm P. J.
& W. H. Ryan, real estate and fire insurance, 205 Broad Street,
Elizabeth.
RYAN, MOST REV. PATRICK J., D. D., archbishop of Philadelphia, Pa.;
the Cathedral, Philadelphia.
RYAN, PATRICK J., clerk, 172 East Ninety-fourth Street, New York City.
RYAN, THOMAS F., 60 Fifth Avenue, New York City. (Life member of the
Society.) Eminent financier and capitalist and Vice-President of the
Morton Trust Company; is largely interested in public service
corporations and large industrial enterprises.
RYAN, TIMOTHY M., M. D., Torrington, Conn.
RYAN, HON. WILLIAM, of Wm. Ryan & Company, grocers, 375 Irving Avenue,
Port Chester, N. Y.
SASSEEN, ROBERT A., 50 Pine Street, New York City; insurance
investments. (Life member of the Society.)
SCOTT, CORNELIUS J., manufacturer of awnings, decorations, etc., 439
West Fifty-seventh Street, New York City.
SCOTT, JOSEPH, attorney at law, 706 Equitable Savings Bank Building,
Los Angeles, Cal.
SCULLY, HON. P. JOSEPH, city clerk of New York City; residence, 4
Columbia Street.
SHAHAN, VERY REV. THOMAS J., S. T. D., J. U. L., professor of church
history, Catholic University, Washington, D. C.; S. T. D., Propaganda,
Rome, 1882; J. U. L., Roman Seminary, 1889.
SHANAHAN, VERY REV. EDMUND T., PH. D., S. T. D., J. C. L., professor
of dogmatic theology, Catholic University, Washington, D. C.; A. B.,
Boston College, 1888; S. T. D., Propaganda, Rome, 1893; J. C. L.,
Roman Seminary, Rome, 1895; Ph. D., Roman Academy, 1895. Instructor in
philosophy and dogmatic theology, American College, Rome, 1894–’95;
lecturer in philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1898–’99;
associate professor of philosophy, the Catholic University of America,
1895–1901.
SHANLEY, JOHN F., 17 Washington Street, Newark, N. J.
SHANLEY, THOMAS J., 344 West Eighty-seventh Street, New York City.
SHEA, DANIEL W., PH. D., professor of physics, Catholic University,
Washington, D. C.; A. B., Harvard University, 1886; A. M., Harvard
University, 1888; Ph. D., Berlin, 1892. Assistant in physics, Harvard
University, 1889 and 1892; assistant professor of physics in the
University of Illinois, 1892–’93; professor of physics in the
University of Illinois, 1893–’95.
SHEEDY, BRYAN DEF., M. D., 162 West Seventy-third Street, New York
City.
SHEEHAN, GEORGE H., managing editor _The Hibernian_; national
organizer of Ancient Order of Hibernians, 7 Water Street, Boston,
Mass.
SHEEHAN, JOHN LOUIS, LL. D., Barristers’ Hall, Boston, Mass., educated
at Harvard University and at Boston University; member of the Suffolk
County Bar, Bar of the Circuit Court of the United States, and Bar of
the Supreme Court of the United States. Is a member of the Faculty of
the Boston University School of Law.
SHEEHY, M. J., merchant, foot of Thirty-ninth Street, New York City.
SHEEHAN, HON. WILLIAM FRANCIS, 16 East Fifty-sixth Street, New York
City, was born in the City of Buffalo, N. Y., of Irish parents, on
November 6, 1859. His father, William Sheehan, and his mother, Honora
Crowley, were born in Cork, Ireland. At an early age both came to this
country. He was educated in the public schools and graduated from St.
Joseph’s College, Buffalo. He was admitted to the Bar in 1881, and
practised law in Buffalo for thirteen years. At the same time he was
active in politics, and became the leader of the Democratic party in
Erie County, and in the western part of the State. He was elected a
member of the New York Assembly from Erie County in the year 1884 and
was successively elected in each of the six ensuing years, thus having
had seven years of service in the Assembly, during six years of which
he was Democratic leader. In 1891 he was the Speaker of the Assembly.
In the fall of 1891 he was elected Lieutenant-Governor on the
Democratic State ticket, with Roswell P. Flower as Governor, and was
therefore presiding officer of the Senate for the years 1892, 1893 and
1894. He was the New York representative on the Democratic National
Committee from 1891 to 1896. At the end of his term as
Lieutenant-Governor, Mr. Sheehan removed to New York City and there
engaged in the practice of his profession as senior member of the firm
of Sheehan & Collin. In the fall of 1905 the firm of Sheehan & Collin
was dissolved and Mr. Sheehan joined with former Judge Alton B.
Parker, former Judge Edward W. Hatch and with Charles H. Werner,
Esquire, in organizing the law firm of Parker, Hatch & Sheehan. Mr.
Sheehan is a member of the following clubs: Metropolitan, Manhattan,
Downtown, City, Midday, Railroad and Automobile Club of America. He
was married on November 27, 1889, to Miss Blanche Nellany of Buffalo,
N. Y.
SHEPPARD, REV. J. HAVERGAL, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church,
Schenectady, N. Y.
SHERAN, HUGH F., 46 Woodbine Street, Roxbury, Mass.
SHERMAN, P. TECUMSEH, of the law firm of Taft & Sherman, 15 William
Street, New York City; member of the Union League Club and of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion; son of the late Gen. William T.
Sherman.
SHIPMAN, ANDREW J., attorney at law, 37 Wall Street, New York City.
SHUMAN, A., merchant, 440 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.
SILO, JAMES P., 128 West Seventy-third Street, New York City.
SIMONS, THOMAS A., 241 Marshall Street, Elizabeth, N. J., chief clerk
of the Elizabethport Banking Company.
SLATTERY, JOHN J., President Todd-Donigan Iron Company, Louisville,
Ky. Vice-President of the Society for Kentucky.
SLOANE, CHARLES W., attorney at law, 54 William Street, New York City.
SMITH, HON. ANDREW C., M. D., Medical Building, Portland, Oregon;
President of the State Board of Health; President of the Hibernia
Savings Bank; member of the State Senate from 1900 to 1904; has served
on the staff of St. Vincent’s hospital for many years; has been
President of the State and City Medical societies; represented Oregon
for two years in the House of Delegates of the American Medical
Association.
SMITH, JAMES, 26 Broadway, New York City.
SMITH, REV. JAMES J., 88 Central Street, Norwich, Conn.
SMITH, JOSEPH, _Boston Traveler_, Boston, Mass.
SMITH, THOMAS F., clerk of the city court, 32 Chambers Street, New
York City.
SMYTH, SAMUEL, 41 Liberty Street, New York City; is a contractor and
builder. Many large structures in that city have been erected by him,
and he is one of the foremost in the New York building circle.
SMYTH, REV. THOMAS, Springfield, Mass.
SMYTH, REV. THOMAS M., East Liverpool, O.
SOMERS, P. E., manufacturer of tacks and nails, 17 Hermon Street,
Worcester, Mass. (Life member of the Society.)
SPELLACY, THOMAS J., attorney at law, 756 Main Street, Hartford, Conn.
SPELLISSY, DENNIS A., attorney at law, 302 Broadway, New York City.
Member of Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick.
SPILLANE, J. B., managing editor _Music Trade Review_, Metropolitan
Life Building, 1 Madison Avenue, New York City.
STOREN, WILLIAM J., 232 Calhoun Street, Charleston, S. C.
SULLIVAN, JAMES E., M. D., 254 Wayland Avenue, Providence, R. I.; was
graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, 1879; also
studied medicine in Dublin, London and Paris; was city physician of
Fall River, Mass., for seven years; married, in 1885, Alice, daughter
of the late Joseph Banigan of Providence; retired from practice in
1891; member of the Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Providence Medical
societies; Vice-President of the University Club, Providence; a
director of the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company; President and
Treasurer of the Sullivan Investment Company, Providence.