Denver, Col., was born in Auniscaule, County Kerry, Ireland, March 1,
1875, is the son of John Sullivan and Mary Lynch, and a descendant of
the ancient O’Sullivan clan of the “Kingdom of Kerry.” His father died
in Ireland in 1883, and the following spring his mother brought seven
of her orphaned children to America, settling in Holyoke, Mass., which
is still regarded as the family home. At the age of fourteen, Mr.
Sullivan was compelled to leave school to become a breadwinner on his
own account. Three years later he was enabled to return to school, and
entered the Holyoke High School in 1892, and at the same time began
the study of law in the office of Hon. Christopher T. Callahan of
Holyoke. For the next four years he pursued both his high school and
law courses, graduating from the High school in June, 1896, and was
admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in October of the same year. So far
as now known, this is the first time in the history of Massachusetts
high schools when one of the students was admitted to the practice of
any of the learned professions the same year of graduation. He
immediately formed a partnership with Mr. Callahan, which continued
until January, 1900. A few months prior to this time, Mr. Sullivan had
occasion to visit the Far West, as a result of which he determined to
dissolve his Eastern partnership and move permanently to Colorado with
its vast wealth of undeveloped resources. With no assets except a
willingness to work, he took up the practice of his profession in
Denver in the spring of 1900. He has succeeded in building up an
extensive practice, principally in matters relating to irrigation. Mr.
Sullivan is one of the few young men raised in America who speaks the
Irish tongue fluently. He is a member of several clubs, an
enthusiastic horseman and all-around sportsman; is passionately loyal
to his friends and possesses to a very large degree “that
characteristic Irish pertinacity that never saw night too dark, hour
too late or road too rough to interfere with rendering a favor to a
friend—or a blow to an enemy.”
SULLIVAN, JOHN J., attorney at law, 203 Broadway, New York City.
SULLIVAN, HON. M. B., M. D., Dover, N. H., formerly state senator.
SULLIVAN, HON. MICHAEL F., M. D., Oak Street, Lawrence, Mass.;
President Lawrence Board of Trade.
SULLIVAN, MICHAEL H., attorney at law, 34 School Street, Boston, Mass.
SULLIVAN, MICHAEL W., attorney at law, Century Building, Washington,
D. C.
SULLIVAN, MICHAEL X., PH. D., Bureau of Soil, Washington, D. C.
SULLIVAN, ROGER G., cigar manufacturer, 803 Elm Street, Manchester, N.
H.
SULLIVAN, T. P., M. D., 318 South Main Street, Fall River, Mass.
SULLIVAN, TIMOTHY P., Concord, N. H.; furnished granite from his New
Hampshire quarries for the new national Library Building, Washington,
D. C.
SULLIVAN, WILLIAM B., attorney at law, Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.
SUPPLE, REV. JAMES N., rector of St. Francis de Sales Church,
Charlestown, Mass.
SWEENEY, JOHN F., the Sweeney Company, 256 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
(Life member of the Society.)
SWEENEY, REV. TIMOTHY P., Fall River, Mass.
SWEENY, WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, 120 Franklin Street, Astoria, L. I., N. Y.
SWORDS, JOSEPH F., Sulphur, Oklahoma. He is a descendant of Cornet
George Swords, one of the A. D. 1649 officers in the service of kings
Charles I and Charles II in Ireland. Joseph F. Swords is a member of
the Sons of the American Revolution. He is of the fourth American
generation from Francis Dawson Swords, graduate of Trinity College,
Dublin, 1750, who was exiled from Ireland, 1760, and who served in the
Patriot Army throughout the War of the Revolution. Vice-President of
the Society for Oklahoma.
SYNNOTT, MARTIN J., M. D., 30 Tulleston Avenue, Montclair, N. J.
TACK, THEODORE E., 52 Broadway, New York City.
TAGGART, HON. THOMAS, Indianapolis, Ind.; proprietor of the Grand
Hotel; was elected auditor of Marion County, 1886; re-elected, 1890;
has been mayor of Indianapolis; chairman of the Democratic state
committee, 1892 and 1894; district chairman of the seventh
Congressional District; member from Indiana of the Democratic national
committee. Is a native of Ireland.
TALLEY, ALFRED G., 27 William Street, New York City.
TEELING, RT. REV. ARTHUR J., D. D., rector of St Mary’s Church, Lynn,
Mass.
THOMPSON, FRANK, 126 Liberty Street, New York City.
THOMPSON, JAMES, of James Thompson & Bro., 127 West Main Street,
Louisville, Ky.
TIERNEY, DENNIS H., real estate and insurance, Tierney’s Block, 167
Bank Street, Waterbury, Conn. Vice-President for Connecticut.
TIERNEY, EDWARD M., Hotel Marlborough, Broadway, New York City.
TIERNEY, HENRY S., 59 Prescott Street, Torrington, Conn.
TIERNEY, MYLES, 317 Riverside Drive, New York City. President Hudson
Trust Company, Hoboken, N. J. (Life member of the Society.)
TINGENT, EDWARD, 68 Broad Street, Elizabeth, N. J.
TOALE, PATRICK P., Toale P. O., Aiken County, S. C.
TOOLEY, FRANK L., D. D. S., 157 East Seventy-ninth Street, New York
City.
TOWLE, FELIX S., of F. S. Towle Company, Incorporated, 332 Broadway,
New York City.
TRAVERS, VINCENT P., of the Travers Brothers Company, 41 Worth Street,
New York City.
TULLY, HON. WILLIAM J., attorney at law, Corning, N. Y.; state
senator.
VREDENBURGH, WATSON, JR., civil engineer, 135 Broadway, New York City.
WALDRON, E. M., of E. M. Waldron & Company, building contractors, 84
South Sixth Street, Newark, N. J.
WALLER, HON. THOMAS M., New London, Conn.; attorney at law; member of
the Connecticut Legislature 1867, 1868, 1872, 1876 (speaker, 1876);
Secretary of State of Connecticut, 1870; mayor of New London, 1873;
State’s attorney, 1876–’83; governor of Connecticut, 1882–’84; United
States consul-general to London, England, 1885–89; commissioner to
World’s Columbian Exposition.
WALSH, DAVID I., attorney at law, Fitchburg, Mass.
WALSH, FRANK, Secretary and credit manager, Wilkinson, Gaddis &
Company, wholesale grocers, 866–868 Broad Street, Newark, N. J.
WALSH, P. J., 503 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
WALSH, PHILIP C., 260 Washington Street, Newark, N. J.; of Walsh’s
Sons & Company, dealers in irons and metals.
WALSH, PHILIP C., JR., 260 Washington Street, Newark, N. J.
WALSH, WILLIAM P., 247 Water Street, Augusta, Me.
WARD, EDWARD, of Ward Bros., contractors, Kennebunk, Me.
WARD, JOHN T., contractor, Kennebunk, Me.
WARD, MICHAEL J., 17 Shailer Street, Brookline, Mass.
WHALEN, HON. JOHN S., Secretary of State of New York, Albany, N. Y.
WHITE, JOHN B., Cashier of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 121 East
Eighty-sixth Street, New York City. Member Catholic Club of New York.
WOODS, JOHN, 297 Broadway, South Boston, Mass. Coal.
WRIGHT, HENRY, enameled wall tile, vitrified and glazed ceramics,
aseptic floors, encaustic and embossed tiles, 248 East One Hundred
Forty-sixth Street, New York City.
WYNNE, E. W., 78 Market Street, Charleston, S. C., of C. Bart &
Company.
ZABRISKIE, GEORGE A., 123 Produce Exchange, New York City.
INDEX.
“Advantages of Historical Research to Irish Americans,” by Hon. Robert
J. Gamble, 152
American Irish Historical Society, Members of, 252
Ames, Gen. Williams, Address by, 32
Annual Meeting, Next, 157
Banquet, Eleventh Annual, 105
“Capital Welcome,” by Hon. Thomas H. Carter, 148
Carter Day Nursery, Dedication of, 165
Carter, Hon. Thomas H., Address by, 148
“Civic Value of Memorials,” by Miss Mary A. Greene, 163
Constitution and By-Laws of the Society, 5
Crane, Major John, Memorial of, 87
Dedication of Carter Day Nursery, 165
Dinner Committee at Washington, 157
Dowling, Hon. Victor J., Address by, 117
“Early Marine ‘Wireless,’” by Edgar Stanton Maclay, Esq., 195
Egan, Karl, “The Irish in the Revolutionary War,”, 218
Egan, Chief Patrick, War Record of, 177
Eleventh Annual Meeting, Proceedings of, 62
Executive Council of 1908, 19
Executive Council of 1909, 69
“First Census of the United States,” etc., by Michael J. O’Brien, Esq.,
209
Gamble, Hon. Robert J., Address by, 152
Gargan, Hon. Thomas J., Memorial of, 76
General Historical Items, 238
General Information About the Society, 13
Greene, Miss Mary A., Essay by, 163
Guests at Sullivan Memorial Dedication, 56
Healy, David, Esq., Address by, 23
Higgins, Gov. James H., Address by, 30
Historical Items, 238
Introduction, 3
“Irish Pioneers in New York,” by Hon. Victor J. Dowling, 117
“Irish Pioneers of the West and Their Descendants,” by Hon. Maurice T.
Moloney, 139
“Irish in the Revolutionary War,” by Karl Egan, 218
Kelly, Hon. Hugh, Memorial of, 91
Lee, Thomas Zanslaur, Address by, 27
Lenehan, John J., Esq., Essay by, 183
Lippitt, Ex-Gov. Charles Warren, Address by, 49
Maclay, Edgar Stanton, Esq., Essay by, 195
McCarthy, Mayor Patrick J., Address by, 32
McTighe, Patrick J., Memorial of, 248
Members Elected at Eleventh Annual Meeting, 96
Membership Roll of 1909, 252
“Memorial to Jersey Prison Ship Heroes”, 217
Moloney, Hon. Maurice T., Address by, 139
Murray, Thomas Hamilton, Esq., Memorial of, 80
Next Annual Meeting, 157
O’Brien, Michael J., “First Census of the United States,” etc., 209
O’Connor, Joseph, Memorial of, 171
Officers of the Society for 1908, 19
Officers of the Society for 1909, 68
O’Neill, James L., Esq., Essays by, 202
Organizations Represented at Sullivan Memorial Dedication, 56
Papers Read Before Society, 14
Phelan, Hon. James J., Memorial of, 78
President-Generals of the Society, 16
Quinlan, Francis J., M. D., LL. D., Address by, 52, 107
Quinlan, Francis J., M. D., LL. D., Sketch by, 169
Quinlan, Col. James, War Record of, 169
Reception Committee at Washington, 157
Recommendations from Secretary-General’s Office, 239
“Reilly of F,” by John Jerome Rooney, Esq., 243
Report of Treasurer, 100
Review of Some Historical Works, 231
Robinson, Col. David C., Address by, 36
Roche, Hon. James Jeffrey, LL. D., Memorial of, 93
Roll of Members for 1909, 252
Rooney, John Jerome, Esq., Poem by, 243
Sanders, Col. Christopher C., Memorial of, 245
Secretary-General’s Recommendations, 239
“Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in the City of New York,”
by John J. Lenehan, Esq., 183
State Vice-Presidents for 1908, 20
State Vice-Presidents for 1909, 70
Sullivan Memorial at Rhode Island, 26
Tenth Annual Meeting, Proceedings of, 17
Thayer, Hon. Eli, An Early Member of the Society, 223
Treasurer’s Report for 1908–’09, 100
Twelfth Annual Meeting, Place Selected for Holding, 157
Van Hoose, A. W., Esq., Tribute to Col. Christopher C. Sanders, 245
Vice-Presidents for 1908, 20
Vice-Presidents for 1909, 70
Washington Meeting, 62
White, Hon. Edward D., Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States, Address by, 113
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207 the place aforesaid, and though the place aforesaid, and through
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272 For some years pervious. to 1894 For some years previous to 1894
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