The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. IV, 1904
Part 16
=Maguire, P. J.=, 204 Madison Street, New York city.
=Maher, Stephen J.= (M. D.), 212 Orange Street, New Haven, Conn.
=Mahony, William H.=, dry goods, 844 Eighth Avenue, New York city. (Life member of the Society.)
=Malloy, Gen. A. G.=, El Paso, Texas; a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars; during the latter conflict he was successively major, colonel and brigadier-general; has been collector of the port of Galveston.
=Maloney, Cornelius=, publisher of the _Daily Democrat_, Waterbury, Conn.
=Maloney, Dr. Thomas E.=, North Main Street, Fall River, Mass.; state commissioner on veterinary medicine.
=Maneely, John=, 309–311 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
=Marshall, Rev. George F.=, rector of St. Paul’s church, Milford, N. H.
=Martin, Hon. John B.=, penal institutions commissioner, 762 Fourth Street, South Boston, Mass.
=McAdoo, Hon. William=, President-General of the society; police commissioner of the city of New York; ex-member of Congress; ex-assistant secretary of the navy; member of the law firm McAdoo & Crosby, 25 Broad Street, New York city.
=McAleer, Dr. George=, treasurer Bay State Savings Bank, Worcester, Mass.
=McAlevy, John F.=, salesman, 26–50 North Main Street, Pawtucket, R. I.
=McAuliffe, John F.=, care the Livermore & Knight Co., Westminster Street, Providence, R. I.
=McCaffrey, Hugh=, manufacturer, Fifth and Berks Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. (Life member of the Society.)
=McCall, John A.=, president of the New York Life Insurance Co., New York city. (Life member of the Society.)
=McCarrick, James W.=, Clyde’s Steam Lines, Norfolk, Va.
=McCarthy, Charles, Jr.=, Portland, Me.
=McCarthy, George W.=, of Dennett & McCarthy, dry goods, Portsmouth, N. H.
=McCarthy, Patrick J.=, lawyer, Industrial Trust Building, Providence, R. I.; has been a member of the General Assembly of Rhode Island.
=McCaughan, Rev. John P.=, Holyoke, Mass.
=McCaughey, Bernard=, of Bernard McCaughey & Co., house furnishers, 93 to 105 North Main Street, Pawtucket, R. I.
=McCauley, Terence=, 116 Birch Street, Cleveland, O.
=McClean, Rev. Peter H.=, Milford, Conn.
=McConway, William=, The McConway & Torley Co., Pittsburg, Pa. (Life member of the Society.)
=McCormick, Edward R.=, 15 West 38th Street, New York city.
=McCoy, Rev. John J.=, rector of the Church of the Holy Name, Chicopee, Mass.
=McCreery, Robert=, room 427, Produce Exchange, New York city.
=McCullough, John=, 55 Maxfield Street, New Bedford, Mass.
=McDonald, Mitchell C.=, care Navy Department, Washington, D. C.; paymaster U. S. N.
=McDonnell, Robert E.=, lawyer, 206 Broadway, New York city.
=McDonough, Hon. John J.=, Fall River, Mass.; justice of the second district court of Bristol county, Mass.
=McEldowney, W. A.=, 225 Sixth Street, Ashland, N. J.
=McElroy, Rev. Charles J.=, rector of St. Mary’s church, Derby, Conn.
=McEvoy, John W.=, 137 Central Street, Lowell, Mass.
=McGann, James E.=, real estate, 902 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.
=McGauran, Michael S.= (M. D.), Lawrence, Mass.
=McGillicuddy, Hon. D. J.=, of the law firm McGillicuddy & Morey, Lewiston, Me.; ex-mayor of Lewiston.
=McGinness, Col. John R.=, ordnance corps, U. S. A.; care War Department, Washington, D. C.
=McGolrick, Rev. E. J.=, 84 Herbert Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
=McGolrick, Rt. Rev. James= (D. D.), bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Duluth, Minn. (Life member of the Society.)
=McGovern, Joseph P.=, of J. P. McGovern & Bro., fur brokers, 193 Greene Street, New York city.
=McGowan, James=, Wall Street, New York city. (Life member of the Society.)
=McGowan, P. F.=, manufacturer, 224 East 12th Street, New York city; member of the board of education. (Life member of the Society.)
=McGuire, Edward J.=, lawyer, 52 Wall Street, New York city.
=McGurrin, F. E.=, of F. E. McGurrin & Co., investment bankers, Security Trust Building, Salt Lake City, Utah; president of the Salt Lake Security & Trust Co.
=McIntyre, John F.=, of the law firm Cantor, Adams & McIntyre, 25 Broad Street, New York city.
=McKelleget, George F.=, of the law firm R. J. & G. F. McKelleget, Pemberton Building, Boston, Mass.
=McKelleget, Robert J.=, of the law firm R. J. & G. F. McKelleget, Pemberton Building, Boston, Mass.
=McLaughlin, Edward A.=, lawyer, Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.; was for several years clerk of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
=McLaughlin, Henry V.= (M. D.), Kent Street, Brookline, Mass.
=McLaughlin, John=, builder, 348 East 81st Street, New York city.
=McLaughlin, Marcus J.=, 250 West 25th Street, New York city.
=McLaughlin, Thomas=, Hallowell, Me.
=McLaughlin, Thomas F.=, 19 East 87th Street, New York city.
=McMahon, James=, 51 Chambers Street, New York city.
=McMahon, Rev. John W.= (D. D.), rector of St. Mary’s church, Charlestown (Boston), Mass.
=McManus, Col. John=, clothing merchant, 145–147 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I.; served on the staff of Governor Davis, of Rhode Island.
=McManus, Gen. Thomas=, 333 Main Street, Hartford, Conn.; adjutant and major of the Twenty-fifth regiment, Connecticut infantry, in the Civil War; recently quartermaster-general of Connecticut with the rank of brigadier-general.
=McManus, Michael=, clothing merchant, 670 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.
=McManus, Rev. Michael T.=, rector of St. Mary’s Church of the Assumption, Brookline, Mass.
=McNamee, Hon. John H. H.=, 51 Frost Street, Cambridge, Mass.; recently mayor of Cambridge.
=McOwen, Anthony=, 515 Wales Avenue, borough of the Bronx, New York city.
=McPartland, John E.=, Park Street, New Haven, Conn.
=McWalters, John P.=, 141 Broadway, New York city.
=McQuade, E. A.=, 75–77 Market Street, Lowell, Mass.
=McQuaid, Rev. William P.=, rector of St. James church, Harrison Avenue, Boston, Mass.
=McSweeney, Edward F.=, 4 Liberty Square, Boston, Mass.
=Meade, Richard W.=, 621 Broadway, New York city; son of the first president-general of the society.
=Mellen, James H.=, 119 Providence Street, Worcester, Mass.; has been a member of the Massachusetts legislature.
=Mellen, Dr. W. M. E.=, Chicopee, Mass.; ex-mayor of Chicopee.
=Milholland, John E.=, Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, Pa.; president of the Batcheller Pneumatic Tube Co., of Philadelphia; president of the Pneumatic Dispatch Manufacturing Co., of Pennsylvania; director in the Pearsall Pneumatic Tube and Power Co., of New York, and a director in the Pneumatic Transit Co., of New Jersey. Under him the successful pneumatic tubes of the large diameter have been constructed, and it is largely due to his energy and effort that the U. S. post-office department now considers a part of its general delivery system the pneumatic tube service. He is a member of the Transportation Club of New York, the New York Press Club, the Republican Club, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and a number of other organizations.
=Molony, Henry A.=, of Molony & Carter, 16 New Street, Charleston, S. C.
=Monaghan, Hon. James Charles=, chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the U. S. Department of Commerce and Labor, Washington, D. C.; formerly U. S. consul at Mannheim and at Chemnitz; recently professor of Commerce, University of Wisconsin.
=Monaghan, Rt. Rev. John J.= (D. D.), bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Wilmington, Del.
=Montfort, Richard=, Louisville, Ky.; chief engineer of the Louisville & Nashville R. R.
=Montgomery, Gen. Phelps=, 39 Church Street, New Haven, Conn.
=Moore, O’Brien=, president and general manager of The Citizen Printing and Publishing Co., Tucson, Ariz. On the breaking out of the war with Spain, he entered the service as lieutenant-colonel of the Second West Virginia Infantry. After a year’s service, and peace being declared with Spain, he became lieutenant-colonel of U. S. Volunteers for the operations in the Philippines, where he served for eighteen months, until his regiment was mustered out. He then settled in Tucson, and is now head of a valuable newspaper plant, which issues a daily and a weekly. (Life member of the Society.)
=Moran, Col. James=, Providence, R. I.; a veteran of the Civil War. He was appointed second lieutenant in the Third regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers, by Special Orders 53, A. G. O., R. I., Aug. 27, 1861; was commissioned second lieutenant, Fifth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, Nov. 5, 1861; mustered in, Dec. 16, 1861; in command of Company A, from Aug. 8, 1862, until Sept. 20, 1862; assumed command of Company D, Sept. 26, 1862; was commissioned captain and mustered in as such Feb. 14, 1863; on General Court Martial, July, 1863; in command of Fort Amory, at Newberne, N. C., from Sept. 1, 1863, until Oct. 15, 1863; assumed command of Post, at Hatteras Inlet, N. C., April 21, 1864; in command of Forts Foster and Parke, at Roanoke Island, from May 2, 1864, until January, 1865; mustered out Jan. 17, 1865. In May, 1873, he was commissioned colonel of the Rhode Island Guards regiment, and in June, 1887, became colonel of the Second regiment, Brigade of Rhode Island Militia.
=Moran, Dr. James=, 333 West 51st Street, New York city.
=Morgan, John=, 44 West 46th Street, New York city.
=Morrissey, Very Rev. Andrew= (C. S. C., LL. D.), president of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
=Morrissy, Thomas=, 48–50 West 14th Street, New York city.
=Moseley, Edward A.=, Washington, D. C.; president-general of the Society in 1897 and 1898. He succeeded to the position, in the former year, on the death of Admiral Meade, who was the first president-general of the organization. Mr. Moseley is secretary of the U. S. Interstate Commerce Commission. He is ninth in descent from Lieut. Thaddeus Clark, who came from Ireland, and died in Portland, Me., May 16, 1690. Clark was lieutenant of a company of men engaged in the defence of Falmouth, now Portland, during the Indian War. He fell into ambuscade with his company while making a reconnoitre, and was killed with twelve of his men. Mr. Moseley is also a descendant of Deputy-Governor Cleeves (or Cleaves), a founder of Portland, formerly Falmouth, and is sixth in descent from Lieut. John Brown, of Belfast, Me., who came with his father from Londonderry, Ire., and was one of the settlers of Londonderry, N. H.; Brown was chairman of the first Board of Selectmen of Belfast, Me., chosen Nov. 11, 1773, ’74 and ’75; he removed from Londonderry, N. H. While residing there he had been a commissioned officer in the Provincial Army, and had served in the French War. Mr. Moseley is also of patriotic Revolutionary stock, and is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.
=Moynahan, Bartholomew=, lawyer, 120 Broadway, New York city; official stenographer to the New York Supreme Court.
=Mullen, John F.=, 26 Trask Street, Providence, R. I.
=Murphy, D. P.=, Jr., 31 Barclay Street, New York city.
=Murphy, Edward J.=, of the Edward J. Murphy Co., real estate brokers, Springfield, Mass.
=Murphy, Frank J.=, 44 Boston Street, Salem, Mass.
=Murphy, Fred C.=, of the Edward J. Murphy Co., Springfield, Mass.
=Murphy, James R.=, lawyer, 27 School Street, Boston, Mass.
=Murphy, Hon. John R.=, lawyer, Boston, Mass.
=Murray, John F.=, captain of police, Cambridge, Mass.; residence, 9 Avon Street.
=Murray, Michael J.=, lawyer, 27 School Street, Boston, Mass.
=Murray, Thomas Hamilton=, 36 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass.; Secretary-General of the Society; a newspaper man of twenty years’ experience, during which he has been editorially connected with journals in Boston and Lawrence, Mass., Providence, R. I., and Bridgeport and Meriden, Conn.; has devoted much attention to historical research, particularly in relation to the Irish element in American history, and has delivered addresses on the subject before the New England Historic, Genealogical Society; the Rhode Island Historical Society; the Phi Kappa Sigma of Brown University; the Boston Charitable Irish Society (founded 1737), and other organizations; is the author of a number of papers, pamphlets and books.
=Naphen, Hon. Henry F.=, lawyer, 42 Court Street, Boston, Mass.; member of the Boston School Board, 1882–5; state senator, 1885–6; member of Congress, 1899–1903.
=Neagle, Rev. Richard=, Malden, Mass.
=O’Beirne, Gen. James R.=, 290 Broadway, New York city. In military life he has held every commissioned rank up to brevet brigadier-general of volunteers; has also been provost marshal, District of Columbia; deputy U. S. marshal, District of Columbia; register of wills, District of Columbia; editor _Sunday Gazette_, Washington, D. C.; special agent U. S. Indian affairs; special agent U. S. treasury department; assistant U. S. commissioner of immigration at New York city; commissioner of charities, New York city; commander U. S. Medal of Honor Legion. In business life has been president of Yonkers Electric Light Co.; secretary of Flemington Coal and Coke Co. of West Virginia, and treasurer of Manhattan Distilling Co. In social life, president of the United Irish societies of New York city and vicinity, and member of various clubs and other organizations.
=O’Brien, Hon. C. D.=, lawyer, Globe Building, St. Paul, Minn.; prosecuting attorney of Ramsey county, Minn., from 1874 to 1878; assistant U. S. district attorney from 1870 to 1873; mayor of St. Paul from 1883 to 1885.
=O’Brien, Rev. James J.=, Somerville, Mass.; a son of the late Mayor Hugh O’Brien of Boston, Mass.
=O’Brien, John D.=, Bank of Minnesota Building, St. Paul, Minn.; of the law firm Stevens, O’Brien, Cole & Albrecht.
=O’Brien, Capt. Laurence=, 70 Beach Street, New Haven, Conn.; a veteran of the Civil War. He enlisted in the Ninth Connecticut Infantry (an Irish regiment), Aug. 30, 1861; assisted Capt. Patrick Garvey in organizing Company B, and was commissioned first lieutenant of the company. He was made captain of Company D, Oct. 15, 1862, and participated with his regiment in all the movements of the latter. At one period during the war he was provost marshal and military judge of the Parish of St. James, Louisiana. He became identified with the Fenian movement, and in 1867 went to Ireland, like many other gallant officers, in furtherance of the cause of Irish freedom. The Croffut-Morris history of Connecticut in the Civil War speaks of Captain O’Brien as “a brave and efficient officer, and fertile in expedients.”
=O’Brien, Hon. Morgan, J.= (LL. D.), 42 West 44th Street, New York city; a justice of the New York Supreme Court; trustee of the New York Public Library.
=O’Brien, Patrick=, contractor and builder, 399 South Broadway, Lawrence, Mass.
=O’Brien, Thomas=, real estate and insurance, 155 Main Street, Pawtucket, R. I.; an alderman of the city of Pawtucket in 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898; member of the General Assembly of Rhode Island in 1899–1900 and 1902.
=O’Byrne, M. A.=, 370 West 118th Street, New York city.
=O’Callaghan, P. J.=, Lawrence, Mass.
=O’Callaghan, Rev. Denis= (D. D.), rector of St. Augustine’s church, South Boston, Mass.
=O’Connell, J. C.= (M. D)., Medical Board, U. S. Pension office, Washington, D. C.; brother of Col. John J. O’Connell of the Thirtieth U. S. Infantry.
=O’Connell, John=, 302 West End Avenue, New York city.
=O’Connell, John F.=, 306 Broadway, Providence, R. I.
=O’Connell, P. A.=, vice-president of the Wm. Filene’s Sons Co., dry goods, 453–463 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.
=O’Connor, Edward=, 302 Broadway, New York city.
=O’Connor, Hon. J. J.=, 414–416 Carroll Street, Elmira, N. Y. (Life member of the Society.)
=O’Doherty, Rev. James=, Haverhill, Mass. (Life member of the Society.)
=O’Doherty, Hon. Matt.=, Louisville, Ky.; a judge of the Circuit Court.
=O’Donnell, Rev. James H.=, Norwalk, Conn.
=O’Donnell, Hon. John B.=, lawyer, Northampton, Mass.; ex-mayor of Northampton.
=O’Donovan, Jeremiah= (=Rossa=), editor _The United Irishman_, 15 Vandewater Street, New York city.
=O’Dwyer, Hon. E. F.=, 37 West 76th Street, New York city; chief justice of the City Court of New York.
=O’Farrell, P. A.=, Waldorf-Astoria, New York city. (Life member of the Society.)
=O’Flaherty, James=, advertising, 22 North William Street, New York city.
=O’Flaherty, John= (M. D.), Hartford, Conn. (died July 31, 1904); served during the Civil War as assistant surgeon One Hundred and Seventieth Regiment, New York Volunteers (of Corcoran’s Legion); was mustered out June 15, 1865; located in Hartford; was a member of the State, County and City medical societies, and was elected president of the last named on Jan. 4, 1904. He was one of the promoters of St. Francis’ Hospital, Hartford, took a great deal of interest in its affairs, and had been president of its staff; was also a member of the city board of health. Dr. O’Flaherty leaves a wife and three daughters,—Miss Mary P. O’Flaherty, teacher of Greek in the Holyoke, Mass., High school; Miss Anna P. O’Flaherty, a teacher at the New Park Avenue school; and Dr. Ellen P. O’Flaherty of Hartford, who had of late assisted her father in his practice. Dr. O’Flaherty was twice married, his first wife, who died in 1880, having been Miss Hannah Pembroke, a teacher in the South School District. In 1886, Dr. O’Flaherty married Mrs. Ellen Duggan of Hartford.
=O’Gorman, Hon. J. A.=, 312 West 54th Street, New York city; a justice of the New York Supreme Court.
=O’Gorman, Thomas A.=, The O’Gorman Co., dry goods, Providence, R. I.
=O’Hagan, Thomas= (Ph. D.), 151 Mutual Street, Toronto, Canada.
=O’Keefe, Edmund=, superintendent of buildings, New Bedford, Mass.
=O’Keefe, John A.=, lawyer, Lynn, Mass.; formerly Principal of the Lynn High school.
=O’Leary, Jeremiah=, 275 Fifty-eighth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
=O’Leary, P. J.=, 161 West 13th Street, New York city.
=O’Loughlin, Patrick=, lawyer, 23 Court Street, Boston, Mass.
=O’Malley, Thomas F.=, lawyer, 21 Dane Street, Somerville, Mass.
=O’Meara, Maurice=, of the Maurice O’Meara Co., paper manufacturers, 448 Pearl Street, New York city.
=O’Neil, Hon. Joseph H.=, president of the Federal Trust Co., Boston, Mass.; formerly a member of Congress; was later U. S. Treasurer at Boston.
=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, Francis Q.=, Charleston, S. C., of the firm Bernard O’Neill & Sons (house founded in 1845); president of the Hibernia Trust and Savings Bank, Charleston; president of the Standard Truck Package Co.; president of the Riverside Paper Box Factory; director, First National Bank; director, Equitable Fire Insurance Co.; an alderman of Charleston, and mayor _pro tem._ of the city; president of the Charleston Country Club; member of the Board of Trustees of the College of Charleston.
=O’Neill, James L.=, 220 Franklin Street, Elizabeth, N. J.; connected with the Elizabeth post-office for the past fifteen years; has been president of the Young Men’s Father Mathew 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.
=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’Rourke, John F.=, consulting and contracting engineer, 26 Nassau Street, New York city.
=O’Sullivan, Humphrey=, treasurer of the O’Sullivan Rubber Co., Lowell, Mass.
=O’Sullivan, James=, president of the O’Sullivan Rubber Co., Lowell, Mass.
=O’Sullivan, John=, with the H. B. Claflin Co., 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 Co., of Baltimore, Md.
=Owens, Joseph E.=, of the law firm Ketcham & Owens, 189 Montague Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
=Patterson, Rev. George J.=, rector of St. Vincent’s church, South Boston, Mass.
=Perry, Dr. Charles J.=, World Building, New York city.
=Phelan, Hon. James D.=, Phelan Building, San Francisco, Cal.; recently mayor of San Francisco.
=Phelan, James J.=, 16 Exchange Place, New York city; president of the Traders’ and Travelers’ Accident Co.; treasurer of the King’s County Refrigerating Co., Astoria Cordage Co., and the Pontiac Building Co.; director in the Stuyvesant Insurance Co. When Ferdinand de Lesseps contracted to build the Panama canal, Mr. Phelan became treasurer and manager of the American Contracting and Dredging Co., in which he was associated with the late Eugene Kelly, H. B. Slaven and others. This company contracted for and built fifteen miles of the canal. In 1891, Mr. Phelan was appointed treasurer of the Department of Docks of the city of New York, which office he held for five years.
=Phelan, John J.=, lawyer, 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.
=Phelps, H. Warren=, the Phelps Real Estate Agency, 20 East Broad Street, and 88 Pugh Avenue, Columbus, O.; member of the Old Northwest Genealogical Society, of Columbus.
=Philbin, Eugene A.=, of the law firm Philbin, Beekman & Menken, 111 Broadway, New York city.
=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.
=Plunkett, Thomas=, 257 Sixth Street, East Liverpool, O.
=Power, Rev. James W.=, 47 East 129th Street, New York city.
=Powers, Patrick H.=, president of the Emerson Piano Co., Boylston Street, Boston, Mass.
=Prendergast, W. A.=, 20 Nassau Street, New York city.
=Quinlan, Daniel J.=, 53 East 127th Street, New York city.
=Quinlan, Francis J.= (M. D.), 33 West 38th Street, New York city; was for a number of years surgeon in the U. S. Indian Service; recently president of the New York Celtic Medical Society.