The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VI, 1906Various
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The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VI, 1906
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American-Irish Historical Society -- Periodicals; Ethnology -- United States -- Periodicals; Irish Americans -- Periodicals
MOORE, COL. O’BRIEN, born in Ireland; died in Tucson, Ariz., August
26, 1906. A life member of the Society. At the time of his death he
was general manager of the Citizen Printing and Publishing Co.,
Tucson, controlling a valuable newspaper plant and issuing a daily
and weekly. He was a man of great brilliancy. 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 United
States Volunteers for the operations in the Philippines, where he
served for eighteen months, until his regiment was mustered out. He
then settled in Tucson. He was a newspaper man of much ability and
experience. Some of his early newspaper career was spent in Houston,
Tex., on the _Post_, of which journal he became managing editor. He
was later managing editor of the St. Louis _Republic_, and was also
Washington correspondent for that paper at Washington, D. C.
MCCALL, JOHN A., born in Albany, N. Y., 1849; died at Lakewood, N. J.,
February 18, 1906. He became clerk in the Albany State Currency
Assorting House; was later in the service of the Connecticut Mutual
Life Insurance Co. until 1869; served in the New York state
insurance department as clerk, 1869–’76; was deputy superintendent,
1876–’83; superintendent of insurance of New York, 1883–’86;
comptroller Equitable Life Assurance Society, 1887–’92, and was
later president of the New York Life Insurance Co. He was a life
member of the Society.
O’FLYNN, REV. DENIS P., born in County Cork, Ireland, 1847; died in
New York City, August 22, 1906. He was educated at St. Colman’s
College, Fermoy, and then spent two years in study in Paris. He
entered Louvain University, Belgium, and obtained the degree of
doctor of theology. Returning to Paris, he was ordained to the
priesthood and then came to America. He was eventually made vicar
apostolic to the Bahamas. He became rector of St. Mary’s Church,
Saugerties, N. Y., and for fifteen years, up to the time of his
death, was rector of St. Joseph’s Church, New York City.
QUINLAN, COL. JAMES, born in Ireland, 1843; died in New York City,
August 29, 1906. He came to this country when he was but seventeen
years of age. He became a first lieutenant in the Sixty-ninth New
York Regiment, and, in 1861, went with it to Washington, D. C. He
was mustered out the following year, and joined the Eighty-eighth
New York Volunteers, which was part of Meagher’s famous Irish
Brigade. For conspicuous bravery at Savage Station, in June, 1862,
Colonel Quinlan subsequently received the United States medal of
honor.
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