The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VIII, 1909Various
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The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VIII, 1909
Various
American-Irish Historical Society -- Periodicals; Ethnology -- United States -- Periodicals; Irish Americans -- Periodicals
MORAN, COL. JAMES, 26 South Water Street, 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., August 27, 1861; was commissioned second lieutenant, Fifth Rhode
Island Heavy Artillery, November 5, 1861; mustered in December 16,
1861; in command of Company A, from August 8, 1862, until September
20, 1862; assumed command of Company D, September 26, 1862; was
commissioned captain and mustered in as such February 14, 1863; on
general court martial, July, 1863; in command of Fort Amory, at
Newburne, N. C., from September 1, 1863, until October 15, 1863;
assumed command of post at Hatteras Inlet, N. C., April 21, 1864; in
command of Forts Foster and Parks, at Roanoke Island, from May 2,
1864, until January, 1865; mustered out January 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, JAMES T., director of Connecticut Savings Bank, 221 Sherman
Avenue, New Haven, Conn.
MORGAN, JOHN, 343 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York City;
manufacturer of Imperial Mineral Waters.
MORIARTY, JOHN, Broadway, Waterbury, Conn.
MORTON, J. D., 41 Mercer Street, New York City.
MORRISSEY, VERY REV. ANDREW, C. S. C., D. D., LL. D., University of
Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind. Vice-President of the Society for
Indiana.
MORRISSY, THOMAS, merchant, 48 West Fourteenth Street, New York City.
MOSELEY, HON. 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
United States 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 defense 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,
Ireland, and was one of the settlers of Londonderry, N. H.; Brown was
chairman of the first board of selectmen of Belfast, Me., chosen
November 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 Cincinnati;
Vice-President of the Society for Washington.
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