Reno Nevada Reno Evening Gazette - Mar. 2, 1881


THE MILWAUKEE MILKMAN
Failure of a Heavy Lard House in Chicago.
CHICAGO, June 16 - A season of extraordinary excitement was prevailing on 'Change, immediately after the opening this morning, by the rumor freely circulated that the firm of McGeogh, Evorham & Co., who have for a long time been looked upon as the heaviest dealers in lard and other provisions on the Chicago Board, had failed.  This was verified in a measure soon afterward by a member of the firm circulating about on the floor of the Exchange and notifying all with whom they were interested in provision deals to close them.  Something in the nature of a panic appeared to sieze the provision corner, and for a time the interest in other trading was lost.  An effort to ascertain the extent to which McGeogh had been operating failed both upon application to the firm and members of the Board of Trade.
LATER. - The liabilities of McGeogh, Everham & Co., whose failure was rumored this morning, will be very heavy.  A falling market brought in its train plenty of rumors of other impending failures, but up to 11:30 there was nothing to report.  Members of the broken firm have declared to a representative of the Associated Press that they would make no statement of any kind before tomorrow.  Peter McGeogh, the head of the firm, is a resident of Milwaukee and is familiarly styled "The Milwaukee Milkman".  He is reported to have been the leader in a number of daring bull movements on both the Milwaukee and Chicago markets and failed here two years ago.  His firm came prominently before the public two weeks ago by their refusal to receive a large consignment of lard from Chicago on the ground that it was tainted and over which fact an investigation in the Board is now in progress.  The firm has since accepted the lard in question under protest.
Los Angeles Times - Jun. 17, 1883


THE GREAT LARD FIRM.
McGeogh, the head of the great lard firm of Chicago, is likely to get on his feet again.  It appears that the total gross indebtedness of the firm amounts to $6,000,000.  Of this amount, there were due the banks, $4,050,000.  They held collateral to the extent of $3,900,000.  There was also due to customers and the trade in Chicago over $1,950,000, and there had been deposited as security about $700,000, leaving the entire amount to the creditors and unsecured parties $1,400,000.  There was realized from the assets and accounts about $250,000, and Mr. McGeogh and his friends in Milwaukee furnished $450,000, making the necessary $700,000 with which to liquidate the indebtedness of $1,400,000.  This enabled the firm to offer a compromise of fifty cents on the dollar, which the creditors almost without an exception accepted.  Through the assistance of his friends, who repose implicit confidence in his ability to recover from his present embarrassment, he is enabled again to take the slippery trail on which he so recently experienced such a serious fall.

Montana Butte Daily Miner - Aug. 1, 1883


BEN BUTLER WILL DEFEND THEM.
SALEM, Mass., July 27 - Gen. B. F. Butler has been secured as counsel by William B. O'Keefe and Peter McGough, members of the Executive Board of District Assembly No. 77, Knights of Labor, arrested on a warrant for conspiracy in boycotting the leather manufactured by Charles Harrington & Co.
New York Times, pg. 1 - Jul. 28, 1886


KNIGHTS HAULED UP FOR TRIAL.
PLYMOUTH, Mass., Aug. 5 - In the Third District Court this morning the case was called of William B. O'Keefe, of Salem, and Peter McGeough, of Lynn, charged with conspiracy to injure the business of Charles Harrington & Co., leather manufacturers, of Salem, Mass.  This is the first trial of boycotters in this section, and it is regarded as a test case.   Messrs. O'Keefe and McGeough came to Plymouth about six weeks ago and told F. F. Emery, the proprietor of a large shoe factory here, that he must stop using some leather he had in his shop purchased of Harrington & Co., with whom the Knights of Labor had trouble, or they, as representatives of the Knights, would order his men out.  Mr. Emery refused to treat with them, and the men were ordered out.  After the shop had been closed a week Mr. Emery came to terms and discontinued using the Harrington leather.  Harrington & Co. caused the arrest of O'Keefe and McGeough for attempting toinjure their business.  Gen. Butler is counsel for the defense, but was represented this morning by F. L. Washburn.  The defendants waived examination, and the case was sent to the October term of the Superior Court.  There did not appear to be any feeling of unkindness among the parties immediately interested in the case, judging from the familiar and pleasant manner in which they indulged in social intercourse.  Both sides regarded this as a test case, and are anxious to have a precedent established by the court for future guidance.
New York Times, pg. 3 - Aug. 6, 1886


A Case Without a Precedent.
Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 28 - The grand jury indicted Peter McGeogh, of Lynn, and William Bokefer, of Salem, for conspiring against the firm of Charles Harrington & Co.  The defendants representing the Knights of Labor came to Plymouth and ordered out the men employed by F. P. Emery, boot and shoe dealer, until Emery agreed not to use Harrington's leather.  The case is without a precedent in the New England states.

Newark, Ohio Daily Advocate - Oct. 28, 1886

BOYCOTTING KNIGHTS INDICTED.
PLYMOUTH, Mass., Oct. 27 - In the Superior Court the Grand Jury this afternoon reported an indictment against Peter McGeogh, of Lynn, and William Bokefer, of Salem, for conspiracy against the firm of Charles Harrington & Co.  This is a well known boycotting case, in which the defendents, representing the State organization of the Knights of Labor, came to Plymouth and ordered out the men from the boot and shoe factory of Francis F. Emery until he agreed not to use Harrington's leather.  The case is the first one of the kind in the New England States.
New York Times - Oct. 28, 1886, pg. 1


AN INTERESTING CASE.
Two Men Tried for Boycotting.
PLYMOUTH, Mass., Nov. 9.  The trial of Councilman Wm. B. O'Keefe, of Salem, and Peter McGeough, of Lynn, for boycotting the leather firm of Chas. Harrington & Sons, the first case of the kind in Massachusetts, came up in the Superior Court this morning.  Chief Justice Brigham presided.  Defendants are young men, and pleaded not guilty.  District Attorney Bumpus, and Moulton & Ives, of Salem, for the government, and Gen. Butler and Frank L. Washburn, for defendants.  At the beginning Butler moved to quash the indictment.  Arguments for and against the motion were made by General Butler and District Attorney Bumpus, the latter citing many authorities in support of his position. 
The Motion to Quash Denied.
      Judge Brigham said, substantially, it is a well established principle that every man has the right to choose his labor, and any interference is unlawful.  Every man has the right to buy, sell and manufacture, provided he does so lawfully.  The right of the laborers to divorce his own labor is no more lawful than the right of the manufacturers to buy and use whatever leather he may choose, from whom he may choose, and any man who undertakes to prevent a manufacturer from buying or using goods interferes with his rights.  It is equally true that laborers have a right to combine and enhance the price of his labor.  Such might reduce the profits of employer.  Manufacturers may combine to use machinery and the result be a reduction in the value of labor.
      These being the rights of both parties any man who undertakes to prevent a manufacturer from using material interferes with the rights of the manufacturer, so that if a combination of persons is made to defeat that right, it is an unlawful combination.  I think the means used to carry out the attempt unlawful, and we have here a conspiracy in a legal sense.  The question is, what measurers are lawful for the purpose of compassing that end?  If the means employed were threats to injure a person or business, a combination to use these means would be conspiracy.  Judge Brigham was in doubt about the fifth count, as to whether an injury to a man's business is an injury to property.  The indictment was read to defendants by Clerk Whitman.
The Defendents.
     Mcgeough is about thirty-five years old and O'Keefe slightly younger.  The two first counts of the indictment charge a conspiracy with intent to injure and impoverish Charles Harrington & Sons, leather manufacturers of Salem and Boston by conspiracy to prevent Francis M. Emory, shoe manufacturer, of Plymouth, from buying or using the leather of said Harrington.  The third and fourth counts allege the purpose of the defendants to injure the business of F. G. Emory.  District Attorney Bumpus outlined the government's case.  

Bangor Maine Daily Whig and Courier - Nov. 10, 1886


UNABLE TO AGREE.
PLYMOUTH, Mass., Nov. 13 - The jury in the case of McGeogh and O'Keefe, charged with boycotting a Lynn manufacturer, reported today that they were unable to agree and were discharged.  They stood seven for conviction and five for acquittal.
New York Times - Nov. 14, 1886, pg 3


DELEGATES TO ST. LOUIS.
BOSTON, April 30 - The Fourth District Democrats to-night elected Matthew Keaney and James A. McGeough as delegates to the National Convention, with P. J. Kennedy and Isaac Rosnosky as alternates.
New York Times - May 1, 1888, pg. 2


The Godfrey-Cardiff Fight Off.
BOSTON, Mass., April 29 - The fight which was to have taken place here tonight between George Godfrey and Patsy Cardiff has been declared off.  Cardiff is the person responsible for the postponement.  He had been led to believe that he would not get a fair show in Boston and he refused to go on with the match.  He is, however willing to meet Godfrey in any other city.  President Tom McGeough of the Gladstone Athletic Club of Providence met both boxers today and the meeting may result in Godfrey and Cardiff agreeing to spar at the Gladstone Club.
Chicago Daily Tribune - Apr. 30, 1890, pg. 2


Typical Southern Item.
FARMERVILLE, La., June 1 - Saturday night three farmers, named Jim Aulds, Jim McGeough, and John Dawson, went to S. L. Joyner's place to whip a negro living there, Mrs. Joyner came to the rescue with a shotgun and opened fire on the trio.  Mr. McGeough was instantly killed and Aulds riddled with buckshot.  More trouble is anticipated and the sheriff has left for the scene.
Decatur (Illinois) Morning Review - Jun. 2, 1891

TARPEY AGAIN IN TROUBLE.
HE REFUSES TO ADMIT TO HIS SCHOOL TRUSTEE M'GEOUGH'S SON.
More trouble has broken out in the First Ward public school of Long Island City, of which Peter E. Tarpey is the Principal, in consequence of Tarpey's refusal to admit Thomas McGeough, a son of School Trustee McGeough.  Tarpey's school was reopened Monday morning last.  Among the scholars who put in an appearance was young McGeough.  He was sent home, however,  by Principal Tarpey.  The lad's father sent him to school again the following day, but he was again sent back.  Yesterday Mr. McGeough took his boy to the school, but Tarpey refused to take the lad, saying that he had been impertinent.  This the boy denies.  Mr. McGeough and Principal Tarpey then got into a heated discussion, during which McGeough is said to have denounced Tarpey and his methods in language more forcible than elegant, and finished by taking his son into the class room, where he left him telling him to remain there until the close of school. 
Tarpey alleges that McGeough struck him and that he called in a policeman to put McGeough out of the building.  The School Trustee denies the alleged assault.  Mr. McGeough's son is the lad  who made affidavit that he had seen Principal Tarpey under the influence of liquor and asleep in school during school hours; also, that he had seen been taken into the school.  School Trustee McGeough says that this is the reason why Principal Tarpey refuses to permit his son to attend the public school.
New York Times - Oct. 16, 1891, pg. 3


THE ACT OF A CRAZY PATROLMAN.
Patrolman William McCahill of the Twelfth Precinct, Brooklyn, is to be arraigned before Commissioner Hayden on the charge of forcing his way into a man's house and beating him so seriously as to break his leg.  Mrs. Lizzie McGeough of 176 1/2 Rockaway Avenue, charged yesterday that McCahill did this to her husband, William McGeough, on Thursday last.  She said her husband was hanging a shutter at the second story window of his house, when McCahill passed by and demanded to be let in.  McGeough paid no attention to him, so the policeman broke open the door, forced his way up stairs, and a scuffle ensued, during which McGeough was clubbed on the head and body and received a fracture of his left leg.
This was not enough, apparently, for McCahill arrested McGeough and locked him up in the station house.  Subsequently he was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, where he is now.
Policeman McCahill said that he saw McGeough trying to jump from the window of his house, and rushed up stairs and dragged him back into the room.  The McGeough set upon him (McCahill) and a fierce fight ensued, during which McGeough fell backward over a chair and his leg got twisted under him and was broken.  McCahill then arrested McGeough for attempting suicide.
New York Times - Nov. 1, 1891, pg. 13


A BANQUET SPEECH.
It Was Delivered Before the Commercial Travelers' Association in Boston.
CAUSED THE ORATOR TO GET LICKED.
He Responded to the Toast "The South" and Referred to Steve Ryan - The Latter Gave Him a Licking.
      Peter McGeough, a Boston shoe drummer, who incidently makes banquet speeches, and on such occasions generally responds to "The South" by the reason of the supposed knowledge he has of this section gathered in his travels in this territory, was five times knocked down, his face battered and otherwise severely punished in Ryan's store yesterday afternoon.
      Mr. Stephen A. Ryan, the merchant, performed the job, and it is said by those who saw it that it was vigorous.  With face bruised and bloody, clothing disarranged, and manner excited; Mr. McGeough issued forth from Mr. Ryan's store, and disappeared around the corner of Broad and Hunter streets.
      It was all about one of Mr. McGeough's banquet speeches, one which he delivered a year ago, and which was made in response to a toast of "The South".  If the toast had read "S. A. Ryan" the speech would have been better adapted to it.  For Steve Ryan formed the subject of the shoe drummer's remarks.  It was in the course of his speech, which was widely published in the eastern papers, that Mr. McGeough delivered himself of the sentence "that like Caeser, Steve Ryan brushed his competitors from before him like so many cobwebs, and made money like a prince and spent it like a thief."  The speech mainly consisted of such sentences as that.  The whole of it was published, and Steve Ryan put it into his scrapbook.
      He remembered the speaker, having seen him once.  Some time in 1890, McGeough while representing Redpath Bros., shoe men of Boston, sold to the Ryan Company a bill of shoes.  Mr. Ryan saw him just a moment as he was checking up the bill and when the speech appeared he remembered him.  The speech was made in Boston before a commercial association.
      Yesterday a genteel, well-dressed, nice looking drummer walked into Ryan's place and walking up to Mr. Steve Ryan introduced himself as Mr. Goff of Cincinatti as representing the shoe house of Plaut, Marks, and Co., of the Queen City.  He made a few general remarks about the excellence of the shoes he had to offer and said he would like to display a line of his supplies.

      "Did you say your name was Goff?" asked Mr. Ryan.  The drummer had said he had said so.  "Well you look very much like Peter McGeough" answered Mr. Ryan "and that's who you are.  Will you step back to the rear of the store?"  Mr. McGeough, for it was he, said he would not go to the rear of the store, in fact he would not go anywhere.  "Oh come along" said Mr. Ryan, but the drummer still held back.  "Well I guess you will go" said the merchant, and with that he struck the Bostonian and dropped him to the floor.  As McGeough would rise, Ryan would knock him down again until he went to the floor five times.  The drummer made no attempt to defend himself but called on the bystanders to not let Mr. Ryan kill him.  Finally. Mr. Ryan caught the drummer and held him up striking him in the face and emphasizing each blow with the remark:  "How's that for a banquet speech?"  Tiring of the fun, Mr. Ryan dragged Mr. McGeough to the rear door, and poising him on the top of the steps sent him bruised and bleeding into the street.  Mr. McGeough did not come back any more.  The floor in the vicinity where the encounter occurred was spattered with blood.

Atlanta Constitution GA - April 20, 1893 

TWO HOT ROUNDS.
Steve Ryan Fights McGeough in the Kimball House Arena.
DROPPED HIM ON THE USUAL SPOT.
Atlanta's Pugilistic Merchant Kicked and Slugged the Drummer to Disprove a Card.
      Steve Ryan and Peter McGeough, the man from Boston, had two rounds in the Kimball house arena last night and were dragged apart.
      Neither round lasted three minutes, but while the fighting was going on it was as fast and furious as anything the Olympic or Crescent club has shown.  It was one-sided, the Atlantian doing the fighting and the Bostonian taking the punishment.  Each showed good qualities in his line.|
The mill grew out of the card which the Boston drummer published claiming that he had whipped the Atlanta merchant in the latter's store a few weeks ago,  This fight was to disprove the card and it did remove any doubt that may have existed as to which is the best slugger.
      At 7 o'clock the merchant was standing by the cigar counter of the Kimball.  His classy silk had and carnation pink indicated complete composure of spirit.  A bystander says that he turned to look  at the register and a moment later there was a thud, and glancing around saw that the air was full of silk hat, straw hat, arms, legs and commotion.  Ryan was slugging somebody who down on the marble floor.  Several men rushed up and grabbed Ryan.  They pulled him off, Ryan kicking the man in the face and head as they were separated.  Ryan walked off twenty feet and the stranger on the floor got up.  Both had lost their hats and somehow the silk was handed to the Bostonian and the straw to the Atlantian.  McGeough spurned the silk, which now was battered.  Ryan would not take the straw either.  McGeough stepped to the desk and leaned against it.  Each man glared at the other.  Epithets were hissed and Ryan made a rush and landed his right on McGeough's neck.   It was a heavy blow.  The men clinched.  Ryan slugged hard and the Bostonian was on the defensive.A crowd rushed in and the balcony around the first arcade was quickly lined with spectators, several ladies looking down interestedly.  A soprano voice called excitedly to stop the fight.  Again peacemakers rushed in, a gentleman with luxuriant whiskers taking a leading part.
      McGeough had not uttered a word and whether he had enough or wanted another round was uncertain.  A friend took him by the arm and led him to the elevator.  He seemed half dazed.
      Ryan walked away.  A bell boy ran through the rotunda, creating a sensation by his pace.  Directly two policemen appeared.  The combattants had disappeared.  Ryan made the first assault from behind.  He had stepped from the cigar stand to the checkroom, and was standing there when McGeough came down in the elevator.  Ryan saw him, rushed at him and knocked him down before the drummer knew what hit him. 
       A reporter asked the merchant why he made this attack on McGeough.
      "Because he wrote a card saying he had licked me."
      "Are you going to keep on licking him as long as he publishes letters?"
      "Yes, I will whip him every time."
      The feud is about a speech which McGeough made at some banquet in Boston when he, replying to a toast called Ryan a swindler and scored him a length.  That speech was published in some trade paper and was widely circulated.  A few weeks ago McGeough came to Atlanta, called on Steve Ryan to sell him a bill of goods.  Ryan invited him back into the store and then there was a fight which both claimed to have won.  The merchant said that after pounding the drummer to his own heart's content, he threw him out of the back door.  McGeough declared that he whipped Ryan.  The latter decided that he would try it over and settle the disputed point.
      Mcgeough arrived in Atlanta yesterday afternoon.  He registered at the Kimball and went up stairs.  Some one who saw the name on the hotel register met Ryan up town and remarked casually that his friend McGeough was at the Kimball.  Ryan walked on to the hotel and had not waited long before the orator appeared.  As stated above, Ryan ran at him and dropped him on the same marble tiles that he usually knocks his man down on.
      The police made a case against Ryan and he was summoned to appear before Judge Andy this afternoon.
McGeough could not be found.  He is a well-built man but did not handle himself last night as the other man from Boston does.  A great deal of sympathy was expressed for him as he was beaten and kicked severely.
Atlanta GA Constitution - May 08, 1893


A Posse in Pursuit.
MANCOS (Colo.,) Aug. 7 - A posse is in pursuit of Ed Gaviness, who shot and killed Byron McGeogh last night in Dunn's saloon.  McGeogh had been paying attentions to Gaviness's divorced wife and bloodshed has been narrowly averted several times before.
Los Angeles Times - Aug. 8, 1895, pg. 1


William McGeough is Safe.
Oswego, Aug. 9 - Thomas McGeough, who left for Rochester this noon to investigate the report that his brother, William E. McGeough, had been drowned in the Genesee River at Rochester, telegraphed here tonight that his brother had not been drowned but was safe in Rochester.

Syracuse New York Post Standard - 08/10/1902


Peter McGeough of Rochester is registered at the Riverside.
Reno Evening Gazette - Thursday, April 30, 1914


FARM FOR SALE:  about 100 acres.  30 tillable, 10 red cedar grove, remainder pasture and orchards; 117 apple trees, 24 peach, 13 plum, 10 pear, 10 cherry, and grapes: nine-room house, hardwood floors, hot water heat, first-class repair: suitable for gentleman's Summer residence: garage and horse barn, cow and hay barn; good water, fine elevation: one mile from R. R. station, high school and churches: price reasonable.  Address Mrs. Helena Jenkins, Dover Plains, N. Y.

New York Times - August 8, 1926
           

                  
                                                                                             McGeough -Births

                                                                                        McGeough - Marriages
 

Hugh McGeough, Maggie Daley …..age 26-26
Chicago Daily Tribune - November 01, 1896 pg. 9

ANSONIA GIRL WEDS.
ANSONIA, Oct. 25 - Miss Mary Casey of Main Street, this city became the bride of Patrick McGeough of Derby this morning in the Church of the Assumption at 8 o'clock, Rev. Patrick Quinlan performed the ceremony.
Miss Agatha Casey, her sister, was bridesmaid and Daniel McGeough, brother of the groom, acted as best man.
Mr. and Mrs. McGough left later in the day on their wedding trip.
Bridgeport (CT) Telegram - October 26, 1922
 

                                                                                         McGeough - Divorce

James McGeough was sued for divorce by Julia McGeough, who charges him with cruelty, and procured an injunction restraining him from drawing his money out of the Fidelity Safe Deposit company, where he has $5,000.

Chicago Daily - June 15, 1890

                                                                                McGeough - Deaths/Obituaries
 

Peter McGeogh, the old time Chicago speculator and board of trade man and millionaire, shot and killed himself at his country residence near Milwaukee Wednesday morning.

Daily Republican Decatur Illinois - 11/29/1895

Deaths Reported April 10 - Manhattan and Bronx
McGeough, Patrick, 254 3d Av., Age 64 Yrs, April 9

New York Times - Apr. 11, 1898

Deaths Reported June 6 - Manhattan and Bronx
MCGOUGH - Martin, Brooklyn...Age 38 Yrs, June 4
New York Times - Jun. 7, 1898

Deaths Reported October 26 - Manhattan and Bronx
MCGOUGH - Michael, 147 Amsterdam Av., Age 39 Yrs, October 25
New York Times - Oct. 27, 1900

Brooklyn. MCGEOUGH, Elizabeth. 49 Bridge St., age 50, February 5
New York TImes - Feb. 8 1902

RINEAR - Jul. 23, Sarah Rinear, (nee Loughlin) at residence of her daughter, Mrs. T. McGeough, 400 East Fourteenth St.
New York Times - Jul. 27, 1902, pg. 15

MCGEOUGH - Patrick.  171 East 91st St., Feb. 3.  Funeral Feb. 7, 9:30 A.M.
New York Times - Feb. 5, 1910

MCGEOUGH - On Friday, Oct. 11, William McGeough, faithful friend and servant for twenty years in the family of the late Charles T. Barney.
New York Times - Oct. 12, 1912

MCGOUGH - Joseph McGough, Feb. 15, 1914, son of the late Mary McGough, and beloved brother of Thomas and Bernard McGough, Mrs. J. A. Rafferty, James, Arthur, Rose, and Anna McGough.  Funeral from his late residence, 2023 E. 72d St., Wednesday, Feb. 18, 9 A.M. to St. Philip Neri Church, where requiem mass will be celebrated, thence by automobiles to Calvary.
Chicago Daily Tribune - Feb. 17, 1914

RYAN - Rose A., July 8, after short illness, wife of the late Thomas Ryan, mother of Thomas, Edward, and William Ryan, and Mrs. M. E. Monaghan and Mrs. James P. McGeough.  Burial will take place from her late residence, 267 Nott Av., Long Island City, Wednesday morning, 9:30 o'clock, thence to St. Patrick's Church.  Internment Calvary Cemetery.
New York Times - Jul. 10, 1917

MCGEOUGH - On June 3, 1922, John A., beloved brother of Robert, Joseph, Edward, Catherine and Annie McGeough.  Patrolman, 39th Precinct, N.Y.P.D.  Funeral from his late residence, 171 East 91st St., on Wednesday, at 9:30 A.M.  Requiem Mass. Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, Interment Calvary.
New York Times - Jun. 6, 1922

MCGEOUGH - Hanora (nee Flood), beloved wife of Joseph McGeough, loving mother of Irene, Joseph H. and the late Josephine Finn. Funeral from her residence 229 East 87th St. Friday, Oct. 17, 9:30A.M. Requiem mass Church St. Ignatius Loyola, 84th St. and Park Av.,10 A.M.
New York Times - Oct. 16, 1930

MCGEOUGH - Helen A., on June 7, beloved wife of the late Michael J., mother of the Rev. Joseph, Mary, Edward and Catherine McGeough.  Funeral from her late residence, 450 West 145th, Monday, June 11 9:45 A.M.  Requiem Mass at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, West 142d St., at 10 A.M.  Interment Calvary Cemetery.
New York Times - Jun. 9, 1934

MCGEOUGH - Katherine, daughter of the late Bridget Hodges and Patrick McGeough, sister of Robert, Joseph, and Edward.  Funeral from 46 East 87th St., Tuesday, June 12, 9:30 A.M. Requiem Mass Church St. Ignatius Loyola, 84th St. and Park Av., 10 A.M. Interment Calvary Cemetery.
New York Times - Jun. 11, 1934

                                                                                            McGeough -Wills for Probate

Bronx.
McGeough, Katherine (June 8). Estate, $8,000 personal.  To brothers: Robert and Edward J. McGeough, both of 412 E. 159th St. and Joseph McGeough, 229 E. 87th St.  Edward J. McGeough, executor.
New York Times - June 20, 1934, pg. 42

Queens.
McGeough, Myles  (May 17).  Estate less than $5,000 real and $5,000 personal.  Equally to daughters, Anna and Lillian McGeough of 30-35 83d St., Jackson Heights, executrices.
New York Times - May 28, 1933, pg. 17


                                                                                              Monaghan In The News

                                                                                        Monaghan Mention - Marriages

COOTE-SPENCER - At St. John's Church, Elizabeth, N.J., on Saturday, July 1, by Rev. S.A. Clark, D.D., Charles William Maxwell Coote, late of the British Army, second son of the late Major Coote, J.P., D.L., County of Monaghan, Ireland, to Maria Radcliffe, only daughter of Capt. J. S. Spencer, and grand-daughter of the late Hon. Judge Radcliffe, of the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
New York Times - July 7, 1871, pg. 5

GILL-POLLOCK - In this City, on Tuesday, March 8, by the Rev. James Thompson, D.D., at the residence of the bride, Wm. (???can't read) Gill, formerly of Londonderry, Ireland, to Isbella Pollock, late of Monaghan.
New York Times - March 10, 1859, pg. 5


MACKEY-DAWSON - May 21, at the residence of the Paster, Rev. J. F. Steen, New York, David MacKey to Maggie, oldest daughter of John Dawson, Taltygar, County Monaghan, Ireland.
New York Times - May 26, 1885, pg. 5

 

                                                                              Monaghan Mention - Deaths/Obituaries 

MOORE - On Sunday afternoon, Feb. 26, after a short and severe illness, JAMES MOORE, native of County Monaghan, Ireland, in the 21st year of his age.  His friends, and members of the Henry Clay Lodge, No. 10, Protestant Association, are requested to attend his funeral, on Monday, 27th at 2 o'clock P.M., at his late residence, No. 349 8th Av.
New York Daily TImes - Feb. 27, 1854, pg. 8

DICKSON - In this City on Wednesday, Oct. 18, THOMAS DICKSON, aged 19 years and 11 months, native of Castleblayney, County Monaghan Ireland.  His friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend his funeral at 11 o'clock, tomorrow morning, from his late residence, No. 465 6th Av., corner of 28th St.
New York Daily Times - Oct. 20, 1854, pg. 8

BOYD - In this City, on Friday, Aug. 7, after a short but severe illness.  ALEXANDER BOYD, in the 31st year of his age, native of County Monaghan, Ireland.  His friends, and those of his cousins, Robert and Ann Boyd, are respectfully invited to attend his funeral from his late residence, No. 72 West 18th St., on Sunday, at 1 o'clock P.M.
New York Daily Times - Aug. 8, 1857, pg. 5

ATKINSON - On Thursday, April 2, JANE, relict of the late James Atkinson, of Newbliss, County Monaghan, Ireland, in the 73d year of her age.
New York Times - Apr. 3, 1868, pg. 5

DEATH OF A PRIEST.
The Rev. Michael Curran, of St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church, at Duane Street and City Hall place, was prostrated by a stroke of paralysis on Sunday last, from the effects of which he died last night, at the age of 67 years.  Father Curran was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, in 1818.  He came to America at an early age, and began preparations for the priesthood at Mount St. Mary's Maryland.  He continued his studies at Emmetsburg, Md., and Fordham, N.Y., where he was finally ordained in 1844.  He became Pastor of St. Andrew's in 1850.
New York Times - Jun. 29, 1880, pg. 8

REV. FATHER HACKETT - The Rev. Father Hackett, of Monaghan, Ireland, died at St. Peter's Hospital, Brooklyn, at 10 o'clock last night.  The funeral will take place from St. Paul's Church at Court and Congress Streets, Brooklyn at 10 o'clock tomorrow.
New York Times - Aug. 22, 1882, pg. 5

Ex-Assemblyman Owen Cavanagh, who died at his residence, at Broome and Watts Streets, Monday afternoon, was a native of County Monaghan, Ireland, and was 53 years old.  He came to this country in 1849, and with his brother Patrick went to California in 1851.  They both returned in a few years with some money, and shortly afterward Owen became clerk in the Board of Councilmen.  In 1869 he was elected to the Assembly, and after his term there he held for several years a clerkship in the tax office.  A year of two later he held a police court clerkship, after which he went into business with his brother at 116 Centre Street, the place becoming somewhat of a resort for politicians.  Funeral services will be held at the house, 870 Broome Street, today at 2 o'clock.  The interment will be in Calvary.
New York Times - Aug. 1, 1888, pg. 2

MRS. SMITH DEAD AT 107.
HER SIGHT AND FACULTIES WERE ALL RIGHT TO THE LAST.
Mrs. Mary Smith, who is believed to have been 107 years old, died at her residence, 598 East One Hundred and Forty-fourth Street, at 10 A.M. Wednesday.  Her death was due to a stroke of apoplexy which she received on Tuesday evening while walking about the house. 
Mrs. Smith was a little old lady who for the past twenty-five years had lived in the house where died.  Her youngest son, Patrick, who is seventy years old, and who had supported her since she came to this country fifty years ago, is still alive, but quite feeble.  He says that his mother often told him that she was born in 1786, but could not remember the exact date.  The County Monaghan, Ireland, was her place of birth, and her father was a farmer there when the Irish revolution broke out.  The old lady was in full possession of all of her faculties up to the time of her death, and she often told her grandchidren and great grandchildren of the stirring events of 1798.  She remembered having once heard the Irish patriot, Daniel O'Connell, address a town meeting when she was ten or twelve years of age.
"Granny" Smith, as she was familiarly known in Morrisania, was Mary Lavelle before her marriage.  She married Thomas Smith when she was nineteen years old.  Four children - Thomas, Mary, Ellen, and Patrick - were born, the eldest, Thomas in 1807 and the youngest, Patrick in 1823.  Her husband died in 1830, and two years afterward her son Thomas went to England to make his fortune.  He was never heard of again.
In 1843 Mrs. Smith and her three other children came to this country, and for many years lived in Monroe Street, this city.  Patrick in 1868 bought the property on which his residence now stands for $50.  Mrs. Smith's two daughters, Mary and Ellen, both married in this country.  Both died long ago, leaving sons and daughters who have also married and given to "Granny" Smith ten great-grandchildren ranging in age from one year to twelve years.
When Ellen died her husband, James Hughes, went to live with Mrs. Smith and her son Patrick, and the old lady looked after the children.  She had remarkable sight for one so old and was a skillful needleworker.  She was never ill, but complained at times of a pain in her neck, which, she thought, would someday kill her.
The body rests in a plain velvet covered casket in the parlor of her son's house.  It will be buried today in St. Raymond's Cemetery.
New York Times - Mar. 10, 1893, pg. 8

The Most Rev. James Donnelly, D. D., Catholic Bishop of Clogher, died yesterday (Dec. 29, 1893?) at the Bishop's House, Monaghan, Ireland.  He was consecrated as Bishop Feb. 26, 1865.
New York Times - Dec. 30, 1893, pg. 5

DEATH OF PATRICK MAGUIRE.
A Paralytic Stroke Received Several Days Ago Result Fatally.
Boston, Mass., Nov. 28 - Hon. Patrick Maguire, the distinguished Democratic leader and editor, died at his home in Roxbury this afternoon from the effects of a paralytic shock Wednesday morning.
Patrick Maguire was born in County Monaghan, Ireland, December 5, 1838, and came to America with his parents when a child.  He learned the printer's trade in the Gazette Office at Charlottetown, P. E. I.  In 1882, he began the publication of the Republic, a Democratic weekly paper, of which he was editor, publisher, and sole proprietor up to the time of his death.
He was chosen in 1884 a delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Chicago, and to his efforts was largely due the support given by Massachusetts to the nomination of Grover Cleveland.
The Washington Post - Nov. 29, 1896, pg. 1
 

MCCAFFREY - On July 3, 1898, at Minmurry, County Monaghan, Ireland, Sarah McCaffrey, for forty-five years a faithful friend in the family of the late John Punnett.
New York Times - Jul. 6, 1898, pg. 7
 

Daniel Macaleese, M. P., Dead.

LONDON, Dec. 1 - Daniel Macaleese, member of the House of Commons for the North Monaghan Division, is dead.
Daniel Macaleese was born in 1840, in the North of Ireland.  He was for the most part a self-educated man, and was a journalist, having risen through the grades of clerk, printer's reader, reporter, &c.  He was the editor of the Belfast Morning News under the late E. Dwyer Gray, M. P., and at the time of his death edited The Ulster Examiner and was the proprietor of a local Monaghan paper, The People's Advocate.  He was a home ruler of the anti-Parnell faction.
New York Times - Dec. 2, 1900, pg. 4
 

CAMPBELL - On Wednesday, June 26, 1901, Mary, wife of late Patrick Campbell, native of County Monaghan, Ireland.  Funeral on Saturday, June 29, at 10 o'clock - from the residence of her son, Patrick Campbell, 288 Union Av., Brooklyn: thence to the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, North 6th St. Washington (D.C.) papers please copy.
New York Times - June 28, 1901,pg. 7

WATERS - At 511 West One Hundred and Forty-fifth Street, Bridget Waters, native of Castleblaney, County Monaghan, Ireland, May 28.
New York Times - June 1, 1902, pg. 28

KEARNS - Jul. 7, Stephen, aged 9 months, son of James and Alice Kearns, (nee Gallagher) native County Monaghan, Ireland, residence 327 East One Hundred and First Street.
New York Times - Jul. 13, 1902, pg. 15

RINEAR - Jul. 23, Sarah Rinear, (nee Loughlin) at residence of her daughter, Mrs. T. McGeough, 400 East Fourteenth St.
New York Times - Jul. 27, 1902, pg. 15

DELANEY - Jul. 23, at 118 East Fifty-first Street, Mary, widow of Richard Delaney, native of County Monaghan, Ireland.
New York Times - Jul. 27, 1902, pg. 15

MCCUE - July 21, Patrick F. McCue, husband of Catherine Moore, at 657 Sixth Avenue, native of County Monaghan.
New York Times - Jul. 27, 1902, pg. 15

SULLIVAN - Sep. 3, at 722 Washington Street, James Sullivan, native of County Monaghan.
New York Times - Sep. 7, 1902, pg. 31

FARRELL - Oct. 19, at 836 Bedford Avenue, Maggie, daughter of Margaret Farrell of County Monaghan, Ireland.
New York Times - Oct. 26, 1902, pg. 18

KING - Oct. 23, at 107 East Seventy-seventh Street, Elizabeth, widow of Patrick King, a native of Sheetrim, County Monaghan, Ireland, aged 68 years.
New York Times - Oct. 26, 1902, pg. 18

FEE - Nov. 1, at 1252 Second Avenue, Mary A. McCaffrey, wife of Thomas Fee, native of Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland
.New York Times - Nov. 9, 1902, pg. 18

McKENNA - Nov. 1, at 2520 Eighth Avenue, Rosanna, widow of William McKenna, native of County Monaghan, Ireland.
New York Times - Nov. 9, 1902, pg. 18

                                                                                            Monaghan Mention - Wills

WILL OF JANE A. WALLACE
Her Bequests to the Foreign and the Freedmen's Missions.
The will of Jane A. Wallace, who died on March 26 last, was filed for probate in the Surrogates' office yesterday.  In the petition which accompanies the will a list of forty cousins of the testatrix is given.  A number of them live at Drumakill, Castle Blayney, County Monaghan, Ireland.  The others are scattered throughout the United States.
     In her will the testatrix gives a piece of tapestry - "Queen Catherine and Cardinal Wolsey" - to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  The Trustees of the Seventh Avenue United Presbyterian Church receive $1,000 and the Ladies' Aid Society of the same church gets $200.
     A number of bequests to friends and relatives are made, and the residue of the estate is to go to the Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church for India and Egypt, the Board of Home Missions, and the Freedmen's Mission of the same church.  The value of the estate is about $10,000.
New York Times - May 18, 1901
                              
                                                                                           Monaghan Origin - Personals

INFORMATION WANTED OF MARTHA, ANN, AND EILEN LEONARD, daughters of John and Ann Leonard, maiden name Steanson, of Crieve, County Monaghan, Ireland; were in New York City six years ago; Martha and Ann are married; Ellen is in service.  Call or address Michael Crosson or Charles McPhillips, No. 241 West 33d St.
New York Times - March 19, 1880, pg. 7

JOHN HAERTON, WHO EMIGRATED to this country from Anloar, Monaghan County, Ireland, about the year 1850 and took up his residence in the State of California, has not been heard from for many years.  Any person knowing of his whereabouts will please write to Maggie Haerton, Galena, Illinois, and receive reward.  California papers please copy.
Chicago Daily Tribune - December 23, 1900, pg. 21


                                                                                       General News Of Monaghan Mention

Dr. William O'Neill of Oakland, Cal., who was born in Balibay, County Monaghan, Ieland, in 1834, says he is one of the descendants of the royal Irish family of that name, and has made claim to a share of an $80,000,000 estate left by Lord O'Neill, Earl of Antrim.
Chicago Daily Tribune - Oct. 6, 1895, pg. 28

THE FAMINE IN IRELAND.
    No pen can describe and no imagination can conceive the appalling distress of the Irish peasantry.  It is deep, widespread, almost universal throughout the unhappy island.  It is estimated that 300,000 people in the west and south of Ireland are on the verge of starvation, and the number increases daily.  Heartrending scenes of misery, which local charity is powerless to relieve, are of constant occurrence in every hamlet and parish from Cork to Donegal.  Tenant and landowner are alike the prey of cold and hunger, and in some instances of pestilence, which, as in the dark days of 1847, follows at the heels of famine.  It is a national calamity which calls for the active sympathy of every civilized people, and the generous assistance of all who recognize the brotherhood of humanity and have hearts to feel for the sufferings of their fellow creatures.
    The land agitation has ceased in Ireland.  It has been stilled by the despair of a people menaced by an awful calamity, which legislation is powerless to avert.  Men look no longer for land - they only ask for bread to save their families and themselves from death in its most hideous form.  Ireland holds out her hands to the world and appeals for succor before her people perish from cold and hunger.
    Not only has the land agitation ceased, but religious discord has, for the moment, disappeared.  Now, as in 1847, Catholic priest and Protestant minister work side by side with tireless devotion and deathless heroism to rescue the famine stricken people from starvation.  The distinctions of race and creed are forgotten in the struggle with the common foe of humanity.
    Of the three hundred thousand persons known to be in a starving condition, nearly two-thirds are residents of Connaught, and a large proportion of the other third are in the western counties of Munster.  Leinster and a great part of Ulster seem to be comparatively free from pressing want at the present.  In Monaghan the distress seems to be confined to the country bordering upon Lough Erne, where the misery caused by the failure of the crops has been aggravated by an overflow of the lake and the presence of a virulent fever among the people.  In Mayo the gloom is deepest.  In that one county there are no less than 65,000 people dependent upon the charity of the world for the continuation of their wretched existence.  They have eaten their seed potatoes; many families have lived for weeks upon turnips of Indian meal, and now find themselves without any food whatever.  The accounts of the prevailing misery in that district are heartrending.  The small landowners of Aughamore seem to be no better off than the tenantry of Clare Morris.   A gentleman writing from Attymas, where there are two thousand person literally starving to death, says: "I am a prisoner in my own house, because I cannot bear to hear the stories of the hundreds who surround it, and I am powerless to give."
    At Ballinrobe, in the same county where there are nearly three thousand persons utterly destitute, a malignant fever is spreading rapidly.
Similar accounts come from other sections of the famine smitten country.  There is a horrible sameness in the sickening details, without a solitary ray of hope to lighten the gloom in any instance.  The calamity is so great, so sudden and so widespread that those who are able and willing to contribute to the relief of the distress should not wait to inquire into the cause of it, but give quickly if they would save human life.  Those who may distrust Mr. Parnell can send their contribution to the Mansion House committee in Dublin; those who trust in him can ask him to forward them (remainder of sentence missing).

The Washington Post - February 5, 1880, pg. 2