Part 14

May 8, 1862, and ordered to command the U. S. S. _Wyandank_ in the Potomac flotilla. He served on the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers until February, 1863, when he was detached from the _Wyandank_ and ordered to the _Florida_ as navigator. He served on the _Florida_ in the blockade off Wilmington, N. C., until October, 1864, when the ship went to New York for repairs. In November, of the same year, he was detached from the _Florida_ and ordered to the U. S. S. _State of Georgia_ as navigator; arrived off Wilmington, N. C., the day after the capture of Fort Fisher, his ship being then ordered to reinforce the fleet off Charleston, S. C. While there he took part in the Bulls Bay Expedition, which was one of the causes of the evacuation of Charleston by the Confederates. Soon after the evacuation, the _State of Georgia_ was ordered to Aspinwall (Colon) to protect American interests on the Isthmus of Panama. Before sailing for Aspinwall, McGowan succeeded Lieutenant Manly as executive officer of the ship. In November, 1865, he was ordered to the U. S. S. _Monongahela_ as watch and division officer; served on the _Monongahela_ in the West Indies until January, 1867, when he was detached and, a few days later, joined the U. S. S. _Tacony_, Commander Roe, fitting out for duty in the Gulf Squadron. He was at Vera Cruz nearly all the summer of 1867, which witnessed the fall of Maximilian’s empire. After the death of Maximilian, and the surrender of Vera Cruz to the Liberals, the _Tacony_ returned to Pensacola, Fla., but yellow fever breaking out aboard, the ship went to Portsmouth, N. H., where, after undergoing quarantine, the officers were detached and ordered to their homes the latter part of September, 1867. In October of the same year, McGowan was ordered to duty on board the receiving ship at the Philadelphia navy yard. He commanded the U. S. S. _Constellation_ there, and was afterward executive officer of the frigate _Potomac_, also a receiving ship, at Philadelphia. In March, 1868, while on the _Potomac_, he received a commission as master in the regular navy, and in October, 1868, was ordered to duty with the Asiatic fleet. On reporting to the admiral, he was ordered to duty as executive officer of the U. S. S. _Unadilla_; succeeded to the command of the _Unadilla_ in June, 1869, and in November of that year was detached from the _Unadilla_ and ordered to the U. S. S. _Iroquois_; returned in her to the United States, the ship going out of commission in April, 1870. In April, 1870, he was promoted to be lieutenant-commander and while in that grade served on the double-turreted monitor _Terror_, the _Wachusett_, _Juniata_ and _Marion_ as executive officer, and at the League Island, Philadelphia and Brooklyn navy yards. In January, 1887, he was promoted to commander; commanded the _Swatara_, _St. Mary’s_, _Portsmouth_ and _Alliance_, and was also commandant of the naval training station at Newport, R. I., from December, 1896, to July, 1899. He was promoted captain, February, 1899, and in August took command of the U. S. S. _Monadnock_ at Manila. In November, 1900, he was ordered to duty as commandant of the naval station at Key West, Fla. In April, 1901, he was detached and ordered before the retiring board. He was retired, with the rank of rear admiral, in April, 1901. In October, 1871, he wedded Evelyn Manderson of Philadelphia. Admiral McGowan is a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion, of the Order of Foreign Wars, the Sons of the Revolution, and of the Society of Marine Engineers and Naval Architects. He is also a member of the following clubs: the Metropolitan and Chevy Chase of Washington, D. C.; the Rittenhouse of Philadelphia, the Union of New York, and the New York Yacht Club. Admiral McGowan’s father, Capt. John McGowan, was appointed a lieutenant in the revenue cutter service by President Andrew Jackson. He was at Charleston, S. C., during the nullification period, served in the Seminole War, in the War with Mexico, and in the Civil War. He commanded the steamer _Star of the West_ in the attempt to reinforce Fort Sumter in 1861. He died in January, 1891, aged 85 years.

=McGowan, P. F.=, manufacturer, 224 East 12th Street, New York City. (Life member of the Society.) President of the board of aldermen. Born in Lebanon, Conn., in 1852; went to New York City in 1877 and subsequently engaged in the manufacturing business, in which he is still interested. On January 1, 1900, was appointed by Mayor Van Wyck as a commissioner of education for a term of three years; appointed by Mayor McClellan as a commissioner of education, July 12, 1904, to fill the unexpired term of President H. A. Rogers, and while serving in that capacity was, in 1905, elected president of the board of aldermen for the term expiring January 1, 1910. Mr. McGowan is active in a number of benevolent and fraternal societies. He was a supreme representative of the Royal Arcanum and supreme councilor of the Loyal Association. He is a member of the Manhattan Club, of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and of the Pensacola Club, of the Fourteenth Assembly District, where he resides. He is a trustee in St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church, New York Polyclinic Hospital and the West Side Savings Bank.

=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, Richard J.=, of the law firm R. J. & G. F. McKelleget, Pemberton Building, Boston, Mass.

=McLaughlin, Henry V.= (M. D.), 40 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 F.=, 19 East 87th Street, New York City.

=McMahon, James=, 87 McDonough Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

=McMahon, Rev. John W.= (D. D.), rector of St. Mary’s Church, Charlestown (Boston), Mass.

=McManus, Col. John=, 87 Dorrance Street, Providence, R. I.; was appointed colonel of the Rhode Island Guards Regiment by Governor Van Zandt, in 1887; was one of the commissioners to revise the militia laws of the state; aide-de-camp, with the rank of colonel, on the staff of Governor Davis of Rhode Island; has been prominently identified with all movements for the betterment of Ireland—his native land; is of the firm John McManus & Co., prominent merchant tailors of Providence.

=McManus, Michael=, of McManus & Co., clothiers, Fall River, Mass.

=McManus, Rev. Michael T.=, rector of St. Mary’s Church of the Assumption, Brookline, Mass.

=McMullen, John R.=, lawyer, 60 Wall Street, New York City.

=McOwen, Anthony=, 515 Wales Avenue, borough of the Bronx, New York City.

=McPartland, John E.=, Park Street, New Haven, Conn.

=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.=, _Evening Traveler_, Summer Street, Boston, Mass.

=McTighe, P. J.=, McTighe Grocery Co., wholesale grocers, Fayette Street, Binghamton, N. Y.

=McWalters, John P.=, 141 Broadway, New York City.

=Magrane, P. B.=, dry goods merchant, Lynn, Mass.; and president of the James A. Houston Co., Boston.

=Magrath, Patrick F.=, 244 Front Street, Binghamton, N. Y. (Life member of the Society.)

=Maguire, P. J.=, 223 Third Avenue, 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, Thomas E.= (M. D.), North Main Street, Fall River, Mass.

=Marshall, Rev. George F.=, rector of St. Paul’s Church, Milford, N. H.

=Martin, James=, recently managing editor, _New York Tribune_, New York City; now editor of the Newark (N. J.) _Advertiser_.

=Martin, Hon. John B.=, penal institutions commissioner, 762 Fourth Street, South Boston, Mass.

=Meade, Richard W.=, 125 East 24th Street, New York City; son of the first president-general of the Society.

=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 tube of the large diameter has 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.

=Moloney, Fred G.=, Ottawa, Ill.

=Moloney, Hon. Maurice T.=, lawyer, rooms 513–515 Moloney Building, Ottawa, Ill. He is a native of County Kerry, Ireland; came to the United States in 1867; graduated in law from the University of Virginia, class of 1871; admitted to the Virginia bar; removed to Illinois and was admitted to the bar of that state; served as city attorney of Ottawa, Ill., in 1879–’80 and 1881; was elected state’s attorney in 1884 and served four years; was elected attorney-general of Illinois and while in this position vigorously prosecuted illegal trusts and made a national reputation through his work; became mayor of Ottawa.

=Molony, Henry A.=, of Molony & Carter, 16 New Street, Charlestown, S. C.

=Monaghan, Hon. James Charles=, professor in the University of Notre Dame, Indiana; recently 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.

=Montfort, Richard=, Louisville, Ky.; chief engineer of the Louisville & Nashville R. R.

=Montgomery, Gen. Phelps=, 39 Church Street, New Haven, Conn.

=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., 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 Newberne, 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= (M. D.), 345 West 58th Street, New York City.

=Morgan, John=, 44 West 46th Street, New York City.

=Moriarty, John=, Broadway, Waterbury, Conn.

=Morrissey, Very Rev. Andrew= (C. S. C., D. D., LL. D.), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind.

=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 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.

=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.=, 33 Loring Avenue, Winchester, Mass.

=Murphy, Fred C.=, of the Edward J. Murphy Co., Springfield, Mass.

=Murphy, James=, 42 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I.

=Murphy, James R.=, lawyer, 27 School Street, Boston, Mass.

=Murray, John F.=, captain of police, Cambridge, Mass.; residence, 9 Avon Street.

=Murray, Hon. Lawrence O.= (LL. D.), assistant secretary, U. S. Department of Commerce and Labor, Washington, D. C. He is a lawyer by profession. He first went to Washington as secretary to William Edmund Curtis, assistant secretary of the treasury. Subsequently, he held other positions in the treasury, including that of chief of division, and, from September 1, 1898, to June 27, 1899, that of deputy comptroller of the currency. He left the government employ to become the trust officer of the American Trust Company, continuing in that place for three years. He then went to Chicago as secretary of the Central Trust Company of Illinois and served there for two years before becoming assistant secretary of commerce and labor.

=Murray, Patrick=, insurance, 318 West 52d Street, New York City.

=Murray, Thomas Hamilton=, Seaview, Plymouth County, Mass.; secretary-general of the Society; a newspaper man of many 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.

=Neagle, Rev. Richard=, Malden, Mass.

=Noonan, Daniel A.=, 725 Broadway, New York City.

=O’Brien, Hon. C. D.=, lawyer, Globe Building, St. Paul, Minn.; prosecuting attorney of Ramsey County, Minn., from 1874–’78; assistant U. S. district attorney from 1870–’73; mayor of St. Paul from 1883–’85.

=O’Brien, Dennis F.=, lawyer, 106 West 92d Street, New York City.

=O’Brien, Rev. James J.=, 185 Summer Street, 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, Dr. Michael C.=, 161 West 122nd Street, New York City.

=O’Brien, Hon. Morgan J.= (LL. D.), 729 Park Avenue, New York City; trustee of the New York Public Library; former presiding justice of the appellate division of the New York Supreme Court, now senior member of the law firm of O’Brien, Boardman, Platt & Holly, and associated with Grover Cleveland and George Westinghouse as a trustee of the Ryan stock in the Equitable Life Assurance Association.

=O’Brien, Patrick=, of Driscoll & O’Brien, contractors, 399 South Broadway, Lawrence, Mass.

=O’Callaghan, Rt. Rev. Mgr. Denis= (D. D.), rector of St. Augustine’s Church, South Boston, Mass.

=O’Connell, Rt. Rev. Mgr. Denis Joseph= (S. T. D.), rector of the Catholic University, Washington, D. C.

=O’Connell, John=, Flat Iron Building, New York City.

=O’Connell, John=, 302 West End Avenue, New York City.

=O’Connell, John F.=, 306 Broadway, Providence, R. I.

=O’Connell, Hon. Joseph F.=, lawyer, 53 State Street, Boston, Mass.; a member of Congress.

=O’Connell, P. A.=, treasurer of the James A. Houston Co., 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’Connor, J. L.=, Ogdensburg, N. Y.

=O’Connor, M. P.=, Binghamton, N. Y. (Life member of the Society.)

=O’Connor, Thomas=, 920 East 156th Street, New York City.

=O’Doherty, Rev. James=, Haverhill, Mass. (Life member of the Society.)

=O’Doherty, Hon. Matt.=, Louisville, Ky.; a judge of the Circuit Court.

=O’Donovan, Jeremiah (Rossa)=, New York City.

=O’Donnell, Rev. James H.=, rector, St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, Conn.

=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’Gorman, Hon. J. A.=, 318 West 108th Street, New York City; a justice of the New York Supreme Court.

=O’Gorman, Thomas A.=, the O’Gorman Co., Providence, R. I.

=O’Hagan, W. J.=, of W. J. O’Hagan & Son, colonial antiques, Charleston, S. C.

=O’Herin, William=, Parsons, Labette County, Kan.; superintendent of machinery and equipment, Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. (Life member of the Society.)

=O’Keefe, Edmund=, 174 Middle Street, New Bedford, Mass.

=O’Keefe, J. A.= (M. D.), Broadway, Providence, R. I., lieutenant-colonel, Second Regiment, B. R. I. M.

=O’Keefe, John A.=, 25 Exchange Street, Lynn, Mass.; a native of Rockport, Mass.; was graduated from Harvard College, class of 1880; member of the Phi Beta Kappa; taught school in Housatonic, Mass.; was elected submaster of the Lynn (Mass.) High School in 1881 and headmaster of the same in 1885; became a member of the teaching staff of the English High School, Boston, Mass.; studied law; was admitted to the bar of Essex County, Mass., and has since practised law in Lynn. In 1897 he was the Democratic candidate for attorney-general of Massachusetts. Member of the Lynn Board of Associated Charities, member of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools; of the Essex Institute, and of the executive board of the Civic League of Lynn. Among Mr. O’Keefe’s classmates at Harvard were: Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States; Hon. William S. Andrews, justice of the New York Supreme Court; Robert Bacon, partner of J. P. Morgan; Harold N. Fowler, professor of Latin; Hon. Josiah Quincy, mayor of Boston, Mass.; Albert Bushnell Hart, historian and professor, and many other people of note.

=O’Keefe, John G.=, care of H. L. Horton & Co., 66 Broadway, New York City.

=O’Leary, Jeremiah=, 275 58th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.

=O’Leary, P. J.=, 161 West 13th Street, New York City.

=O’Loughlin, Patrick=, lawyer, 18 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass.

=O’Meara, Maurice=, president of the Maurice O’Meara Co., paper manufacturers, 448 Pearl Street, New York City.

=O’Neil, Frank S.=, lawyer, O’Neil Building, Binghamton, N. Y.

=O’Neil, Hon. George F.=, Binghamton, N. Y. (Life? member of the Society); was born in Ireland, and came to America at a very early age with his parents. After learning the machinery trade in Binghamton, he went West and engaged in mining in California. Returning to Binghamton, he went into the grocery business and real estate business, bought a controlling interest in a Democratic paper, which naturally brought him into politics. Never having had any taste for public office, he was, however, named as a presidential elector in 1892 for Grover Cleveland. He was appointed a member of the state committee, and served as a commissioner for the World’s Fair at Chicago by appointment of Governor Flower of New York. Having confidence in the growth of Binghamton, he became interested in its progress and general development. He became a stockholder in the electric light plant, a director in the First National Bank, and a trustee of the Susquehanna Valley Savings Bank. He is a prominent member of the Chamber of Commerce, and attends to his large real estate investments, being at the present time the largest tax-payer in the city of Binghamton and county of Broome.

=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, Eugene M.=, Pittsburg, Pa. (Life member of the Society.)

=O’Neill, James L.=, 220 Franklin Street, Elizabeth, N. J.; connected with the Elizabeth post-office for many years past; he 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’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.

=Patterson, Rev. George J.=, V. G., the Cathedral rectory, Boston, Mass.

=Phelan, Hon. James D.=, Phelan Building, San Francisco, Cal.; recently mayor of San Francisco.

=Phelan, James J.=, 16 Exchange Place, New York City; treasurer of the King’s County Refrigerating Co.; director in the Stuyvesant Insurance Co.; director in the Cosmopolitan Fire 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, George Bliss, 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.

=Phelan, Rev. J.=, Marcus, Ia.

=Philbin, Eugene A.=, lawyer, 52–54 William St., New York City; a regent of the University of the State of New York.

=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.

=Pigott, William=, iron and steel, Alaska Building, Seattle, Wash. (Life member of the Society.)

=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., 120 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass.

=Prendergast, W. A.=, 20 Nassau Street, New York City.