Hello Elizabeth,<br><br>Thanks again. I'm impressed – in addition to all else, this guy apparently was a regular Mickey Rooney! So far, we have identified...
He was only married twice. Mary Lynch and then Mary Regan from Princeton, Wisconsin.<br>Charles McParland also married a girl named SChopple from the ...
Here is the marriage to Mary Regan from the Illinois index, listed under Mc Farland taking place in 1888. <br>MCFARLAND, JAMES REGAN, MARY H COOK 05/10/1888 /...
Hello Elizabeth,<br><br>Thank you for doing all this research. I'm guessing that neither of the two James McFarlands on the 1888/1890 Chicago voter rolls was...
Hugh<br><br>I believe that by 1890 McParlan was at work in Denver for the pinkertons. Elizabeth certainly knows how to mine the mother lode. perhaps working...
Well, Harold, you are correct as usual.<br>James McParland is listed in the 1890<br>Denver Colorado City Directory as the Agency Superintendent of Pinkerton's ...
Hello Elizabeth,<br><br>Just curious -- how do you get your information so quickly? Does your CD cover the whole USA? I appreciate the trouble you are going...
Hi Hugh,<br>My interest in coal region history is due to the fact that I am researching my family history. Ancestry.com has a lot of data bases available for a...
Hi Hugh,<br><br>Elizabeth did not explain why she did not have access to the 1890 Census for Chicago. The 1890 Census was burned in a fire, and the records ...
For those of you who are interested in all trivia re the great detective, the following letter:<br> <br> new york, feb 23, 1888<br>W.J. Loader Esq<br>Supt P...
From the Molly Maguire notebook of Linden. It states that Linden: performed much of the open investigative work on the Mollie Maguires. <br><br>In this ...
I made a mistake in a recent posting. I stated that James McParland married Mary Lynch from Panache. It was Charles McParland who married Mary Lynch and then...
Last year, family history research led me to a search of the Erin Prairie, WI area where relatives of Thomas Geraghty of Centralia possible settled, so I am ...
All,<br><br>Ther were many Irish families who went west from the Schuylkill and Columbia county area during the late 1870's. Many settled in the Erin Prairie,...
Hello Frank and Tom,<br><br>Fr. McDermott had a well-earned reputation as a fearless, "take-no-prisoners" nemesis of the Molly Maguires during his tenure in...
Howard<br><br>In preparing your opus on the Sanger and Uren murders I hope you can take advantage of the following items of information, since they thoroughly...
This is taken from a letter by Pinkerton manager Ralph Dudley to Chicago Jounalist J.C.Camden, dated New York, DEc 12, 1939. The letter is in the Pinkerton ...
Hello Tom and Frank,<br><br>Of course, I could be wrong. There actually could have been an unpublished manuscript. In that case, some interesting questions...
(continued)<br><br>As a young priest, Fr. McDermott had a penchant for airing his views in the press, not only outside his own archdiocese, but also in ...
Hugh, TDemp, etal<br><br>McDermott was not beyond blackmailing the Bishop by thretening to expose scandals within the church if he did not get what he wanted....
March 5 edition of Pottsvile Republican states the 19th century train station near the Five Points intersection is scheduled to be assessed this spring by a ...
Hello All,<br><br>I'm sure we've all been watching what is happening to other "Clubs" as they are transitioning to "Groups." What a fiasco!<br><br>Does anyone ...
I agree.....the change to groups for the Anthracite History Club was a disaster. All of the posted photos and links were instantly lost in the transition and...
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