This is a wonderful group photo, taken, I presume, on the steps of a school. I only wish I knew which school. My dad is in the second row, third from the left (here indicated with a blue arrow —…
Continue reading →Found in the household of John Rowan and his wife Emma Hogan (Emily Julia Hogan, daughter of John Hogan and Marcella Moran) in the 1891 census of Huntley township (Lanark North, Ontario): Jas. [James] Fitzpatrick, male, age 17, Dom. [Domestic],…
Continue reading →James Edward Sullivan was born about 1866, apparently at or near Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York. He died in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on 7 February 1931. His Ontario civil death record records his birthplace as Potsdam, NY, and lists…
Continue reading →John Vallely was a son of Michael Vallely and Mary Ryan. He was born in Lanark Co., Ontario in 1861, and emigrated to Grand Forks, North Dakota about 1882. In 1889 he married another Canadian emigrant to North Dakota: Anna…
Continue reading →“Do you claim exemption from draft (specify grounds)?” “Yes Claim Murder” Berkeley, California, 1965? Nope. East Grand Forks, Minnesota, 1917.
Continue reading →“Could you look up Mary Hogan?” asked my dad’s cousin Aggie. “I think she may have been,” and this added sotto voce, as if, even after so many years, there might yet be something to hide, “a Home Girl.”1 A…
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