Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-18
PATRICK DONABOE IS DEAD
Founder and Publisher of the
 Boston Pilot.

This Country-His Life Has Been
 One of Faithful Attention to Duty
 and Kindness For His Fellow Man.
 Boston, March 1S.-Patrick Dona- hoe, founder of the Boston Pilot, old est member of the Charitable Irish so- ciety. and one of the most widely known representatives of the Irish race in America, died at 1 o'clock this morning, at his home, $50 Shawmut avenue, just one hour after the close of the day which was the 90th anni- versary of his birth.
 His last illness began in January. He was afflicted with no particular disease, but simply with q waning of the vital forces. Several times during the two months or more which have elapsed death seemed about to close his long and eventful career, but each time his strong vitality enabled him to rally, and, though at no time were expectations entertained that he would recover, the hope was expressed by MT Donahoe that his life might be spared until he lad rounded out his 90th year. This hope was gratifed.
 It was always a source of pleasure to MT Donahoe that his natal day fell upon the feast day of his patron saint, and on the national festival of the land of his nativity. It so happened that his life closed, as we'll as began, on the day of the celebration of the Irish festival, the 17th of March, fall ing this year on Sunday, and the great CT obseryanceS being postponed until to-day.
 Patrick Donahoe's life was the life of the city of Boston, for the city was but two years old when he landed here, and a few years later humbly began career which was destined to become in the fullness of time q high ly honored one and famous in no small degree. When he came here there were living hundreds of the men who had helped to win freedom for our land. and the streets yet echoed to the tread of the veterans of Jackson's army and the hardy sailormen who manned the Yankee privateers or fought on the decks of our few, but daring, men-ofwar.
 Those old heroic times were told to his bOyiSh heart. and with his earliest lessons in Americanism he absorbed a love for the old flag and it's glories, which never faltered or wavered, even in the hour of stress and storm. or when the clouds lowered darkly over his own head and home.
 No sooner was he of sufficient age than he joined military company, the Mechanic rifles, and with the rest, in 1881, he turned ont to welcome Presi- dent Andrew Jackson to Boston.
 Patrick Donahoe was born in Mun- nery, teh parish of kilenore, county Cavan, Ireland, St Patrick's day, 1S11. He was ten years old when he came to Boston, and after a few years, and while still ill his teens, got employment on the Columbian Sentinel. He after ward entered the office of the Boston Transcript, and when he left it he was not only a full-fedged journeyman, but swift compositor, this adding to the natural joy of his freedom from apprenticeship that high notch to which a printers ambition aspires. With this limited amount of schooling, supplemented by that gained at the printers case and an apt mind and re- tentive memory, he made up his mind to found Boston newspaper which should be at once the peculiar organ of the Catholic faith and the Irish peo- pie in America.
 10 these who have experienced only the large hearted liberaI1ty and en- frightened tolerance of these later times 1t does not seem much of an undertak- ing, but in those elder days, when stern and drowning bigotry was the order of the day, when the anti-Catholic and anti-Irish feeling, which eliminated later in the destruction of the Ursuline convent in CharlestOWn and the Broad street riots was rife, it was an under taking needing all the hardihood of a hero and the steady courage and per severeance of an apostle to carry it to success.
 In 1896 Messrs Donahoe and Dever- eux began the publication of the l Pilot The latter gentleman did not | remain long connected with the enter prise. Mr Donahoe bent all his ener- l gieS to making the Pilot a success. He made personal canvass, not only of l the New England and middle states, | but of the far west and south; never I resting, till he had built up for his paper thoroughly national circula- tion, and expanded it from a small four-page to a large and handsomely printed eight-page weekly.
 The Pilot for long time had the field almost to itself. It became q household word in the Irish Catholic homes of the land, and was eagerly l looked for from week to week, by the poor immigrants, nomesick for the news of the old land, which they were sure to find abundantly in it's columns. For many years, too, it did effective missionary work. being almost the only medium of Catholic news and religious instruction in the hundreds of new settlements where the visits of priests were necessarily infre- Cuent.
 The "Old Subscriber" very numer. ous on the Pilot books, and who holds q double handful of receipts dating
 back to the early '4Os. tells many q pathetic story of the Pilots travels in pioneer days among the scattered farmhouses of the great western clear ances, and of the hearty reception it met with every week in the little frontier town and the mining camp.
 He was always public spirited citi- zen, and when the Civil war broke out and the president called for volun- teers MT Donahoe took leading and active part in the organization of the Irish-Amcrican volunteer regiments.
 He was the treasurer of and largest contributor to the fund for eQuipping and preparing the Ninth Massachu- setts regiment to take the field. A beautiful incident in his life is the fact that on the day of tho depart