Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-21
JOHN 0. CULLEN.
Old Resident Died At An Early Hour
 This Morning.

This Morning.
 John 0. Cullen one of Waterbury s we'll mown citizens, died early tlas morning at his residence, 809 Easst Main street. He is survived by two sons Thomas and John Cullen. Mir Cullen w6s borm in Iceland sixty -sev- en years ago, but came to this country i'm his boylfood and resided in Water- bury ever since He was for many years a hand burmisher at Steele & Johnson's and worked att the business tD other factories. Uutil about a year ago or so he lived on Railroad Hfn street and was highly esteemed by his nedghbors. He was an honest industrious man who made friends wherever be went and held them to the end. \One of lMs chief character isItics was a disposition to talk and tell of incidents in the lives of men with whom he came in contact that were pleaSant to hear and a very hap py knack of onitttng mentioning amy timing that might reflect upon absent ones or wound tine feelings of those whom they had left behind He knew nothing bad about his neighbors or If he did he kept it i'm the back ground anId on thdS account he had a host of warm personal friends who will regret to deaEn of his death.
 Intensely American in his ideas and notions of govedTment. he had an tn- tense hatred of oppression and never tired of accounting scenes and tncd- dents tlnat came under his notdce in his boyhood i'm the old country, and when in the right mood he could tell Interesting "reminiscences of his esca- paS1es i'm connection with Irish nati0n- al organizations, notably the Benians, a body of men which he considered did much to ampelioraHe Hhe conditions that obtained i'm Ireland when he was a youngsber and for many years prior to that &ime. He was one of a num- Der of young men who took part in the Fenian raid into Canada in the summer of 1866, and while it Is a mat ter of history tihalt the invasion turned out to be a miserable Gaalure, still MT Cullen always emtertained the nofion thalt 1t ihad am influence for good ana often said that it. was one of the vari- olls happenings rthat proved to theI British government Ehat some conceS- sions would have to be made to theI Irish if the government was to enjoy anything Nike security from similar fn- cursioms into Ats terTttory. DurfngI the trip to and from Canada Mir Cul- len had for companions Joseph Sraham of Baldwim street, Thomas Moran of the BuooksSie home and many other Waterbury, boys, many of whom haveI since passed over to the silent major fty. Urhdl his health failed and sick ness forced upon hfrn a consbant con- siderahiom of the real seriousness Of ltfe-thaE which tends to man's future state-he took delight in accounting the trials that Waterbury contingent of the Fe11ian party in Oanada. HeI was brtmful of hunor and frequently made his companions laugh about how sound1y Tom Moran slept in an oldl barn near Pidgeon Hin whdbe nearly all the others were too much excited to close an eye. On the way home their funds gave out in MeT1den and they had to walk from there to Water bury. Night overlook them at theI Southfngton mountain and tired and weary, but not dfsheartered, as MrI Cullen used to say, they put up for the night in a barn where they slept hkel tops until mor-ning and Ghen marched into town and made a stop at Law lor's hotel
 MT Cullenss funeral will take place tomorrow morning at S:30 o'clock with a mass of requiem at the Inn maculate Conception church and i'm termemt in St Josephs cemetery.