The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-01
MOURN
COL. ODONOHUE,
BURIED TO-DAY
Death at MeadowbroOk Farm
Ended Active Business and So
ciaI Career in New Jersey.

Funeral services for Colonel Thomas
j. O'Donohue. who died Thursday at
his Meadowbrook farm. Shrewsbury,
were held at 10 a. m. today from st.
Patrick's Cathedral, Fiftieth street and
Fifth avenue, New York.
Colonel O'Donohue's death was the
result of an attack of typhoid fever,
and he was i'll for ten days. He was
AZ Years old, and his winning person.
ality and public spirit had made many
OF his acquaintance and associates his
warm personal friends. Hosts of hose
prominent in the business, political and
social life of New Jersey and New
York join with the family in mourning
his untimely death.
A son of the late Joseph j. O'Dono-
hue. formerly city chamberlain of New
York and president of the Brooklyn
ferry, Colonel O'Donohue. when he was
81 years old, entered his fathers coffee
importing firm with offices d lot Front
street, New York. In 1898, when his
father died, he succeeded to the bust
ness. He bought two adjoining estates
at Shrewsbury and founded Meadow
brook farm.
Such had been his helpful activity on
the Jersey coast thar at the time of
his death Colonel O'Donohue was presl-
dent of the Monmouth County Horse
Show Association, the Long Branch
Horse Show Association, the Elkwood
Park Racing Association and IA a
member of many clubs.
Resolutions adopted by the board Of
managers of the Roman Catholic o.
phan Asylum. of New York city, and
signed by Archbishop Farley, express
what a host of Colonel O,Donohue's
friends feel and would like to say. The
resolutions follow:
Thomas j. O'Donohpe-At a special
of the board of anage of
the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum,
ir the city of New York, held on Sep
30, 1909, the following resolu,
ions were adopted:
"Whereas, The members of this board
have been apprised of the death Of their
valued associate, Thomas j. O,Donohue.
the assistant secretary, and bowling iE
submission to the viii of the Almighty
they desire to place on record their pro.
found sense of loss n their testimony
to the regard in which their late co.
worker was held, not only by them, but
the citizens of New York.
Resolved. That in the death Of
Thomas ]. O'Donohue this board has
been deprived of~one of the most faith
full, energetic and capable members, who
has unselfshly devoted his time and
abilities for any years to the service
of the poor orphans whom Providence
has placed IN the care of this asylum,
and whose gentle and kindly disposition
endeared him to them and to us and to
all with whom he came in contact.
Resolved, That the people of this
city have lost by the Heath of Thomas
O'Donohue a prominent and valuable
who was ever unsparing of his
in civic matters and In upholding
the honor of the State and nation; and
in public as wen as pr tie life
was attended by The affs stion End es-
TEEN which his many virtues deserved.
"Resolved. That a copy of these reso-
l~utions, signed by our president and
SC cretary, be transmitted tn the family
our late associate n be published
in the daily press.
John NJ. FARLEY,
Archbishop, President.
"FORBES j. HENNESSN.
Secretary