Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-17
Celtic Names Are Prominent IN
Roster of This City's
Early Residents.

Early Residents.
weeks after, but he never fully re-
covered from the wound, and it fire.
quently caused him much pain. He
jokingly called it his Thermometer
leg" as 1t painfully reminded him of
any change in the weather.
While doing guard duty on the banks
of the Rappahannock river Branagan
performed a feat thai was heralded
through the brigade to which his regi-
ment was attached. The rebel army
was ~ensconced on the opposite
side of the river, and the sol
diers exchanged the time of day
with one another. There was a
large fiat rock in the middle. Branagan
swan out to 1t, met one of the rebels,
one Morgan by name; the rebel brought
coffee and tobacco, which he exchanged
with Branagan for a cor of the New
ark Daily Advertiser (now the NEW
ARK starr. The men a a short
conversations; Branagan was seen to
laugh and show Morgan the wound in
his leg. Finally the two men stood
up on the. rock, shook hands and sepa-
rated. The sentry who had witnessed
the feat permitted him to land upon
his return swim. but the officer Of
the guard bounced down upon him and
he n the guard were placed under
arrest, and matters looked dark for the
Newarker. Some of the officers of the
Eighth pleaded for him, and he was
let off. and 1t is told how before he
was placed in the guard-house he gave
the coffee and tobacco to Der Murphy,
afterward chief of police of Jersey City,
who was a member of the Eighth Regi-
ment.
Meets His aFriend" Again.
While travelling in Texas many years
after, Branagan engaged in conversa-
ton with the railway conductor. They
finally drifted into war talk. The
Southerner told how he passed three
years of his life fighting the Union SOL
diers. Branagan modestly related that
he belonged to the Eighth New Jersey
Regiment and displayed his badge.
The ~Southerner related how he had
met a tall lanky soldier" from the
Eighth Regiment on a fiat rock in the
middle OF the Rappahannock river and
exchanged rations with him for a news
paper. Branagan Their called the rebel
by his surname md after the identity
of each was proved great was their
surprise and joy, When the train
reached Dallas, Branagan was intro
duced to nearly every one in town. and
for several years a correspondence was
kept up between them. until the death
Of Morgan.
School teachers were: Bernard
| DNo~o Do-,roax- AT0Cnrt MPManlG
Mckinney and John Nugent, a Dublin
University scholar.
No name in Newark recalls more
pleasant memories than that of Duffy,
who settled in B%elleville. and later en-
gagged in the leather business in New
ark. Colonel James N. Duffy Won
honors. in the civil a and his
brothers, Charles, the veteran employee
of the postofice; William and Edward,
were all fine looking men, considered
Beau Brummels of their time.
A gifted and talented newspaper
writer was Mr.. o'Toole, father of Peter
and John L. O'Toole, the latter of the
publicity bureau of the Public Service
Corporation.
Among the miscellaneous tradesmen
were. Philip Walsh, father of Assem-
blyman Philip C. Walsh; John Brana-
gan. landscape gardener; James Brana-
gan, a moulder; Michael Moore. and
John Gill, of State street; Solomon
Degnan, Matthew Geelan, John Hene-
gan, James Chapman, Thomas Kehoe,
the Dooleys and McGraths, who were
masons: also Michael Conroy and
James Moran.
P. F. Mulligan was one of the first
ne~wsdealers, and P. F. Garrigan the
first druggist. ]. ]. OConnor and the
Kelly Brothers kept Catholic book
stores. Michael Walsh was a veteran
p~aperhanger, McManus & Mclaughlin
sole drygoods. The first undertakers
in st. Johns were Reid & Swami. Mr..
Reid met an untimely death in g rail
road accident. Riley & Lynch and Ber-
nard Conlan were manufacturers of
novelty goods. In the produce business
were Patrick Dempsey & Brothers,
Buckleys, Nortons, Warrens, Quinns,
Holts and the Fitzsimmonses. John
Toler manufactured casters, the Nc
Cabes, McKennas, Cavanaughs, Col
linses, Days, McFaddens, McEntees,
Colgans, Connollys, Cars, G~affneys.
McCormacks, McCauleys, Lynches,
Tobins, Sherlocks, Hills and O'Con-
nells, Thompsons. Marleys, Hagans,
o'Rourkes of Summit street, who
were masons; Edward Scott, father
of Mrs. William Mooney of Sum
nit; McGlynns, Barlys, M. j. O'Connor,
Boyles, Mccarthy, John Gaul, Superin-
tendent Hart, Of Mt. Pleasant Gene
terry, were other early residents.
Mr.. Kenny, father of Mayor Kenny.
of East Newark, was an early resident
of Newark. The Rowes, Knowleses.
Maxwells N Murphys, Edward Dom
molly, of the stone bridge; the McCreas,
Farrells, McNallys, Dorm, Welshs,
O'Briens were also we'll known.
Dur ~forefathers made the most of
their opportunities for se~lf-advance-
ment in their adopted country, so we
will not style them "self-made men,
for it is to the credit of our sex that
the only self-made man in the United
States, with the aid of her tailor, is DR.
Mary Walker, and she is Irish, too.
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