Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-15

welt made his claim to the honor of wear
ing the green-a right descended to him
from a half dozen Irish colonistS in
Pennsylvania. Forty years before in
dependence was sounded colony OF
Irishmen founded new Londonderry.
row a township of the Keystone states
chester county. Among these was John
DunWoody. who became q Scnoolmaster
and fell i'll love with Susanna Criswell,
a colleen Of sweet sixteen. Both We're
from the north OF Ireland. From then
union sprung Theodore Roosevelt's moth
er Martha BClloch. Other of Mr.. Roose-
veit's Irish ancestors in Pennsylvania
were John Potts and his wife, Elizabeth
McNapgh. and John Barnhill. with his
Wife. Sarah Craig. of whom Mr.. Roose-
velt has written They We're all of
them humble people. farmers. mechanics.
etc, although Sarah Craig is put down
the book as being descended on he1
mothers side. through the BarnWalls
from various well known Irish families
both of the pale and outside the pale
the Buffers. the Fritzgeralds O'Neills and
o Briens.
When Mr. Roosevelt was occupying the
exalted office which lie bankers to
adorr again, he communicated data OF
his Irish ancestry to a meeting of the
American Irish Historical Society in New
York and his announcement was greet
the singing OF "Roosevelt-Bryan Boru,
for the great commoner OF Nebraska,
now our Secretary of State. is another
of our national leaders for whom is
claimed the right to wear the shamrock.
although there is gap in his pedigree
before ii reaches the Emerald Isle
Although the Nc in his name de-
seconded to him from the land of kits
and thistles, Attorney General McReyn-
olds is entitled to the shamrock by viz
tue of the marriage of one of his direct
Scotch ancestors to an Irish colleen. lie
facetiously explained TINS 10 me the
other day in these words
MY first Irish ancestor was a High
land ..otchman-John McReynolds-who
was a member of the British army con-
fined within the walls Of the city of Lon
donderry. He married in Ireland and
died near the town of Dungannon. His
son James came to America about LOO
and ultimately settled In Campbell coun-
", Va In 1892 my grandfather re-
moved to Kentucky and in that state
/ was born and grew up.
The Presidents secretary. Joseph
Patrick Tumulty, is very proud OF the
fact that he is an Irish Cathohc on poth
sides of his family.
Upon the bench of the Supreme Court
of the land sit two wearers of the green.
The Chief Justice himse f.. EDWARD
Douglas White, thus adorns himself Tor
his pate. nal grandfather, James Nhlte
erligrating to this country Grandfather
White married a Philadelphia girl. TOOK
his bride to Tennessee and later pressed
southwark, becoming judge of western
louisiana and after becoming state
of the American Union LOUISIANA sent
his son to Congress and made him gov
ernor then sent his grandson TO the
Senate and to the Supreme Court bench.
Like Chief Justice fancy, the present
chief Justice is devout member OF the
Roman Catholic Church. And SO Is the
other shamrock wearer of the supreme
Court, Justice Joseph Mckenna, whose
father. John Mc.-enna. enigrated from
Ireland to Philadelphia and thence TO
California.
In Congress are three solons of Irish
birth Senator Oliver of pennsylvania
may wear the shamrock by virtue of
such nativity, although his birth in the
Eme Id Isle was. SO to speak. acciden-
tai occurring while his American
parents were visiting that land, in 1S4S
No such circumstance befogs the status.
in this respect. of another Pennsylvania
congressman. Michael Donohoe, MEM
Der of the House from Philadelphia His
birth III KilIeshandra, Ireland, was by
deep design of his Irish parents. who
would not have had it otherwise. When
broth of a lad Michael attended the
national schools and then finished his
education at private classical school OF
his native village. which at the age Of
twenty turned him out a fu.l-fedged
schoolmaster at the principal national