Irish American and Other Gossip

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Document ID 900179
Date 17-09-1902
Document Type Newspapers (Births, Deaths, Marriages)
Archive Ulster-American Folk Park.
Citation Irish American and Other Gossip;"Town Talk." No. 68. Issued by Town Talk Milling Co. Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1902.; CMSIED 900179
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                        DEATHS.

  MR. WILLIAM HACKETT, a popular resident of South
Boston, Mass., [Massachussets?] who died recently, was
born in Tipperary, Ire., [Ireland?] in 1844.

  SERGEANT PATRICK MULLER of the Dallas, Tex., [Texas?]
police force, who was a native of Ireland, died
recently in Dallas.

  CAPT. JOSEPH HILL PRATT died in Brooklyn, Sept. 7.
He was born in Ireland in 1839. He was a member of
the police department of New York from 1873 to 1883.

  MR. MAURICE J. POWER, one of the best known men in
politics in New York County, died recently.  He was
born in Cork in 1838, the son of Hon. Maurice Power,
M. P., who represented an Irish constituency in the
House of Commons for years, and came to this country
in 1850.

  MAJOR DANIEL O'DRISCOLL, one of the most prominent
criminal lawyers of the District of Columbia bar, was
instantly killed Sept. 8 by an express train of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.  Major O'Driscoll came to
the United States from Ireland and served throughout
the civil war, losing a leg at the battle of
Chancellorsville.

  REV. THOMAS SCULLY, noted temperance advocate and
permanent rector of one of the largest parishes in
Cambridge, Mass., [Massachusetts?] died in that city
Sept.11.  He was born in Ireland, March 25, 1832,
received his early education in England, and while
yet a student he came to the United States.  On the
breaking out of the civil war, he was commissioned
chaplain of the 9th Massachusetts regiment and won
the admiration of every comrade for his faithful
and untiring work on the field of battle and in the
hospitals in ministering to the sick, wounded and
dying.