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INTRODUCTION
The name McGill, or Magill, is a corruption of the Irish
, name MacGiolla, meaning "Son of one devoted to." The-corruption
came about when early English registrars erroneously recorded the
above name mis-spelled. Owing to the destruction of most of the
jolder Irish records, tracing lines back into Irish history is next
to impossible.
Thomas Magill was born in the year 1791 in a small land
area known as Dowdstown in the vicinity of Ardee, County Louth,
Ireland. Still other relatives came from similar nearby farm areas
called Spring Hill and Tallens Town. Thomas was a farmer and owned
a cottage-type farmhouse with several outbuildings. Mary McGuire,
the wife of Thomas, died in Dowdstown December 1, 1835, at age 44.
Cousins of hers by the name McGuire, also settled in Seneca Falls.
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Mary bore Thomas six children. Because of the potato famine and
the death of his wife, Mary, Thomas decided to go to America with his
family. Thomas packed their most precious goods and, taking his
children, said good-bye to the Ole Sod. They left Dowdstown on
March 17, 1847, and, having reached Dublin, boarded the "Henry Clay",
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a sailing vessel bound for New York. Turned from its course,
buffeted by severe storms and perilous seas, the ship sprang a leak.
The men were set to bailing water while the women prayed their rosaries.
After many weeks of peril; as if by a miracle, the vessel reached
New York harbor and never again was able to put to sea. There the
wet and bedraggled families parted for various sections of the New
World.
The Magill family took passage aboard a packet-boat to .
Albany and thence through the Erie Canal system to the "Flats" in
. Seneca Falls, where they disembarked. At that time_Seuca Falls was
already known as a manufacturing town noted for its pumps, barrels,
fire engines, cooperage products, etc. It was a busy town and that
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Some of Michaers'children have said that Thomas Magill
was accompantd from Ireland by a brother who was possibly called Ed.
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After staying in Seneca Falls for a short time, the two brothers decided
to head West, looking for more fertile farmlands. It's said that
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they settled in Michigan for a while. Since there were rumors of
gold, and oil discoveries in the West, these rumors may have motivated
the move Westward. Shortly thereafter, however, they became discouraged. Thomas returned to Seneca Falls but Ed went South, where
a goodly number of Magills are to be found.
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Due to distance, time and the Civil War, contact with the
Southern branch of the family was lost and never regained. Thomas
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with his six children, he had settled permanently. Thomas ';was buried
CHAPTER ONE
BRIDGET MAGILL
Bridget Magill (1822-1910) married Felix McKeon (1826-1904).
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Catherine. So you see, they were not only brothers and sisters but
also brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law. John and Catherine stayed
in the village but Felix and Bridget lived on their own farm in the
country, located a short distance outside the village on what is still
known as the Farron Road.
Their farmhouse was southeast of the village, Felix and
Bridget had three children, namely:
Frances M. (1856-1942), by choice, was a dressmaker and
seamstress and catered to many of the upper-class ladies intthe
village. Her lawyer was Andrew Sipos. She died early on a Sunday
morning and her Executor was Edwin Rogers.
James H. (1858-1923) was a born farmer and with his father,
Felix, worked the land very advantageously. The McKeon family was
comfortably fixed and also owned a home in the village. They later
retired to this home, which is still there and in very good condition.
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Anna Elizabeth
(1865-1939) was a high school graduate and
earned a teaching certificate, which enabled her to be a teacher on
the elementary level in one of the local rural schools.. According to
,ip baptismal records, her Godparents were John Donnelly and Rose McGuire.
Anna died on a Saturday.
On fine Sunday mornings it was a delight to see this family
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on top. They were fine Churchgoing Irishmen.
None of these children ever married so their line stops
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CHAPTER TWO
MICHAEL MAGILL
Michael Magill, son of Thomas Magill and Marie McGuire, was
born April 8, 1824, and died April 21, 1897. Michael was born in
County Louth, Ireland. It is said that he attended school until he
IIIwas about twenty-one years of age. He then taught the children of
the area in a small rural school in Dowdstown. At other times he helped
his father with the farm work. Upon arriving in America with his father
and sisters, he found work in the various foundries in the section of
town known as the Flats. He took up molding, which;-dt-that time, was
one of the more challenging jobs to be found. All the work was done
by hand and a good molder was a clever artisan. The entire male
section of the Magill family was so closely allied to molding that
one might say the Magills were all molders. Later, when they had
become more settled in this new land, other endeavors attracted their
attention.
When the Civil War broke out in 1861 - 1865, Michael went
into the Army as a member of Company B, 380th New York Light Brigade.
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his clothes. It is said that when he first enlisted, he was a cannon
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in the national colors. Michael was very proud of his service to his
country and was a member of the Union Soldiers' organizations. He
walked very proudly in all the parades, showing to great advantage
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his badge of the Grand Army of the Republic, which he cherished. Upon
returning from the war, Michael returned to his trade and resided with
his family at 28 Center Street, as recorded in the Village Directory
of 1894. The home had been purchased in 1865 from a John McParland.
When he grew old, he spent part of his leisura time sitting
.before the pot-bellied stove in the Magill grocery, which grocery
was owned by his son, Thomas. The store was located on the corner of
Bayard and Bridge Streets. As the Italians followed the Irish, this
store later was Caruso's grocery store and at the present time-it is
called Hobb's Place, which deals in antiques and used furniture. The
pot-bellied stove m6ntiened above had a circle of captain's chairs,
each with its own spittoon. Michael and his cronies gathered there
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to discuss the problems of the times, especially of William Jennings
Bryan. One of his buddies, Maurice Coffee, another astute Irishman,
would assume one side of a question and he and Michael would debate.
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say nothing of the several clerks who egged them on to further debate.
At some clever retort one would holler, "You got a point there, Magill,"
or, "You got him there, Coffee," and so the days passed. Michael wore
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chin-whiskers but was without a mustache.
Michael was thirty-eight years of age when he went into the
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Army and was forty-three upon his return home. He missed very few ofthe Grand Army meetings held in the old Union Hall located on the west
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branch. He was a good patriot and a good father. Shortly after his
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return from the War, Michael strangely enough received a letter from
Ireland. The envelope bore the simple inscription, "To Michael Magill
of America." So Michael gathered up passage money. He had some of
his own and the remainder he either begged or borrowed from members
of the family. Anyhow he returned to Ireland, picked up his inheritance
and, they say, lived it up quite freely for a while, treating his buddies
in the local pub. It is told that on passing the scene of an auction
one day in Ireland, he noticed a woman bidding on a donkey. Sad to
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man was, willing so Michael paid him the money and led the donkey to
the woman who was crying. There was a family by the name of Matthews,
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friends of the family, who lacked sufficient funds for passage to
America. So they accompanied Michael back to America and settled in
Waterloo. Needless to say, when Michael reached home the legacy had
dwindled to nearly nothing. Some of the family, especially the
McKeons and Carrahers, showed outright hostility toward Michael but in
time the rift healed. Mary Hand (May 5, 1832 - July 23, 1896) married
Michael Magill.
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Mary was the daughter of a sailor, a sea captain by the
name of Hand. Her mother's maiden name was McCaul. In those days
it was the custom for the Captain and his family to sometimes live
aboard ship. And so it happened that while docked at a port in
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her mother was Irish. Mary raised a large family, ten of whom grew
to adult life. She was a good mother and, besides raising her family
of ten, being a mid-wife in great demand, she delivered many of the
children born in Seneca Falls in her day. People ran to her home at
all hours of the day or night for her help and aid.
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Michael and Mary Hand Magill had eleven children; namely-, Thomas,
Michael, MaiY Anne, Harry, Catherine, Helen, Thomas, Richard, William,
Alice Dorothy and Margaret.
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The first, Thomas, died as an infant (December 10, 1850 January 6, 1853). He died of pneumonia and was buried next to his
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grandfather and namesake in Restvale Cemetery. To reach the Magill
lot in Restvale, proceed straight ahead on entering the gate. The
lot is on the right an) there are two stones on the lot, each bearing
the name, Thomas.
Michael Magill was born June 12, 1852. He died on September 12,
1901, at the age of fifty years. He received the sacraments of the
 dying. His wife, Elizabeth Morria,was born in 1854. She died in
Ithaca, New York, on the morning of March 6, 1895, at the age of
forty-one years, on the day following an operation for an ovarian
tumor, which was removed by a Doctor Morris of New York City. She had
received the final sacraments. Michael was a fine man and a moulder
by trade. He was a good husband and a loving father who provided well
for his family. As indicated by the 1894 Directory of the Village,
he owned a fine home at 72 East Bayard Street. This home is still
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intact and in good condition. In fact, it is now a two-family
apartment house. It is also said that Mike kept a beautiful riding
horse. Then fate struck an ugly blow with the death of Elizabeth,
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which was terrible for the young family. Michael's health failed
due, no doubt, to the loss of his wife and the strain of caring for
his five children. Of necessity, his family was broken up and the
children were divided among the sisters of his wife and his own
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sisters. Kate Hanley, sister to his wife, was the mainstay.
In six short years, Michael followed his wife in death.
He died on September 12, 1901, and the children found themselves
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without either parent. The names of the five children of Michael
and Elizabeth were: Alice Lillian, Elizabeth, Michael and Loretta.
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Alice wanted an education so she joined a Presbyterian
group who sent her west to Nebraska, where she graduated from the
'University of Nebraska. As the children matured and-grew independent,
.they left home and married. Alice remained single and, after graduation,
returned East and for twenty-five years worked as a dietician for the
Edison Company of New York City. Upon retirement, she at first lived
in a small sylvan cottage in Connecticut but later went to live with
her widowed sister, Loretta, in Binghamton, New York. After the
death of Loretta, Alice lived next with her niece, Regina Groover,
for some time but, when her health worsened, it became necessary for
her to enter a nursing home where she eventually died in 1977. She
is buried in St. Columbkillp Cemetery in Seneca Falls. The lot of
Harry Magill and his brother, Michael, adjoin one another.
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Lillian (1886 ) was born in Seneca Falls on
December 22, 1886, and was nine years of age when her mother died.
Upon the death of her mother, she went to Utica, New York, to live
with her mother's sister, Kate Hanley. Lillian visited Seneca Falls
01IN off and on as a young woman to visit relatives but little of her
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younger life„-is known. About the year-1915, Lillian arrived-in
Washington, D. C., where she located a position with the Navy
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Department. There she met her future husband, Louis Albert Yost,
and they were married in Washington on January 6, 1920. At that
time their residence was 1413 T Street, N.W. It was in this home that
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their two children were born, Loretta Agnes (7/5/21) and Edward
Ernest (6/26/22). Three years after their marriage, in 1923, the
family moved to Silver Springs, Maryland, where Louis was engaged
in real estate. After the Depression and several financial reverses,
in 1937 Louis decided to accept the managerial positi6A-as Director
of Jesup-Blair Park, a 17-acre recreation center just over the Maryland
border at Silver Spring. This job was made possible through a lifelong friendship with E. Brook Lee, a wealthy political figure. Louis
died in March, 1954, but Lillian continued to manage the Park affairs
until her retirement in 1967 at the age of eighty-one years. She then
went to live with her son and his family until her physical condition
made it necessary for her.to enter the Fairland Nursing Home in
Silver Spring. Loretta Ames (7/5/21) married Dwight Wardlaw in 1946
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and they now live at Delray Beach, Florida. They have three children:
Barbara (8/15/49), Dwight (1/15/54) and Thomas (6/16/58), plus
Barbara's daughter, Lori (1971). Edward Ernest Yost married Virginia
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(Betty) Callis in 1942 and they have six children: Michael (11/6/46),.
Martin (4/20/49), Lawrence (5/9/54), Elaine (1/15/56), Francis (1/11/60),
and Stephen (8/18/65).
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thought to have worked for the railroad. It is said that she had three
IIIsons: William, who had a son, Donald (both are dead); John, who is also
dead but has a son, William, living; and Clarence Holehan, a red-headed
boy who was killed while playing on the railroad tracks. Mr. Holehan
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died young and things went from bad to worse for Elizabeth. She moved
from place to place and each time her condition became more pitiful.
She died in Utica and is buried next to her father and mother in
St. Columbkille Cemetery in Seneca Falls.
Michael Magill, who was about eighteen years ce age when his
mother, Elizabeth
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Magill, died, also lived in Utica and later in
Binghamton. He was born on December 10, 1876, possibly in Schenectady,
and died November 4, 1940, in Binghamton at age 64. Michael was a
very clever commercial artist and extremely talented but with a nervous
temperament like many artists. Michael married Isabelle Hoey, who was
born in Dublin, Ireland, on May 15, 1885. Her father was a professor
of languages at the University of Dublin. Her father died when Isabelle
was four years of age. When she attained the age of sixteen years, she
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Utica. It is there that she met Michael. Isabelle and Michael had two
children: Regina and Arthur. Later, Isabelle was a charge attendant
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in Wagner Hall at Binghamton State Hospital. These hospitals are now
called psychiatric centers. Isabelle died in 1956 at the age of
seventy-one years.
-14Loretta, the fifth child of Michael and Elizabeth Hanley
Magill, was born on September 9, 1889. She had an elementary education
and worked as a bookkeeper at Hollingsheads' lumber yard. Her sisterin-law, Margaret, also worked there. Margaret and her brother, Tom,
lived with Loretta after the death of John.
Loretta married John Daniel Creegan from the Binghamton area.•
John was born August 29, 1888, the eldest of six children. He was
accidentally hit by an automobile and died three days later on
May 8, 1940. He had owned his own trucking business. He and Loretta
• lived first on Chapin Street,. then Clarke Street and...finally at #3
Goethe Street, which started at Beethoven Street. John and Loretta
had two children, who attended the Churches and Schools of St. Patrick
and St. Thomas Aquinas. They were Margaret and Lillian.
Margaret M. Creegan, born May 29, 1925, married Paul W.
Youket, born January 28, 1914, and who died November 13, 1973. They
had four children; Paul W.Youket, born August 22, 1949; Karen E.,
born October 9, 1951; Thomas E., born October 31, 1952, who married
Kathryn Heverly, born April 16, 1953, (Thomas and Kathryn's two
daughters were Krista Lynn, born July 1, 1974, and Mary Elizabeth, born
December 23, 1977); and Richard James Youket, born'July 11, 1962.
Lillian Creegan, born September 24, 1926, married John
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Joseph Veselka, born March 21, 1922. Their five children included
Mary Madeline, born May 5, 1951, wife of Edward Ricciuti (July 18, 1950)
and mother of James Edward Ricciuti, born October 2, 1973; John
Joseph Veselka, born September 13, 1952; Margaret Ann, born September 18,
1953, wife of John Dawson, born June 13, 1953; Barbara Ellen Veselka, born
November 24, 1956; and Loretta Jean Veselka, born August 23, 1958.
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and Mary Hand Magill and third-born in the family, was born on
October 1, 1854, and died at the age of 54 on July 2, 1908. All said
that Mary was a lovely person and she was generally liked. The children
were young when their dad died at age 35 on July 29, 1879. He was
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married eleven years. Mary had to be frugal and to work hard. This
did not deter her from being a wonderful mother, who raised a fine
family. Mary's husband, Bernard Callan, was born in Ireland (1846 1879).. He was a seminarian at Mainooth in Ireland and later in Canada.
 He was not far from ordination. One summer vacatianke_came to Seneca
Falls from Providence, Rhode Island, for the purpose of selling
magazine subscriptions. It was then that he fell in love with Mary
and married her. She was quite young then. Bernard had a priest
brother by the name of Jamed, who was a pastor in California and their
sister kept house for James. So there have been three Callans by
name of James who studied to be priests. Bernard is said to have run
a private school in Little Falls. The records of St. Patrick's show
that Bernard and Mary were married in October by Father Lambert,
witnessed by Michael Magill and Delia Fitzsimmons. Michael was Mary's
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Philip (1873 - 1952), Bernard (1875 - 1954) and Michael (1878 - 1935).
Mary A. Callan Clary, was born on August 11, 1871, and, in
the words of her daughter, Mary was a noble woman, one that words
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love of husband and family, married for 63 years, charitable toward
everyone, beloved by all who knew her, relative or friend. Hers was
a capacity for looking frward, ageless in her plans for the future,
zealous for her family's progress, understanding and comforting them
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whenever they needed her. Her daughter wrote, "Our love for her and
Dad will never diminish. To be like them is our goal." James H. Clary,
(1870 - 1960) born January 5 1870, was the son of James Clary and
- Bridget Frawley and whose Baptismal sponsors were Michael and Nary
' Tobin. He was married in 1895 to Mary, the daughter•of-Bernard and
Mary Magill Callan, witnessed by Patrick Clary and Alice Magill. In
the words of his daughter, "Dad was the perfect counterpart for Mother,
working hand in hand toward the goals they had set for our family.
His only thought was for our betterment and his tireless efforts to
achieve them made him a noble man, one loved by everyone who knew him.
Nothing was too hard for him when anyone was in trouble and needed him.
Staunchin his faith in God and Country, he was active in St. Mary's
Church in Waterloo and, although he was a Charter Member in Seneca
Falls, after moving to Waterloo he transferred his membership to the
Waterloo Council, Knights of Columbus. His interest in politics
and his offices with the Democratic Party kept him alert and involved
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He was buried next to Mary, his wife, on February 19; Mary had died
four months earlier on October 16, 1959. Both are buried in the
Catholic Cemetery of St. Columbkille in Seneca Falls, New York.
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Jim and Mary Clary had five children as follows: Dr. Austin
J. Clary, Mildred Mary Clary Maloney, Mary Clary Walz, Leo Joseph Clary
IIIand Alice Jane Clary Meyer.
Dr. Austin J. Clary was born July 23, 1895. He attended
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Cornell University. but left to go into the Navy in 1918, registered
at the University of Buffalo Dental School and graduated in 1925.
His wife, Margaret Hogan, died July 22, 1968. Austin practiced
dentistry in Auburn for nearly fifty years. He was a Fellow of the
American College of Dentistry and very active in the New York State
Dental Society. He was President of the Rochester.D6rital Zone. With
his family, he traveled extensively in Europe, Japan and Hawaii. He
was an excellent musician and at one time had his own orchestra. After
the death of Margaret, he remarried. Both he and his present wife,
Ann Cramer, a high school English teacher, are retired and
presently living in Florida. Dr. Clary has five children: (1) James H.
Clary, who died at the age of two years. (2) Dr. Thomas A. Clary, a
dentist in Auburn, New York, and a graduate of University of Maryland
Dental College. His children are Mary Louise (a senior in Nursing at
Niagara University), Thomas (a junior at St. Bonaventure University),
Kathleen (a freshman at St. Bonaventure University), James H.III,(a senior
at Auburn High School), and David (a freshman at Auburn High).
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John Robert Clary, owner of Communications Supply Systems in
St. Lauis,Missouri, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and
very successful. He has three daughters, Lynn (a freshman at Tulane
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University in New Orleans), Susan and Margaret. (4) Richard Clary,
owner of the Clary Advertising business in Tulsa, Oklahoma, very
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successful and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma. He has
five children; Richard (a freshman at the University of Oklahoma),
Austin, Tim and Leslie. (5)Margaret Hogan Clary worked for Central
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Intelligence Agency after trying teaching and is now a re-write
editor for firms in Washington, D. C. She graduated from Manhattanville
College.
Mildred Mary Clary Maloney was born on December 20, 1897,
in Seneca Falls, New York, and was baptized in St.•Patrick's Church
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on January 2, 1898. Parents were James and Mary Callan Clary. Her
sponsors were Michael Callan and Teresa Hulby. She was graduated
from Marymount College in 1919. She majored in music, gave a concert
there and played the chapel organ. She organized an orchestra and
played in the Waterloo theatre. She was an excellent panist. Mildred
died in Rochester Memorial Hospital on March 23, 1971. Her husband
was Joseph J. Maloney, who worked for the Auburn Gas and Electric
Corporation. He died in 1954. They had three daughters - (1) Mary
Alice Maloney Wolcott, a graduate of Eastman School of Dental Hygiene
and who had two sons; John Wolcott, who graduated from the University
of Springfield, and Robert Wolcott, who graduated from the Sullivan
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in Rochester and has seven children, one stillborn, Dennis, Patty,
Eileen, James, Joseph and Elizabeth. Patricia is a teacher and a
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is a graduate dental hygienist of the Eastman School of Dental Hygiene.
She has two children, Caroline and David.
Mary Clary Walz was born July 27, 1900. Her husband, Carl
S. Walz, was a graduate of Cornell University with B.A. and M.A. from
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Uhiversity of Buffalo Graduate School.- He retired as Principal of
Riverside High School, Buffalo, New York. Mary Clary Walz graduated
from Waterloo High School, Marymount College in. Tarrytown, New York,
two years, graduated from William Smith College in 1922 with B.A.
degree, taught for sixteen years at Lafayette High School in Buffalo.
She married Carl S. Walz in 1935. They have one daughter, Sister Mary
Walz, a Buffalo diocesan nun of the Congregation of St. Joseph, she
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4th grade at Sacred Heart School in Niagara Falls, New York. She
graduated from Medaille College with a B.S. and from Buffalo State
College with an M.S. degree in Education. "When Carl retired, she
was able to accompany us on a trip to Europe, covering England,
Germany, Holland, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France." It was
a wonderful experience for all three of them. They had previously
IIIgone to Hawaii for a Principals' Convention, stopping at and spending
time in San Francisco. In May of 1977 they took a tour to Ireland.
They passed Maynooth College near Dublin where the:.Grandfather Callan
IIIhad studied for the priesthood. They also passed Milltown, Malbay
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in County Clare, the birthplace of Grandfather Clary. Mary and Carl
have been married for forty-two years and say that Sister Mary is
their greatest joy.
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June 21, 1968. Leo was graduated from Waterloo High School, had a
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He then attended Babson Institute for advanced work in.,Business. He
worked in the field of business throughout his life in Geneva, Syracuse
and, finally, in social services in New York City, where he died. He
married Margaret Carey from Syracuse, a Syracuse University graduate.
Leo's wife survives him, as well as his four children, who were Leo (Lee)
(District Attorney in Watertown, a Syracuse University Law School
• graduate); Jeanne, University of Syracuse graduate„married and living
in Baltimore; Kathleen, graduate nurse at St. Mary's in Rochester after
graduation from University of Rochester; and Daniel, Ohio State University
graduate now teaching near Syracuse.
Alice Jane Clary Meyer was born on November 19, 1907. She
spent two years at D'Youville College in Buffalo and graduated from
William Smith College with a B.A. degree in 1929. Alice did graduate
work at Nazareth College and State University at Brockport. She was a
teacher in parochial schools in Rochester for several years and retired
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to stay at home. She married William E. Meyer in 1945. He worked in
the New York State Department of Engineering until retirement. He
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April 6, 1978. Alice and family have traveled extensively through the
United States. She is very active in Church work at Our Lady of Mercy
and a member of its Parish Council. Alice has one son, James Meyer,
a graduate of North Adams Community College. He is an accountant with
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were ever more loved or respected. Their indefatigable
determination to give us so much more than they were
able to have, to give us a happy, fun-loving atmosphere
at home, to teach us love of God, family and Country
has made us all revere them. Their life together was
a model for all of us. All that we have accomplished,
we owe to them. We, all, were theirlife and we shall
love them forever."
Philip Callan, the first son of Mary Magill and Bernard
Callan, was born in 1873. As a child he attended St. Patrick's
School and as a young man apprenticed to a local barber. He was
married in 1896 to Margaret Ferguson, daughter of Michael and
Margaret Mooney Ferguson. The Fergusons lived somewhere in the
vicinity of Union Springs on Cayuga Lake. Phil and Margaret had
one child called Dorothy who lived but the mother, Margaret, died
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age 26. She received the sacraments before death. Dorothy was born
July 31, 1898, and her Godparents were Michael Magill and Bridget
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Ferguson, per Father Dwyer. Dorothy now lives with her husband,
George Schropp, at 5831 8th Avenue, N., Apt.105, St. Petersburg,
Florida. She has at least one child who is a Sister of St. Josqph.
After the death of Margaret Ferguson Callan, Philip married
a second time to Sarah Dwyer of Rochester, who was a sister of
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Sr. M. Florence, S.S.J. Sadie was a good wife and mother. Both she
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of the choir. At another time Phil owned a grocery on East Fall Street
near the Ovid Street Bridge. Later he owned a farm on Garden Street
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Extension, across from the Farron Road. Next he worked for the New
York State Barge Canal System at the local lock and cared for the
kerosene lanterns that hung under the bridges and marked the channel
of the Canal. The powered )poat that he used was called the "Swamp
.Angel." He next transferred to .Rochester as did his brothers. He
then worked the main branch of the Barge Canal between Rochester and
Lyons. Phil liked string instruments, which he played rather well.
Phil died in the late 1950's in Rochester where he is buried. Phil
and Sarah had four children,• two sons and two daughters; (1) Philip,
the oldest boy, married Lucille Brady of East-Rochester, New York,
and is a graduate of St. Patrick's School, Mynderse Academy and
Cornell University in Engineering. He is retired from Eastman Kodak
Company of Rochester. Philip and Lucille had seven sons and one
daughter; Philip, who married Eileen O'Meara, whose parents are from
IIIthe Old Sod, has five children: Maureen, Michael, Christine, Patrick
and Sean; Jerome (single); Marian, married to Leo Aman; has six
children: Mark, Timothy, Catherine, Margaret Mary, Edward and Kevin;
IIIDavid, a priest on leave of absence; Edward (single); Daniel (single);
James, a priest now Administrator of Corpus Christi Parish; Gerard,
who is single.
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(2) Mary Agnes, born January, 1909, oldest daughter of Phil
and Sadie, married John Chcchak, now deceased. Mary went to the
local schools initially. She now lives at 801 Lake Shore Drive,
Apt. 109, Lake Park, Florida, 33403. It is not known whether the
Chechaks have children.
(3) Rosella Callan, born May 24, '1910, whose Godparents
were Bernard Callan and Sarah Dwyer, was the seconddaughter of Phil
and Sadie and married Harold Burke. She lives at 220 North Tessier
Drive, Vina del Mar Island, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida 33716.
(4) Edward Joseph, the second son, was born-October 22, 1912,
and his Godparents were Francis Kane and Rosella Dwyer - Fr. Dwyer.
Edward, like the others, began his education in Seneca Falls. He was a
musician and, after training at the Eastman School of Music, went
West and played an instrument with the Philharmonic Orchestra in
Denver. He was married twice but is now deceased. His children are
scattered in California, Kansas, Wisconsin and other western states.
Bernard Callan (1875 1954), the second son of Bernard
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1954. On. June 4, 1902, he married Elizabeth Carroll (1881 - 1974),
daughter of Andrew and Ann Kennedy Carroll, witnessed by. Michael
Callan and Mary Carroll. Lizzie, as she was called, was born on
October 4, 1881, and died October 16, 1974. Bernard was a very good
machinist. In the early Nineteen Hundreds he took a group of young
men from Seneca Falls to Hazelton, Pennsylvania, to work in a machine
shop or railroad shop. Some remained there and some returned to
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but Horace Sullivan and his brother and Maynard Hulby returned to
Seneca Falls. Bernard Callan retired from Gleason's in Rochester,
where his family had moved when the children were half-grown. After
retirement Bernard bought property along Cayuga Lake next to and across
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from the cobblestone house just a bit north of the Cayuga Lake State
Park. Bernard died in 1954 and is buried in St. Columbkille Cemetery.
Bernard and Lizzie had at least six children, George, Albert, Bernard,
Mary, Edward and Carroll. George, the oldest, presently living in
• retirement at 1156 Murdock Blvd., Orlando, Florida,-was born on
April 11, 1904, and his sponsors were Michael and Mary Carroll.
Albert, the second child, was born January 30, 1906, and his sponsors
were Edward McArdle and Mary McGraw. Albert died on October 1, 1974.
He worked in Rochester but.on retirement he returned to Seneca Falls
and lived in a cottage at the Lake. Shortly before his death, he
worked for Mrs. Williams in the Williams Jewelry Store. Albert had
a wife and two daughters. Bernard, third, was born April 30, 1908.
His sponsors were Howard Magill and Bridget McGraw. As a young man,
while pushing a car, he suffered a heart attack and died. Mary, the
fourth child, was born April 24, 1910. Her sponsors were Philip
Callan and Sarah Dwyer - Fr. Dwyer. Now retired, she lives at
5916 5th Avenue N, Apt. #D-3, St. Petersburg, Florida. Edward, who
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died in infancy, was born April 11, 1911, and sponsored at
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by Maynard Hulby and Helen Moran. Carroll, the sixth child, was
sickly and never married. He grew to manhood and died in Rochester.
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Mary .Magill, was born July 27, 1878. His sponsors were Harry Magill
and Mary Hand. Michael married Margaret McGraw on August 15, 1910,
in St. Patrick's Church, North Adams, Massachusetts by Father James F.
Sullivan. Michael moved about a great deal and was into several
different things although he was probably a machinist. He also
moved to Rochester,where he lived and died, and where he is buried.
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John. is married and lives in Webster, New York. Margaret Mary
married but is now deceased. Brian, likewise deceased, was also
married. Rev. James Callan, the fifth-born child, is,a diocesan
priest. He was for many years Chaplain at Rochester State Hospita.
for the mentally ill. He built a home for his mother on East Avenue,
where he is now living after retirement. He was also one of the
administrators of the Teresa McKeon estate. Teresa was a second
cousin. Philip is married and works at Eastman Kodak. He lives
at 43Locknavar Parkway, Pittsford,New York, 14534. Francis Joseph,
was born October 28, 1912, sponsored at Baptism by William Magill
and Alice Magill. Francis died young.
ova\ct,:if,`' *Henry Magill (1855 - 1923), the fourth child of Michael
and Mary Hand Magill, was born on May 19, 1855. He was baptized on
May 20, 1855, sponsored by Hugh McFarland and Eleanor McCoy. The
priest was Rev. Michael Walsh. Most of his life as a young boy and
--26-later after he married, was spent on Center Street. He lost his home
at 22 Center Street to the State as part of the Barge Canal project.
It was adjacent to Sampson Creek and in a flooding area. He then
located at 72 West Bayard Street, where he lived until January 16, 1923.
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August 9, 1868. He is buried on Lot #711, which he purchased on October 9,
1869. He later sold half of his lot to his brother, Michael. On Harry's lot
are hurled Harry, his wife (Jane), and three children
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Jane Ellen Williams (1858 — 1912), wife to Harry Magill,
was born in Bethesda, North Wales. She was the daughter of William and
Anne Griffith Williams, who owned and operated a bakery on High Street in
Bethesda. They lived in a flat above the store. When the children were
quite grow4 the Williams family moved to America and resided in Utica.
There Harry. Magill and Jane Ellen met. They were married in Baltimore,
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were Mary and Bernard Callan. Jane Ellen Williams was a born Methodist
her brother, William,. later became a Methodist minister. After her
marriage to Harry, Jane took instructions for a while as a prospective
Catholic but, due to the half—heartedness of the clergy to
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through, she lost courage and did not complete the course. However, she
lived a good life, brought up her children in the Catholic faith like a
Catholic mother. During her final illness, she was baptized
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Harry Magill, as he was always called, was an outstanding man. He was
about nine years of age at the time his father enlisted to join the
Army in the War of the Rebellion. So he went to work in order to help
support the family. His first job was at a cooperage located on
Swaby Street. It was on the west side of the street and bordered on
the south side of Sampson Creek. Harry was a good family man, a
devout Churchman, a fine citizen and a leader in his chosen profession
of iron moulding. He was exceptional in handling brass. He worked
for over fifty years at the foundry of the Gould Manufacturing Company.
Though he had only a partial grammar school education, he became the
corresponding secretary of the Iron Moulders' Union #49. He attended
conventions all over the United States. One convention he attended
in behalf of the Union was held in Milwaukee, which, at that time,
seemed like going to the ends of the Earth. He and his sister, Alice,
attended the Chicago Exposition. He worked in both of Gould's shops,
in the Flats and on upper Fall Street. He resided at 22 Center
Street, which was at the bottom of the hill, west side, beside the
Creek. About 1915, when the old Erie Canal was broadened into the
present branch of the Barge Canal by dredging out the old river bed,
he had to sell his home because of flooding. He moved to 72 West
Bayard Street, where he resided until his death in 1923. (Harry and
Jenny had eleven childi4en. Three of them died as infants; Mary Anne,
born about 1876, died at about a year and her Godparents were John
Carraher and Catherine Magill per Fr. Ber. McCool; Francis was
between Beatrice and Wiliam; and Louis was born November 5, 1894.
The other eight were Jane Ellen, Anne, Harry, Celestine, Beatrice,
William, Florence and James.
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to Harry and Jane Williams Magill. Sponsors were Tom McGovern
and Catherine Ruddy per Fr. McCool. Jenny, as she was called, went
to St. Patrick's Church and School. As a young girl she baby-sat
for different families and also did some of their household chores.
Two of the families for whom she worked were the Todtmans and the
Gladkeys. Later she did some practical nursing, midwifery and caring
for the elderly under the direction of Dr. Adolph Letellier. As a
child, she had the misfortune of breathing in a watermelon seed,
which found its way into her lung, setting up an insidious process
of lung abcesses which later in life brought about her death. Jenny
died January 1, 1941. On March 2, 1897, she married a Utican, a
Welshman by the name of William Hughes (1872 - 1933), a skilled tailor.
He had trained under a relative by the name of Williams. After his
marriage to Jenny, they lived in Utica for a few years where some ofthe older children were born. They returned to Seneca Falls and Will
first worked for Myer Todtman, making suits and doing alterations. Later
he had a business in his home on Water Street. Will is said to have
had a brother. He died in the home of his daughter, Margaret,
at 57 West Bayard Street when he was sixty-one. Jenny and Will had
six children; John Earl, William Henry, Margaret Helen, Thelma Mary,
Robert Louis and Cleta, the youngest, who died in infancy.
John Earl Hughes, was born in Utica in the year 1898 and
dropped dead on Bridge Street Bridge in 1961. When a young man he
worked for the Columbia Record Company in Auburn but most of his life
was spent in Seneca Falls. He was married to Marian Hughes, daughter
of Ann Conley and Albert Hughes, in St. Patrick's Church by Fr. Quirk.
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Earl and Marian had a son, James.
William Henry Hughes, was also born in Utica November 7,
1900. On July 19, 1922, he married Mildred Anna McCormick, daughter
of Thomas McCormick and. Jane Dent, born April 30, 1902. They were
married by Fr. Quirk, sponsored by Leo Holland and Dorothy King.
When young, Bill worked for a short time•.in Gould's office. Later
he worked at Geb & Garvin for fifty-three years. He retired as
Superintendent of the Mill and when retired was a part-time
consultant. Bill and Mildred have two children, William Thomas
and Elizabeth Mary. William Thomas, born February 14, 1933, was
married to Joan Beverly Brown, born June 12, 1936, on September 26,
1953. They have five children; Catherine Mary, born June 24, 1957,
married John Anderson on August 19, 1977; Stephen Gerard, born on
November 12, 1958, whose chief interest is golf; Jane Elizabeth, born
May 1, 1960, married Craig Heitman on October 15, 1977; William Charles,
born March 16, 1964; Mary Teresa, born January 10, 1968.
Elizabeth Mary (Betty) was born August 25, 1934 and died suddenly
February 19, 1978, from a blood clot following surgery. Betty married
dcaorge Giovannetti Rpril 21, 1954. George was born on May 4, 1930.
Betty and George had six children, Patricia Ann (8/13/55), Peter
(9/18/56), Mary Kathryn (9/30/57) who married Stephen Loggins on
April 18, 1978, Susan (6/15/60),. Linda (1/3/61) and Robert, (7/2/62).
Margaret Helen Hughes, daughter of William and Jane Magill
Hughes, was born March 13, 1902. Her Godparents were John Malone
and Beatrice Magill. As a young girl she worked at the Westcott
Rule Company and later worked at Geb & Garvin. She first married
William R.Yolland, a professional bartender, on May 22, 1923, by
Fr. B. L. Quirk, witnessed by John Earl Hughes and Helen Hanlin.
Bill died young and Margaret then married Don Calarco, who ran a
bakery in Seneca Falls for many years. Margaret and Bill Yolland
had one child, a son also called William. Bill was in the Navy and
after his discharge, he worked in the bakery for his stepfather.
He was a good baker and found a way of reducing bubbles in the dough.
Young Bill married Teresa Esposito and they had a son named Raymond.
Bill died as a young man following a severe mugging in New York's
Central Park. He never regained consciousness. --Thelma Mary Hughes was born July 30, 1905, and died on
January 19, 1975. She had the same Godparents as her sister, Margaret,
John Malone and Beatrice Magill. Thelma married Joseph McParland,
who was born in 1902, son of Hugh McParland and Mary Alcock, on
May 4, 1922. The ceremony was performed by Father Quirk and the
witnesses were Harry Magill and Beatrice Farrell. Thelma and Joe
lived in the Galvin house on West Bayard Street, owned by Peter Doran
when it was destroyed by fire. Joe worked at Goulds. He was also a
Village Fireman for a number of years. Joe and Thelma had five
children; Jack and Jane (twins), Hugh, Alice and George, who died
of some meningeal ailment or heart problem as a young child. Jack
married and lives•on Long Island. He is a bank teller. Jane married
Kenneth Huebler of Newark, New York. Kenneth was connected with the
Wayne Drug Company and died of a heart attack while bowling. Hugh
went to Long Island with his brother, Jack, married and is working
for the Long Island Railroad. Alice married Joseph Kemak and lives
with her family on Garden Street in Seneca Falls.
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grammar school he went to work. He was employed at the Geb & Garvin
Woolen Mill for forty-nine years as a spinner. As a young man, on
January 28, 1933, he married Edna Howes, who was born November 22, 1916.
Edna had a high school education and worked at the Pennyeaver,
Knight's Letter-Works and then at Geb & Garvin for 21+ years. They
live at 56 Sackett Street, Seneca Falls. Their daughter, Jacqueline,
called Jackie, was born on May 31, 1934. She had a high school
education, attended Ithaca College and graduated from Freeman Business
School in Geneva. She was secretary to Ben Neal in the garage
business and also taught some music. She married Thomas Cunningham,
who was born on August 6, 1934. He was a graduate of Mynderse Academy
and a graduate of Tri-State as a construction engineer. He was
employed by Bero Construction Company. The Cunninghams live at 143 S.
West Street, Geneva. They are the parents of six children; Stephen
(5/19/57) with three years of college, Susan Elizabeth (2/ 24/59), a
graduate of Rochester Beauty School, Katherine Patricia (2/25/60), who
will graduate this year, Maureen Jane (3/7/61), Joanne (2/22/63) and
Sean Patrick (4/13/65).
Anne Magill, the third child of Henry and Jane Williams
Magill, was born on April 8,1879, in Seneca Falls. Her Godparents
were Bernard McBride and Helen Magill. She died at the age of 91
on March 24, 1970, in Taylor-Brown Memorial Hospital. Anne married
Bernard Kelley, the son of Sylvester Kelley and Jane Murphy in Auburn
at Holy Family Church, North Street, on October 5, 1905. Anne went
with a man by the name of Will Riley for some time before meeting
Bernard, whom she picked in preference. Bernard was an excellent
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shoemaker and was employed at Dunn & McCarthy's on Washington Street.
This factory later became the makers of Enna Jettick shoes.. When he
moved to Seneca Falls he worked as a mechanic at Goulds Pumps. In
Auburn he resided at #112 Van Anden Street, a typical Irish settlement
area in the old days. In Seneca Falls the family resided last at
#59 West Bayard Street, not far from St. Patrick's School and Church.
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Bernard was born in 1879 ancLdied in 1932. Anne worked for several
well-to-do families as a domestic and was doing some housekeeping in.
Auburn when she met Bernard. In Seneca Falls she worked for a family
by the name of Roberts. The place is now occupied by the Hamill
family on East Bayard Street. Anne was a good pianist and was noted
• for her splendid taste in the latest styles. Bernard and Anne had
seven children; John, Henry, William, James, Louis, George & Dorothy.
John _ Louis Kelley, the oldest, was born on January 8, 1906, and on
January 9, 1929, he married Anna Kowalik, daughter of Stephen Spess
and. Sophie Kowalik, witnessed by John Earl Hughes and Marian Hughes.
Anna had been keeping company with Harry, her husband's brother, until
he was killed in 1928. John became a machinist and worked in several
machine shops, including the American Can Company in Geneva and the
Hulse Manufacturing Company in the same city. He also worked in
Seneca Falls and Auburn. Since his retirement he has given most of
his time to the local Moose Lodge in various capacities. Anna, his
wife, spent most of her life working at Geb & Souhan stocking factory.
John and Anna have two children; Joyce (1/8/42) and Francis (12/22/46).
Joyce has two sons, Steven and Paul. Francis, like his father, was
in the Navy and married Karen Housler on October 8,'1970 in Cook
County, Illinois. They have no children. Henry (Harry) Kelley,
born January 2,1908, was a stonemason employed by a contractor, Mike
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sidewalks of his day, many of which still bear his name. In 1928, Harry
was fatally injured in an auto accident on the Ovid or Stone Road about
half-way between Fayette and Seneca Falls. The driver of the car, Bill
Waldo, lost control of the car on a culvert and crashed iiito a large
tree. It happened on the <east side of the road in front of the first
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brick house past Hoster's Corners (now County Road 121). Bill was killed
instantly and Harry lived for five hours in the Seneca Falls Hospital.
Death was caused by massive internal lung hemorrhage caused by fractured
ribs. He was buried from his home on Mechanic
Street. Harry was unmarried. William Kelley Was born March 29, 1910,
to Bernard and Anne Magill Kelley. Sponsors at Baptism were James
Magill and Mary (Mame)Johnson. William (Bill) attended St. Patrick's
Church and School. He worked for some time with Thomas Magill,
grocer, taking orders and delivering groceries, plus working in the
store. During the great depression he was a member of the Civilian
Conservation Corps in Turtle Town, Tennessee. Later, until retirement,
Bill was employed by the Seneca Falls Machine Company as a machinist.
William was married to Margaret Smith, who, until retirement, was with
the Veteran's Administration located in the Waterloo Courthouse.
'Bill and Margaret had a son, Joseph, a Cornell University graduate
who took a position in France. There he married and had a son, Ian.
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James Francis Kelley (1911 - 1975) was born March 12, 1911, to Bernard
and Anne Magill Kelley. Sponsors at Baptism were James Dougherty and
Mary (Mame) O'Rourke. James was married on November 4, 1933, to Bertha
Dunham, daughter of Albert Dunham and Anna B. Jones,
--34-witnessed by John Earl Hughes and Marian Hughes. The priest was
Father Quiik. James as a young man worked for Pohle's Bakery in
Seneca Falls, where he learned to be a very good pastry cook. This
ability enabled him to obtain a cook's item at Willard State Hospital's
Elliott Hall kitchen, whence he retired. Bertha and Jimmy had one
son, James, who was married at least twice and had the same number
of children. Louis Kelley, son of Bernard and Anne, was born in
1914, possibly in Auburn. He went to Mynderse Academy and during the
depression years was employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in
Turtle Town, Tennessee. As a young man he was a golf professional in
Auburn where he met and married Honor Marsden, the daughter of
Mrs. D. H. Counsell. They were married in St. Patrick's Rectory by
Fr. Quirk, witnessed by Mrs. W. Vanderbosch and William Kelley.
They lived in Auburn for a few years and then moved to Florida where
they now reside. Louis worked on the golf courses but later became
interested in professional bartending. He worked in several beach
hotels until he retired. They live in Fort Lauderdale and they have
no children. George Kelley was born July 10, 1917, and his Baptismal
sponsors were John Farrell and Margaret Hughes. George attended the
local schools and after graduation was employed by the American Can
"Company in Geneva, where he is presently employed. He works parttime for the Crayton Drug Company. He married Lucienne Clary,
daughter of George and his French-born war bride, Odette Clary.
George's sistei Dorothy, married Lucienne's brother, John Clary.
George is a machinist and President of the Union atdAmerican Can.
He and Lucienne are bowlers. He was in the Navy at Sampson (Town
of Romulus) for the duration of World War II. They have five
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Dorothy Kelley was Vorn in
Auburn in 1921. She married John Clary, a machinist, who works for
the American Locomotive Company in Auburn. They had seven children;
Mary, who married Charles Thorpe and has seven children; Cecelia, who
married Allan Hansen and has two children (Christopher and Heather);
John: Kathleen; Jane; William and Tricia, all of whom are in school.
Henry Magill (1881 - 1962), the fourth child of Henry
and Jane Williams Magill, was born December 16,1881, and died on December 24, 1962. His sponsors at Baptism were Bernard Rooney and
Elizabeth McKeon. He attended St. Patrick's School, worked in the
Mill but later was a coremaker, working in most of the foundries in
Seneca Falls.. With much experience, he took employment with General
Electric in Schenectady. •In his work he was in contact with the
renowned Professor Steinmetz. He was a clever drawer. He was good
at clogging. He and his sister, Beatrice, won many prizes at the
Masonic Temple on Cayuga Street, where most dances were held. He
married Eva King of Waterloo on July 24, 1)04. Eva was born in 1885
and died August 8, 1961, at the age of 76. She was the daughter of
Charles King of England and Margaret Barringer. Witnesses to the
wedding were John Malone and Beatrice Magill. Eva was the first wife
of Harry and was a finisher in the Waterloo Woolen Mill. She also
worked at Westcott Rule Company and finally at Evans Chemetics. They
had two children, Kenneth and Gladys, both born in Schenectady.
About 1913 Harry and Eva separated. Eva went to Waterloo and Harry
came back to Seneca Falls. Kenneth Magill was born October 24,1906.
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Wollen Mills in Utica. They have no children and live at Clark Avenue
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in Rochester. Gladys Magill was born December 30, 1908, and she
married Ralph Swinehart, who is now deceased. They lived on MillStreet in Waterloo. For a time Ralph managed the Housing Unit in
Waterloo. After several years, Harry was remarried to Grace Bertram,
who was born in Canoga on April 14, 1900. She was the daughter of
Harry Bertram and Ophelia Reeder. Grace was a weaver in the Waterloo
Wollen Mill and later worked as a telephone operator in both Waterloo
and Macdougall. After the death of Harry, she was a stores clerk
and cashier for the Mynderse Academy.cafeteria. Hat* and Grace
had one child, a daughter named June. June Magill was born August 21,
1923 in Waterloo. She was baptized by Fr. George T. McCaul at St. Mary's
Church in Waterloo on February 24, 1924. Her sponsors were Margaret
Schreck Laughlin and William Long. She is a Mynderse graduate and
for many years worked in the Seneca Falls Police Department as
Court Stenographer. Later she was elected to the position of
Police Justice for' the Town and Deputy for the Village. She married
Kenneth Callaghan, who is employed by General Electric in Auburn and
who also worked at Electronics Park for G.E. in'Syracuse. The
Callaghans have two sons, Kenneth and Richard, who live at home and
are single.
Mary Celestine Magill, the daughter of Harry and Jane
Williams Magill, was born January 26, 1884. Her sponsors were
Thomas Magill and Mary Carraher. She made her First Communion on
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November 7, 1897. Celest, as she was sometimes called by the family,
--37-attended St. Patrick's School. School was a bit rough for both
Celest and':the nuns. Celest made faces, etc., behind the nuns'
backs and caused the children to giggle. Celest always liked a lot
of fun and tried to keep things stirred up but all liked her. As a
young girl she took care of the Clary children; she was pre.4)%by sitter.
She did a few household chores also but'soon went to work like most
of the young girls in the Chamberlain Mill. It was here that she
met her future husband. Later in life she worked for Mrs. Fred
Storey, the wife of the hardware dealer. When her Godmother took ill,
Celest went to the Carraher home to care for her. During World War II
she worked at Evans Chemetics in Waterloo. Celestine died at home
on February 5,1955, at the age of seventy-one years. Patrick Joseph
Harney was born in Fishkill, New York, August 23, 1873, and died on
January 11, 1956, at age eighty-three. His parents were James C.
Harney (1847 - 1927) and Mary Hickey (1853 - 1923). Pat was a
textile worker all his life and belonged to the Union, Textile
Workers of America, with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
After learning his trade, he always worked in a supervisory capacity.
He started in the business at age eleven and worked in all the textile
factories in the Boston area and environs. Besides working in the Boston area, Pat worked in the far West in the state of Oregon. In
the midwest he worked in Indiana. He worked in the east in Trenton,
New Jersey, Seneca Falls, Auburn Prison, Auburn, New York, where he
installed and set up the machinery for making woolens during World
War II. He worked in the south in Georgia and also in the Germantown
section of Philadelphia. Pat was married once previous to his
--38-marriage with Celest. Patrick and Celestine had two or three children
who died in infancy. One or two of the babies are buried in the Magill
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plot in St. Columbkille Cemetery. One of the children was called
Florence. Then there followed three more children, Dorothy and Mary,
both of whom reached adult life, and a boy called Robert, who died as
a youngster.
Dorothy Harney, born September 5,1907, daughter of Patrick
and Celestine, was sponsored at Baptism by William Magill and Genevieve
Rogers. Dorothy spent most of her younger days in Massachusetts and
going about the country wherever her father. .happened to be working.
As a young woman she married a textile man by the name of Patrick
Murphy. Patrick. Murphy -was the son of Mary and Patrick Murphy, who
ran a combination grocery and gas station in Pittsfield. He was
accidentally killed io.his.thome in' the Spring of 1932. He attended
the local schools and when he ended his education he took up textile
work as his trade, working for his father-in-law, Patrick Harney.
Dorothy married Patrick on October 13, 1924, in St. Mary's Church,
Milford, Massachusetts. They were married by the Rev. James J.
Fitzgibbons. They had three children; Thomas, Avis and Judy.
Thomas was born in Milford in 1926. After moving back to Seneca Falls.,
-one Tuesday afternoon at about 3:00 o'clock, Thomas, while fishing
in Sampson Creek along the old cemetery bank, accidentally slipped
into the water which was very deep. It was near the #3 FirehOuse.
He drowned. It was a great shock to his mother and family.
Avis was born on April 7,1927, in Milford. She graduated from Mynderse
and has a New York State Child Nursing License. Avis worked for the
Grant store in Geneva.. She worked for a while for both Geneva and
Seneca Falls hospitals, doing autoclaiiing and other technical.duties.
--39-Avis married John D'Augostino in St. Francis deSales Church in Geneva.
John was burn April 17,1917. He graduated from Geneva High School and
the Freeman Business School. He graduated from LaSalle College in
Chicago as a Certified Public Accountant. John is employed as an
accountant with the Federal government. Avis and John have two
children; Thomas Patrick and Sandra. Thomas Patrick is a De-Sales
graduate and a graduate of M.S.A.C. in Pomona, California. He
graduated from San Diego State in Public Relations, was Assistant
to the Dean, a member of the United States Marine Corps for four
years. He moved to California in 1971 and married Nancy Pedulla.
They have no children. Sandra (Sandy) is a graduate of Geneva High
School and a graduate Licensed Practical Nurse from Geneva General
Hospital. She moved to California in 1973 and has taken several
extension courses in drugs. Sandra is single. Judy Murphy was
born July 28, 1932 in Webster, Massachusetts. She moved to Seneca
Falls when young and is a graduate of Mynderse Academy. She was
employed by Grant's for two years. Judy married Justin Deal, who
was born January 6, 1934. Justin graduated from Mynderse Academy
and has since taken many extension courses. Hs is a machinist by
trade and is presently working for Goulds Pumps on the manufacturing
Staff. Hobby—wise, Justin can do just about anything and he is very
clever working with wood. Judy and Justin have five children; Avis,
Robbin, Justin, Stacy and Jason. Avis was born in Seneca Falls on
November 8, 1952. She is a graduate of Mynderse Academy and holds a
degree from Auburn Community College in Accounting. She married
Daniel DeChick August 4, 1973. She was divorced in August of 1977.
They had two children; Adrienne (10/1/74) and Aaron (12/12/75), who
died March:12, 1976, at three months of age. Robbin was born on
October 10, 1953, attended Mynderse but graduated from Covina High,
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Covina, California. Robbin and Garry Rooker were married in St.
Patrick's Church by Rev. Leo Lynch. Garry was born in Emporium,
Pennsylvanta, May 18, 1952. He is a graduate of Mynderse Academy
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and from Lubbock Christian College. He had four years in the Air
Force and was stationed in Thailand. They have two children; Melanie
and Garry. Melanie was born in Geneva on December 28, 1971; Garry was
born August 13, 1976, in Lubbock, Texas, and was baptized in Christ
the King Church there. Justin Michael.wasborn May 18, 1956,
graduated from Walnut High in Walnut, California. He was baptized in
St. Patrick's Church, Seneca Falls. He owned and operated a gas
station in Lubbock. He works in the Pattern Department at Goulds
Pumps. Stacey* was born January 7, 1963, in Waterloo, made her First
Communion in Covina, California, and was baptized and Confirmed in
Seneca Falls. Jason was born July 8, 1968, in Waterloo and was
baptized in Seneca Falls. After the death of Patrick Murphy, Dorothy
Harney married Anillo _________________ Ferrara at St. Patrick's Church in.
Seneca Falls in 1939. He was born in 1911. Nillo had an elementary
school education and went to work in the textile business of Geb &
Garvin, later Geb &Souhan. Nillo was quick to learn and presently is
a supervisor. Besides working in the mill, Nillo was an excellent
carpenter and often helped his brothers, who ran a lumber business.
Nillo and Dorothy lived winters in the Harney homestead at #1
Montgomery Street and summers at their cottage on Cayuga Lake a bit
south of Canoga. Nillo and Dorothy had two children, Anne and Dorothy.
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married Edward Passifione, a graduate of Mynderse and the New York
in the office of Dr. Schulman, a local optometrist,until he retired.
She now continues on with.his successor, Dr. Sinicropi. In 1963 she
State University at Geneseo. He has been teaching at the Romulus
elementary school. Anne and Ed have three children; Edward, Jr.,
Mary Teresa and Jennifer. Dorothy was born in Seneca Falls on.
September 5, 1943, attended the local schools and in 1964 married
Michael Bertino of Waterloo. Michael graduated from Waterloo High
School and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He has a degree
in Engineering. Dorothy and Michael have three children; Anne, Megan
and Heidi.
Mary Celeste Harney, second living daughter of Patrick
Harney and Celestine Magill, was born May 28, 1914, in the BostonWorchester area. She was educated in the East and married Leo Murphy,
who was born October 31, 1907, the son of John Edward Murphy and
Ellen Teresa Welch. Fr. Bartholomew Quirk celebrated the marriage,
witnessed by Earl AuClair and Jane Ellen Corcoran. Later Mary went
to work as a secretary at the Seneca Ordnance Depot, a military
installation from which she retired. Mary and Leo had no living
children so her line ends here.
Beatrice Magill, who was baptized Frances Beatrice Magill,
was born December 27, 1885, in Seneca Falls at the family home at
22 Center Street. She was the fifth daughter of Harry and Jane
Williams Magill. Her sponsors at Baptism on January 17, 1886, were
Michael Gavin and Frances McKeon. The priest was Father Osborne.
She made her First Communion on May 27, 1897 and was Confirmed on
November 7,1897. She went through the seventh grade in St. Patrick's
School and held the nuns and priests in great respect and admiration.
As a young school-girl she had the idea of becoming a nun but put it
from her mind when she thought of the expense for her parents. When
she was a young girl she clerked for the Smiley Cooper Company at
the Beehive. This was a sort of ladies' notions store. She loved
to dance and she and her brother,Harry, took many a prize for their
dancing, especially the "Moonlight Waltz". Then she went to work' •
for the Chamberlain Mill at the loom as a "drawer-in". Later she
and a girl friend by the name of Katie McDonald took employment at
the Globe Wooleh Mill in Utica on Court Street. There she worked
with William Farrell, alsq from Seneca Falls, and they decided to
get married. Beatrice and Will were in Utica nearly five years
when the tragic death of,their two-year-old son, William,'occurred.
He was run over by a trolley car. They returned then in 1911 to
Seneca Falls and shortly thereafter her:mother, Jennie, died from
cancer. Beatrice decided to keep house and care for her father and
youhger brother, James, then a teenager. Upon the death of her
father in 1923, Beatrice had to go out to work. She was the
custodian of St. Patrick's School for several years. She worked
for Miss Florence Beaker and cared for the home at 55 Cayuga Street,
which is now the Seneca Falls Historical Society. She also helped
Mrs. William Bours Clarke, the wife of the Episcopal Rector. This
type of work she could do and at the same time provide for her family.
--43-Beatrice was about thirty-eight years of age at the time.
William Patrick Farrell, the son of John F. Farrell (who died on
January 21, 1926) and Anna Loftus (who died on November 21, 1918),
was born February 23, 1879. His parents, John and Anna, were married
October 28, 1875, at St. Francis deSales by Rev. James McManus.
Before his marriage to Beatrice, there was a previous marriage to
Mabel Pritchard, a local girl who died following childbirth, along
with her baby son. Will, as he was called, was a loom-fixer and
weaver by trade. Later in life he worked always in supervisory
positions. He worked all his life in the textile business except
' for a very few years as a machinist in Goulds. He--worked in mills
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fell in her home, fracturinglier hip, and at eighty-nine had her
gall bladder removed. On July 6,1976, at 7:15 p.m. Beatrice died
in the Seneca Falls Hospital following an attack of congestive
heart failure. She was nearly ninety-one years of age. Beatrice
and Will had four children, three boys and a girl, and lost twins
at some point of pregnancy following the death of William. The
children are John, William, Raymond and Beatrice. John Henry Farrell
was born in Utica on Columbia Street near the Utica State Hospital
on October 22, 1906, a Monday. He was baptized conditionally and
later in St. Patrick's Church on November 4, 1906. His Godparents
were Joseph N. Fisher and Elizabeth M. Lacey and the priest was
Rev. N. J. Quinn. The first child of Beatrice had a very difficult
birth, the use of forceps being necessary. Shortly after birth,
he suffered an attack of cholera infantum or cholera morbis, which
left him with a lifetime of alimentary tract disorder.. His first
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five years,were spent in Utica,New York. Upon the tragic death of
William,'the family moved back to Seneca Falls. John spent eight
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years in St. Patrick's School from which he graduated in 1920:
He went to Mynderse in the Fall of 1920 but because of two consecutive
quarantines for either measles or scarlet fever and a loss of about
a month and a half of schooling, he mastered only two subjects. The
next year he went to St. Francis de Sales High School on Exchange
Street in Geneva, finished his fourth year still needing two subjects.
In the Fall of 1924 he went to work at the American Can Company as
a messenger boy in the machine shop, from there he-wohced in the
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Payroll Department and finally was promoted to the D.S.X. Desk under
Mr.,James Casey. Late in the summer of 1927 he entered the
Passionist Order's Holy Cross Seminary at Dunkirk, New York, to
study for the priesthood. After two years he was sent to Springfield,
Massachusetts to the Novitiate, after profession he went with his
class to Pittsburgh, Boston, Jamaica, Long Island, and Scranton,
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from where he returned home in 1936 with a B. A. degree. In April
of 1936 he obtained employment at Willard State Hospital as Senior
Laboratory Technician and was so employed until his
retirement in
March of 1969. John never married and was a Church organist all
of. his life.
William Farrell, born September 27, 1909, was baptized
October 24, 1909, sponsored by George Farrell and Florence Magill.
In following John to the grocery, while crossing the trolley tracks,
he paused to look-into a grating between the tracks and was run
over by a new motorman. He was caught up on the cow-catcher but
rolled off and under the wheels. It_was necessary to cross West
--45-Avenue, now called Lennox Avenue, in order to reach the Mullen store.
This accido.nt happened about June 12, 1911. He was two years of age
and died on the operating table of Paxton Hospital, Utica,New York.
This tragic event seemed to cast a lasting shadow over the little
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°Raymond William Farrell was born in the old homestead
in Seneca Falls on Center Street April 28,1913. His Godparents
were Catherine Magill and James Magill. He Went through the eighth
grade at St. Patrick's School and then went to work. As a young
man he went to work in the Stocking Factory located at the corner
of Water Street and Bridge. This mill was later or6sttoyed by fire
and there is now on the site the Village Recreation Center. He
worked as a machinist in the American Can Company in Geneva, New
York, during which time he, in partnership with a Mr. McDonald and
a Mr. Scagliabene, ran a bowling alley on Exchange Street, Geneva.
From Geneva, the family moved to Rochester where Ray worked atEastman Kodak as a machinist but he soon changed to manager of their
bowling alley located in their recreation building on Ridge Road.
It was from here that he retired in 1976. Shortly after retirement,
he underwent heart surgery to correct blockage of the coronary'
arteries, which entailed four bypasses. He plans on making his
home in New Mexico after complete recovery. Ray was married to
Ceilia Mahoney of Geneva in St. Francis de Sales Church by Rev. John
Healy. Ceil was born in Geneva, the daughter of Mr.& Mrs. Michael
Mahoney, and a graduate of St. Francis de. Sales High School. Ray
and Ceil have five children; John, Mary Ellen, Michael, Janette
and Dona. John attended John Marshall High School. He was married
twice. His first wife was Mary McCrory, whom he later divorced.-
There was a little girl by this marriage. John went in for electronics
and is employed by Eastman Kodak, responsible for maintaining their-
sophisticated computer system. John remarried and lives with his
wife in Victor, New York. Mary Ellen is a graduate of Nazareth
Academy, married to Bernard Merritt of Rochester and the mother
of three or four children. The two eldest are named Wayne and Winona.
They lived in Naples, New York, for a while. Mary drove a school bus
and Bernie was with the Canandaigua Sheriff's Department. They now
reside in Alaska. Michael is unmarried and has his own apartment
in Rochester. Janette lives in Naples. She first married Bud Rogers
and they had two children. She later divorced him. She is now
remarried to Michael Schriever who had two children, so now they
have four. Dona, the youngest, lives in Rochester. She is married
to a man named Michael and has a daughter, Melanie.
Beatrice F. Farrell was born at 22 Center Street, Seneca
Falls, New York, in the same room in which her mother was born, on
March 16, 1915. Her Godparents at Baptism were John Farrell and
Alma Durnin. The priest was Rev. M. U. Dwyer. Beatrice attended
St. Patrick's School and was married to Edgar Paul Eno. The Church
record reads, "Edgar Paul Eno and Beatrice Frances Farrell -- Parents:
William Farrell and Beatrice Magill, Edgar Eno and Jennie Trowbridge.
Wit: Raymond Farrell and Florence Corcoran. Priest: Father Quirk."
This was during the depression years and Edgar and Beatrice raised
four boys and four girls. After the children were grown, Beatrice
found employment at Willard State Hospital in the position of
Housekeeper, where she remained until retirement about sixteen years
later. She also has been chairman of the election polls in her own
election district. Edgar worked and retired from Seneca Falls.
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#3 Mechanic Street, Seneca Falls. The eight children of Edgar and
Beatrice are John, Harry, James, William, Jeanne, Beatrice
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Patricia (twins) and Margaret. The four boys were born first and
all were involved in World War II °and its sequellae. They were
all Army men. Then followed the four daughters. John Edgar, oldest
son of Beatrice and Edgar, was born March 18,1934, in Seneca Falls
as were all the rest of the children. John is a graduate of Mynderse
Academy. After graduation he entered the service. He was at Fort
Dix for a while, then Fort Devens and then shipped out for Germany.
He was stationed in the area bordering on the Iron Curtain. He
monitored messages for the Army Security Intelligence. He was
separated from the Army with the rank of Sergeant. After separation
from the Army, he worked for a while in the Seneca Falls Machine
Company. He married Anne Laraway of Montezuma. They had two
daughters, Laurie Anne Gilfus and Eileen Eno. John entered the New
York State Troopers, from which he recently retired after twenty
years of service. He was in the Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
He is presently employed by the First National Bank of Waterloo as
a security guard. In the 1978 elections, he ran for Seneca County
Sheriff on the Democratic ticket.
Harry Eno, the second Eno boy,
was born February 27, 1935, and graduated from Mynderse Academy.
Upon leaving school, he entered the Army. After a short time at
Fort Dix he was sent overseas and was stationed in Hawaii on the
Island of Oahu, near Waikiki Beach. He separated from the Army with
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Seneca Falls Village Police Department, attained the rank of
Sergeant and retired after twenty years of service. He now owns a
plumbing buslmess. Before joining the police he was for a short
time a psychiatric attendant at Willard State Hospital. Harry
married Constance Favreau, a Registered Nurse graduated fromthe
Willard State Hospital School of Nursing. She is presently employed
as a Supervising Nurse at Waterloo's Taylor-Brown Memorial Hospital.
Harry and Connie have a son, Garry, and two daughters, Lynn Marie
and Shelley. James, the third son, was born June 18, 1936. James
also graduated from Mynderse, after which he enlisted in the Army.
From Fort Dix he was sent to Fort Bellaire, Illinois, and was engaged
with guided missiles, Nike type. After his tour of duty, he returned
home with the rank of Spc. 4 and took employment with Goulds Pumps,
where he presently works in a supervisory capacity. Jim married
Kathryn McGuane of Waterloo. Kathy is employed by the Seneca Falls
Board of Education at the public school office on State Street in
Seneca Falls. James and Kathy have four children; Timothy, who is
presently a third year cadet at the United States Military Academy,
West Point; Mary Beth, who graduated from Mynderse and is in a
Business career; Paul and Irene, both of whom are still in high
school.
William, the fourth son, was born December 5, 1937. Bill
also attended Mynderse Academy. While in school he worked part time
as a grocery clerk for Mike and Lydia Caruso, grocers. They were
purchasers of the old Magill grocery. He then enlisted in the Army
near the close of the Korean War. He was stationed at Fort Dix,
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where he was a Spc. 4 as an Army cook. After his military service,
he found w:position in the Willard State Hospital Bakery. 'Later hejoined the Housekeeping Department where his mother worked. He had
charge of the maintenance of several offices and apartments. He
kept them in good shape and supervised the patients given him for
occupational therapy. Bill loved to travel and was in the Bahamas
once and in Acapulco a couple of times. He was also interested in
antiques and had many choice items. Once he made a trip to England
for the purpose of buying antiques. Bill died accidentally under
suspicious circumstances on March 22, 1976. He was buried with
full military honors in St. Columbkille Cemetery in Seneca Falls.
He was single. Jeanne Marie, the oldest daughter of Beatrice and
Edgar Eno, was born September 17,1939. She graduated from Mynderse
Academy and from the DiToto School of Beauty Culture, Auburn, New
York. She worked at Willard State Hospital as a beautician for some
time. She married Jess Hemingway, who is employed at Goulds Pumps.
They have three sons; Stephen, James and Richard. Beatrice, the
second daughter and eldest of the twins, was born December 10, 1945.
She is a graduate of Mynderse Academy and the DiToto School of
Beauty Culture, Auburn. Beatrice works part-time in the gift department
of Crayton's Drugs in the Kingdom Plaza, Seneca Falls. Beatrice
married John Decker, employed at Goulds Pumps' Water Systems plant
on East Bayard Street Extension. They have two daughters; Brenda
and Susan, both in school. Patricia, third daughter and second
of the twins, was born December 10,1945. She is a graduate of
Mynderse Academy where she studied Business. After graduation she
--50-was employed by the First National Bank of Waterloo as•a secretary
and teller: Now she does teacher-aide work at St. Mary's School
in Waterloo. Patricia married Kevin McDermott, who does just about
everything in the contracting and construction business. He is
presently President of his Union. Pat and Kevin have two daughters,
Deborah and Colleen. Margaret, or Peggy, as she is called, is thebaby of the family. Peggy graduated from Mynderse Academy and
is employed in the Main Office of Goulds Pumps. She is single and
maintains her own. apartment.
William Henry Magill, son of Harry and Jane Williams
Magill, was born on September 3,1889, and baptized on September 15,
1889, in St. Patrick's Church, Seneca Falls. His Godparents were
John O'Brien and Elizabeth Carroll Magill. His Godmother was the wife
of his uncle, Thomas Magill. Willie as a boy attended St. Patrick's
School. He made his First Communion in the parish church on June 6,
1901, and was Confirmed there on October 1 of the same year. Willie
was "the apple of his mother's eye", as the story goes. When old
enough he worked for his uncle, Tom, in the grocery. Eventually,
he became the proud owner of a horse and buggy. The horse he kept
in John Lacey's barn at 63 West Bayard Street. The horse fell,
breaking its leg, and had to be shot. It is known that he always
retained an affection even to a couple of days before his death when
he spoke about it. Willie outgrew the grocery job and went to work
for Goulds, where he learned the machinist trade. At the invitation
of his uncle, Bernie Callan, a foreman at the Jeansville Iron Works
in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Willie and several of his friends,
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Hulby, all•-went to Hazleton to work. Willie and John Malone stayed
in Hazleton and raised families but the rest returned to Seneca Falls
after a short time. In Hazleton Willie met a young lady, Grace Ferry,
whose mother took these young men into her home as boarders. It was
here that the diminutive "Willie" was'changed to"Billy" and so he
was known in Hazleton. Shortly after their marriage in Hazleton on
February 2,:.1915, they moved to Hartford, Connecticut. They lived
there for about six months. They then moved back to Pennsylvania,
where Bill found work with the Vulcan Iron Works in Wilkes—Barre.
When the depression of 1924 came and work virtually ceased at the
• Vulcan, the family moved to Hazleton where two of Grace's brothers had
succeeded in getting work for Bill as machinist for the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company. They resided in Hazleton from then until Bill died on
November 7, 1963. Grace Agnes Ferry was the third child of,John R.
Ferry and Bridget Paul. Grace was born November 20, 1884. She was
baptized in St. Gabriel's Church, Hazleton, on November 22,
1884. Her sponsors were her mother's sister, Hannah, and..her husband,
Edward Sweeney. As a child she went to live with an aunt also named
Grace, the wife of James Wallace. This couple were childless. Uncle
Jim worked for the United States Government in Indian Affairs in
Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, etc. When Grace was about nine, her aunt
died, and Grace returned to her family in Hazleton. She completed
her schooling at St. Gabriel's School after which she learned the
millinery business. Grace lived to the grand old age of 92 years
and 5 months and did on April 12, 1977. From the time of Bill's
--52-death until her own, Grace lived with Nary, her daughter, in
Elmhurst, Illinois. Bill and Grace are buried in St. Gabriel's
Cemetery in Hazleton. Grace and Bill had five children; Grace,
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William, Mary, Regina and Catherine.
Grace Magill was born in Wilkes-Barre on March 4, 1916.
She was baptized in St. MarSr's of the Immaculate Conception in
Wilkes-Barre on March 12, 1916. Her sponsors were her uncle,
Hugh Ferry, and Grace Wallace, a friend of her mother's. Grace
went to kindergarten in a public school near her home, being overanxious to go to school. She then went to St. Mary's first and
second grades before moving to Hazleton. Grace made her First Holy
Communion in St. Mary's during her first year of school, and was
Confirmed the same year. The remaining school. years were at St.
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Gabriel's in Hazleton, whgre she graduated June 15, 1934. On the
following September 8th, she entered the novitiate of the Sisters
of'Mercy at Dallas, Pennsylvania. Grace was received into the
Community of the Order on March 12, 1935, and was given the name,
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Sister Mary Joel. Sister was stationed at Babylon (New York),
Bayside (New York), Plymouth (Pennsylvania) and Towanda (Pennsylvania)
where she was principal of both the grade school and the high school.
From Towanda she went to College Misericordia, Dallas, Pennsylvania,
where she was stationed for twelve years, five of which were spent as
Dean of Students. After this she served in the Mathematics and
Chemistry departments. At this writing she is back where she started,
that is, she is teaching mathematics to sixth and seventh graders
in St. Gabriel's. In preparation for this academic career, Sister
Mary Joel earned an A.B. degree from College Misericordia with her
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undergraduate work at Fordham University in chemistry to make a
double major. While teaching in Plymouth, Sister attended the
University of Notre Dame where she earned a Master's degree in
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The second child born to Bill and Grace was a son named
William Magill after his father. He was baptized in Holy Savior
Church in the east end of Wilkes-Barre. The date of his birth was
October 14,1917. Billy attended first grade in St. Mary's but from
then until graduation from high school, Billy attended St. Gabriel's
in Hazleton. Like many little boys, house building fascinated him
and many new homes were being constructed near his home. One of
the plumbers took a shine to the little boy with the cherub-like
face and blond hair and Billy thought a great deal of him. Billy
saw to it that the plumbers never lacked plenty of cool water on
hot summer days as they pursued their 'work. When the houses were
completed, Billy went to the plumbing shop to visit with his friends.
The following summer they took him with them on:jobs, making him
feel very important as a "tool handler". Billy wanted a lunchpail
like the men had and when people saw him arrive at the shop each
day and leave with the men, they reported a breach of child labor.
So Billy's interesting summer days came to an end. However, the
seeds for a future plumber had been planted. After graduation from
high school he decided that he should like to be a priest. Msgr.
Kane, who had married his mother and father, recommended that he go
to the Josephenum, a seminary in Ohio conducted by the Sulpician
Fathers. The Monsignor doubted that Billy had a vocation but
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stationed at St. Gabriel's at the time. He was correct foi. just a
day before the pass ran out by which Billy had come to the seminary,
Billy returned home. He then worked at several jobs but ended up
being a plumber's helper. About this time World War II broke out and
Billy enlisted in the Marine Corps. After the United States took
over the island of Guam, Bill was with a detachment of Marines sent
there to install a communications system on the island. Earlier
Billy had met and married Ann McClaren from LaGrange, Illinois.
While he was on Guam their first child was born. He returned from
service and went directly to Illinois where his wife and son awaited
him. He established a flourishing plumbing business which he operated
ten or twelve years. He then moved with his family to Sarasota,
Florida, where he again established a plumbing business. Bill died
of cancer of the lung on Sunday, June 24, 1973, and is buried in
Sarasota. The children of William J. Magill and Ann McClaren were
William John,Jr., Kathleen, Lawrence and Daniel. William,Jr.
married Trinette Singleton, the second ballerina in the Graffrey
Ballet Company. They have no children. Kathleen married Edwin H.
Jacob of Sarasota, Florida. They have one son, Edwin H. Jacob. III,
.called Hanky. Lawrence and Daniel are not married.
Mary was Grace and William's third child. She was born
January 13, 1919. She was baptized Mary Alice in Holy Savior
Church in Wilkes-Barre. Her sponsors were Hugh and Mary Filbert
Ferry. Mary was not a strong baby. She had pneumonia three times
before she was a year old. As a child she was called Nanie by the
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a graduate•..of St. Gabriel's high school. After graduation Mary
attended McCann's Business School from which she graduated. She
went to work at St. Gabriel's as secretary to the Principal. Mary
married Paul Malloy of Junedale, a nearby town. They eventually
moved to Illinois where Paul went to work in the Magill Plumbing
and Heating business. Paul died May 24, 1977. Mary and Paul had
three children; Paul Francis, Jr., William and Catherine Ann.
Paul, who did not marry, is a public accountant for a manufacturer
based in Chicago and now lives there. William married Patricia Gould
of Elmhurst, Illinois, and they have six children; William, Jr.,
Beth Ann, Deborah, Amy, Molley and Daniel. Catherine Ann Malloy
married Roy Nippert, also of Elmhurst. There are two Nippert
children; Mary Kay and Michael.
Regina •was the fourth child born to Grace and William
Magill. Gena, as she was called most of her life by her family,
was born January 6, 1920. She was baptized at St. Mary's of the
Immaculate Conception Church in Wilkes-Barre, on January 18,1920.
Her sponsors were Uncle Paul Ferry and Aunt Beatrice Farrell, her
father's sister. Gena graduated from St. Gabriel's high school and
on the following February 2nd entered the Mercy Novitiate at Dallas,
Pennsylvania. • Gena in religion received the name of Sister Mary
Gerald. Gena always taught primary grades, mostly first grade. She
taught at St. Anastasia's of Douglaston, New York, St. Kevin's of
Flushing, New York, St. Joseph's of Babylon, New York, St. Francis'
of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, St. Aloysius', Great Neck, New York,
Sacred Heart, Plains, Pennsylvania, St. Paul's, Butler, Pennsylvania,
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and in St. John's, Wilkes-Barre. She started teaching with a B. A.
degree froM Misericordia College. She did graduate work in primary
education at DePaul University in Chicago. She never matriculated
for further degrees.
Catherine, the last child born to William and Grace, was
born July 9, 1922, and sponsored at Baptism by Grace Ferry, a .cousin,
and Francis Herron. Catherine was baptized in St. Mary's, Wilkes-Barre
on. July 23, 1922. At Confirmation Catherine took the name "Jane",
which had been her grandmother Magill's name. Shortly after her
baptism, her Godfather was crushed to death between two freight cars
in the railroad yards where he worked. Catherine also graduated
from St. Gabriel's high school. On the following September 8th she
entered the Mercy Novitiate and was given the name Sister Mary Paulinus.
After teaching at St. Francis, Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, St. Kevin's,
Flushing, New York, St. Joseph, Babylon, New York, Sacred Heart,
Bayside, New York, St. Boniface, Sea Cliff, New York, Bishop.O'Reilly,
Kingston, Pennsylvania, Catherine became Principal of Our Lady of
the Most Blessed Sacrament in Bayside West, New York, and then of
the grade and high school at St. Mary's, Wilkes-Barre. For a few
years she was the Community supervisor of elementary schools. When
St. Mary's closed due to a high school system initiated in the Diocese,
Catherine became Assistant_ Superintendent of Elementary Schools in
the Diocese. She held this post of seven years. At the request of
the Provincial staff, she became the Principal of St. Kevin's School
in Flushing, New York. Now she is ready to begin a new venture as
coordinator of child, youth and adult education in C.D. at St. Mary's
of the Nativity Parish in Tunkhannock,Pennsylvania. Sister's back-
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ground for this is an A.B. degree in Education from College
Misericordia and a Master's degree in School Administration from
Fordham University.
Florence Marie Magill, born February 18, 1892, at 22 Center
Street, Seneca Falls, youngest daughter of Henry and Jane Ellen
Williams Magill, was sponsored at her Baptism by Jerry Crutin andMary Callan. She made her First Holy Communion June 4, 1904, and was
Confirmed at 12 years of age. on November 15, 1904. Florence went
through St. Patrick's School and then obtained work at Miller and
Deys, later called Seneca Falls Rule and Block Company. She was an
active member of the younger set, went to dances and—socials, was a
good piano player and on summer evenings held many ding-a-longs
around the old square Knabe piano. The good old times on Center
Street are often spoken of by some who still remain with us. After the
death of her husband in 1930, Florence did some housework in order
to.help support her large family of seven children. After the outbreak
of World War II, Florence worked in the Officers' Mess at the Sampson
Naval Air Station. Still later in life she assisted her daughter,
Rita, who had married a physician in running her home in Elmira.
Before her death, Florence was confined to the Geneva General
Hospital Nursing Home, where she died at the age of 86 years on
May 22, 1978. In 1912 Florence became engaged to and later married
Martin Corcoran, the son of Patrick Corcoran and Bridget McDermott,
witnessed by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mahon. Mrs. Mahon was the sister
of Martin and was always called Mame. After marriage, Florence went
to Geneva to live. Martin, by trade, was a glass-blower and was
employed at the Geneva Glass Factory on Gates Avenue. When it closed
--58-its doors he then worked for the Fro-Joy Ice Cream Company in Geneva
on Lehigh Street, adjacent to the American Can Company. Then it
closed andhe took employment with the Lehigh Valley Railroad in the
capacity of Trainman. In pursuit of his work Martin was jostled off
one of the cars, fell under a wheel and lost part of one foot. This
necessitated transferring him to position of Baggage-master at the
local baggage-room in the main station at the end of Shbrrill Street.
Martin died on a Friday, May 30, 1930, of pneumonia at the age of
thirty-eight. The family then lived at 49 Avenue B. Florence and
Martin had seven children; Martin, Jane, Florence, Francis, John,
Rita and Stephen.
Martin Henry was born June 3, 1912, a member of St. Francis'
parish and attended the parish grammar and high school, from which
he graduated. He was a caddy at the country club and became acquainted
with Cornwall, the Superintendent of the American Can Company. Mr.
Cornwall took a liking to Marty and in 1927 hired him as messenger
boy and he worked up through the ranks until he died in 1969 at the
age of 57. He worked for the Company for forty-two years. At the
time of his death he held the position of Eastern Regional Manager.
During World War II Martin was with the U. S. Signal Corps as a
meteorologist. On July 14, 1945, Martin married Mary Mulcahy,
daughter of Thomas Mulcahy and Katherine Sullivan. After marriage
Marty bought a home in St. Stephen's Parish and they resided on
North Brook Street. Marty and Mary had four children; Carol Jane
(7/14/46), Mary Katherine (11/8/47), Eleanor (10/13/48) and
Martin Thomas
(6/13/51). Carol graduated from DeSales High School
and St. Bary's School of Nursing in Rochester and obtained her degree
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Frederick Rausch in 1968. They had two children; Mary and. Marty.
Mary Katherine graduated from DeSales High School, received her
B.S. degree from New Rochelle and her M.A. from Boston University.
She married George Jigayion. They have no children. Mary is
assistant editor of a textbook in Mathematics. They have their home
in Brookline, MaSsachusetts. George is a physicist. Eleanor is
a graduate of DeSales High School, received her B.S. degree from
Genesee University, and is married to Thomas Chilbert. They have
three children; Chrysostom, Matthew and Emily. Eleanor was first
grade teacher at West Street School for four years:-.--Thomas Chilbert
received his B.S. and M.A. from Geneseo State University and teaches
in Canandaigua. They live at 100 No. Main Street, Geneva New York.
Martin Thomas Corcoran graduated from DeSales and attended Alfred
University for two years. He then went to Hobart fOr a year,
continuing his education at Rochester Institute of Technology. He
is employed in Rochester as a supervisor for United Parcel Service.
Jane Corcoran was born September 20, 1913, and like the
rest of the family was raised in St. Francis' parish but later
transferred to St. Stephen's. She attended St. Francis DeSales
school and the Rochester School for the Deaf. She married Earl D.
AuClair of Gouveneur, New York, in St. Francis' Church in 1934.
Earl and Jane had three children; Michael D., Mary Teresa and
Christopher J. Earl was a merchant in electrical appliances on
Seneca and Exchange Streets for thirty-five years prior to his
retirement. Michael Denise was born February 15,1938, graduating
from DeSales in 1955. He attended University of Buffalo from 1955
to 1957, when he joined the U. S. Air Force Cadet Corps. He retired
--60-June 1, 1978, after twenty years of service. Mickey received his
B.A. in Business Education from the University of Omaha and his
M.A. in Eltironmental Management from the University of Tekas at
San Antonio. He retired as Major Michael AuClair and is presently
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employed by the Dynaeletron Company of Fort Worth, Texas,
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their Tucson, Arizona, office. He married Beverly Cole of Waterloo
in 1958 and they have Michelle and Mark. Michelle graduated from
high school in SanAntonio and the Barbizon School of Modeling in
San Antonio. Mark is a 12th grade student in Tucson, Arizona.
Mary Teresa AuClair was born October 7,1949, graduated from DeSales
in 1967 and from the Harper Method Beauty School in Rochester in
1968. She married Frank Alamo cn February 26, 1971. They had a
daughter, Lynn Ann, but were divorced in 1974. She then. married
Anthony Petrucci in St. Francis' Church in 1976. Mary and Anthony
have a son, Anthony Joseph. Mary operates a beauty station. Anthony.
(Pete) is employed by the John Hancock Insurance Company. They reside
at-362 White Springs Road, Geneva. Christopher J. AuClair was born
October 19, 1951. He graduated from DeSales in 1969. He graduated
from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1974 with a B.S. in
Chemistry. He has been employed by Xerox as a chemist since 1972.
He is single and lives at 16 Heron Way, Pennington, New York.
Florence.Marie Corcoran was born May 11, 1915. She
attended St. Francis DeSales school and graduated from St. Mary's
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Patricia.
Sheila graduated from St. Anthony's High School in
Syracuse, married Richard Cummings of Syracuse in 1956, and they
have four Children; Richard, Paul, Susan and Stephen.. Richard is
--61-with the U. S. Air Force and Paul is in the U. S. Navy.. Susan and
Steve are do high school. Kathleen French graduated froni St. Anthony's
in Syracuse and from Central Business School also in Syracuse. She
is married to Donald Jones. There'are no children and they make their
home at Syracuse. Patricia French graduated from the JamesvilleDewitt High School and Paulson's School of Art & Design in 1978. She
married Joseph Bass of Florida. They are living in Syracuse.
Francis George Corcoran was born April 24, 1917. He is.
a graduate of Geneva High School. Frank, like Marty, went right into
the American Can Company to work, whence he retired in 1977 after
forty-one years with the company. In 1944 Frank married Marian McGuigan-,
daughter of Louis and Anna Murphy McGuigan. Frank and Marian had
three children; Mary Lou, Joan and John. Mary Lou was born in March
of 1946, graduated from Rochester Business School and is married to
Frederick Lewis, President of the Ovid National Bank. They have three
children and make their home in Ovid. Joan attended Maria'Regina
College in Syracuse and Community College of the Finger Lakes in
Canandaigua. She is employed by the New York Telephone Company.
John received his B.A. in Business Education from Alfred University
and his M.A. in Course Counselling in Education from Alfred also.
He married Debra Kerr of Geneva in 1977. They have no children..
Francis was aboard the aircraft carrier Franklin when bombed.
John J. Corcoran was born August 18, 1918. He graduated
from Geneva High School in 1937. John felt that God was calling him .
to the priesthood so he joined the Holy Cross Fathers with their
motherhouse in Notre Dame, Indiana. Here he completed his classical
studies and entered their novitiate. He was ordained a priest on
June 13, 1947. He spent most of the time at Catholic University.in
'Jashington. He was stationed in Portland, Oregon, for a few years,
was a chaplain for the Brothers at Cardinal Mooney High School in
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Rochester for a year, then he was sent back to Niles, Illinoi4 to
again teach in Notre Dame High School, where he is presently located.
Rita Patricia Corcoran was born on May 29, 1921. Rita
graduated from DeSales High School in 1938. Then she went into
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nursing and graduated from the St. Joseph School of Nursing in Elmira,
New York in 1942. On September 26, 1944, she married Dr. Raymond
Stoddard, a member of the hospital staff. Later he was also a member
of the Arnot-Ogden Hospital staff. Ray was a native of Milport and
was a graduate of Syracuse University Medical School-:- Rita died in
Elmira at St. Joseph's Hospital in November of 1975 at the age of
fifty-four.. After her death Ray remarried. Rita and Ray had five
children; Michael, Jeanne, Karen, Raymond and Martin. Michael
graduated from Notre Dame High School, entered the U.S. Air Force in
the capacity of Medical Corpsman. He as been in for thirteen years
and excels as a medic and doctor's assistant. Jeanne graduated from
Notre Dame High and the St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing. She
married Whitney D. Pidot of New York, a member of the Pedot international
law firm. The Pedots have three children; Whitney, Phillip and Seth.
Karen graduated from Notre Dame High and from the University of
Wisconsin with a B.S. degree. Her M.A. degree she obtained from the
University of Ohio. She is presently working for her Ph.D. and
teaching at the University of Maryland. She is single and makes her
home in Greenbelt, Maryland. Raymond graduated from the South Side
High School in Elmira and earned his B.S. degree in Education from
the University of Wisconsin. He is employed with the Dinner Theatre
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Elmira at the age of nine years, quite suddenly.
Stephen Martin Corcoran was born October 1, 1924. He is
a graduate of DeSales and attended Syracuse University. He is a
graduate of the Simmons School of Mortuary Science. He was a
bombardier with the Air Force and was shot down over Germany in
World War II. The German women wanted to kill him when captured.
Following his discharge froM the service, for a short time he worked
 in the Pathology Laboratory at Willard State Hospital. In 1948 he
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married Jane Early, daughter of Lee and Mary Early.. -.Lee ran a
mortuary in Ovid. Stephen and Jane had two children; Stephen Martin
(11/4/49) graduated from Geneva High and after apprenticeship, joined
the union of masons, is married and makes his home in Lyons•for his
family of three children;eand Timothy Patrick (12/25/56), a graduate
of Bllensville High, is employed as a salesman for Ulster County
Cutlery with office in Detroit, Michigan.
Louis James Magill was born May 5, 1894, child of Henry
and Jane Williams Magill. Godparents at Baptism were Joseph McGovern
and Cora Desmond. Louis was a fragile child at birth and continued
.to go downhill. He died March 25, 1895, at the age of nine months.
James Oliver Magill was born October 20, 1896, child of
Henry Magill and Jane E. Williams. His Godparents were Will Riley
and Margaret Fitzsimmons. James was a St. Patrick's School student.
He was about fifteen years old when his mother died. After the
death of Jane, his sister, Beatrice, and her family moved in with
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the father to make a home for the father and James. James had a
bout with diphtheria when he was a young man and was in quarantine
for a long period of time. Because it was impossible to get a
negative culture of his throat, Dr. Brandt removed his tonsils on
the dining room table of the Barrett house on West Bayard Street
where they were then living. James quit school in order to work at
the Rumiey Pump Company at the end of Johnstoh Street. When he retired
he was working at Henry's and Allen in Auburn but lived in Seneca
Falls. At one time he worked at the Columbia Record plant in
Auburn.
He worked as a custodian after retirement at the Seneca Falls Post
Office. James kept pigeons from the time he was.a,..spall boy and
over the years had many choice varieties. He also had a period during
which he kept goats. Because of an ulcer he used to drink goat's
milk as a remedy. When World War I broke out, James was drafted
into the service. He spent the duration of the war at Camp McClellan
in Alabama. He was in the heavy artillery. James died August 18,
1974, in the Seneca Falls Hospital. He was buried with military
honors in St. Columbkille Cemetery on the Van Alustine lot which was
next to that of his father. As a young man just out of the service,
James met and married Louise Kanally of Auburn, the daughter of John
and Margaret Mulally Kanally. They were married in St. Mary's
Church in Auburn. For a while they lived in Auburn where Louise
worked at
the Auburn Button Works and James was at Columbia. In the Falls
Louise worked at Westcott Rule Company. When James died Louise sold
her home on Garden Street and went to live with her daughter in
Emerson, New Jersey. James and Louise had one child, a daughter
named
Carol. Carol graduated cum laude from Mynderse, then matriculated
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graduated. She was one of the first nurses to be trained there for
heart surgery. She presently works in the Emerson School District.
Carol married a young man named Richard Cologgi, also a cum laude
graduate of Mynderse. Presently he is employed by the Singer Company.
He and Carol have two. children; Julie (16 years) and David (12 years).
Catherine Magill, second daughter of Michael and Eary
Hand Magill, was born March 6, 1857. She attended the local schools
and as a child of seven watched her father go off to fight for the
Union in the Civil War. As most of the young girls of her time in
Seneca Falls, she worked in the local woolen mill, which was called
the Chamberlain Mill. She. lived until marriage at the family residence
on Center Street. After marriage she lived at 17 Center Street, where
the children were born. They then bought a home at 78 West Bayard
Street, where she lived until her death. Kate, as everyone. called
her, followed in her mother's footsteps doing practical nursing,.
midwifery and she was so good with the sick that the entire family
called Kate when there was sickness or injury in the family. Kate
died in 1938, aged seventy—one. Her later years were complicated
by a severe diabetes. As a young woman she married Frank Hulby on
-November 11, 1878, son of Francis Hulby and Teresa Schram. Witnesses
'at her marriage were Charles Gore and Helen Magill, priest was Father
Bernard McCool. Frank came to this country at the age of seventeen
from a.place in Austria called Mildow. This was around the year 1870.Frank was a brewmaster in early life, later he became a moulder at
Goulds Pumps and before retirement worked in the Assembly Department,
picking up castings in the #2 Building. Frank died in 1935 at the
age of 82 years. Kate and Frank had at least seven children.;, .
Francis, Franpes,.Teresa, Loretta,
Maynard, Mary
Elizabeth and Corrine.
Francis /2 was born September 10, 1879, baptized September 10, 1879,
sponsored by Thomas Magill and Mary Hulby. Teresa Hulby was born
July 29, 1882. Loretta Hulby was born May 7, 1883, and sponsored
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1893, sponsored at Baptism by Philip Callan and Elizabeth Magill.
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Only two of the seven children survived; Teresa and Maynard. Teresa,
the third child of Catherine and Frank was born July 29, 1882. She
went to St. Patrick's School and as a young woman_worked in the
Chamberlain Mill. At the time of World War II she worked at Evans
Chemetics in Waterloo and earned her Social Security. As a young
girl she moved in the local younger set, met and married John Winkle.
They had a very sumptuous. wedding. All rode to the Church in the
smartest of hacks. John and Teresa were married in St. Patrick's
Church September 9, 1903. John was the son of Bartholomew Winkle
and Mary Mackin. Witnesses at the marriage were Michael Callan
and Nora Winkle. John had three sisters; Mrs. Margaret Fox, Miss
Mary Winkle and Mrs. Dennis Ryan of Chicago. Before going to California
where he died,he worked as Plant Superintendent at Goulds' #2 Plant.
John, according to his obituary, is buried in St. Columbkille Cemetery.
John and Teresa had one child, a son, Maynard. He was born July 13,
1908, sponsored at Baptism by Maynard Hulby and Nora Winkle. He
attended local schools and when young worked for Crayton's drugstore
when it was in the Gould Hotel building. Later he went into
salesmanship with the Wilson Meat Company with headquarters in
itocIier. Maynard cared for the local dealers. lie was with tl7ic
company until he retired. He married Julia Dugan of Auburn, who is
a registered nurse. Maynard and Julia have a daughter named J1-.1-,
who resides with her parents in Seneca Falls. She is not married.
Maynard Hulby was born in 1891 in Seneca Falls, went to
S. Patrick's School and became a machinist. As a young man he.
worked for a short while in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, where his cousin,
Bernard Callan, was a supervisor. Then he worked as a foreman in
Gould's #2 Plant and was over the boring mills and planers. He
also worked in the Seneca Falls Machine Company. He decided to c.uit
the shops and branched out into auto dealership. He built and ran
a garage and salesroom on the lot to theeast of Magill's store. e
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sold Durants, Stars, Flints and latr Chryslers and Plymouths. He
and his uncle„ William, were very close and were in many ventures
together. From the auto .business, Maynard went back into the shop
at the beginning of the Great Depression. He worked for the American
Can Company in Geneva, as later did his son, Billy. He left the
American Can and was salesman for a couple of products, one being a
new type of stapler. Finally he went into plumbing and worked
for his son-in-law, Ray Kelsey, who was a contractor and who built
the Finger Lakes Bowl.. Maynard at 64 contracted infectious heDatitus,
'died and is buried in St. Columbkille Cemetery. Maynard met and
married Helen Cleary, a native Genevan, who was born April 16, 1893.
She attended St. Francis DeSales School and was a graduate of
Geneva High School. Nell and Maynard were married in St. Francis
DeSales Church in August of 1918. Nell died April 27, 1972. She
was a good wife and mother and very dedicated to her family. Nell
and Maynard resided in the. hor:_estead at 78 West Bayard Street; they
had two children; William and Alice Teresa. William tenry was born
October 9; 1920. His Godparents were Maynard Winkle and Lucy Cleary.
lie graduated from Mynderse Academy in 1939. Bill enlisted in the
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Officers' School in Alabama. After the War he became a member of
the Air Resei.ve, where he was a First Lieutenant. While on a
weekend tour of duty with the Reserve in Buffalo, his plane
accidentally crashed on November 22, 1953 and Bill was killed.
Alice Teresa was born in Seneca Falls on September 6,1922. Her
 Godparents were Clarence Magill and Elizabeth Cleary. She attended
St. Patrick's School and graduated frdin Mynderse Academy in 1940.
Alice attended Geneseo State Normal School for one year and then
decided to enter the Ontario Business School from'which she graduated
in. 1942. She held secretarial positions both at Rumsey Pump Company
and the Seneca Ordnance Depot. On December 2, 1944, Alice married
Raymond J. Kelsey, who was a contractor, in St. Patrick's Church. Ray
built the present Finger Lakes Bowling Alleys. Ray and Alice had six
children; David, John., Eleanor, Charles, Paul and William. David is
thirty—three and employed. by the C.N.A. in Washington, D.C.
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Wehle Elea-tries In Buffalo. He has his Business degree from Niagara
University. He is married to Johanna Moore and they•have four
children. Eleanor is a saleswoman for WHEN Radio in Syracuse. She
is married to Craig Millas. Charles is a general contractor and
conducts his business here in Seneca Falls. He is married to
Marie Rapa and they have two children. Paul is a machinist at
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Company in Chicago. He has a degree in Psychology frdrn Fredonia
State University. He is not married.
Helen (Ellie) Magill Gargan, the daughter and sixth
child of Michael and Mary Hand Magill was born in Seneca Falls on
January°26, 1859. She died in Rochester on December 20, 1926, and
is buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. On May 17, 1883, Helen married
Charles L. Gartmn, a machinist, the son of Patrick Gargan who, on
February 24, 1895, at the age of 72, was found dead in bed. He had
been feeble for four years and was a good man and Anna Carpcnjuer
was his mother. The witnesses to the marriage were James Gargan and
Bridget McKeon. Fr. Osborne was the Pastor. Charles Gargan died
on December 20, 1926, and is buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
Charles was a machinist in Seneca Falls for the LaFrance Fire Engine
Company. In 1893, they moved to Chicago where Charles had a position
as a Chicago City Fireman. Eventually, Charles and Ellie returned to
Seneca Falls, in 1902. After a short while they moved to Rochester
where Charles continued as a machinist in one of the Rochester firms.
They resided on Broadway Street in a large home where they reared and
educated four children; Bertha M. Gargan Leo Charles Gargan, Willian
-Henry Gargan and Lillian L. Gargan. Bertha M. was born in Seneca Falls
August 3, 1884, sponsored at Baptism by Philip Gargan and Mary Callan.
Fr. Osborne officiated at the service. Bertha was a strong,
energetic woman, a good wife and mother and possessed a good head
for business. She was bedridden for eight years following an
apoplectic stroke and died in Rochester on March 16, 1956. She had
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married Franklin Slipood in Seneca Falls in 1907, then moved to
Now iochelle, Now York in 1908. Later they moved back to Rochester
where Frank, who was an automobile mechanic, ran his own garage on
Broadway Street. He was a go-getter and could do just about anything.
Frank died just a few years ago. Bertha and Frank had one son,
Fran:ain, who now lives in Florida and is in the outdoor advertising
business. At one time he was -with his father in the sign business,
large neon-lighted signes which are placed atop buildings cr along
the highway. Young Franklein married Bernice Pierce in Rochester in
1935 and they have three daughters..a,ry Elaine married and has one
daughter and lives in Pittsford, New
Judy •married David Ccin1:-)y
and they have two sons; they live in Stanley, New York, and raise
horses. Lucille married Rod Newell, has four children, and lives
i. Pittsford, New York.
Leo Charles G2rgan was born in Seneca Falls on April 17,
1886. His parents were Charles Gargan and Helen Magill.' Sponsors
at Baptism were Daniel Coughlin and Elizabeth Gargan on April 28,
1836, with Fr. McDonald officiating. He was employed in sales and
'was a very good salesman. He was married but had no children, so
' his line.ends here. He died in Rochester on May 30, 1937.
William Henry Gargan was born in Seneca Falls June 30,
1892, third child of Charles and Helen, and was sponsored at Baptism
by Bernard Callan and Alice Magill. Will graduated in Commercial
Art from Mechanics Institute in Rochester. Later he was a linotype
machinist in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Rochester and set up a
linotype unit in the Mennonite Mission there. Will died in Rochester
at the age of forty in 1932. his wife's name was iran and she
worked for the Fanny Farmer Candy Company at their Rochester
factorynear Old St. Mary's, the family parish. Will and Marian had a
son, William. who died when eight years of age in 1923.
Lillian L. Gargan, the fourth child of Charles and Helen
Magill Gargan, was born while the family lived in Chicago, on
November 19, 1895. It is thought that she was educated and trained
for a profession in the business world. And in this environment
she met and married Edward Shea, a real estate broker. The marriage
took place in 1924. The Sheas had a very lovely home at 610 Monroe
Avenue. It was from there chiefly that Ed eonduci.ed_his. business.
Lillian was a gentle person and loved by all. The marriage of EL.
and Lillian was blessed by six children. Three died in infancy;
twin girls born December 8, 1928, and a son born November 10, 1936.
Three children lived to be adults; Mary Ellen, Jahn and Edward.
Eary Ellen Shea, born in .Rochester on March 29, 1927, graduated from
Nazareth College in 1948. She was a laboratory chemist and assistant
professor at John Fisher College, Rochester. She now lives in Florida
where she is a real estate broker. She married Richard L. Crowley
June 10, 1950. They have three children; Xathleen Crowley Bell,
employed by the Central Trust Company of Rochester; Richard Oralrlcy,
an art student at Monroe Community College; and Timothy Crowley, a
graduate of Paul Smith's College, Paul Smith, New York, and employed
with the Marriott Hotel chain at Saddlebrook, New York. John G. Shea,
son of Lillian and Edward, borh in Rochester September 14, 1950,
attended St. Bernard's Seminary in Rochester and graduated from
Cornell Law School in 1957. He married Phyllis McCormack of Saranac
Lake. John entered the U. S. Army in 1957 and served .three years in
--72-he Jud1e Advocate General Division at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
He and his,:wife are practicing law in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. They
have four children, two of whom are in college. Edward G. Shea
was born in Rochester April 17,1940. He graduated frOm McQuaid •
Jesuit High School in 1958 and attended St. Bonaventure University.
He had open heart surgery at -GeorgotOwn, Washington, D. C., where
he died on July 25, 1963, at the age of twenty-three.
Thomas Magill, son of Michael and May Hand Magill, was
born March 31, 1861, in Seneca Palls. As a young man he worked
several years in the Foundry but then bought out he Fish Earket
formerly owned by Owen Farron on the southeast corner of Bridge and
Bayard Streets. Tom turned the store into a family grocery. He was
in the grocery business for nearly fifty years. It was one of the old
time groceries. There was, of course, the open pickle barrel,
cracker barrel, flour and sugar in the barrel; a candy counter with
penny stick candy, a tobacco counter, a notions counter and.the boxed
articles were on shelves, which the clerk would bring down with his
"picker-upper". There were barrels of molasses and somespirits too.
There was kerosend lamps and chimneys. About half-way to the back
of the store on the west side there was a small office. Books were
first kept by brother Willie and later by Nellie Farley. The bilis
went out weekly .and on payday all the kids waited for the bag.of•
candy Dad would bring home after paying the bill. The candy was a
courtesy of the store. A little in front. of the office was the big
isinglassed stove about which the wags in the community sat and told
their stories or debated questions of the day. They sat in Captain's
chairs•and spat into brass spittoons. It was a most congenial
atc:osphore. The fronds of bananas and open crates of oranges,
al o ng wi th. : the baske ts of pe a rs a nd p lums we re a te m p ta tio n. Above -
the store in the front section was a combination apartment and
dressmaking establishment run by a relative known as Mary 1:10Keever.
She was Godmother to Adelaide, Tom's daughte7-. Torn married
Catherine Rogers April 22, 1885 and Catherine died:Eebruary 23, 1886.
She was from Union Springs and died in childbirth; the child lived.
aecers
1 was the.son of Thomas YaEill and Catherine
aogers, born on February 15, 1886 His Sponsors Were Harry 1-agill
and 1.1ary Callan. The priest was Father Osborne. George was sickly
for a 1 nE time after being struck across the back-with a baseball
club while at play. He died November 2, 1902, at the age of sixteen
after receiving the sacraments. To:. in 1891 remarried to Elizabeth
Carroll (October 11, 1863 —• May 23, 1940), the daughter of James
Carroll and Marie Markey. Witnesses were Philip Callan and Catherine
Farley. Tom went into business somewhere around 1889 and remained in
it about forty—five year . Around 1930, due to ill health, Thomas
sold his business to Mike and Lydia Caruso. Thomas died on
December 31) 1934, and is buried on his half of the father's lot in
St. Columbkille Cemetery. Thomas and Elizabeth had six children;
Howard (Thorrrs)_ Mary, Clara. hargaret Alice.and Adelaide.
Howard (Thomas) M gill, the second child of Tom hag ill,
was born November 23, 1892 in Seneca Palls, his Godparents were
James Carroll and Mary Magill. Howard, as he was always. called,
received his education locally and graduated frOm Hobart College.
He worked and-helped Tom with the store until it closed. He then
worked in different places. He worked in the construction of an
pooline which brought oil from Texas to this section of the
co-,Intry. ,gter the death of his father, Howard and his family moved
to Auburn where they had a home in Malone Village. He remained in
Luburn for the rest of his life. Howard died March l5, 1972, andis buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Auburn. Howard married
White, who was born June 4, 1891,in Rome,New York. She
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died on Sunday, October 1,1978, and is also buried in
Auburn. Sha
was the daughter of William C. White and Julia Fitzsimmons. Julia
was a graduate of Trinity College, Washington, D.C. They moved -k,o
L,iburn in 1935. Howard and Julia had six children; Thornas..JIlli,:
(Jildy) James, Peter and Paul ('.,wins) aof. Joan. `Thomas Clark
was born on February 3, 1918. His sponsors were John McGraw and
Lary Magill. He was baptized. by Rev. William Hart, who later was
Vicar-General of the Diocese. Thomas married and lives in Kinston,
North Carolina. He has two children, Thomas and Patricia. He a1 s0
lived in Seneca Falls and Auburn. He was a military career man now
retired and presently working for the Air Force. Julia (Judy):, _ite
i.ar•.11 was baptized May 30, 1919,in Seneca Falls. Her sponsors were
Mr. & Mrs. William White. Julia was baptized by Fr. George Weinmann.
Judy married Harry Gagnier and they have three children, Robert, :27,r,:s
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and Yvonne. Judy is a high school graduate and lived in both 2en.,:ca
Falls and Auburn. James was baptized on April 9, 1922. His sponsors
were Edward White and Margaret Magill. James married Jeanne
Ber23t.
They have two adopted daughters, Kathleen and Eileen, and live in
Lyons. He is a retired teacher and a graduate of St. Bonaventure
University. He retired in 1977. Peter, one of the twins was born
on October 27, 1925. He graduated from St. Bonaventure University
.)-and has a 1,1as-ter's clerce from Penn State. lie is employed by T.1J.;:q.
and is married to Marie Gasper. They have seven children;Natl,
Jane. Ellen. Mary..Patricia, Anne an6 Michpcl. Their home is is -
3ndwoll. Paul, a twin was born on October 27, 1925, graduated from
north Carolina University and Albany Law School. Ile is a member ef
Lie law firm of Gleason, Foulke, Magill & Hewatt, Auburn,New York.
Paul married Nary O'Connor, who is now deceased. They had seven
ehild.ren; Palo Andrew (8/19/55), Tinothv (8/14/50), Mcn (7/19/57),
lary .Cali
(4/9/60), John (12/30/61), Reran (5/21/64), Karen
(1/16/56), plus a ch:ad who died as an infant.
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of Thomas and JUlia, was born February 6, 1950, graduated from 4f_za
school, is married and has two children; Da-,rid axId Susn.. Joan is
employed
Mercy Hospital Rehabilitation Center.
Mary, second child of Thomas and Elizabeth Magill, was
baptized May 30, 1898, sponsored by i',ndrew Carroll and Teresa Magill.
On :December 31, 1925, Mary Magill married Joseph Dinan, son of
Patrick Dinan, and the witnesses were Clara Magill and Ray Dinar per
Fr. Quirk. Mary and Joe had seven children, six boys and one girl
who died. The Dinans lived in Easton, Pennsylvania.
The second daughter of Tom was Clara Elizabeth Mar:ill,
yho was. born August 1, 1900, sponsored at Baptism by William Magill
and Mary McGraw. Clara died at her home in Auburn in 1951. She married
113Dziy O'Hora, a cousin of Joseph 'O'Hara, the husband of her sister,
Adelaide. The O'Horas had three children, two girls and a boy.
The third daughter of Tom Magill was baptized May 8, 1904.
'Sponsors were John McGraw and Catherine Laughlin. She was called
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garet Magill were marriod. He was the son of John Carroll and
Alice Coleman. Witnesses at the marriage were klustus Carroll and
Adelaide Magill with Fr. Quirk officiating. Margaret and Leo had_
one child, Joan, born in 1933. She is a registered nurse, married
and living near Seneca Falls with her family.
Alice Josephine
born November 14, 1906, as
baptized conditionally and finally on December 2, 1906. Sponsors
were haynard Hulby and Mary Carroll. In the Fall of 1927, Alice
entered the Diocesan Order of the Sisters cf St. Joseph. She was
Elven the r,oigious name of Sir;t.7
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During the y._ars
she has been missioned in various parishes around the Diocese. She
is presently stationed in Ithaca.
AdelaiCn Magill, the fifth daughter of Tom Xagill, was
born June 21, 1910, and was sponsored by Clarence Magill and I.L.•j
hcKeever with Fr. Dwyer officiating at her Baptism. Adelaide married
an Auburnian by the name of Joseph O'Hora. He was a cousin to Clara's
husband. They made a home for the mother after Tom's death at the
homestead on Ovid Street. Adelaide attended any years ago a school
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by the State in the Geneva High School and earned a teacher's
license. She taught in a rural school in the area near Cayuga Lake
known as Bridgeport. It is now a firehouse . Later, she was employed
at Willard State Hospital as a dietician's aide. Her husband was also
employed at the Hospital as an. attendant. He worked for a while in
the Falls at Goulds. Adelaide and Joe have two children; betty
and Joe. petty, who married Michael DePew, whose father, Chauncey
DePcw, ran the village drugstore in Ovid, Now York. Michael is a
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'Gea:;a: and they have a home in ifianville,ew York. ___ 1.inn
never married, is a Registered N=c and works in a Staten. Island
hospital.
:ache rd Magill, the eighth child of Lichael Magill, was
1,ol'n on September 30, 1863. His parents were Michael and May and
Magill and his sponsors wore John Gregory and 1,_ary Halpin. The priest
was '2,ev. E. McGowan. When he grew u.d, az did all the
boys, he
too_ to. moulding and worked in the local foundries. When he was a
yoL:.ng man, he married Cecelia
was born December 12, L.
'2_he Church records give the.followinT account: "In-1891, the marriage
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Richard Magill, son of Michael' Magill and Mary Hand, with Cecelia
:foods, daughter of Michael floods and Catherine McAneny. Witnesses:
Jilliam Magill and Emma Woods." He was a very young boy when his
father left to fight in the Civil War. It was around 1885 that hie
brother opened a grocery business and Richard gave up moulding in
order to work or his brother in the store. At the start of the
Great Depression, Thomas died and the store was closed. Richard when
went to work at the Quality Meat Market on the corner of Bridge and
Bayard Streets. After a time he returned to Gould's and did some
light work. Dick quit work about five years before his death. aichard
was buried in St. Columbkille Cemetery on February 28, 1944, with
i"ather Cuffney officiating. Richard and Cecelia Woods Magill had
three children; Clarence Sylvester. Catherineand Emma.
Clarence Sylvester E:i:11 was born September 29, 1093,
and died in 1967. His sponsors at Baptism were Michael Callan
and Helena Woods. He attended the local schools-and when old enough,
took employent
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Clarence married a Romulus ui/l, fmn..1
oy ae6cent.
They were married in Sacred iioart Church, Romlaus, New York. This
Church has since become a Mennonite meeting hall. Clarence and Anna
Lad two children; Helen C-;celdaand P4_ch-:rd Je]m
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was a scnsitivd girl and quite Lrilliant. She was born July 14, 1932.
She married Robert Perry, son of A'tddie Perry, now Addie Stahl.
Helen ;:orked for the Government at the Seneea Ordnance. Once
sas
3CA',; -co Japan in some government capacity. Robert aad Helen had one
child, •.D.rthfl Sharon.
They were then divorced and helen's .1:lether
adopted Martha. Rio:1=d John was Lora October 15-i-1935. He atteaded
the local schools, remained at home with his mother, employed at
Seneca Falls Machine Company and never married.
ez-th2rinc. Narill was born August 4, 1898, daughter
2ichard and Cecelia Woods Magill, and sponsored at Baptism by Jaz.es
_...:eon and Emma Woods. Catherine said tha:t she was baptized with
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water from the River Jordan. Father O'Connor, the pastor at that
time, had it with him when he returned from the Holy Land. Catherine
has lived all her life in Seneca Falls. The Church record reads,
"On October 1, 1919, the marriage of Parll B. Fredenburg, son of
Jersmiah PredenburL, and Mary Stickle, with Catherine Magill, the
daughter of Richard Magill and Cecelia Woods; witnesses: Clarence
Magill and Clara Kennedy, Priest Father Walker." When Paul died,
one obituary read, "Paul Fredenburg, ex-mayor, died at the age of 70
early Friday .corning in the Seneca Falls Hospital. Born in South
Shaftsbury, Vermont, he was employed by the New York State Depart :lent
of Audit and Control." Paul and Catherine had three daughters,
Alice Ceceli Freenrx ras born Septeraber 23, 1920,
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a Kcnncdy and Teresa 1.:eCrain. Alice married :Zo"1.-:..
cr 1,0r1 ofoL.AUC, Pails. Lobert died young of a malif,nancy
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corn December 13, 1971,ancl Mary 3t?-1;orn May 11, 1974; and
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divorced.. hary Moe then nlarried 7)r7.-rif. 1467acholas on June 9,1973, Alice
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6, 1925. She attended local schools and on October 27, 1043, ::.he
married Jo!-Ie71_ Andrew
,hcy 'JeTC about raised, Cathy took a
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They had eight children and when
COU2JC in Practical NursinL; at
Cencva General Hospital, whence she graduated. She has worked in
that capacity at Seneca Falls Hospital for several years. Their
children are: Cathy Ellen Gia-:-.ev, born July 30, 1944, married to
frth.Yr Tirl-ell; Joseph Paul Gilroy, born Au3ust 4,1948,7married to
Jean Lashbrook, they have one daughter, Carrie Elizabeth Gilroy,
--80-born February 22, 1977; Dennis Michael Gilroy, born May 26,1950,
not married; Kevin Thomas Gilroy, born September 21, 1952, not
married; Mary Jo Gilroy, born September 2, 1954, married to
Keith Vandeventer September 17, 1977; Michael Shawn Gilroy, born
December 2, 1955, married to Celia Peth; Francis Damian Gilroy, born
April 20,. 1960, and not married; James Andrew Gilroy, the last child,
was born November 8, 1961. The father is a New Yorker and when
discharged from the Navy, obtained employment in the offices of
Goulds Pumps. The Gilroys reside in Waterloo, New York.
Jeanne Charlotte Predenburg married. Paul Joseph Buster,
who was killed. They had two children; Lynn Marie and Eileen.
Lynn Marie married Stanley Gonsalves and they had twogirls; Tina
Marie, born September 13, 1971, and Lelani Jeanne, born June 22, 1973.
Eileen was born November 18, 1956, married John Solometo and was
divorced. She then married Ray Uticone July 22, 1978. After the
death of Paul Buster, Jeanne met and married Bryant Edward Doyle,
who adopted the two Buster children and then had three children
of their own; Edward Robert Deyle, born January 2, 1960, Dennis
Richard Doyle, born January 2, 1962, and Kelly Jeanne Doyle, born
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April 27, 1964.
Emma Magill, the third child of Richard Magill and
Cecelia Woods, was born on April 26, 1899, and did not live a year.
She was possibly born prematurely and in those days rarely survived.
She was given a private baptism by her Aunt Kate Hulby, who was a
midwife and practical nurse.
William Vincent Magill, the son of Michael Magill and
Mary Hand, was born July 25, 1868. His Godparents were Jerry Dailey
:,i_t,;herine Galvin. He
bapized by Father Kavani,luL:h.
youn7 man, Willie worked as a moulder in the Foundry. Bat lat:„:
nen Thomas, his brother, opened up a grocery store, Willie weL-,; to
work for him as bookkeeper. Later• he went to work clerking
oos' aSsinment was taken up by Mollie Parley. When the :.oth::r
ar,d father died, Willie and Alice rented a home for themselvcsal
70 'Jest Bayard Street, which was owned by the "country" McKcons.
was talented, doing much reading and studying, and was
mechanically inclined. He learned the Morse Code and as aye;..:.,;
:..an 113 eventually set up a wireless station. During World War ...
::,uch of the news first-hand as soon as it broke. Folks
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knew the news beforee-eVeryone else. His antenna in the
yarcl was fifty feet tall, quite high in those days. Lateri whcz.
thO United States entered the war, it became illegal to have
serial So he placed the wires in his attic. He was also erestems
in- cars and assisted his nephew, kaynard Hulby, to get started in
the business. It was about this time that people became to have
more money, they patronized the new chain-stores and there was no
longer a need for them to charge their groceries in the neizhborhood
s-:;ore. Tom closed his business with most of his money on the books.
illie and another clerk by the name of Johnny IlicGraw went into
Jt.siness on their own on the northwest corner of Bayard and Brid
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Streets. He was there until the stor-, burned and...he was taken ill.
Lc then sold .out-to his partner. Shortly after Willie died, •so.did
the partner. Alice lived alone in the home they had bought casi...coll:6
to St. Patrick's School. The home was later purchased by the Ohurcli,
in order to have room for the new eastern addition to the School.
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daughter of Michael and Mary Hand ri;Lv-ill,
was born September 16, 1870, in Seneca Falls and was baptized on
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September 22, 1870, with Patrick Matthews and Mary Carroll as Godparents.
Alice was a member of St. Patrick's Church and attended our
school.
She was quite stylish and very artistically inclined. Alice stuaiea
as an art student in Chicago. She won a blue ribbon for a paint::.a
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in Chicago at the World's Fair Art Institute. She
many paintings
and portraits working in oils. She painted pictures and portraits for
many families in the area. Alice for a time was engaged to a
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the Village, Alice and Willie bought the Murphy home next to
School and remained there'until they died. Alice died in :.ay
1949 and her burial was on May 23, 1949. Father O'Beirne later
purchased the Magill home and had it torn down. Alice is buried
on the family plot in St. Columbkille Cemetery. The Executor of
her Will was Florence Van Alstyne Hulse of St. Petersburg, Florida.
Margaret Magill, the fifth daughter of Michael and ary
hand Magill, was born May 17, 1872, on Center Street in Seneca
She was baptized May 24, 1872, and her Godparents were Michael McGuire
and Mary Rooney with Father McCool officiating. She attended St.
Patrick's School and as a young woman worked at the Chamberlain Mill.
In 1893 on May 17th Margaret married William L. Van Alystine, born
1;ovember 12, 1870, son of George Van Alystine and Catherine Gray.
;itnesses at the marriage were James McConnell and Alice Magill
with Father James O'Connor officiating. On December 2b, 1897,
William Van Alystine died of pneumonia in Ilion after receiving the
Sacraments. Will worked for the Remington Typewriter Company of
Ilion, New York. The family name of Van Alystine began to be used
about 1695 by the children of Jan Martause, a Dutchman, who came to
this country about 1653. His descendant, George Nan Alystine, was
born June 26, 1836,.and married to Catherine Gray and they were the
parents of William Lambert Van Alystine, who married Margaret Magill.
.Margaret and Will had two daughters; Ethel and Florence.
Ethel___ Van Alystine was born November 26, 1893. Except
for a short while spent in Seneca Falls and Geneva, Ethel lived most
of her life when young in and around Chicago. Ethel was a secretary
for Sears Roebuck Company. She married a young man of Polish
extraction by the name of'Jerry Hunenkovsky, which name he later
changed to Huncove. Jerry was a professional Violinist from the
Chicago area. He played concert violin and was very accomplished.
He worked in many theatres near Chicago and the Middle West. Ethel
and Jerry spent a few years in Seneca Falls. Jerry was employed in
one of the shop offices in the #2 Plant, over which John Winkle was
Superintendent. Jerry was also an orchestra leader engaged at the
bld Fisher Theatre on Fall Street. He used to play for home-talent
shows, vaudeville and musical comedies. He also had violin students
to whom he gave lessons. Ethel and Jerry made their home in a flat
over Aunt Alice's on West Bayard Street. Later they returned to
the Midwest and Jerry died there. Ethel died in St. Petersburg,
Florida, July 31, 1978, at eighty-four years. She is buried in
Brookfield, Illinois.
--84-Florence Van Alystine, the sister of Ethel, was born
April 1, 1895. Florence and Ethel lived most of their young lives
in Chicago. Florence studied nursing for a while and then went into
practical nursing by means of which she met her future husband. It
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was while taking care of his wife that she met Carl Iwin, whom she
married after his wife's death. Carl was one of the heaviest
stockholders of the now defunct Wrisley Soap Company. Carl lived
for eight years after his marriage to Florence and they once took
a trip to Europe. Toward the end of his life, Carl suffered severe
trouble with his heart. He died in Chicago. Florence later
remarried to a former acquaintance, Paul Hulse, whose wife had died.
They were married twenty-two years when Paul died. He owned and
operated a large tourist hotel in Mamtaloken, New Jersey, a busy
resort area. When Paul died, Florence took up residence in a
condominium at St. Petersburg, Florida, where she now resides.
When Will Van Alystine died, Margaret Magill married
Charles Stell, a Chicagoan. Married to Stell, they made their home
in Seneca Falls and then in Geneva. Charles was a plumber by trade
and worked in Geneva for the Stacy Plumbing concern, which was
located in the alley that ran along the west side of the Smith
Opera House. Their home was located on the corner of what then was
called Milk Street and Madison. Another time they lived on West
Street or West Avenue. The Stells had four children; Charlotte Hild
of St. Petersburg, George Stell of Tucson, Arizona, Charles and John
Stell of Chicago.
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CHAPTER III
ALICE MAGILL
Alice•Magill Carraher (1825 - 1912), was the daughter
of Thomas Magill' and Mary McGuire. She was born and raised in County
Louth, Ireland. She and the rest of her family left Dowdstown for
America in 1847, possibly due to the current potato famine. She died in Seneca Falls at the age of eighty-seven on October 14, 1912.
She married John Carraher, a grocer, who was born in County Louth
in 1844. He died in 1912 also. He ran a grocery-and liquor business
at the corner of Canal and Bridge Streets. Their marriage was
blessed with seven children; Bridget, James, John, Richard, Mary
Michael and. Patrick Henry.
Bridget Carraher was born May 17,1857, and her Godparents
were Patrick Duffy and Mary Durnin. When the parents died, Bridget
took over the role of mother to the family since she was the eldest.
She did the housework and prepared the meals for the others.
John Carraher was born August 30, 1855. When at home he
assisted with the store but he was an excellent juggler and was
. frequently absent with one of the major circuses. However, this
fact was kept a deep secret by the family and left 'many wondering
as to why the frequent and sometimes lengthy absences of John.
Some of the neighborhood rascals were said to have peeped through
the knot-holes in the Carraher barn and caught John in.theact of
juggling. After the death of the father, the management of the
business fell on the shoulders of Richard,who was born March 18,
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Richard died in 1921. James and plary -- Baptismal records show that
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John was baptized or born on August 30, 1855• His sponsors were
Maurice. Coffey and Catherine Magill. It is said that the two girls,
Bridget and Mary, loved company but they had one peculiarity in that
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they preferred to have just one visitor at a time. Church records
show that Michael Carraher was baptized on January 17,1861, and his
sponsors were John McGough and Catherine Murphy.
Records also show that Patrick Henry Carraher was baptized
on October 27, 1864, sponsored by James Carraher and Catherine
McGraw, officiated by Father McGowan.
None of these children ever married so their line
ends here.
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MARY ALICE MAGILL
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Mary Alice Magill (1827 - 1902), fourth child of Thomas
and Mary McGuire Magill, married John Bernard Coleman (1827 - 1898).
The records of St. Mary's Church in Waterloo, New York, read,
"On
May 6, 1865, marriage of John Bernard Coleman and Mary Magill.
John, the son of Thomas Coleman and Mary. Cunningham. And Mary,
the daughter of Thomas. Witnesses: Michael Lynch and Anna McGuire.
Father Keenan." Both John and Mary were born in Ireland. John was a
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maltster engaged in the production of malt. They lived in a small
settlement called Starkey, which was situated on the middle-west shore
of Seneca Lake, where Mary for a while acted as house
mother
at Starkey Seminary. Their marriage was blessed with three children;
John Edward, Thomas H. and Margaret Ann. The family plat was Lot #72,
twelve graves, in St. Michael's Cemetery in Penn Yan.
John Edward Coleman was a farmer and married Chattie Baker.
Their home was in Dundee. John was buried September 25,' 1950. Chattie was
buried on May 24, 1968, both of them in the family plot.
Thomas H. Coleman married Margaret Wetzel. He was also
a maltster and resided in Geneva, New York. Thomas was baptized in
Sene6a Falls and the Church record reads, "Thomas Coleman, born August
18, 1866. Parents: John Coleman and Mary Magill. Sponsors: Thomas
Coleman and Anna Coleman. Fr. Kavanaugh." Thomas was buried October
30, 1923, and Margaret was buried May 7, 1930..
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Margaret Ann Coleman was born January 3, 1868, to John
Coleman and Mary Magill. Baptismal sponsors were Michael Magill
and Frances McKeon. Margaret married William Gould, who left her with
four children; Ethel Gould, Mary Gould, John and Bernard. He settled
in Pennsylvania where he remarried and fathered three more children.
Ethel T. Gould McDuff Summers married Martin J. McDuff, who was buried
May 5,1929. She later married a Mr. Summers. Ethel had two children;
John Francis and Bernard, who died at age two and was buried on
August 2, 1922. Ethel died August 30, 1978, in Geneva. Mary Gould
Hart married John Hart and had six children; John Joseph, Mary, who
died in infancy, James William, Bernard Leo, Margaret Mary, who
married Charles Smith of Waterloo, and Paul Robert. John Gould
married Kathleen Sullivan of Seneca Falls and had four children;
Margaret, Mary Evelyn, Catherine and Eleanor. Bernard Gould
remained single. Margaret Ann Coleman Gould died in 1934.
The plot woned by John Coleman, Lot #72 at St. Michael's
Cemetery, Penn Yan, New York, is as follows:
North Half
Mrs. Thomas Coleman 5/7/30
South Half
Martin J. McDuff 5/20/29
Thomas Coleman 10/30/1923
Bernard MacDuff 8/2/22
Mrs.John B.(Mary) Coleman 8/3/1902 Mrs.John (Chattie)
Coleman 5/24/68
John B. Coleman 5/28/1888
Born Ireland Age 61
CHAPTER V
ANNE MAGI LL
° Anne Magill, fifth child of Thomas and Mary McGuire
Magill, was born in County Louth, Ireland, in 1832. She died of
paralysis on November 18, 1855, at the age of fifty-three in
Waterloo, New York. The Church records show that on October 22, 1863,
a marriage was performed of Maurice Lynch, son of James Lynch and
Honora Ahern, to Anne, daughter of Thomas Magill and Marie McGuire,
witnessed by Patrick Hagan and Mary Myles, per Fr: Keenan.
Maurice Lynch, a maltster, was born in Limerick,
Ireland in 1829 and also died of paralysis in Waterloo on July 6, 1886,
at the age of fifty-seven. The burial plot of Maurice and Anne is
uncertain. It could either be on the plot with Alice Magill, who
lived with them and who owned twelve graves or it could be on the
Lynch plot, which has stones bearing the names Maurice and Anne.
In the Church record book of births, it shows these three as children
of Maurice and Anne.
Thomas Lynch, born September 28, 1864, to Maurice Lynch
and Anne Magill. Sponsors were Michael Lynch and Mary Magill.
Honora (Nora) Elizabeth Lynch, born April 10, 1867, to
Maurice Lynch and Anne Magill. Sponsors were Matthew Moran and
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Anne Lynch.
James Lynch, born October 11, 1868, to Maurice Lynch
and Anne McGill. Sponsors were James Lynch and Anna French.
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CHAPTER VI
CATHERINE MAGILL
Catherine Magill (1835 - 1916) became the wife of
John McKeon (1831 - 1916). He was also called "Tammany McKeon"
because of political tendencies. He was a thrifty man and ran a
profitable grocery business. One young lady thought to get the best
of him by dropping one of his melons into her parasol. Shortly
afterward, her mother received a bill from John for one melon.
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John and Catherine raised a large family and lived•on East Bayard
Street, Seneca Falls. Of their eight children, some died young;
James M., Frances, John, Rose Ellen, Francis Nicholas, Edward, Mary
and Catherine Teresa.
James M. (1861 - 1936) ran a hardware store. There was
just about everything that one would expect to find in a hardware
but it took one of the McKeons to find it, which they could. This
store was the backbone of the family and in the end it survived
them all. It still runs in another spot and under another name.
Frances E. (1863 - 1883)died at the age of twenty. The
Church records read, "Frances E. McKeon born January 10, 1863,
sponsors John McCabe and Alice Halpin. Died March 31, 1883."
John T. (1865 - 1939) took over his father's grocery
business and ran it until the advent of the chain-stores. He
closed up and joined James in the hardware business.
Rose Ellen (1867 - 1933) was at home with her mother.
The Church record reads, "Rose Ellen McKeon born September 2, 1866.
.Sponsors John McBride and Catherine Magill by Fr. Kavanaugh. Died
1933."
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having been born June 24, 1871. Sponsors were Joseph McGorish
and Alice Gilmore. Died suddenly at the age of thirty-eight on
September,19, 1909.
Edward J. McKeon (1869 - 1927) is listed on the Church
records as having been born January 19, 1869. Sponsors were Philip
Neary and Alice Neary.
Mary (Sister Mary Isadore, S.S.J.) was a Sister of
St. Joseph and one of the Mistresses of Novices; she was very strict.
The last member of the family, Catherine. Teresa.
(1875 - 1960), took over the. management of the store after the deaths
of James and John. Teresa, as she was called, was a graduate of
Brockport Normal School and taught many years in the Fourth Ward
School on Washington Street, Seneca Falls. For a while in later
years, she also taught in. St. Patrick's School. The Church records
gave this account, "Catherine Teresa McKeon, born July 6, 1875.
Sponsors were James Magill and Alice Carraher."
ADDENDA ON FAMILY
Alice Magill (1835 - 1915), who lived with Ann Lynch
in Waterloo, was a cousin of Michael Magill and, as the legend goes,
she was called Long Alice by some because she was so tall, but others
say she was called Old Alice to distinguish her from young Alice, the
daughter of Michael.
Rose Magill McConnell, the mother of Rose McConnell Rogers,,
was the sister of Old Alice and the grandmother of Edwin Rogers of
Rogers Food Sales. She was also a cousin to Michael Magill.
The mother of Mary Hand, wife of Michael, was a McCaul.
Mary Hand was a cousin to Anna Carpenter, the wife of James McKevitt.
The McArdles were related to the Magills in this manner:
Mrs. McArdle was a Gilmore. Mrs. Gilmore was Ann McCaul, whose
mother was Alice McGuire, a sister of Mary McGuire, the mother of
Michael Magill, so that Michael was a first cousin of Alice McGuire.
Owen McGuire and Margaret McGuire were cousins to
Michael.
Richard, Will and Alice McCaul were second "cousins and
were often spoken of. Owen and'Anna McGuire were first cousins.
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