Kilrush emigrants: Cusack, McInerney

smcarberry · Post by **smcarberry** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 1:51 pm

U.S. Congressional biographies
"CUSACK, Thomas, a Representative from Illinois; born in Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland, October 5, 1858; immigrated
to the United States in 1861 with his parents, who settled in New York City; after the death of his parents
moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1863; attended private and public schools; learned the sign-painting trade; organized an outdoor
advertising company in 1875; member of the board of education 1891-1898 and served as vice president of the board 1896-1898; served as colonel on the staff of Gov. John P. Altgeld 1893-1897; member of the Democratic State central
committee 1896-1898; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1900; resumed his former business pursuits in Chicago, Ill. where he died November
19, 1926; interment in Calvary Cemetery."
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422 ... -222/c.pdf

Oregon: Jacksonville Cemetery
for general cemetery info -- http://jacksonvillecm.org/
Williams Bridgett E.
06/02/1919 Catholic
b. Kihrus, County Clare, Ireland
d. Medford, OR Age at Death - 76 years
Father - Martin McInurney, Ireland
http://jacksonvillecm.org/Names/AlphaSort.htm

Found while online and noted in passing,
Sharon Carberry