Boston Daily Globe Boston, MA 15 August 1880 WHY HE CAME TO AMERICA A stalwart and manly Irish peasant of neat appearance and sedate bearing was standing near a side door of Castle Garden, says a New York paper. He had come from Galway and the famine. He remarked to a reporter that he had not himself suffered from the severity of the distress, but that the famine had eaten up all his property. Once in circumstances almost comfortable, he had sold his pigs and cows to procure provisions. His cow, his last possession, had been disposed of to purchase a ticket for America. His family behind him were left dependent upon the bounty of the relief committee. The immigrant's little holding of six and a half acres had been in Galway, in the little hamlet of Cloonsheen. One landlord owned all the land the little settlement was built upon, and he had served writs of ejectment upon the whole village. The man's father had lived fifty years in the cottage his son occupied, and had rescued from the bog the land from which his son was evicted.