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    1. [IRL-CLARE] Chicago: Mahoney, Kenney, Sullivan, McC , Mernen, McM, Hogan, O'D, Donovan, Quinn
    2. Sharon Carberry
    3. History of the Chicago police from the settlement of the community to the present time by John Joseph Flinn, John Elbert Wilkie [All original wording is left intact; use of quotation marks is omitted.] Patrick MAHONEY, patrolman; born in Clare county, Ireland, February 13, 1844; came to this country, and direct to Chicago, in 1863; joined the force ten years afterward... p. 426 Michael KENNEY, patrolman; born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1849; when eight years of age came to the United States, and a year or two afterward came to ... p. 431 Patrick SULLIVAN, patrolman and driver; born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1860, and came to Chicago with his parents in 1852; was a teamster till he joined the police force in January, 1877... p.431 Patrick McCARTHY, patrolman; born in County Clare, Ireland, August 15, 1853; came to Chicago, 1871, and February 2, 1880, was appointed to the police force ... p. 433 Joseph MERNEN, is a native of County Clare, Ireland, where he was born April 5,1850; when fourteen years old, came to New York, and finally to Chicago in 1868; ... p. 434 Simon McMAHON, patrolman, was born in the County Clare, Ireland,, on August 15, 1850; came to the United States with his parents in 1853; lived in the state of New York till 1857, when the family moved to Palos, Cook county, Illinois; educated in a district school; came to Chicago at the age of 16; and worked in the North Chicago rolling mills for 15 years; went into the grovery business on North Ashland avenue and sold out in 1884; entered the force in December of that year, being assinged to the North avenue station; served under Lieut. Quinn at the Haymarket riot, receiving wounds which disabled him for three months; carries three pieces of lead in his limbs yet...; has made many important arrests ... p. 473 Daniel HOGAN, desk sergeant, was born in the County Clare, Ireland, in 1813; came to Chicago in 1866, and entered the force September 15, 1873. ... p. 480 Simon O'DONNELL, captain commanding the second precinct; born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1834; came to Chicago in 1841; entered the force April 7,1862;came to Chicago in 1841; entered the force April 7,1862 ... p. 502 engraving portrait p. 503 Patrick DONOVAN, patrolman; bom in Clare, Ireland,1835, came to Chicago 1865, entered the force December 1873. [illegible word] the Ninth Mass, Volunteers June 11, 1861...p. 539 Martin QUINN, lieutenant of police, was born in the County Clare, Ireland, 1847; came to Chicago 1851, and entered the force in 1870; commanded a company of twenty-five men from the commencement of the McCormick strike until the bloody ending at the Haymarket, May 4, 1886... He was honorably discharged from the army after serving at Nashville and other points in 1864... p. 562 posted by Sharon Carberry not directly researching any of these surnames

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