in yesterday's ProJo: Scott Molloy: "Behold the Irish Ascendancy 'Beyant the Sea' " on Irish Catholic philanthropist Joseph Banigan, "born the poorest of the poor", who died in 1898, perhaps "the richest man in the state" http://www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/projo_20060317_17mollo.1cc420bf.html