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LEE, JOHN H., reporter, born in Boston, April 26, 1846. He was educated in the public schools, and afterwards attended a private academy. He was first employed as an apprentice to a wood-turner; afterward learned chemistry; later became hotel clerk, and finally proprietor. He has been en- gaged, in recent years, as a reporter of the live-stock market for daily and trade papers. He is a resident of Brighton, and represented Ward 25 in the Common Council of 1883, '84, '85, '86, and served as president of that body during 1884. He has been one of the leading Democrats of local fame for several years, and a member of the Democratic Ward and City Committee for ten years, serving as president during 1885-86.
LOGAN, LAWRENCE J., born in Ireland, Aug. 12, 1842. He was educated in the national schools of his native country. He came to the United States in 1858, and first located in Worcester, Mass., where he went to work in an iron foundry. He served an apprenticeship of four years at the iron- moulding trade, when he removed to Boston and engaged as clerk for P. F. Logan. In 1861 he was admitted a partner, under the firm style of P. F. Logan & Brother, which contin- ued until 1873, when he succeeded to the business. He enlisted as private in the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment in 1866, was pro- moted from time to time, and now holds the position of lieutenant-colonel of the regi- ment. Thus he has rendered military ser- vice for twenty-three years. Mr. Logan has been a member of the Democratic City Committee since 1867, served four years as its treasurer, succeeding Michael Doherty, and represented the Fourth District in the Governor's Council of 1886-87. IIe is a leading Irish Nationalist, is connected also with a number of American societies, was
formerly a director of the Home for Desti- tute Catholic Children, and has always been a liberal contributor to Catholic charities. He is a member of the Charitable Irish Society, makes an excellent presiding officer at a public meeting, and is a large real-estate owner.
LOMASNEY, JOSEPH P., printer, born in Boston, March 10, 1863. He attended the Mayhew and Phillips Schools, and engaged in earning a livelihood at the age of fifteen years. After learning the printer's trade he became employed in the Lamp Department for two years. In 1883 he took an active part in the Independent Democratic movement in Ward 8. He was a member of the Common Council during 1888, representing the eighth ward.
LYNCH, JOHN E., boiler-maker, born in St. John, N.B., Jan. 28, 1852. He was educated in the public schools of both St. John and Bos- ton. He learned the trade of boiler-maker at the establishment of Cook, Rymes, & Co., Charlestown, and afterwards accepted a posi- tion in 1871 as clerk in the office of E. P. Hodge & Co., boiler-makers at East Boston, of which firm he is now a member. He was connected with the Republican Ward and City Commit- tee for two years, a member of the Common Council of 1884-85, the Legislature of 1886- 87, and is at present a director of East Boston Ferries. He is a member of Mt. Tabor Lodge F. and A.M., St. John's Royal Arch Chapter, East Boston Council Royal and Select Masters, Wm. Parkman Commandery of Knights Templars, Knights of Honor, An- cient Order of United Workmen, Massachu- setts Charitable Mechanic Association, and a director of the Suffolk Masonic Mutual Relief Association, Boston Citizens' Electric Light and Power Company, and the Free Press Publishing Company. He is a resident of East Boston.
LYONS, THOMAS F., sign writer and painter, born in Boston, Nov. 17, 1850. He gradu- ated from the Lawrence Grammar School.
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On March 10, 1864, at the age of fourteen years, he entered the service of the United States Navy as a third-class boy, but was shortly promoted to the rank of first class. He was sent to the front on board the United States supply-boat "Connecticut," of the West Gulf blockading squadron under Ad- miral Farragut, and was engaged at Mobile - Bay. He was ordered aboard the famous rebel ram "Tennessee," and took an active part in the engagement against Fort Morgan; afterward he did service at the mouth of the Red river, and on board the United States gunboat "Glasgow," in charge of Admiral Thatcher. At the age of sixteen he began an apprenticeship of about seven years at sign and decorative painting, his present business. He represented Ward 19 in the Common Council of 1888-89.
MACNAMARA, DANIEL G., was born in Bos- ton, Mass., April 12, 1839, received a public- school and academic education; taught penmanship and book-keeping at the age of sixteen; is the youngest of three brothers, com- missioned officers of the Ninth, who recruited and organized Company E in April, 1861, for the Ninth Regiment. He was commis- sioned a lieutenant in the State Militia, but preferred to be mustered into the volunteer service in 1861 as first sergeant; was pro- moted commissary and quartermaster-ser- geant, second and first lieutenant, and at the age of twenty-two, quartermaster of the regi- ment; was constantly with his regiment dur- ing three years' service, and never off duty or on the sick list; was slightly wounded at Fredericksburg; was highly commended as brave, faithful, and competent in the dis- charge of all his duties by his superior offi- cers. He served in Texas as lieutenant in the Twenty-fifth Army Corps; was adjutant of the Ninth Militia Regiment in 1868-69. Read law with the intention of becoming a member of the Suffolk Bar, but subsequently accepted a clerkship under Collector Russell at the Boston Custom House in 1867, where he is still employed, with the same faithful- ness and constancy that marked his career in
the war. At the present time he is major of the Montgomery Veterans and president of the Society of the Ninth Regiment, in his sixth term. He is a past commander of John A. Andrew Post 15, G.A.R., of this city. His untiring and unselfish interest in his old comrades of the Ninth Regiment is highly appreciated by all, and their regard for him grows stronger as they grow older. His elder brother, Capt. James W. Macnamara, was killed in action at the Wilderness under General Grant. He was a brilliant soldier. The history of the Ninth Regiment was written by his next oldest brother, Capt. Michael H., now living in the West.
MACNAMARA, CAPT. JAMES WM., Ninth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, was born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 23, 1835. He was the oldest of three brothers, who served in the Ninth Regiment as commission officers. His father, Daniel Macnamara, and his mother, Mary - née Hickey - emigrated from Lim- erick, Ireland, and arrived in Boston in 1833. He received a public-school and academic education and learned the trade of printer. At the age of eighteen he chose seamanship for a profession, and after his first voyage around the world went through a thorough course of navigation under Captain Spear, of Boston, a professor of navigation, after which he followed the sea until he obtained the rank of mate, under an English firm at Lon- don. While on a trading voyage between London and the East Indies the Rebellion broke out, and on arriving in London, on a return voyage, he learned the situation of affairs at home, settled up with his firm, much against their wishes, and took the first steamer to Boston. On his arrival at Boston he found his two younger brothers, Michael and Daniel, raising a company for Cass's Irish Regiment.
His intention was to enter the cavalry ser- vice, - having served as a volunteer in the India service during his travels, - but " blood being thicker than water " he joined his brothers, and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Company E, then unattached.
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On the subsequent organization of the regi- ment, and final muster into service June II, 1861, he and his brother Daniel were left out of the list of commissioned officers, and he accepted the position of color-sergeant of Company I (colored company), and received the national flag from the hands of Governor Andrew the day the regiment marched for the seat of war. He was, on the arrival of the regiment at Washington, promoted first sergeant of Company I, and at the battle of Gaines's Mills severely wounded and taken prisoner. On his exchange he joined his regiment from hospital, and was promoted a second lieutenant, having previously received from his colonel the following letter on his return to duty : -
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HEADQUARTERS NINTH MASS. VOLS., Oct. 15, 1862.
FIRST SERGEANT JAMES W. MACNAMARA :-
SERGEANT, -I hereby appoint you aeting second lieutenant in this regiment, and as soon as I am officially informed of a vaeaney, which no doubt now exists, I purpose to recommend you for commission.
This opportunity affords me sincere pleasure. You were meritorious at Hanover, gallant at Gaines's Mills and the Chickahominy, and in camp and on parade your conduet and appear- anee entitles you to my esteem, and to whatever reward I am able to bestow.
(Signed) P. R. GUINEY, Colonel commanding Ninth Massachusetts Volunteers.
The fact that no such letter was issued by Colonel Guiney to any other non-commis- *sioned officer in the regiment before or since is proof of the high esteem in which he was held. His soldierly and manly qualities soon advanced him to first lieutenant and cap- tain. He passed through all the campaigns of the regiment, and in every position of trial and danger proved himself a brave, cool, and daring leader.
His motto was " Follow me," and he was never known to take men in where he could
not take them out. At Hanover Court- House, where he is particularly mentioned, the right wing under command of Lieutenant- Colonel Guiney became separated from the left wing under Colonel Cass, the latter being in the open wheat-field, and the former well into the woods and underbrush. Naturally the left wing swept forward in pursuit of rebel General Branche's retreating troops, breaking from and leaving far in the rear the right wing. It took but a few moments for Colonel Guiney to discover that he was alone in the woods with but one-half of the regi- ment. How to reach and connect was the question. Sergeant Macnamara solved the problem. "Colonel," he said, " I will find the left wing, with your permission." On the left flank he deployed skirmishers, and in less time than it takes to write it his company were out on the open field and deployed six yards apart in single file until he struck the left wing in full pursuit of the enemy.
To communicate with Colonel Cass and state the situation of affairs was but the work of a moment, and when the right wing came in sight on the double-quick and joined the left, the regiment raised an Irish cheer that made the retreating foe think that the "Yankees " had reinforcements.
It was then that the Ninth rendered such gallant service that the "wind up " of the battle of Hanover Court-House was short, sharp, and decisive.
Not until the last campaign of the Ninth did this intrepid soldier fall. It was at the Wilderness, May 5, 1864, under Grant, leading his men in a charge on the enemy. In the woods they lay concealed awaiting till the Ninth approached. The brigade to which the Ninth was attached fell in ambush - flank and front. To go forward was slaughter, to retreat, the same. Nearly all the officers and one-half the men fell. Nineteen officers out of twenty-six were killed or wounded. Among the mortally wounded was Captain Macnamara, shot through and through.
He now lies buried at Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline, where General Guiney and others of the Ninth " sleep their last sleep."
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MAGUIRE, PATRICK JAMES, merchant tailor, born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, March 14, 1840. He came to this city at five years of age, and studied at the public schools. He learned the tailor's trade under Lothrop & Godfrey, and was employed at Oak Hall Clothing House as foreman. He engaged in the tailoring business with George W. Jacobs, under the style of Jacobs & Maguire, and afterwards formed a partner- ship under the firm name of Sullivan & Maguire for the carrying on of the same business. His services in the Common Coun- cil include the years from 1879 through 1884, during which time he made many street improvements which largely benefited his section of the city. He was a director for public institutions, 1882-83, and by his efforts the Catholic inmates at Deer Island were given the right by the city to partici- pate in their religious exercises under the guidance of a Catholic priest. Mr. Maguire introduced a new and economical process of manufacturing clothing at this institu- tion. The new hospital on Deer Island was built by his strong advocacy. He was a Democratic candidate for alderman, 1885, and was defeated. He received a re-nomi- nation, 1886, and was elected alderman by a majority of 860 votes. He was reelected Democratic alderman, 1887, by a majority vote of 1,200, the largest ever cast in the aldermanic district comprising Wards 19 and 22. He was on nearly all the important com- mittees. The present system of heating, as conducted by the Boston Steam-Heating Com- pany, was proposed by Alderman Maguire, and successfully carried through over the Mayor's veto. The improvements made in Wards 19 and 22 during the years of his aldermanic representation were much in excess of those made for twenty years previous, thus giving laborers more employment. In 1887 he in- creased the appropriation for paving streets to $200,000. He has been chairman of the Ward Committee since 1884. The vote in Ward 19 was increased from 400 to 3,000 by his assist- ance, and the full Democratic vote will count 2,100. He is an uncompromising Democrat.
MAHAN, BENJAMIN F., merchant, born at Northboro' April 14, 1816; died in Boston, Jan. 24, 1882. He came to this city while in his teens, and entered the ship-store ware- house of his brother, John Mahan, on Long Wharf, where he remained for four or five years, when he began business for himself, and for a period of almost a half-century was favorably known as a successful Long- Wharf merchant. He became interested in California and Colorado mines in the days when railroading in that part of the country was almost unthought of, and spent much of his time for two or three years in travelling over these territories. He was a Democrat in politics. He was at one time clerk of old Ward 3, and served as a member of the Com- mon Council of 1858-59. He took consid- erable interest in the Boston Fire Department in his younger days, and was an active mem- ber under Captain Barnicoat. He was a member of Columbia Lodge of Masons, and at one time a prominent Odd Fellow. He was also a member of the old " Winslow Blues," Handel and Haydn Society, and an honorary member of the National Lancers.
MAHONEY, JAMES T., harness-maker, born in Kilworth, County Cork, Ireland, July 20, 1843. He came to this country with his parents in 1845, and attended the public schools of Boston until eleven years of age. He was first employed as errand-boy in a merchant's counting-room, afterward in a tobacco store, and finally was apprenticed to a harness-maker. While learning his trade the Rebellion occurred, and he enlisted in the First Massachusetts Regiment, serving until the battle of Fredericksburg, where he was wounded in the head and limb. He was honorably discharged for disability in March, 1863, and returned to this city, where he learned his trade. He was one of the or- ganized members of the Montgomery Light Guard, and in 1875, '77, '78, '80 represented Ward 13 in the General Court, and served on the Committees on Prisons, Tax- ation, and the Joint Standing Committee on Printing.
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MAHONEY, JEREMIAH S., book-keeper, born in Boston, Dec. 26, 1855. He was educated in the public schools, and at the age of four- teen years entered business. He was presi- dent of the Shawmut Rowing Club during 1885-86. He was a member of the Com- mon Council from Ward 13 in 1888, serv- ing on a number of important committees.
MAHONEY, PATRICK F., born in Boston, Feb. 5, 1847. He received his early educa- tion in the public schools of this city. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in Company M, Third Regiment, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, and did creditable service during the Rebellion. . He represented Ward 6 in the General Court of 1880-81.
MAHONEY, WILLIAM J., born in Boston in 1854. He attended the Eliot Grammar School, afterward worked at painting and varnishing for five years, then for A. Winn and Byam & Carleton, when he engaged in the liquor business for himself, which he has been identified with for the last fourteen or fifteen years. He has been connected with the Democratic Ward and City Committee for nine years, was a member of the State Central Committee during 1886-87, served in the Common Council of 1886, '87,' 88, '89, for two years president of the Commercial Athletic Club, and a member of the North End Fishing Club.
MALONE, EDWARD, restaurateur, born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, April, 1834. He came to Boston in May, 1849, and attended the public schools. In 1850 he became employed by Nathan Matthews, of this city, for whom he worked twenty-two years, several years of which he had charge of his large real-estate interests. In 1872 he engaged in the restaurant business, and has continued in that line ever since. He repre- sented old Ward 2 in the Common Council of 1868-69. He was connected with the Bos- ton Light Dragoons for about eight years, and was also a member of the Charitable Irish Society. He is at present a member of the Royal Order of Good Fellows.
MANNING, JOHN P.1
MANNING, PATRICK H., grocer, born in Roscommon, Ireland, Jan. 27, 1845. He is at present engaged in the grocery business, and represented Ward 19 in the Legislature of 1882-83, serving on the Committee on State House.
MAQUIRE, JOHN J., hard-wood finisher, born in Boston, Jan. 4, 1850. He was educated in the public schools of this city, and later learned the trade of a hard-wood finisher, his present occupation. He represented Ward 13 in the Legislature of 1884.
MARLEY, JAMES F., architectural metal work, born in Ireland, March 25, 1857. He came to this country in 1860, and located in Boston. He attended the public schools, Comer's Commercial College, and took a mechanical-drawing course of two years at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology. He went into business in 1876, and is at present a member of the firm of E. Marley & Bros. He was secretary of the Democratic City Committee in 1883, and a member of the Democratic State Central Committee in 1884. He served in the Com- mon Council of 1883-84, and was on the Committees on Finance, Public Institutions, and Inspection of Buildings. He is at present secretary of the Shawmut Rowing Club.
MARTIN, JOHN B., merchant, born in South Boston, March 1, 1848. He was educated in the public schools of this city. He is a manufacturer of essences. In 1872, '73, '74 he was a member of the Common Council, and in 1875 he served in the Legislature from old Ward 7. He represented the Sixth Suffolk District in the Senate of 1879-80. He is at present president of the Board of Directors for Public Institutions, and a promi- nent Democrat of South Boston, where he resides. In 1886 he was a candidate for
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Democratic nomination to Congress in the Fourth District Convention, the candidates at the time being Messrs. Martin, Dacey, and O'Neil. The supporters of Mr. Martin were steadfast till the last, until it was decided that Hon. P. A. Collins should succeed himself.
MCCARTHY, NICHOLAS F., elected to serve in the Common Council of 1889.
MCCAULEY, ANDREW P., elected to serve in the Common Council of 1889.
MCCULLOUGH, THOMAS, painter, born in Ireland, June 11, 1840. He came to this country at an early age. During the War of the Rebellion he was a non-commissioned officer in Company B, twenty-second Massa- chusetts Regiment, and served three years. He participated in nineteen battles of the war, and was wounded at Gettysburg. He represented Ward 6 in the Legislature of 1881-82, and served on the Committee on Taxation.
MCDONALD, JOHN W., real estate and ex- superintendent of streets, born in Ireland in 1840. He came to this country in 1847. He was a graduate of the Brimmer School. He subsequently engaged in mercantile pursuits, and for twelve years afterwards was in the real-estate business. He was a member of the Board of Aldermen in 1884, and was appointed Superintendent of Streets of the city of Boston in the latter part of 1885. He has been treasurer of St. Vincent de Paul Society since 1878, connected with the Home for Destitute Children for twenty years, vice-president of the Charitable Irish Society, and a member of the Catholic Union.
MCDONALD, PATRICK F., iron merchant, born in Boston, July 10, 1852. He grad- uated from the old Boylston School, Fort Hill, in 1868, and afterward became em- ployed by Lothrop & Co., in the iron business. In 1877 he engaged in business for himself, and at present carries on a large wholesale trade throughout the New Eng- land States. He was president of St. James'
Y.M.T. Association for two years, and repre- sented Ward 12 in the Common Council of 1877-78 and in the General Court of 1881, '82, '83, serving on the Committees on Claims, Mercantile Affairs, and Hoosac Tunnel. He has been a member of the Democratic City Central Committee for nine years, and of the State Central Committee two years. ·
MCDONOUGH, JOHN H., law student, born in Portland, Me., March 29, 1857. His early education was received in the public schools of that city. After coming to Boston he en- gaged in the trade of watch-making, which he followed for several years. Recently he abandoned his trade for the purpose of study- ing law, and is now located in the office of Hon. Charles J. Noyes. He represented Ward 20 in the General Court of 1886, '87, '88, '89, and served on the committees on Water Supply and Election Laws and Rail- roads. He is one of the prominent young Democrats of Massachusetts, and is one of the recognized leaders of his party in the Legislature. He is a member of the Boston Young Men's Congress, Young Men's Catho- lic Association of Boston College, Charitable Irish Society, Montgomery Branch of Irish National Land League, Roxbury Bachelor Club, and the Democratic State Committee.
MCENANEY, THOMAS OWEN, merchant tailor, born in East Boston, Oct. 23, 1857. He received his early education at the Adams School, of which he is a graduate, and supplemented his training at the Union Business College of this city. He was first employed as book-keeper for John G. Gil- bert & Co., afterward by Hardy, Mayhew, & Co. He served as a custom cutter for J. C. Littlefield, on Beacon street, and finally opened business on his own account the Ist of January, 1888. He was a member of the Common Council in 1885-86.
MCETTRICK, MICHAEL J., was born in Roxbury, June 22, 1846, in the very district which he represents in the Massachusetts Legislature, and in the same house that his
JOHN H. MCDONOUGH.
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grandfather lived in over seventy years ago. His father, Matthew McEttrick, was for many years a prominent and respected citi- zen of Roxbury, and his mother was Mary McDonough, daughter of Patrick McDon- ough, one of the earliest Irish settlers in Roxbury, who commenced business there in 1819. Young McEttrick received his early education in our public schools, graduating from the Washington Grammar School at the early age of eleven years, the youngest boy in his class, and at its head. In 1857 he entered the Roxbury Latin School, graduat- ing with honors therefrom in 1862. He was entered at the office of Mr. Charles Whitney, the City Engineer of Roxbury, for the purpose of becoming a civil engineer. Commensurate with his intellectual growth was his physical development. At the age of sixteen he was able to outstrip any of his companions in all field sports, and he met and vanquished even the athletes of his dis- trict in feats of physical strength and endur- ance. At the age of twenty-one his strength had increased by cultivation and natural growth to such an extent, that his remark- able feats began to attract the attention of the outside world. He was one of the first in America to establish the fact that the powers of endurance in man were capable of severe tests; and, as a youth, he bore off the palm for pedestrianism in these parts. He entered long-distance walking matches in the summer of 1868, won the championship of America, and held it against all comers for four years. He distinguished himself as a thorough-going, all-round athlete, excelling in wrestling, jumping, and field sports, so that his reputation extended all over the country.
In the last year of the war he served in the army, and was transferred by special order of the War Department to the regular army, in the corps of engineers. In the spring of 1884 he was elected to the position of assistant assessor, receiving a unanimous vote in both branches of the city govern- ment. In the fall of the same year he was nominated by the Democrats for representa-
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