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    Irish St. Louis
    Irish St. Louis
    Irish St. Louis
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    Irish St. Louis

    By David A. Lossos

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    It's quite unlikely that Pierre Laclede and Auguste Chouteau could have comprehended the scope of their undertaking in 1764 when they laid out the settlement on the western banks of the Mississippi that was to become the metropolis of St. Louis. Founded by the French, governed by the Spanish, and heavily populated by the English and Germans, the role that the Irish had in making St. Louis what it is today is often overlooked. The Irish are steeped in tradition, and that trait did not leave the Irish immigrants when they arrived in St. Louis and called this place home. Like many other cities in America, the heritage of Ireland is alive and well in St. Louis. This book visually captures their Irish spirit, and portrays a few of the Irish "movers and shakers" alongside the "Irish commoner" in their new and challenging lives here in St. Louis.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateFeb 19, 2004
    ISBN9781439614815
    Irish St. Louis
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    David A. Lossos

    Dave Lossos is a webmaster of many genealogy and local history websites, including Genealogy in St. Louis. A retired engineer and St. Louis native, he has published reference titles on early St. Louis places of worship and 19th century city directories.

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      Irish St. Louis - David A. Lossos

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      INTRODUCTION

      The Irish of St. Louis boast of their ancestors’ role in St. Louis history, and rightfully so. Founded on the cornerstone of the Roman Catholic religion, St. Louis presented to the native Irishman a safe and friendly place to practice their religion without prejudice. Most casual observers assume that the influx of the Irish into St. Louis began with the famine and strife of the 1840–1850s, a time of great immigration from Europe. Surprisingly, as early as 1820 we find that nearly 15 percent of the population in St. Louis was of Irish descent. By 1850, 43 percent of all St. Louisans were born in either Ireland or Germany. Typically the Irish immigrants brought with them limited job skills. Irish immigrants in St. Louis centered mainly in two areas. Most lived in the Kerry Patch area on the near north side—an unsafe and impoverished neighborhood—while some lived in the Cheltenham neighborhood, today commonly referred to as Dogtown.

      Although predominantly Catholic, St. Louis equally welcomed and assimilated both the Protestant and Catholic Irish. Nonetheless, the story of the Irish in St. Louis is mostly a story of the Catholic Church. Indeed, there were 29 parishes in St. Louis that were formed to minister to predominately Irish Catholic immigrants. It’s a story of famous, and not so famous, men and women of Irish blood. It is the story of Charless, Mullanphy, Lane, McNair, but it is also the story of everyday men and women who adopted St. Louis as their home, and instilled the spirit of Ireland here in the Midwest.

      This book is not intended to provide a complete history of Irish influence on the St. Louis area. Far from it. For every person of Irish descent pictured here, there are tens of thousands that are not.

      Dave Lossos

      2004

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      NOTABLE ST. LOUIS IRISH

      Joseph Charless was born on July 15, 1772 in Westmeath, Ireland. He took part in the ill-fated Irish rebellion of 1798. He married Sarah Jourdan in 1798 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Settling in St. Louis, he initiated the first newspaper (Missouri Gazette) west of the Mississippi in 1808. He died on July 28, 1834 and is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery. (Courtesy of Saint Louis University, Pius XII Memorial Library, Archives.)

      John L. Boland, merchant, was born March 2, 1840, at Bolington, Loudoun County, Virginia, third son of Daniel and Eleanor (McElroy) Boland. His father was born in Ireland, but early in the present century came to this country, settling first at Savannah, Georgia, where he was engaged for some years in mercantile pursuits. In 1815 Mr. Boland (moved to) Loudoun County (where he resided) until his death—which occurred in 1862—and, being thoroughly identified with Southern interests, was a staunch adherent of the Southern cause at the beginning of the war, making many financial and other sacrifices in behalf of Southern independence, and giving three sons to fight its battles. John L. Boland entered the Confederate Army with all the enthusiasm of an ardent nature; he served to the end of the war. He came to St. Louis at the beginning of the year 1866. Here he began his commercial career as a clerk in the wholesale book and stationery trade, and four years later he was admitted to a partnership in the house with which he had become connected. Some time later he became sole proprietor of this establishment. (From History of St. Louis, Hyde, 1899.)

      A Scotch-Irish lawyer, Alexander Hamilton is best known as the judge presiding in the famous Dred Scott trial. (Information from St. Louis: History of the Fourth City, 1764–1909.)

      Irish architects had their part in two of the area’s finest churches. John Haynes, of the firm of Barnett, Haynes and Barnett (architects), worked with his partners on the New Cathedral on Lindell. John was born in St. Louis on March 1, 1861. His father, Thomas Haynes, was a native of England, and his mother was born in Ireland. (From Old and New St. Louis, Cox, 1894.)

      John W. McCullagh was born in Dublin, Ireland, May 14, 1838, and died in St. Louis, August 22, 1891. After serving five years as a printer’s apprentice, he was employed in the Dublin post office, under the postmastership of his father, John McCullagh, until 1861, when he decided to join his brother, Joseph, in the United States. Entering the services of the Cincinnati Commercial in its mechanical department, his connection with that newspaper continued for five years thereafter. He was then invited by Mr. J. M. Brunswick, the famous manufacturer of billiard tables, to become editor and manager of the Billiard Mirror, a paper published in the interest of the Brunswick-Balke business. McCullagh made it much more than an advertising medium. He filled it with humorous sketches, sparkling witticisms and carefully selected miscellaneous matter, and thus popularized the journal with the general reading public. From the position of editor and manager of this paper he was transferred in 1867 to that of general traveling agent for the billiard manufacturers, and for three years thereafter he was remarkably successful in advancing their interests. (From History of St. Louis, Hyde, 1899.)

      "Gerard B. Allen, manufacturer and financier, was born in the city of Cork, Ireland, November 6, 1813, and died in St. Louis, July 21, 1887. His father, Thomas Allen, was a well-to-do silk manufacturer of Cork. Gerard’s ambitious nature prompted him, in his young manhood, to leave his early home and come to this country, and he landed in New York when he was twenty-three years of age. After remaining in New York a year he

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