John E. Cronin was the third child born to James Cronin and Johanna (Honora) Leary both Irish immigrants who came to the United States in 1842. By the time he was nine years of age his family left Groton, Massachusetts and settled in the small Irish community of Maple Grove, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Cronin was said to have been well educated, and at the age of fifteen was working as a printer for the Manitowoc Pilot Newspaper, then he relocated to Milwaukee where he worked as a school teacher, bookkeeper and in the Milwaukee Advertiser Newspaper warehouse for many years. Cronin married in...
John E. Cronin was the third child born to James Cronin and Johanna (Honora) Leary both Irish immigrants who came to the United States in 1842. By the...
Henry Duncan Goodsir was interested in the study and practice of medicine from an early age. His father, Dr. John Goodsir was a well-known and popular Doctor in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland in the early 18th century. It is no wonder that his sons would follow in his footsteps. His two younger brothers, Archibald (1779-1820) was also a Surgeon in the Fifeshire Militia and John (1782-1848) was a well-known Surgeon in Anstruther, Fife. Henry, the third son of Dr. John Goodsir attended medical school at the University of Edinburgh and spend his professional life in the military serving firstly...
Henry Duncan Goodsir was interested in the study and practice of medicine from an early age. His father, Dr. John Goodsir was a well-known and popular...
James Fearns was a native of Dundee, Angus, Scotland and the son of a local grocer. He grew up and was educated in Dundee and was working in his father's store when the Great War began in the summer of 1914. Like many young men of his generation, Fearns joined the cause of duty to one's country and enlisted in the 8th Service Battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders presumably before July of 1915 when the Battalion landed at Boulogne, France at the age of 18. The young Private would see his share of the war by fighting in the Battle of Loos, the Somme, the First and Second Battles of the Scarpe....
James Fearns was a native of Dundee, Angus, Scotland and the son of a local grocer. He grew up and was educated in Dundee and was working in his fathe...
John Tracy, the youngest child of Irish immigrants would see much of the United States throughout his lifetime. From his early beginnings in Northern New York he began working on his father's farm. He married in Plattsburgh and left the area of his childhood to pursue a better life. Tracy followed some of his older siblings west to Chicago, Illinois where he worked as a blacksmith and carpenter. His journey did not stop in America's second largest city but progressed westward into the Great Plains of Kansas. While settling in Atchison, Kansas John Tracy began working as a carpenter for the...
John Tracy, the youngest child of Irish immigrants would see much of the United States throughout his lifetime. From his early beginnings in Northern ...
