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Notes one Missouri Settlers 1. Schrier, Ireland and the American Emigration, 5. 2. McCaffrey, Irish Diaspora in America, 62–69. 3. US Census 1860, at Milford, MASS, sub Thomas Shaughnessy (aged 35); US Census 1900, at Chariton County, MO, sub Thomas Shaughnessy (aged 76); Massachusetts Historical Commissions, Milford, 8–9. This Thomas was born in 1823, and so was older than James, but did not enter the United States until 1856. 4. Hogan, Missouri and Memoir, 181. Not until 1860 was a railway bridge built across the Mississippi, from Chicago to Davenport, Iowa, about 140 miles north of Hannibal, Missouri. 5. Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Mar. 14, 1857, 168; O’Laughlin, Irish Settlers, 60; Towey, “Irish Americans in St. Louis,” 139–59; McCandless, History of Missouri, 2, and Parrish, History of Missouri, 3, passim. 6. US Census 1870, Chariton County, MO, sub “Shaunessy” (James, Thomas and John); Anon., Howard and Chariton Counties, 506; Anon., “Obituary” [1]. Also in 1861 his brother John became father to a boy born in Boston, Massachusetts, whom he named James. 7. Edwards, Illustrated Atlas of Chariton, 46; Plat Book of Chariton County, 28. 8. Miller, Emigrants and Exiles, 315; Miller, Ireland and Irish America, 348, who notes that 27 percent of German, 25 percent of British and 46 percent of Scandinavian immigrants then worked in US farming. 9. Miller, Ireland and Irish America, 253. 10. O’Shaughnessy, “250th anniversary,” 210; O’Gorman, Irish Fellowship Club, p.161, under James O’Shaughnessy in the biographies of its presidents. 11. Anon., History of Linn County, 121–22, 642–43; Anon., “Obituary” [1]; Chicago Daily News, Apr. 22, 1948; Hogan, Missouri 1857–1868, 3–5, 9–11, 73; Miller, Ireland and Irish America, 259. Hannibal was home to Samuel Clemens (“Mark Twain”) who left it in 1853 aged eighteen. It appears under fictional guises in Twain’s Tom Sawyer and other works (Rasmussen, Twain, ii, 712–14). 12. Chariton County, MO, Keytesville Courthouse, Deeds, Book Q, 170–71 (Mar. 31, 1857); Anon., Howard and Chariton Counties, 505–6 for Demsey, described in 1883 as having been “a man of considerable note” in the county. There is today a Demsey Road at Salt Creek. 234 Notes 13. Hogan, Missouri 1857–1868, 6–8, 37–41, including a striking description of the circumstances in which some slaves were transported. 14. Chapman, Buchanan and Clinton Counties, 550–52. 15. Hogan, On the Mission in Missouri; Payton, Irish Wilderness; Brown, IrishAmerican Nationalism, 353–54. 16. Hogan, Missouri 1857–1868, 156–60. 17. Ibid., 160. 18. 1860 US Census gives Catherine’s birthplace as Pennsylvania; Chariton County, MO, Keytesville Courthouse, Register Book AB, 40 (filed Apr. 22, 1864) records Hogan’s name on the register of marriages where he is identified as “Catholic Priest”; Hogan, Missouri 1857–1868, 118; O’Shaughnessy, “General James Shields,” 115. 19. Chariton County, MO, Keytesville Courthouse, Deeds, Book W, 233–34 (Feb. 5, 1864). There is no prefix “O” on the surname on this deed. 20. Hogan, Missouri 1857–1868, 161–62. 21. James, b. July 1865, John P., b. Aug. 1868, Thomas Augustin, b. Apr. 1870, Francis, b. Feb. 1872, Anna/Annie, b. Mar. 1873, Martin, b. Jan. 1876 and Mary, b. Oct. 1882 (birth years except Lizzie from 1900 Federal Census). Lizzie married Thomas Berney but died aged thirty in childbirth at Long Beach, California, in 1894. Annie married one William Cullen (US Censuses 1900 and 1910; http://www .findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=59436262 and =58744744). Lizzie’s child would be born safely even as she expired and be named James and reared by his grandparents Catherine and James. 22. Anon., History of Howard and Chariton Counties, 382. 23. Ibid., 405. 24. Hogan, Missouri 1857–1868, 162–69. See appendix 2. 25. 1870 US Census at Chariton County, MO, sub O’Shaughnessy; Passport application of James O’Shaughnessy Junior, 1924 (via ancestry.com); Printers’ Ink Monthly, Aug. 1929, 16. 26. Chariton County, MO, Keytesville Courthouse, Deeds, Book 3, 263 (Indenture, Sept. 25, 1869). 27. North Missouri Railroad Co., Facts for Emigrants, 24. 28. Anon., History of Howard and Chariton Counties, 374. 29. Hogan, Missouri 1857–1868, 7; Obama at the White House, St. Patrick’s Day 2011 and Dublin, May 23, 2011. 30. Hogan, Missouri 1857–1868, 23, 123–24; Baskin, Clinton County, 368; New York Times, Oct. 16, 1866. 31. Chapman, Buchanan and Clinton Counties, 550; Anon., History of Linn County, Missouri, 65; Conard, Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri...

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