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Saturday, March 31, 2018
The Hudson–Fulton Celebration from September 25 to October 9, 1909 in New York and New Jersey
The Hudson–Fulton Celebration from September 25 to October 9, 1909 in New York and New Jersey
Electricity played a major role in the celebration, as ships and memorials were illuminated over the course of the two-week celebration. The illumination of the naval fleet on September 25 was followed by a display of fireworks in the evening that reflected off the Hudson River. These fireworks were shot over the naval fleet from the Jersey Shore, so that they could be seen from Riverside Park. The Committee commissioned one company to regulate the fireworks; this would not only ensure a uniform display across the State but also, because the company could set off the fireworks in rapid succession, invoke historic memory of the signal fires that Hudson used to navigate along the coast.
The Commission allocated $83,000 from its budget of $934, 447 for a total of 107,152 illuminations, including various types of lights and fireworks, installed for the celebration; in addition to the town halls and bridges, these lights also illuminated the Statue of Liberty, Grant's Tomb, Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, the Washington Arch, and some museums, like the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. A diversity of light was used to electrify the city. For the Celebration alone, 500,000 incandescent light bulbs were installed, in addition to the other 500,000 incandescent lights already in use around the state. 3000 Flare arcs and 7000 arc lights were used, as well, in addition to searchlights, which lit Grant’s Tomb and the Statue of Liberty. Washington Arch and its surrounding streets were festooned with lights.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
James Topham Brady - 1815 / 1869 - Family Tree of Sorts.
James Topham Brady 1815-1869
"Adoptive Son" Father Thomas J Ducey, 1846-1909
Father Thomas S Brady, 1792-1842
Mother Ann Brady, ? -1836
Brother Thomas A Brady, 1813-1847
Sister Eliza J Brady, 1819(?)-1839
Brother John R Brady, 1822-1891
Sister Ann(?) "Annie" Brady Moore, ? - ?
Sister Susanna J Brady Moore, 1825-1907
Sister Delia Brady Lane, 1831-1911
Sister Maria Louise Brady Jarvis, ? - 1900
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Dedicated to my great grandmother Mary Brady McShea - born in Pottsville Pennsylvania 1845 - a Brady cousin of sorts.
Many thanks again to Delancy23 for researching and helping me find Great Grandmom.
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Sunday, March 25, 2018
Ann Brady - Wife of Thomas S Brady Esq. - 1836 Obit
New York Spectator 10 October 1836
"Yesterday, ANN, wife of Thomas S. Brady, Esq."
No mention of a funeral. Spectator published on Mondays and Thursday. No doubt a rush to make an entry without final details of funeral worked out. And by Thursday, the funeral already over and reporting on it moot in sparse info age of 1836.
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Saturday, March 24, 2018
Crew of Great Eastern in NYC 1860 Honored at Banquet Lafarge House - Dinner Speaker James T Brady Esq.
SS Great Eastern
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Friday, March 23, 2018
Marine Lieutenant Thomas A Brady Killed at Tampico Mexican War 1813-1847
Thomas A Brady was the older brother of famous in their day James Topham Brady, lawyer and Judge John R. Brady.
All three sons of Irish immigrant parents escaping the stacked deck against native Roman Catholic Micks in their homeland and the Act of Union 1801 with Great Britain.
Story goes that Thomas S. Brady and pregnant wife Ann, or so the story goes, their passenger ship arriving in the shelter of New York Harbor in 1812 only minutes ahead of a British Man of War in hot pursuit, harassing and attacking all bound for America shipping in the so called War of 1812 during the Napoleonic World War with Britain.
Father parent Thomas S. Brady started in Newark NJ where Thomas A Brady was born in 1813 before moving over to Manhattan. Many people in those days from Brooklyn and Jersey would go by boat to Catholic church services at St. Peter's, the only RC church for miles around. That wooden church at the time in downtown Manhattan.
Famous lawyer and Tammany backroom king maker James Topham Brady was born in Manhattan in 1815 and lived on Warren street, only a few steps from there to City Hall or St. Peter's in the middle of a very poor dock area that was the center of the Irish immigrant area in New York in that second decade of the 19 century.
Thomas S. Brady made a small school in his attic where he tutored in Latin and taught many young and ambitious sons of other would be middle class in their own nativc Ireland who reinvented themselves in the strange English speaking American Republic in its early days.
Many boys that played togetheror were tutored by the senior Brady would become the backbone of business, banking, politics of New York City in decades to come. Among those boys in play and study with the Brady boys the first American Cardinal John McCloskey of NYC. That small tight knit New York Irish community would see immigrant sons dominate future politics of the Tammany machine with lawyers, district attorneys, judges, aldermen etc.
That Thomas S Brady was self taught and studied nights and passed the bar, entered politics as an alderman and magistrate and eventually ended life as a sitting judge in the local courts.
James did some public service but did not like it. But he was immensely successful as an orator and trial lawyer. John was the one who would become a judge, a highly respected judge on the local New York Supreme Court. It was Judge John R. Brady who was called upon in the middle of the night to swear in Vice President Chester A Arthur in his Lexington Avenue home, as President of the United State in 1881 upon the death of President Garfield who finally succumbed to injuries of being shot in an assassination act of a radical at the Buffalo World's Fair,
The oldest son for some reason, a lawyer by training, joined the Navy / Marine Corp and died in some skirmish prior to the official win at Tampico which really was only a foothold invasion as a prelude for the later bigger prize of Vera Cruz for the full scale by sea invasion of Mexico by the U.S. in that war.
As far as I can tell, the elder Thomas S Brady, James Topham Brady and John R. Brady are buried in the old St. Patrick's Cathedral on Mott Street in Little Italy/Chinatown in down town Manhattan. Buried in the Brady family vault in the catacombs below the old Cathedral. I presume Thomas A. Brady is buried in Mexico.
The old cathedral burned down in 1864 and the archdiocese was not going to rebuild except for all the rich and influential Micks in business and Tammany politics who had relatives and loved ones already buried underneath the burned out wooden church. Rebuilt, it is now a parish church and called the old St. Patrick's Cathedral. The present cathedral was already under construction in 1864 mainly as a Tammany Hall boondoggle project to launder money through inferior materials and no show jobs etc. Which is why they recently spent 200 million to keep the place from falling down again etc.
Anyway, all these earlier immigrants had a comfortable niche made for themselves in the new world when the Irish Potato Famine hit and a tidal wave of immigration hit the United States with New York City as the epicenter of that man made British genocide fueled by the Corn Laws with a phony government price set for wheat grown in the UK as a means to profit off it in England and even sell it overseas. That the peasants / catholic serfs in Ireland could not afford wheat and or bread. That they fed themselves on one strain of potato that succumbed to blight in the middle 1840s. That all through the famine the British landlords profited off of wheat production and exports even as the serf class starved. No wonder the early immigrants like the Bradys saw the unfairness of British rule and immigrated to America, Canada and Australia one generation prior to that human disaster.
One of those strange things of how evil in the UK actually profited the descendants of immigrants forced to leave with a better life elsewhere and now the UK on the edge of a cliff cutting itself off from Europe with BREXIT. Karma. Whatever.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Friday, March 9, 2018
Georgina A Davis - Artist, Illustrator 1848-1925
A self portrait instead of a "selfie" in a man's world of art and illustration, one has to wonder if artist "G. A. Davis" is not flipping her byrd at the conventional way her self-satisfied colleagues, and probably paid more for their work, view themselves but rather how they view a woman in the art world in a group photo of sorts in the 1894 The Quarterly Illustrator.
Independent and careful to protect her privacy? A person alone in a large city. Her address in The Quarterly Illustrator 1893 lists her home address as West New Brighton in Staten Island, Richmond County, New York. A rural setting then, no house numbers back then near the ferry to "the City".
A veteran of over 100 credited illustrations with the Frank Leslie publications, Popular Monthly, Leslie's Illustrated Weekly and Newspaper from 1880 onward put her reputation as artist on the map even if being a female.
Her forte, pictures of women in various congregations of the tribe at home and in public.
Her quick eye and memory after stalking the President elect Cleveland's child's nanny in a park in a resort town on a daily baby carriage ride in the sun got her the one up on the guys as to viewing the Presidential Child that Mrs. Cleveland refused all press access to and compiling an sketch from memory of a child in its carriage merged with a photo of Mrs. Cleveland, into a national sensation in the press for a first look at the First Child dubbed "Baby Ruth" Cleveland in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly Magazine.
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| Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly 21 Dec 1893 |
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Thursday, March 8, 2018
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