MORE THAN HUNDRED CANDIDATES

The Butte Daily Post, Butte, 1910-06-09, p.3

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Summary

Sub-heads: "DEGREES CONFERRED UPON A BIG CLASS BY CENTERVILLE HIBERNIANS / ENJOY INTERESTING PROGRAM / T. J. M'Carthy Presides — Social Session Follows." A very large meeting of the Centerville Hibernians the previous evening (Wed 8 Jun 1910) at their hall for first/second/third degree conferrals. 107 candidates initiated. AOH officer slate active at this meeting: - County President — T. J. McCarthy (presiding) - Degree-conferring team — T. J. McCarthy, M. J. Gavigan, P. H. Kenny, John V. Dwyer (Assistant County Attorney) - Chief of escorts — T. J. Moran (secretary) - Guards — James Connolly, John Murphy, Pat Lee, Con J. Murphy, James Doolin, Mike Murphy, Peter Shannon, Ed Lawlor - **Chief sentinel — James J. Murphy** Programme: Address J. B. Mulcahy; recitation Michael Gavigan; address Jerry D. Murphy; song John Murphy; address Thomas Keeley; song Frank Laird; address P. H. Kenny; song Thomas Grimes; address John V. Dwyer. Closing: entire audience singing "God Save Ireland." ARCHIVE SIGNIFICANCE. Anchor for the JJM-Centerville-AOH career arc — June 1910 = chief sentinel under county president T. J. McCarthy. Two and a half years later (Oct 1912) JJM is himself elected county president. This establishes the upward trajectory. Also: John V. Dwyer (Assistant County Attorney) is a recurring Butte AOH figure who appears again in the 1922 St Patrick's banquet attendee list (born Michigan there). DWYER surname is the same as the 1918 Kilcatherine drowning victims who were JJM's cousins. Worth tracing whether Asst. County Attorney John V. Dwyer of Butte is related.

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The Hibernians of Centerville fill their hall for the conferring of first, second and third degrees on 107 candidates, with County President T. J. McCarthy, M. J. Gavigan, P. H. Kenny and Assistant County Attorney John V. Dwyer officiating. T. J. Moran served as chief of escorts, James J. Murphy as chief sentinel, and guards included James Connolly, John Murphy, Pat Lee, Con J. Murphy, James Doolin, Mike Murphy, Peter Shannon and Ed Lawlor. A social session followed with addresses by J. B. Mulcahy, Jerry D. Murphy, Thomas Keeley, P. H. Kenny and Dwyer, a recitation by Michael Gavigan, and songs from John Murphy, Frank Laird and Thomas Grimes.

  • “The ceremonies were concluded by the singing, in which the entire audience joined, of "God Save Ireland."”
  • “There were 107 candidates for degrees.”

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  • John Murphy · guard_and_song_performer
  • Pat Lee · guard
  • James Doolin · guard
  • Mike Murphy · guard

    Same as the Michael in Tady's 8 Butte-emigrant children list (1992 letter)? Possible identification.

  • Thomas Keeley · speaker
  • Frank Laird · song_performer
  • Thomas Grimes · song_performer

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Transcription
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# MORE THAN HUNDRED CANDIDATES ## DEGREES CONFERRED UPON A BIG CLASS BY CENTERVILLEButte: companies, unions & placesCentervilleThe hillside neighbourhood between uptown Butte and Walkerville, built among the mine yards and home to many Irish and Cornish mining families.More in Key terms → HIBERNIANS ## ENJOY INTERESTING PROGRAM *T. J. M'Carthy Presides — Social Session Follows.* *The Butte Daily Post, Thursday, June 9, 1910, p. 3. (Visible masthead reads "THE BUTTE INTER[MOUNTAIN]" — see metadata note.)* There was a very large meeting of the HiberniansIrish societiesAncient Order of Hiberniansin America from 1836The largest Irish Catholic fraternal order in America: sick and death benefits for members, St. Patrick’s Day parades, and steady support for Irish nationalism.More in Key terms → of Centerville last evening at their hall for the conferring of degrees, first, second and third. The degrees were conferred by County President T. J. McCarthy, M. J. Gavigan, P. H. Kenny and Assistant County Attorney John V. Dwyer. T. J. Moran, the secretary, was chief of escorts. The guards were James Connolly, John Murphy, Pat Lee, Con J. Murphy, James Doolin, Mike Murphy, Peter Shannon and Ed Lawlor. James J. Murphy was chief sentinel. There were 107 candidates for degrees. After the conferring of the honors of the society there was a social session. The following program was rendered: Address, J. B. Mulcahy; recitation, Michael Gavigan; address, Jerry D. Murphy; song, John Murphy; address, Thomas Keeley; song, Frank Laird; address, P. H. Kenny; song, Thomas Grimes; address, John V. Dwyer. County President T. J. McCarthy was in the chair. The ceremonies were concluded by the singing, in which the entire audience joined, of "God Save Ireland."

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Open questions

  • Three of the named guards (Con J. Murphy, Mike Murphy, John Murphy) and one of the speakers (Jerry D. Murphy) could be matches for the four MALE Butte-emigrant children of Tady Murphy (Michael, Dan, Johney, Cornelius, Jerry — five of the eight). Worth a cross-check pass — each candidate-name should get a tentative person record with the Tady-tree alignment flagged.
  • John V. Dwyer Asst. County Attorney 1910 — kinship to the 1918 Kilcatherine drowning Dwyers worth tracing.
  • Masthead question — clip header reads "THE BUTTE INTER" but Newspapers.com files this under Butte Daily Post.

Source ID: 1910-06-09_butte-daily-post_aoh-107-candidates-initiated-centerville

On page: 1910-06-09_butte-daily-post_p03

Clipped by lukedmurphy on 2023-02-04.