MEN WHO HAVE CHARGE OF BUTTE'S ST. PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATION

The Butte Miner, Butte, 1919-03-14, p.1

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articleThe article as printed, headline through report
headlineHeadline
photographCommittee photograph by Zubick, six men
portraitJames J. Murphy, third from left in the caption's reading order (top centre)
James Joseph "James J." Murphy
name as printed"James J. Murphy, state" as set in the caption; "treasurer of A. O. H." runs on to the next line
James Joseph "James J." Murphy
captionCaption naming the six men left to right
James Joseph "James J." Murphy
reportReport of the arrangements meeting in Judge Lynch's courtroom

Summary

Front-page photograph and announcement of the Butte committee arranging the 1919 St. Patrick's Day observance. Group photograph of six men (signed "Zubick") across columns 3-6 of page 1, with a short report: the Irish soldiers and sailors completed arrangements at a meeting in Judge Lynch's courtroom; the Army and Navy association would decide on Sunday whether to march as a body; and the first three units of the parade lineup. The caption reads, left to right: W. J. Sewell; Edward Fitzpatrick, county president of the A. O. H. and grand marshal of the parade; James J. Murphy, state treasurer of A. O. H.; Judge J. J. Lynch, chairman of the Seventeenth of March committee; James J. Connolly, secretary of committee; and Rev. Father James O'Shea, president section No. 1, A. O. H. The lineup names W. E. Deeney and Dr. P. H. McCarthy as uniformed aids and Harry Thompson and P. J. Grogan, all mounted, with the grand marshal. POLITICAL CONTEXT (1919): Wilson at Versailles; Sinn Féin had won the December 1918 UK general election with 73 of 105 Irish seats and on 21 January 1919 declared the First Dáil at Mansion House Dublin. Same day, the Soloheadbeg ambush inaugurated the Irish War of Independence. The Butte AOH / Hibernian / Irish-American organisational life was at a high point of pro-independence energy in March 1919. The 1919 St. Patrick's Day parade would be the most politically charged observance Butte had ever held. Article continues on page 2 (per "(Continued on Page Two.— Col Six.)" at the foot of the lineup).

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Narrative

A front-page photograph identifies the six men directing Butte's St. Patrick's Day celebration for 1919: W. J. Sewell; Edward Fitzpatrick, county president of the A. O. H. and grand marshal of the parade; James J. Murphy, state treasurer of the A. O. H.; Judge J. J. Lynch, chairman of the Seventeenth of March committee; James J. Connolly, secretary of the committee; and Rev. Father James O'Shea, president of section No. 1, A. O. H. The accompanying text reports that the Irish committee completed its arrangements for the parade at a meeting the previous night. [transcription partial — body text largely unrecovered and the continuation on page two is not held]

“With the completion of arrangements last night by the Irish committee, all the work for [the parade] is finished.”

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People

James Joseph "James J." Murphy (b. 1883 Ardgroom; d. 1938 LA)(as printed: James J. Murphy)
role: pictured state treasurer aoh · family confidence: 95 certain
The photo caption prints "James J. Murphy, state treasurer of A. O. H." as the third of six men, left to right (read from the page scan, 26 Sept 2026 and 21 Oct 2026). The office matches the user's James's election as AOH state treasurer in 1916, and the user's filename ("James J Murphy pictured planning St Pats day 1919") makes the same identification. (Earlier readings of the caption as Sweeney / Edmund Fitzpatrick / Connell / O'Hara, five men, were misreadings and are superseded; corrected 21 Oct 2026 from the page reading.)
Judge J. J. Lynch (Silver Bow / Butte AOH)(as printed: Judge J. J. Lynch)
role: committee chairman · family confidence: 0 not family
Not family: recurring Butte AOH figure. Printed-name match to his person record; moved from mentioned in the 2026-10-03 rescan. Earlier note: Recurring Hibernian / AOH figure — same as the 1913 Division 1 president and 1935 Ellen Murphy pallbearer.
W. J. Sewell / Walter J. Sewell (Butte AOH)(as printed: W. J. Sewell)
role: pictured st patricks committee · family confidence: 0 not family
Jere J. Murphy (Butte Chief of Police, 1922)(as printed: Chiefs Murphy and Martin)
role: head of city police in parade · family confidence: 0 not family
James Connolly (Butte AOH Division 1 officer; county treasurer 1912)(as printed: James J. Connolly)
role: committee secretary pictured · family confidence: 0 not family
W. E. Deeney (major, Irish Volunteers, Butte; born Co. Donegal)(as printed: W. E. Deeney)
role: uniformed aid to grand marshal · family confidence: 0 not family
Edward Fitzpatrick (Ed Fitzpatrick), Silver Bow county president of the AOH, 1919(as printed: Edward Fitzpatrick)
role: county aoh president and grand marshal · family confidence: 0 not family

Also mentioned

Rev. Father James O'Shea · section_no_1_president
Caption: president section No. 1, A. O. H.
Dr. P. H. McCarthy · uniformed_aid_to_grand_marshal
Lineup item 1: uniformed aid, mounted.
P. J. Grogan · mounted_with_grand_marshal
Lineup item 1: with the grand marshal, mounted.
Harry Thompson · committee_member
Possibly the same Harry Thompson as the 1935 Ellen Murphy honorary pallbearer.

Places

Butte, Montana (primary)

Themes

Story threads

Source type

news_item, public_meeting_report, list_of_officers

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Transcription

transcription: partial · confidence high

# MEN WHO HAVE CHARGE OF BUTTE'S ST. PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATION *The Butte Miner, Friday morning, March 14, 1919, p. 1, cols. 3-6. Front-page group photograph (signed "Zubick") with caption and report.* --- [Photograph: six men, signed "Zubick".] Reading left to right: W. J. Sewell; Edward Fitzpatrick, county president of the A. O. H.Irish 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 → and grand marshal of the parade; James J. Murphy, state treasurer of A. O. H.; Judge J. J. Lynch, chairman of the Seventeenth of March committee; James J. Connolly, secretary of committee, and Rev. Father James O'Shea, president section No. 1, A. O. H. With the completion of arrangements last night by the Irish soldiers and sailors at a meeting in Judge Lynch's courtroom, all details for the great parade of the Ancient Order of Hibernians on St. Patrick's day have been arranged. At the meeting of members of the Army and Navy association in Judge Lynch's courtroom, it was decided to bring the question of parading as an organization up at the next regular meeting of the body on Sunday. In case it is decided not to march as a body, a supplementary meeting will be held, following the regular session, of those desiring to march, and a commanding office[r] and platoon commanders appointed. There is little likelihood that the association will not march as a body as the representative gathering last night was enthusiastically in favor of a general turnout. ### Lineup of Parade. The parade will form as follows: 1. Ed. Fitzpatrick, grand marshal, with W. E. Deeney and Dr. P. H. McCarthy, uniformed aids, and Harry Thompson and P. J. Grogan, all mounted. 2. City policemen and firemen headed by Chiefs Murphy and Martin. 3. A. C. M.Butte: companies, unions & placesAnaconda Copper Mining CompanyMarcus Daly’s Anaconda company, taken into the Standard Oil-backed Amalgamated Copper trust in 1899. In 1910 Anaconda absorbed the trust’s other Butte companies and W. A. Clark’s mines, giving it most of the Butte hill. In Montana it was simply "the Company".More in Key terms → band. (Continued on Page Two.— Col Six.) [continued on p. 2, col. 6; not in the archive] *[Text checked against the page scan at 3x (the names in item 1 at 5x), 21 Oct 2026, starting from the tile-by-tile page reading of 20-21 Oct 2026. The earlier body text here ("a meeting at Joseph G's ... done by Mr. Harvey, the late Republican county [chairman]") was a misreading that ran in a sentence of the Harvey murder-trial story in column 2; it is not part of this article.]*

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Open questions

The continuation on page 2 — not in this archive's ingestion — would carry the committee's full programme of arrangements for the 1919 parade.