undated: Pencilled list on the front endpaper of an AOH volume: 'Sick Com. North Side ... J J Murphy'

Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division No. 1 (Butte): volume endpaper · Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana · c1915

date confidence: approximate

society membership recordprimary focus

Summary

Photograph IMG_7501 of the endpaper list of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (Division No. 1, Butte), held by the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives. Pages in the photograph: none — unnumbered flyleaf or front endpaper of a volume; facing (left) page blank Date: undated Officers signing: none Topics: sick committee, division organisation by district (North Side / South Side) James J. Murphy in this source (passages read from the image, dossier register of 26 Sept 2026): - undated: A 'J J Murphy' is listed with Marty McCarthy and Dan McGarvey as the North Side members of a sick (visiting) committee, with Dan Leahy, Con Bonner and Daniel McBride for the South Side, in an undated pencilled list in a volume of the AOH papers. [probable] The whole-page transcription is a single Sonnet reading of 13 Sept 2026 and has not been proofed against the image; quote James's passages from the readings listed above.

In its time

People

James Joseph "James J." Murphy (b. 1883 Ardgroom; d. 1938 LA)(as printed: J J Murphy)
role: committee member · family confidence: 75 strong
Identity 75; the reason is in identity_basis.
Dan Leahy (Daniel Leahy), Butte Gaelic League dancer and AOH Division 1 member(as printed: Dan Leahy)
role: named · family confidence: 0 not family

Places

Butte, Montana (primary)
Centerville (district of Butte) (primary)

Themes

Irish American community

Story threads

Butte Irish-American organisational life — Hibernians, Gaelic League, Erin's Daughters, RELA

Tags

Evidence primary

Transcription

transcription: complete · confidence medium

# IMG_7501 - **Type:** handwritten minutes (flyleaf / endpaper note in a different, thinner hand — a pencil/ink list, not a minute entry) - **Book page number(s) visible:** none — unnumbered flyleaf or front endpaper of a volume; facing (left) page blank - **Meeting date(s):** undated - **Place / body:** not stated on the page — AOHIrish 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 → Division No. 1 context (sick visiting committee, North Side / South Side of Butte) - **Officers signing:** none - **Murphy mentions:** "J J Murphy" — third name on the North Side sick committee list - **Other key names present:** none of the flagged names (no Lynch, no Gallagher, no O'Meara, no Connolly). Names present: Marty McCarthy, Dan McGarvey, J J Murphy, Dan Leahy, Con Bonner, Daniel McBride. - **Topics:** sick committee, division organisation by district (North Side / South Side) ## Transcription Sick Com. North Side Marty Mc Carthy Dan Mc Garvey J J Murphy _______________ South Side Dan Leahy Con Bonner Daniel Mc Bride _______________ [The facing left-hand page is blank. Around the open volume are the covers of other ledgers: the top one shows part of a stamped title, "...HO..." ; the one beneath the open book shows "M[illegible]... Sick". Nothing further is legible.] ## Passages re-read from the image (Opus, 26 Sept 2026) From the dossier register, `research/docs/jjm-dossier-2026-09-26/register/`. These readings, not the whole-page text above, are the ones to quote. - **div1_undated_sick-committee-list_north-side** (probable; div1-c.yaml): J J Murphy > Sick Com. North Side Marty McCarthy Dan McGarvey J J Murphy ______ South Side Dan Leahy Con Bonner Daniel McBride ______

Dotted underlines mark key terms on first mention — hover or tab to one for a reference note. The wording is the source’s own.