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From: "Diane Tempest" <>
Subject: [Irish-American] Skellern -NY page 5.
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:03:20 +0100

Now I wish to tell you about my next child, George, his destiny is quite
different- he has been no trouble or expense to me whatever and his
prospects were bright, although it caused me much affliction- I always
thought him wild but he was doing good for himself all the time; as I told
you before he left me to do good- from that he went to sell and make up
flowers then into a fruit store then a little at a printing press, then to a
hat store, where he was taken a great notice of but last of all he enlisted
in The United States Service at the age of 16 as a musician where all the
officers of his regiment (the 4th artillery) held him up as a pattern to
others for his cleanliness good conduct etc . and had him educated in the
army, besides instructing him themselves during his 5 years ; after that
time they wanted him to go to West Point College to be educated for an
officer, but he preferred a civil life, and came home to procure for himself
a clerkship; at the end of that time he procured a more lucrative situation
as sole conductor of one of the largest Iron Works in this city (Cashier and
Account in it where over 100 men are employed- Messrs Catewells Iron
Works.his salary is 1500 dollars a year, besides many perquisites, this is
not all - he makes up the books of another establishment down town in a
large restaurant for which he receives 500 dollars a year for two nights in
the week. He is married to an American women by whom he has three children -
we very seldom see him -he has almost forgotten his mother and father and is
quite American and very fat. IF ANY ONE ON THE LIST CAN FIND OUT ANY
INFORMATION ABOUT THIS FIRM OR WHO HE MARRIED I WOULD BE VERY HAPPY
THANKS. DIANE.

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