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From: "Janet" <>
Subject: East side Irish
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 18:27:27 -0500
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Mary Kay, I'd love to see a discussion on some of the Irish who settled on
the east side. I think my family would fall into that group.

Peter, Owen, and Miles Goldrick emigrated to the U.S. from Ireland in 1848,
landing at Philadelphia. By 1853, Peter and Owen were in Cleveland on
Meadow Street. They later moved to Hamilton Street. They started as
"draymen", and I think this means they hauled coal because Peter ended up
owning a coal company on Lake and Alabama Streets. Peter served on the
Cleveland City Council twice. He was elected to serve Ward 5 in 1863 and had
something to do with escorting Abraham Lincoln's body. In 1875, he was
apppointed to represent Ward 7 to fill the unexpired term of another
councilman who had died. In 1871, Peter Goldrick and a group of other men
(Patrick Walsh, Patrick O'Marah and John Nevins) tried to start a weekly
Irish newspaper promoting Irish independence. It was supposed to represent
all Irishmen regardless of religion -- however it was later alleged in a
lawsuit in the Cleveland courts that it turned into primarily a Catholic
endeavor. Patrick O'Marah sued Bishop Richard Gilmour, who was at that time
the Bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland, Thomas Manning, James T. Maloney,
Rev. T. P. Thorpe, Peter Goldrick and others for making it a Catholic
enterprise instead of one that would represent all the Irish of Cleveland.
Peter's brother, Owen, was elected to be a Ward Assessor in the mid-1870s.
Miles Goldrick, my great great grandfather, lived briefly in Cleveland in
the 1850s but moved back to Philadelphia (I think his wife, Margaret Burns,
might have been from that area) In 1861, they moved to Cleveland
permanently. He started as
a shoemaker, but by 1870 he was a bridge builder. His sons were all
railroaders.
His son, Philip Goldrick married Alice Mahoney, daughter of William Mahoney,
who lived on Summit Alley, then Erie St., and finally on Hamilton Street
where he lived until his death in 1911. William Mahoney married Catherine
White in 1856 in St. John's Cathedral.
Some of the Goldricks and Mahoneys eventually moved to the west side, near
Brooklyn, I think because there was a large railroad switching yard there.
I mentioned the parts about Peter Goldrick to show that the Irish played an
important part in Cleveland politics even as early as the 1860s -- I read a
lot of early Cleveland newspapers which I got on microfilm from the OHS and
I believe it was the Cleveland Leader which had a strong anti-Irish
editorial policy.
I'd like to hear the stories of some other Cleveland Irish families -- in my
"reading" of the census, it's my belief that many of these people lived on
the same streets, attended the same churches and must have known each other.

Janet Goldrick Friend


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