Those Who Attended.

The Anaconda Standard, Anaconda, 1922-03-17, p.8

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Summary

Roll-call from a St. Patrick's Day banquet held in Butte (or reported in the Anaconda Standard's St. Patrick's Day issue) on 17 March 1922, attended by 96 guests, with their stated PLACES OF BIRTH appended. The clip is partial — it picks up mid-column with the tail of an earlier speaker's reference to "the old days of Butte" and includes the printed "partial list" of attendees with origins. The article's lead paragraph (organising committee, toasts, principal speakers) is not in the export. About 24 per cent of the attendees gave Ireland as their birth place; "a few gave no place of birth"; Jere J. Murphy gave his place of birth as "Chief of Police" (he was Butte's chief of police), saying "It's good enough." ARCHIVE SIGNIFICANCE for the JJM-Centerville-AOH candidacy. The list includes **James J. Murphy, Cork, Ireland** — almost certainly the same person as person_james_murphy_son_of_pat_and_ellen (the AOH-active James J. Murphy who was, three months earlier, visibly leading Butte's first post-independence St. Patrick's Day parade — see 1922-03-17 Butte Miner / 1922-03 cluster). The Cork birthplace combined with the 1918 Kilcatherine-Dwyer-cousins clipping localises his Cork origin to Beara. Lump-rather-than- split judgment applies; the lump holds JJM at family_confidence 50 pending user signal, NOT bumping to 75 because (a) "James J. Murphy" is common enough that the Cork attendee being a different person from the AOH leader cannot be strictly ruled out, and (b) ≥75 trips the operating-mode stop rule. PARTIAL ATTENDEE LIST (see transcription.md for the full list and birthplaces). The Cork-Ireland-born guests are particularly relevant: Richard R. Kilroy (Cork), T. J. McCarthy (Cork), **James J. Murphy (Cork)**, and Jeremith J. Lynch (BALLYCROVANE — same townland as the 1873 ogham-stone clipping). The Ballycrovane connection on a Butte St. Patrick's banquet attendee list is itself a striking data point.

People

  • role: banquet attendee · family confidence: 10 flag

    Stated place of birth on the banquet roll: "Cork, Ireland." Two-records rule preserves him separate from any potential same-named Cork-born JJM at the same banquet; lump-judgment applies because (a) James J. Murphy is the user's central Butte AOH figure, (b) the banquet attendee was a known Butte Irish-civic figure, and (c) the Cork-birth claim aligns with the Kilcatherine cousins documented in the 1918 Dec 10 drowning clippings. Held at 50 for the moment despite this being a third converging piece of evidence; promote on user signal.

  • role: banquet attendee · family confidence: 0 not family

    Butte's Chief of Police in 1922 (historical figure Jeremiah "Jere" Murphy). DISTINCT from person_james_j_murphy_ centerville_aoh — the two are at the same banquet, named separately on the list. Recording him because the same-name- different-person collision is exactly what the two-records rule is for. Not Murphy family by alignment but worth holding.

  • Jeremith J. Lynch (Ballycrovane)(as printed: Jeremith J. Lynch)
    role: banquet attendee · family confidence: 10 flag

    Stated place of birth: "Ballycrovan[e], Ireland" — same townland as the 1873 Archaeologia Cambrensis ogham-stone clipping. Lynch is a known Beara surname. The Butte Hibernian Judge J. J. Lynch (recurring across the AOH / Ellen Murphy / 1913 installation clippings) is a separate record per two-records rule UNTIL evidence consolidates; this Jeremith J. Lynch may be the same person as Judge J. J. Lynch (Jeremiah is one of several given names that shorten to "J. J.") — flagged as an open question. Bumped to 10 on the Ballycrovane birthplace alone.

Also mentioned

  • Richard R. Kilroy · banquet_attendee

    Cork, Ireland.

  • T. J. McCarthy · banquet_attendee

    Cork, Ireland. McCarthy + Cork — possibly tied to the J. M. McCarthy of Centennial Brewing whose 1918 Kilcatherine-drowning letter ran in the same paper four years earlier.

  • M. O'D. Barry · banquet_attendee

    Limerick, Ireland.

  • Charles Kennedy · banquet_attendee

    Donegal, Ireland.

  • W. E. Deeney · banquet_attendee

    County Donegal, Ireland.

  • M. J. Leonard · banquet_attendee

    County Mayo, Ireland.

  • P. J. Brophy · banquet_attendee

    Carlow, Ireland.

  • D. J. Harrington · banquet_attendee

    Ireland (county not given). Harrington is a Beara surname.

  • John F. McCarthy · banquet_attendee

    Anaconda. Possibly the brother of the unnamed McCarthy drowned at Kilcatherine in 1918.

  • John V. Dwyer · banquet_attendee

    Michigan. DWYER — same surname as the 1918 drowned cousins of JJM. Possibly diaspora-related; possibly coincidence.

  • Jere J. Murphy · banquet_attendee

    Butte Chief of Police. Gave his place of birth as "Chief of Police", saying "It's good enough." Distinct from JJM-AOH and from the 1927-Apr "OTHER" JJM.

  • William L. Murphy · banquet_attendee

    No place of birth printed in the visible portion. Another Butte Murphy of the period; held separately under two-records rule.

  • Tom Walker · banquet_attendee

    Dublin Gulch (Butte) — Dublin Gulch is the same Butte neighbourhood as the 1889-11-23 mine-fire Patrick Murphy's widow.

  • John Joseph Kelly · banquet_attendee

    Butte. Kelly is on the user's associated-families list.

  • J. J. O'Neill · banquet_attendee

    Butte.

  • William J. Sullivan · banquet_attendee

    Butte.

  • John T. Sullivan · banquet_attendee

    Butte.

  • Thomas Sullivan · banquet_attendee

    Anaconda.

  • Michael Sullivan · banquet_attendee

    Ireland.

  • M. M. Sullivan · banquet_attendee
  • Thomas Curtis · banquet_attendee

    Butte. 'Curtis' — possibly a variant spelling of Curtin; the 1846 Times clipping names Humphry Curtin of Courough, Beara, as a starvation death. Worth a note.

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Story threads

Tags

  • candidate_family
  • direct_family
  • evidence_supporting

Source type

news_item, public_meeting_report, list_of_officers

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Transcription
transcription: partial · confidence high
# Those Who Attended. *The Anaconda Standard, Friday, March 17, 1922, p. 8. Clip is partial — picks up mid-column from an earlier speaker.* […try in Butte. He was greeted with vociferous applause in his reference to the old days of Butte.] ## Those Who Attended. A partial list of the banqueters showed an attendance of 96 guests, several coming after the roster had been made up, having been detained. A sumptuous banquet was served to the strains of Irish and American music, the airs of either land being greeted with equal enthusiasm. Following is the list of guests previously mentioned, together with their place of birth. About 24 per cent gave Ireland as their birth place. A few gave no place of birth. J. J. Murphy gave his place of birth as "Chief of Police," saying "It's good enough." A man from Frederickton, New Brunswick registered from the "Celestial City." The list: - Charles P. Nevin, Virginia City, Nev[ada]. - Harry A. Gallwey, Virginia City, Nev[ada]. - Richard R. Kilroy, Cork, Ireland. - Joseph R. Jackson, Albany, N. Y. - M. O'D. Barry, Limerick, Ireland. - Jeremith J. Lynch, Ballycrovan[e], Ireland. - M. J. Scott, Iowa. - J. C. Shields, Michigan. - W. E. Deeney, County Donegal, Ireland. - Tom Walker, Dublin Gulch. - M. J. Leonard, County Mayo, Ireland. - D. H. Crowley, Michigan. - Phil C. Goodwin, Nebraska. - W. H. Nevin, Nevada. - Harry L. Hanson, Nevada. - Jere E. Shea, Michigan. - C. E. Meagher, Massachusetts. - L. T. Lawler, Minnesota. - Dan J. Donohue, Wisconsin. - Harry Thompson, Ontario. - John D. O'Neill, New York. - John J. Caplis, North Dakota. - A. J. Haggerty, Illinois. - John Joseph Kelly, Butte. - John F. McCarthy, Anaconda. - T. J. McCarthy, Cork, Ireland. - Tom Driscoll, Canada. - Doian Harrington, Minnesota. - Hilary Harrington, Minnesota. - H. J. McDonald, Canada. - James T. Finlen, Virginia City, Nev[ada]. - Charles Kennedy, Donegal, Ireland. - T. J. Fenlon, Chicago. - P. J. Brophy, Carlow, Ireland. - T. J. B. Shanley, Burlington, Vt. - Dr. B. J. Keenan, Malone, N. Y. - Jere J. Murphy, "chief of police." - Frank C. Walker, Pennsylvania. - John V. Dwyer, Michigan. - Tom McDonald, Illinois. - D. J. Fitzgerald, Peterboro, Canada. - J. G. O'Brien, Montana. - William J. Sullivan, Butte. - M. J. Sheehan, New Jersey. - Dr. J. I. Hannitn, Idaho. - D. J. Harrington, Ireland. - **James J. Murphy, Cork, Ireland.** - Walter J. Sewell, "Celestial City." - Bert Fraser, Ireland. - J. E. Brennan, Ireland. - P. D. Gibbons, Ireland. - R. H. Manning, Ireland. - Dr. T. B. Kelly, Ireland. - James H. Rowe, Chicago. - William L. Murphy. - J. F. Driscoll. - James Francis Carey, Ireland. - Don B. King, Butte. - John J. Burke, Butte. - Charles H. Gallagher. - M. J. English, Ireland. - M. M. Sullivan. - Dan Coleman. - Bill Molloy, Michigan. - Maurice Doherty. - Joseph J. McCaffery, Ireland. - John T. Sullivan, Butte. - T. B. Woolaghan, Ireland. - Michael J. Mulholland, Ireland. - John J. McCarthy, Ireland. - Thomas Curtis, Butte. - M. J. Walsh, Butte. - J. J. O'Neill, Butte. - James M. Harrington, Butte. - J. M. Brown, New Brunswick. - Michael Sullivan, Ireland. - E. J. Devine, Dakota. - Thomas Sullivan, Anaconda. - Patrick J. Orr, Ireland. - John Gribbes, Ireland. - Jerry J. Egan, Ireland. *[List continues beyond the visible portion of the clip — the full attendance was 96. Transcription is partial.]*

Open questions

  • HIGH PRIORITY for user judgment. The "James J. Murphy, Cork, Ireland" attendee — combined with the 1918 Kilcatherine-Dwyer- cousins clippings and the long AOH leadership record — is now a three-way converging case for promoting person_james_j_murphy_ centerville_aoh to family_confidence 75 or higher. Held at 50 by default; the operating-mode rule says ≥75 trips a user- judgment stop, and the user chose "deep on everything" without revising that rule. Flagging for explicit promotion.
  • Jeremith J. Lynch from Ballycrovane — same place as the 1873 ogham-stone clipping, and same Lynch surname as the recurring Judge J. J. Lynch of the Butte AOH / Hibernian leadership. Are these the same man? Worth tracing through later AOH coverage for a Beara-origin claim on Judge Lynch.
  • The article's full body (organising committee, principal speakers, toasts) is not in this clip. The lead would have named the banquet's host organisation (almost certainly the United Irish Societies of Butte or the AOH).
  • Thomas Curtis of Butte — is "Curtis" a transcription of the Irish Beara surname Curtin? If so, possible alignment to the 1846 Humphry Curtin starvation case.