What Irish-born American schoolteacher is buried at the Union Miners Cemetery?
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Union Miners Cemetery The Union Miners Cemetery is a cemetery in Mount Olive, Illinois. The cemetery is the burial site of labor leader Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, who is memorialized with a 22 ft granite monument. The monument and surrounding plaques also commemorate "General" Alexander Bradley, four victims of the Battle of Virden, and twenty-one other miners who died in labor struggles. Miners Day has been celebrated on October 12 at the cemetery since 1899. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1972.
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Mary Harris Jones Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1837 – 30 November 1930) was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent organized labor representative and community organizer. She helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Andrew Cooney (Irish republican) Andrew Cooney (Irish: "Aindreas Ó Cuana" ; 22 April 1897 – 4 August 1968) was an Irish republican from Nenagh, County Tipperary, who later settled in the United States. He studied medicine at University College Dublin just as the Irish War of Independence was getting underway, and he played for a brief spell with the College's hurling club. He joined the Third Battalion of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Republican Army.
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Prudence Crandall Prudence Crandall (September 3, 1803 – January 28, 1890) was an American schoolteacher from Rhode Island who was raised as a Quaker in Canterbury, Connecticut. She became known for establishing an academy there for the education of African-American girls and women, after whites boycotted the school when she admitted a student of color. when she devoted her school to girls of color from the region, local townspeople violently opposed the school.
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Michael Cusack (disambiguation) Michael Cusack was an Irish teacher.
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Maurice J. McCauley Maurice J. "Mac, M. J." McCauley (June 7, 1923 – December 8, 2013) was an American teacher and politician.
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Amos McLemore Amos McLemore (August 23, 1823 – October 5, 1863) of Jones County, Mississippi, was a schoolteacher, Methodist Episcopal minister, merchant and Confederate States Army soldier. He was killed at Deason Home.
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Central Graded School Central Graded School, also known as Central School, is a historic school building located at Union, Union County, South Carolina. It was built in 1891, and is a two-story, "T"-shaped Richardsonian Romanesque style brick building with the square bell tower. Rear additions were built in 1899, 1904, and about 1930.
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Milltown Cemetery Milltown Cemetery (Irish: "Reilig Bhaile an Mhuilinn" ) is a large cemetery in west Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Robert Harpur Robert Harpur (January 25, 1731 Ballybay, County Monaghan, Ireland - April 15, 1825) was an American teacher, politician, pioneer, and landowner who settled in the Binghamton, New York area.
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John Andrew Bowler John Andrew Bowler (March 1, 1862 – October 7, 1935) was an African American educator and Baptist minister. He was the first minister of the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia and was one of the organizers for the first school for African Americans in Church Hill. He died on October 7, 1935 and is buried in the historic Evergreen Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
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Cornelius Mortimer Treat Cornelius Mortimer Treat (April 25, 1817 – July 28, 1916) was an American teacher, farmer, and politician.
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John Byers Anderson John Byers Anderson (November 22, 1817 – July 7, 1897) (alternatively John Byars Anderson) was an educator, railroad contractor and United States Army officer who served in the American Civil War as a colonel and superintendent of the Union railroads in the Department of the Ohio, Department of the Tennessee and Department of the Cumberland.
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Ira W. Claflin Ira Wallace Claflin (June 21, 1834–November 18, 1867) was a United States Army West Point regular officer who took command of the 6th US Cavalry during the critical days of July 1863 during the Gettysburg Campaign. He was an instructor of Union cavalry tactics for West Virginia and later taught at West Point.
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Micheál Ó Droigheaín Micheál Ó Droigheaín, Irish national school teacher and Brigadier of the South Connemara Brigade, Irish Republican Army, fl. 1916–1922.
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Henry MacCracken Henry Mitchell MacCracken (1840–1918) was an American educator.
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Kathleen O'Callaghan Professor Kathleen (Kate) O'Callaghan ("née" Murphy; 1888 – 16 March 1961) was an Irish Sinn Féin politician and academic. Educated at the Royal University of Ireland and Cambridge, before entering politics she was a member of Cumann na mBan. She was the widow of Michael O'Callaghan, Mayor of Limerick and an IRA officer, who was killed in her presence by British forces in 1921.
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W. J. Whelan William J. Whelan (1887 – 13 March 1960) was an Irish trade union leader.
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Marjorie Wood Marjorie Wood (September 5, 1882 – November 9, 1955) was an Irish-born American actress on stage and in film.
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Charles W. Sherritt Charles W. Sherritt (April 9, 1854 - September 1, 1910) was a Republican politician and 11th mayor of Muncie, Indiana. He also was the county clerk for Boyd County, Kentucky. He is buried in Ashland Cemetery in Ashland, Kentucky.
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Marie Kachel Bucher Marie Elizabeth Kachel Bucher (November 21, 1909 – July 27, 2008) was an American schoolteacher and the last surviving resident member of the German Seventh-Day Baptists religious community of the Ephrata Cloister, a United States National Historic Landmark located in Ephrata, Pennsylvania.
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Junius J. Johnson Junius James Johnson (died 1898) was a West Point cadet who became a miner, and later played a significant role in the Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894.