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BIOGRAPHIES OF NEW MEMBERS

	O'SHAUGHNESSY, JAMES, 2252 Gidding street, Chicago, son
of James O'Shaughnessy of Gort and Catherine, nee
Mulholland; was born in St. Catherine, Mo., and educated in
the parochial schools; took up the profession of teaching
and then the study of law, which he abandoned to enter
newspaper work. He was editor and publisher of the Catholic
Tribune, St. Joseph, Mo., and afterwards engaged as
reporter, correspondent and editor of daily papers in St.
Joseph, Mo., Chicago and New York, and as syndicate
correspondent in Europe in 1894 when he was a member of the
International Jury of Awards of the Antwerp Exposition.
Served as correspondent in Cuba for the Chicago Chronicle
during the Spanish-American war and in the later Indian
troubles in the Northwest. Political editor of the Chicago
American until he abandoned editorial work to enter the
field of advertising as writer and counselor. Former
president of Western Catholic Writers' Guild, and Irish
Fellowship Club of Chicago. He married Miss Mary Hynes, of
he Hynes family of Galway.


	LARKIN, ROBERT E., was born May 9, 1879, on a farm in
Eagle Township about two miles west of Streator, Illinois,
to Thomas Larkin and Delia (Conners) Larkin, both of whom
were born in County Galway, Ireland, and were married in
Eagle Township in 1863. He received his education in the
public school at Kangley, Illinois, and in the high school
at Streator, Illinois, completing the classical course at
St. Bede College at Peru, Illinois. He then commenced the
study of law at the law office of Lloyd Painter of Streator,
Ill, in the fall of 1903, under whom he studied law until
his admission to the Illinois Bar, October 11, 1906.
Immediately thereafter he opened up a law office at Streator
and practiced alone until September 4, 1907, when he formed
a law partnership with Patrick J. Lucey of that city, with
whom he is still concerned. He is unmarried and is a member
of the Knights of Columbus.

Source:
Journal Of The American Irish Historical Society. Volume IX