Edwin is the devoted husband of Susanna Marie Cullen Dorgan, beloved son of Thomas J. and Anna R. (nee Tobin) and bereaved sibling of many brothers and sisters enumerated below.
Edwin’s paternal grandparents were Thomas (Sr.), an Irish immigrant Carpenter, b.1820-21, and Elizabeth, born in New York, c.1829-30, she was first generation Irish ancestry.
Edwin’s father, Thomas (Jr.), was born March 1847 when his parents were in England. They had migrated back to the U.S. in 1851 when Thomas was about 4 years of age. His paternal Aunt Mary was some 5 years younger than his dad and was born in New York.
Edwin’s mom, Anna, was born November 1854 in Pennsylvania, the daughter of David and Catherine both Irish immigrants and both born c.1820. In 1860 her older siblings were Thomas (b.1844-45), Mary (b.1846-47) and Julia (b. 1851-52). Their youngest sibling was John (b. 1855-56). Her family had settled in Allegheny Township in Pennsylvania’s Cambria County. This is just off to the southwest of the middle of Pennsylvania. They were laborers.
It appears that in ten (10) years’ time the Tobin siblings went their separate ways as in the first week of July 1870 I found David, now 50 and a farmer, and Catherine, reported as 45 and making cheese, living out in Cadiz, Wisconsin. With them were two (2) Tobin children: 5-year-old James and 2-year-old Anastatia (sp). Cadiz is in the southern end of Green County, along the border with Illinois about midway west of Beloit, WI and east of Dubuque, Iowa, almost a straight line.
By August of 1870 Edwin’s grandparents were residing in the 2nd Precinct of San Francisco’s 10th Ward. His father was 23, working in a store as a clerk. Aunt Mary was an 18-year-old milliner.
His parents married c.1876 when Thomas was 29 and Anna Rose (nee Tobin) was 22 years old. All of their children were born during what’s referred to as the United States’ Gilded Age (coined by Mark Twain).
Edwin was born in California, as were his brothers and sisters.
We find the young family in June of 1880 residing at 1644 Mission Street, in the City of San Francisco, California. Edwin’s dad Thomas Jas. was age 33, his mom, Anna, was 26. Their two boys were Thomas Aloy., born April 29,1877 (d.05/22/1929), had just turned age 3 and John, Leo born April 15, 1879 (d.12/27/1960), was just pass infancy at 1 year of age. While Anna was busy tending to the house and the demands of their two young children, Thomas was earning a living as a laundryman.
During the 1880s, Catherine started out the decade with her November 13, 1880 birth (married Robt. J. Heath 02/04/1906?), Mary Helen was born February 20, 1882 (d.05/20/1939), 2 years later Charles Jas. was born in June 16, 1884 (d.09/28/1922), Edwin a year after him, followed by Annie’s birth (Anna Loretta) on January 14, 1888 (d.06/01/1967), closing out the decade.
In the 1890s Irene was born September 12, 1890 (d.10/05/1945), then Richard Will. 2 years later on September 24, 1892 (d.05/05/1953), Joseph Vincent on December 25, 1894 (d.08/08/1945) and Alice on April 19, 1898 (d.11/15/1963).
In early June 1900 the family was residing at 25 Twelfth Street, in San Francisco’s Precinct 3 of Assembly District 34. At this time his dad was 53 and working as a teamster (a real teamster – driving teams of horses), while his mom was 46 – already having borne 11 children. For some reason or another, Anna is reported as having been born in New York. This may have been confused with where her husband’s mom or his sister was born. At this time Edwin is one of ten surviving children.
In order their children were Thomas, who had turned age 23 just over a month ago on the 29th of April, John, who also had turned age 21 in April (born 1879), Mary, age 18, Charles, age 16, Edwin was then 14 (he would turn 15 in less than 6 months), Annie, age 12, Irene, age 10, Richard, age 8 (would turn 9 in a few months), Joseph V, having been born on Christmas Day of 1894, was recorded as age 6 (although his death record shows 1895, d. 05/08/1945, lived at 39-23 Corporal Stone St. in Bayside, Qns), and toddler Alice age 2.
Note that by this time oldest brother Thomas Aloysius had already lost three fingers of his right hand ten years earlier when they got caught in machinery while he was working at a factory. Given that this was certainly a traumatic moment it was an occurrence that directed him to a most successful career path putting him in a very well-off position financially later on in life. By this time, Thomas had already been working for the last 9 years at the San Francisco Bulletin as an artist. His 15-year younger brother Dickie would follow in his footsteps.
In five years’ time Thomas would have relocated to New York working for the Journal covering sports and also drawing cartoons. Through his role as a sports writer he kindled a relationship with the great boxer Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion from 1919 to September 1926 when he lost to Gene Tunney USMC. This upset was comparable to baseball’s “shot heard ‘round the world”. He would become known by the acronym his name forms, i.e., TAD, or simply “Tad”, although I don’t think he ever initialed his cartoons with the “A” and “D” as lower case. At the time of his passing on the 2nd of May 1929, he was residing in a luxury home in Great Neck, a well-to-do area on Long Island’s North Shore. Makes one think of the Great Gatsby. At the second decade of the 2nd millennia this area is still quite nice to reside. The wonders of a capitalistic system in a democratic republic always provide aspirations.
Staying in 1900, his brother John was working as a bookbinder. Later on in life he would go on to handle publicity for Madison Square Garden. Edwin was already working as an Office Boy. His next older brother Charlie was employed as an Apprentice at a Soda Works.
Subsequently, Edwin’s father passed away and Edwin was out on his own by the last week of April 1910. He was lodging at the household of RJ and Zeita Young at 415 Fulton Street in San Francisco’s 38th Assembly District. Edwin was following in his father’s footsteps working as a teamster.
Meanwhile, his remaining family members relocated cross-country to Manhattan’s 12th Ward. They were residing at 746 St. Nicholas Avenue (by SW corner of 147th Street), by the eastern border of the Hamilton Heights and northern border of Hamilton Grange neighborhoods. The family household was headed by his mom, now 54, who again reports as having been born in New York. John L. was 31 and a newspaper sports editor, both Mary G., now more commonly known as May, was 27, and Anna L., age 21 (note that her mom is Anna R.) were milliners, Eileen was 19, Richard and Joseph were 17 and 15, respectively, and baby sister Alice was 11, soon approaching her teen years.
Oldest brother Thomas had already been married two (2) years to his 25-year-old polyglot wife, Izola G. (b.1884-85, PA). They were residing at 3915 Broadway (by 164th Street) in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, less than a mile away.
Edwin is recorded within the 1915 New York State Census as age 29 and living with his mom and other family members. He shows as Edward Dergan.
Edwin married Susan (Susie) Cullen in 1916 and the young couple moved to what was then still referred to as “North New York” in the borough and county of the Bronx – what was the annexed district of New York County up until the late 1800s. They were a matter of blocks from the third Avenue El, id est, the elevated rail road that extended along Third Avenue in Manhattan and into the Bronx. Refer to Susie's memorial for her pre-marital years and a map of other family members living nearby.
Edwin registered for the World War I draft on September 12, 1918 at Local Board Div. 8, 391 East 149th Street. He was 33 years of age at the time, was tall, slender with blue eyes and light color hair. Needless to say, his closest relative to contact was his wife Susie (nee Cullen) Dorgan at their 607 Eagle Avenue residence in the Woodstock section of the Bronx.
At the time, Edwin was employed with the New York Journal in their Circulation Department. Realize that his older brother Thomas Aloysius was already a highly recognized cartoonist nationally who was also highly promoted as an attraction by Hearst News. What Jack Dempsey & Gene Tunney were to boxing, Babe Ruth was to baseball, Thomas was to cartoons. He was the Walt Disney of his day and I wonder if he wasn’t an inspiration. Remember that William Randolph Hearst was also a San Franciscan. It was truly the golden age of the amalgamation of newspapers. There’s been filmed presentations on how cartoons and sports were so influential on American culture at this period in time. Thomas is credited for having added numerous slang sayings and clichés to everyday language during his period in time.
By 1925 the family had moved out of the Bronx to the Flushing suburbs by 146th Street in Election District 77 of Assembly District 4. Besides Edwin and Susie, both age 40, their family now included Eileen A., age 7 (b. 03/02/1918), and 5-year-old Edwin (b.06/16/1919). They were actually just several miles south of Susie’s sister Catherine Nelson’s family near the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, except being separated by the Long Island Sound.
By 1930 the family consisted of Edwin and Susan, both age 45, daughter Eileen age 12 and son Edwin Jr. age 10. Their residence was at 146-11 Kalmia Avenue in the East Flushing area of Queens County, NYC. Edwin was still employed as an inspector at the newspaper.
Ten years later, at the start of April 1940, the family was still residing at the same house. Oddly, Edwin is reported as age 54 while Susie is reported as being age 60. Daughter Eileen was now age 22 and son Edwin Thomas is recorded as being age 21. Edwin (Sr.) was still an inspector at the newspaper and daughter Eileen was a secretary at a publisher. It appears that Edwin (Jr.) was not employed. Both children had completed high school.
Edwin Thomas and wife Evelyn (b.08/29/1918, d. 04/10/1996), had one child, a daughter, Arleen, b. 03/04/1946. Evelyn was a Private First Class in the U.S. Army and is interred out at Calverton National Cemetery (Plot 20, 0, 4146), along with her husband. Edwin Thomas was a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Eileen Anne went on to marry Edwin Robert Convery (b.1913). They too resided in Flushing, Queens, NY. Edwin, born 04/25/1913, was a private in the U.S. Army during World War II. He passed on February 28th, 1997. Together they had two children: Robert E. and Kathleen Susan (b.1947) (later to marry Robert Gross, b.1947, divorced 09/25/1981).
Robert E., resided in Carle Place, Long Island with his wife Diane (nee Valesio), together they had one daughter, Erin. Robert passed on 03/29/2008 at age 62 (b.02/23/1946). He is interred at Saint Charles Cemetery in East Farmingdale, Section: 041, Row: M, Plot: St. John – St. Paul, Grave: 7140.
Eileen passed on April 27, 2014 and is interred out on Long Island in Calverton National Cemetery (Suffolk County). She was 96 and nearly two months old at time of passing on. She rests in eternal peace with her husband Edwin at section 22, site 239
As to Edwin Jos.’ 10 siblings, Marie Helen passed on from Cincinnati, OH, Chas. Jas. From Colfax, CA, while seven of the balance passed on from the Flushing-Bayside neighborhoods of Queens County, Long Island, New York. I’m not sure about from where Catherine Marie (Dorgan) Heath passed on.
Edwin’s paternal grandparents were Thomas (Sr.), an Irish immigrant Carpenter, b.1820-21, and Elizabeth, born in New York, c.1829-30, she was first generation Irish ancestry.
Edwin’s father, Thomas (Jr.), was born March 1847 when his parents were in England. They had migrated back to the U.S. in 1851 when Thomas was about 4 years of age. His paternal Aunt Mary was some 5 years younger than his dad and was born in New York.
Edwin’s mom, Anna, was born November 1854 in Pennsylvania, the daughter of David and Catherine both Irish immigrants and both born c.1820. In 1860 her older siblings were Thomas (b.1844-45), Mary (b.1846-47) and Julia (b. 1851-52). Their youngest sibling was John (b. 1855-56). Her family had settled in Allegheny Township in Pennsylvania’s Cambria County. This is just off to the southwest of the middle of Pennsylvania. They were laborers.
It appears that in ten (10) years’ time the Tobin siblings went their separate ways as in the first week of July 1870 I found David, now 50 and a farmer, and Catherine, reported as 45 and making cheese, living out in Cadiz, Wisconsin. With them were two (2) Tobin children: 5-year-old James and 2-year-old Anastatia (sp). Cadiz is in the southern end of Green County, along the border with Illinois about midway west of Beloit, WI and east of Dubuque, Iowa, almost a straight line.
By August of 1870 Edwin’s grandparents were residing in the 2nd Precinct of San Francisco’s 10th Ward. His father was 23, working in a store as a clerk. Aunt Mary was an 18-year-old milliner.
His parents married c.1876 when Thomas was 29 and Anna Rose (nee Tobin) was 22 years old. All of their children were born during what’s referred to as the United States’ Gilded Age (coined by Mark Twain).
Edwin was born in California, as were his brothers and sisters.
We find the young family in June of 1880 residing at 1644 Mission Street, in the City of San Francisco, California. Edwin’s dad Thomas Jas. was age 33, his mom, Anna, was 26. Their two boys were Thomas Aloy., born April 29,1877 (d.05/22/1929), had just turned age 3 and John, Leo born April 15, 1879 (d.12/27/1960), was just pass infancy at 1 year of age. While Anna was busy tending to the house and the demands of their two young children, Thomas was earning a living as a laundryman.
During the 1880s, Catherine started out the decade with her November 13, 1880 birth (married Robt. J. Heath 02/04/1906?), Mary Helen was born February 20, 1882 (d.05/20/1939), 2 years later Charles Jas. was born in June 16, 1884 (d.09/28/1922), Edwin a year after him, followed by Annie’s birth (Anna Loretta) on January 14, 1888 (d.06/01/1967), closing out the decade.
In the 1890s Irene was born September 12, 1890 (d.10/05/1945), then Richard Will. 2 years later on September 24, 1892 (d.05/05/1953), Joseph Vincent on December 25, 1894 (d.08/08/1945) and Alice on April 19, 1898 (d.11/15/1963).
In early June 1900 the family was residing at 25 Twelfth Street, in San Francisco’s Precinct 3 of Assembly District 34. At this time his dad was 53 and working as a teamster (a real teamster – driving teams of horses), while his mom was 46 – already having borne 11 children. For some reason or another, Anna is reported as having been born in New York. This may have been confused with where her husband’s mom or his sister was born. At this time Edwin is one of ten surviving children.
In order their children were Thomas, who had turned age 23 just over a month ago on the 29th of April, John, who also had turned age 21 in April (born 1879), Mary, age 18, Charles, age 16, Edwin was then 14 (he would turn 15 in less than 6 months), Annie, age 12, Irene, age 10, Richard, age 8 (would turn 9 in a few months), Joseph V, having been born on Christmas Day of 1894, was recorded as age 6 (although his death record shows 1895, d. 05/08/1945, lived at 39-23 Corporal Stone St. in Bayside, Qns), and toddler Alice age 2.
Note that by this time oldest brother Thomas Aloysius had already lost three fingers of his right hand ten years earlier when they got caught in machinery while he was working at a factory. Given that this was certainly a traumatic moment it was an occurrence that directed him to a most successful career path putting him in a very well-off position financially later on in life. By this time, Thomas had already been working for the last 9 years at the San Francisco Bulletin as an artist. His 15-year younger brother Dickie would follow in his footsteps.
In five years’ time Thomas would have relocated to New York working for the Journal covering sports and also drawing cartoons. Through his role as a sports writer he kindled a relationship with the great boxer Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion from 1919 to September 1926 when he lost to Gene Tunney USMC. This upset was comparable to baseball’s “shot heard ‘round the world”. He would become known by the acronym his name forms, i.e., TAD, or simply “Tad”, although I don’t think he ever initialed his cartoons with the “A” and “D” as lower case. At the time of his passing on the 2nd of May 1929, he was residing in a luxury home in Great Neck, a well-to-do area on Long Island’s North Shore. Makes one think of the Great Gatsby. At the second decade of the 2nd millennia this area is still quite nice to reside. The wonders of a capitalistic system in a democratic republic always provide aspirations.
Staying in 1900, his brother John was working as a bookbinder. Later on in life he would go on to handle publicity for Madison Square Garden. Edwin was already working as an Office Boy. His next older brother Charlie was employed as an Apprentice at a Soda Works.
Subsequently, Edwin’s father passed away and Edwin was out on his own by the last week of April 1910. He was lodging at the household of RJ and Zeita Young at 415 Fulton Street in San Francisco’s 38th Assembly District. Edwin was following in his father’s footsteps working as a teamster.
Meanwhile, his remaining family members relocated cross-country to Manhattan’s 12th Ward. They were residing at 746 St. Nicholas Avenue (by SW corner of 147th Street), by the eastern border of the Hamilton Heights and northern border of Hamilton Grange neighborhoods. The family household was headed by his mom, now 54, who again reports as having been born in New York. John L. was 31 and a newspaper sports editor, both Mary G., now more commonly known as May, was 27, and Anna L., age 21 (note that her mom is Anna R.) were milliners, Eileen was 19, Richard and Joseph were 17 and 15, respectively, and baby sister Alice was 11, soon approaching her teen years.
Oldest brother Thomas had already been married two (2) years to his 25-year-old polyglot wife, Izola G. (b.1884-85, PA). They were residing at 3915 Broadway (by 164th Street) in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, less than a mile away.
Edwin is recorded within the 1915 New York State Census as age 29 and living with his mom and other family members. He shows as Edward Dergan.
Edwin married Susan (Susie) Cullen in 1916 and the young couple moved to what was then still referred to as “North New York” in the borough and county of the Bronx – what was the annexed district of New York County up until the late 1800s. They were a matter of blocks from the third Avenue El, id est, the elevated rail road that extended along Third Avenue in Manhattan and into the Bronx. Refer to Susie's memorial for her pre-marital years and a map of other family members living nearby.
Edwin registered for the World War I draft on September 12, 1918 at Local Board Div. 8, 391 East 149th Street. He was 33 years of age at the time, was tall, slender with blue eyes and light color hair. Needless to say, his closest relative to contact was his wife Susie (nee Cullen) Dorgan at their 607 Eagle Avenue residence in the Woodstock section of the Bronx.
At the time, Edwin was employed with the New York Journal in their Circulation Department. Realize that his older brother Thomas Aloysius was already a highly recognized cartoonist nationally who was also highly promoted as an attraction by Hearst News. What Jack Dempsey & Gene Tunney were to boxing, Babe Ruth was to baseball, Thomas was to cartoons. He was the Walt Disney of his day and I wonder if he wasn’t an inspiration. Remember that William Randolph Hearst was also a San Franciscan. It was truly the golden age of the amalgamation of newspapers. There’s been filmed presentations on how cartoons and sports were so influential on American culture at this period in time. Thomas is credited for having added numerous slang sayings and clichés to everyday language during his period in time.
By 1925 the family had moved out of the Bronx to the Flushing suburbs by 146th Street in Election District 77 of Assembly District 4. Besides Edwin and Susie, both age 40, their family now included Eileen A., age 7 (b. 03/02/1918), and 5-year-old Edwin (b.06/16/1919). They were actually just several miles south of Susie’s sister Catherine Nelson’s family near the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, except being separated by the Long Island Sound.
By 1930 the family consisted of Edwin and Susan, both age 45, daughter Eileen age 12 and son Edwin Jr. age 10. Their residence was at 146-11 Kalmia Avenue in the East Flushing area of Queens County, NYC. Edwin was still employed as an inspector at the newspaper.
Ten years later, at the start of April 1940, the family was still residing at the same house. Oddly, Edwin is reported as age 54 while Susie is reported as being age 60. Daughter Eileen was now age 22 and son Edwin Thomas is recorded as being age 21. Edwin (Sr.) was still an inspector at the newspaper and daughter Eileen was a secretary at a publisher. It appears that Edwin (Jr.) was not employed. Both children had completed high school.
Edwin Thomas and wife Evelyn (b.08/29/1918, d. 04/10/1996), had one child, a daughter, Arleen, b. 03/04/1946. Evelyn was a Private First Class in the U.S. Army and is interred out at Calverton National Cemetery (Plot 20, 0, 4146), along with her husband. Edwin Thomas was a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Eileen Anne went on to marry Edwin Robert Convery (b.1913). They too resided in Flushing, Queens, NY. Edwin, born 04/25/1913, was a private in the U.S. Army during World War II. He passed on February 28th, 1997. Together they had two children: Robert E. and Kathleen Susan (b.1947) (later to marry Robert Gross, b.1947, divorced 09/25/1981).
Robert E., resided in Carle Place, Long Island with his wife Diane (nee Valesio), together they had one daughter, Erin. Robert passed on 03/29/2008 at age 62 (b.02/23/1946). He is interred at Saint Charles Cemetery in East Farmingdale, Section: 041, Row: M, Plot: St. John – St. Paul, Grave: 7140.
Eileen passed on April 27, 2014 and is interred out on Long Island in Calverton National Cemetery (Suffolk County). She was 96 and nearly two months old at time of passing on. She rests in eternal peace with her husband Edwin at section 22, site 239
As to Edwin Jos.’ 10 siblings, Marie Helen passed on from Cincinnati, OH, Chas. Jas. From Colfax, CA, while seven of the balance passed on from the Flushing-Bayside neighborhoods of Queens County, Long Island, New York. I’m not sure about from where Catherine Marie (Dorgan) Heath passed on.
Edwin is the devoted husband of Susanna Marie Cullen Dorgan, beloved son of Thomas J. and Anna R. (nee Tobin) and bereaved sibling of many brothers and sisters enumerated below.
Edwin’s paternal grandparents were Thomas (Sr.), an Irish immigrant Carpenter, b.1820-21, and Elizabeth, born in New York, c.1829-30, she was first generation Irish ancestry.
Edwin’s father, Thomas (Jr.), was born March 1847 when his parents were in England. They had migrated back to the U.S. in 1851 when Thomas was about 4 years of age. His paternal Aunt Mary was some 5 years younger than his dad and was born in New York.
Edwin’s mom, Anna, was born November 1854 in Pennsylvania, the daughter of David and Catherine both Irish immigrants and both born c.1820. In 1860 her older siblings were Thomas (b.1844-45), Mary (b.1846-47) and Julia (b. 1851-52). Their youngest sibling was John (b. 1855-56). Her family had settled in Allegheny Township in Pennsylvania’s Cambria County. This is just off to the southwest of the middle of Pennsylvania. They were laborers.
It appears that in ten (10) years’ time the Tobin siblings went their separate ways as in the first week of July 1870 I found David, now 50 and a farmer, and Catherine, reported as 45 and making cheese, living out in Cadiz, Wisconsin. With them were two (2) Tobin children: 5-year-old James and 2-year-old Anastatia (sp). Cadiz is in the southern end of Green County, along the border with Illinois about midway west of Beloit, WI and east of Dubuque, Iowa, almost a straight line.
By August of 1870 Edwin’s grandparents were residing in the 2nd Precinct of San Francisco’s 10th Ward. His father was 23, working in a store as a clerk. Aunt Mary was an 18-year-old milliner.
His parents married c.1876 when Thomas was 29 and Anna Rose (nee Tobin) was 22 years old. All of their children were born during what’s referred to as the United States’ Gilded Age (coined by Mark Twain).
Edwin was born in California, as were his brothers and sisters.
We find the young family in June of 1880 residing at 1644 Mission Street, in the City of San Francisco, California. Edwin’s dad Thomas Jas. was age 33, his mom, Anna, was 26. Their two boys were Thomas Aloy., born April 29,1877 (d.05/22/1929), had just turned age 3 and John, Leo born April 15, 1879 (d.12/27/1960), was just pass infancy at 1 year of age. While Anna was busy tending to the house and the demands of their two young children, Thomas was earning a living as a laundryman.
During the 1880s, Catherine started out the decade with her November 13, 1880 birth (married Robt. J. Heath 02/04/1906?), Mary Helen was born February 20, 1882 (d.05/20/1939), 2 years later Charles Jas. was born in June 16, 1884 (d.09/28/1922), Edwin a year after him, followed by Annie’s birth (Anna Loretta) on January 14, 1888 (d.06/01/1967), closing out the decade.
In the 1890s Irene was born September 12, 1890 (d.10/05/1945), then Richard Will. 2 years later on September 24, 1892 (d.05/05/1953), Joseph Vincent on December 25, 1894 (d.08/08/1945) and Alice on April 19, 1898 (d.11/15/1963).
In early June 1900 the family was residing at 25 Twelfth Street, in San Francisco’s Precinct 3 of Assembly District 34. At this time his dad was 53 and working as a teamster (a real teamster – driving teams of horses), while his mom was 46 – already having borne 11 children. For some reason or another, Anna is reported as having been born in New York. This may have been confused with where her husband’s mom or his sister was born. At this time Edwin is one of ten surviving children.
In order their children were Thomas, who had turned age 23 just over a month ago on the 29th of April, John, who also had turned age 21 in April (born 1879), Mary, age 18, Charles, age 16, Edwin was then 14 (he would turn 15 in less than 6 months), Annie, age 12, Irene, age 10, Richard, age 8 (would turn 9 in a few months), Joseph V, having been born on Christmas Day of 1894, was recorded as age 6 (although his death record shows 1895, d. 05/08/1945, lived at 39-23 Corporal Stone St. in Bayside, Qns), and toddler Alice age 2.
Note that by this time oldest brother Thomas Aloysius had already lost three fingers of his right hand ten years earlier when they got caught in machinery while he was working at a factory. Given that this was certainly a traumatic moment it was an occurrence that directed him to a most successful career path putting him in a very well-off position financially later on in life. By this time, Thomas had already been working for the last 9 years at the San Francisco Bulletin as an artist. His 15-year younger brother Dickie would follow in his footsteps.
In five years’ time Thomas would have relocated to New York working for the Journal covering sports and also drawing cartoons. Through his role as a sports writer he kindled a relationship with the great boxer Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion from 1919 to September 1926 when he lost to Gene Tunney USMC. This upset was comparable to baseball’s “shot heard ‘round the world”. He would become known by the acronym his name forms, i.e., TAD, or simply “Tad”, although I don’t think he ever initialed his cartoons with the “A” and “D” as lower case. At the time of his passing on the 2nd of May 1929, he was residing in a luxury home in Great Neck, a well-to-do area on Long Island’s North Shore. Makes one think of the Great Gatsby. At the second decade of the 2nd millennia this area is still quite nice to reside. The wonders of a capitalistic system in a democratic republic always provide aspirations.
Staying in 1900, his brother John was working as a bookbinder. Later on in life he would go on to handle publicity for Madison Square Garden. Edwin was already working as an Office Boy. His next older brother Charlie was employed as an Apprentice at a Soda Works.
Subsequently, Edwin’s father passed away and Edwin was out on his own by the last week of April 1910. He was lodging at the household of RJ and Zeita Young at 415 Fulton Street in San Francisco’s 38th Assembly District. Edwin was following in his father’s footsteps working as a teamster.
Meanwhile, his remaining family members relocated cross-country to Manhattan’s 12th Ward. They were residing at 746 St. Nicholas Avenue (by SW corner of 147th Street), by the eastern border of the Hamilton Heights and northern border of Hamilton Grange neighborhoods. The family household was headed by his mom, now 54, who again reports as having been born in New York. John L. was 31 and a newspaper sports editor, both Mary G., now more commonly known as May, was 27, and Anna L., age 21 (note that her mom is Anna R.) were milliners, Eileen was 19, Richard and Joseph were 17 and 15, respectively, and baby sister Alice was 11, soon approaching her teen years.
Oldest brother Thomas had already been married two (2) years to his 25-year-old polyglot wife, Izola G. (b.1884-85, PA). They were residing at 3915 Broadway (by 164th Street) in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, less than a mile away.
Edwin is recorded within the 1915 New York State Census as age 29 and living with his mom and other family members. He shows as Edward Dergan.
Edwin married Susan (Susie) Cullen in 1916 and the young couple moved to what was then still referred to as “North New York” in the borough and county of the Bronx – what was the annexed district of New York County up until the late 1800s. They were a matter of blocks from the third Avenue El, id est, the elevated rail road that extended along Third Avenue in Manhattan and into the Bronx. Refer to Susie's memorial for her pre-marital years and a map of other family members living nearby.
Edwin registered for the World War I draft on September 12, 1918 at Local Board Div. 8, 391 East 149th Street. He was 33 years of age at the time, was tall, slender with blue eyes and light color hair. Needless to say, his closest relative to contact was his wife Susie (nee Cullen) Dorgan at their 607 Eagle Avenue residence in the Woodstock section of the Bronx.
At the time, Edwin was employed with the New York Journal in their Circulation Department. Realize that his older brother Thomas Aloysius was already a highly recognized cartoonist nationally who was also highly promoted as an attraction by Hearst News. What Jack Dempsey & Gene Tunney were to boxing, Babe Ruth was to baseball, Thomas was to cartoons. He was the Walt Disney of his day and I wonder if he wasn’t an inspiration. Remember that William Randolph Hearst was also a San Franciscan. It was truly the golden age of the amalgamation of newspapers. There’s been filmed presentations on how cartoons and sports were so influential on American culture at this period in time. Thomas is credited for having added numerous slang sayings and clichés to everyday language during his period in time.
By 1925 the family had moved out of the Bronx to the Flushing suburbs by 146th Street in Election District 77 of Assembly District 4. Besides Edwin and Susie, both age 40, their family now included Eileen A., age 7 (b. 03/02/1918), and 5-year-old Edwin (b.06/16/1919). They were actually just several miles south of Susie’s sister Catherine Nelson’s family near the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, except being separated by the Long Island Sound.
By 1930 the family consisted of Edwin and Susan, both age 45, daughter Eileen age 12 and son Edwin Jr. age 10. Their residence was at 146-11 Kalmia Avenue in the East Flushing area of Queens County, NYC. Edwin was still employed as an inspector at the newspaper.
Ten years later, at the start of April 1940, the family was still residing at the same house. Oddly, Edwin is reported as age 54 while Susie is reported as being age 60. Daughter Eileen was now age 22 and son Edwin Thomas is recorded as being age 21. Edwin (Sr.) was still an inspector at the newspaper and daughter Eileen was a secretary at a publisher. It appears that Edwin (Jr.) was not employed. Both children had completed high school.
Edwin Thomas and wife Evelyn (b.08/29/1918, d. 04/10/1996), had one child, a daughter, Arleen, b. 03/04/1946. Evelyn was a Private First Class in the U.S. Army and is interred out at Calverton National Cemetery (Plot 20, 0, 4146), along with her husband. Edwin Thomas was a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Eileen Anne went on to marry Edwin Robert Convery (b.1913). They too resided in Flushing, Queens, NY. Edwin, born 04/25/1913, was a private in the U.S. Army during World War II. He passed on February 28th, 1997. Together they had two children: Robert E. and Kathleen Susan (b.1947) (later to marry Robert Gross, b.1947, divorced 09/25/1981).
Robert E., resided in Carle Place, Long Island with his wife Diane (nee Valesio), together they had one daughter, Erin. Robert passed on 03/29/2008 at age 62 (b.02/23/1946). He is interred at Saint Charles Cemetery in East Farmingdale, Section: 041, Row: M, Plot: St. John – St. Paul, Grave: 7140.
Eileen passed on April 27, 2014 and is interred out on Long Island in Calverton National Cemetery (Suffolk County). She was 96 and nearly two months old at time of passing on. She rests in eternal peace with her husband Edwin at section 22, site 239
As to Edwin Jos.’ 10 siblings, Marie Helen passed on from Cincinnati, OH, Chas. Jas. From Colfax, CA, while seven of the balance passed on from the Flushing-Bayside neighborhoods of Queens County, Long Island, New York. I’m not sure about from where Catherine Marie (Dorgan) Heath passed on.
Edwin’s paternal grandparents were Thomas (Sr.), an Irish immigrant Carpenter, b.1820-21, and Elizabeth, born in New York, c.1829-30, she was first generation Irish ancestry.
Edwin’s father, Thomas (Jr.), was born March 1847 when his parents were in England. They had migrated back to the U.S. in 1851 when Thomas was about 4 years of age. His paternal Aunt Mary was some 5 years younger than his dad and was born in New York.
Edwin’s mom, Anna, was born November 1854 in Pennsylvania, the daughter of David and Catherine both Irish immigrants and both born c.1820. In 1860 her older siblings were Thomas (b.1844-45), Mary (b.1846-47) and Julia (b. 1851-52). Their youngest sibling was John (b. 1855-56). Her family had settled in Allegheny Township in Pennsylvania’s Cambria County. This is just off to the southwest of the middle of Pennsylvania. They were laborers.
It appears that in ten (10) years’ time the Tobin siblings went their separate ways as in the first week of July 1870 I found David, now 50 and a farmer, and Catherine, reported as 45 and making cheese, living out in Cadiz, Wisconsin. With them were two (2) Tobin children: 5-year-old James and 2-year-old Anastatia (sp). Cadiz is in the southern end of Green County, along the border with Illinois about midway west of Beloit, WI and east of Dubuque, Iowa, almost a straight line.
By August of 1870 Edwin’s grandparents were residing in the 2nd Precinct of San Francisco’s 10th Ward. His father was 23, working in a store as a clerk. Aunt Mary was an 18-year-old milliner.
His parents married c.1876 when Thomas was 29 and Anna Rose (nee Tobin) was 22 years old. All of their children were born during what’s referred to as the United States’ Gilded Age (coined by Mark Twain).
Edwin was born in California, as were his brothers and sisters.
We find the young family in June of 1880 residing at 1644 Mission Street, in the City of San Francisco, California. Edwin’s dad Thomas Jas. was age 33, his mom, Anna, was 26. Their two boys were Thomas Aloy., born April 29,1877 (d.05/22/1929), had just turned age 3 and John, Leo born April 15, 1879 (d.12/27/1960), was just pass infancy at 1 year of age. While Anna was busy tending to the house and the demands of their two young children, Thomas was earning a living as a laundryman.
During the 1880s, Catherine started out the decade with her November 13, 1880 birth (married Robt. J. Heath 02/04/1906?), Mary Helen was born February 20, 1882 (d.05/20/1939), 2 years later Charles Jas. was born in June 16, 1884 (d.09/28/1922), Edwin a year after him, followed by Annie’s birth (Anna Loretta) on January 14, 1888 (d.06/01/1967), closing out the decade.
In the 1890s Irene was born September 12, 1890 (d.10/05/1945), then Richard Will. 2 years later on September 24, 1892 (d.05/05/1953), Joseph Vincent on December 25, 1894 (d.08/08/1945) and Alice on April 19, 1898 (d.11/15/1963).
In early June 1900 the family was residing at 25 Twelfth Street, in San Francisco’s Precinct 3 of Assembly District 34. At this time his dad was 53 and working as a teamster (a real teamster – driving teams of horses), while his mom was 46 – already having borne 11 children. For some reason or another, Anna is reported as having been born in New York. This may have been confused with where her husband’s mom or his sister was born. At this time Edwin is one of ten surviving children.
In order their children were Thomas, who had turned age 23 just over a month ago on the 29th of April, John, who also had turned age 21 in April (born 1879), Mary, age 18, Charles, age 16, Edwin was then 14 (he would turn 15 in less than 6 months), Annie, age 12, Irene, age 10, Richard, age 8 (would turn 9 in a few months), Joseph V, having been born on Christmas Day of 1894, was recorded as age 6 (although his death record shows 1895, d. 05/08/1945, lived at 39-23 Corporal Stone St. in Bayside, Qns), and toddler Alice age 2.
Note that by this time oldest brother Thomas Aloysius had already lost three fingers of his right hand ten years earlier when they got caught in machinery while he was working at a factory. Given that this was certainly a traumatic moment it was an occurrence that directed him to a most successful career path putting him in a very well-off position financially later on in life. By this time, Thomas had already been working for the last 9 years at the San Francisco Bulletin as an artist. His 15-year younger brother Dickie would follow in his footsteps.
In five years’ time Thomas would have relocated to New York working for the Journal covering sports and also drawing cartoons. Through his role as a sports writer he kindled a relationship with the great boxer Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion from 1919 to September 1926 when he lost to Gene Tunney USMC. This upset was comparable to baseball’s “shot heard ‘round the world”. He would become known by the acronym his name forms, i.e., TAD, or simply “Tad”, although I don’t think he ever initialed his cartoons with the “A” and “D” as lower case. At the time of his passing on the 2nd of May 1929, he was residing in a luxury home in Great Neck, a well-to-do area on Long Island’s North Shore. Makes one think of the Great Gatsby. At the second decade of the 2nd millennia this area is still quite nice to reside. The wonders of a capitalistic system in a democratic republic always provide aspirations.
Staying in 1900, his brother John was working as a bookbinder. Later on in life he would go on to handle publicity for Madison Square Garden. Edwin was already working as an Office Boy. His next older brother Charlie was employed as an Apprentice at a Soda Works.
Subsequently, Edwin’s father passed away and Edwin was out on his own by the last week of April 1910. He was lodging at the household of RJ and Zeita Young at 415 Fulton Street in San Francisco’s 38th Assembly District. Edwin was following in his father’s footsteps working as a teamster.
Meanwhile, his remaining family members relocated cross-country to Manhattan’s 12th Ward. They were residing at 746 St. Nicholas Avenue (by SW corner of 147th Street), by the eastern border of the Hamilton Heights and northern border of Hamilton Grange neighborhoods. The family household was headed by his mom, now 54, who again reports as having been born in New York. John L. was 31 and a newspaper sports editor, both Mary G., now more commonly known as May, was 27, and Anna L., age 21 (note that her mom is Anna R.) were milliners, Eileen was 19, Richard and Joseph were 17 and 15, respectively, and baby sister Alice was 11, soon approaching her teen years.
Oldest brother Thomas had already been married two (2) years to his 25-year-old polyglot wife, Izola G. (b.1884-85, PA). They were residing at 3915 Broadway (by 164th Street) in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, less than a mile away.
Edwin is recorded within the 1915 New York State Census as age 29 and living with his mom and other family members. He shows as Edward Dergan.
Edwin married Susan (Susie) Cullen in 1916 and the young couple moved to what was then still referred to as “North New York” in the borough and county of the Bronx – what was the annexed district of New York County up until the late 1800s. They were a matter of blocks from the third Avenue El, id est, the elevated rail road that extended along Third Avenue in Manhattan and into the Bronx. Refer to Susie's memorial for her pre-marital years and a map of other family members living nearby.
Edwin registered for the World War I draft on September 12, 1918 at Local Board Div. 8, 391 East 149th Street. He was 33 years of age at the time, was tall, slender with blue eyes and light color hair. Needless to say, his closest relative to contact was his wife Susie (nee Cullen) Dorgan at their 607 Eagle Avenue residence in the Woodstock section of the Bronx.
At the time, Edwin was employed with the New York Journal in their Circulation Department. Realize that his older brother Thomas Aloysius was already a highly recognized cartoonist nationally who was also highly promoted as an attraction by Hearst News. What Jack Dempsey & Gene Tunney were to boxing, Babe Ruth was to baseball, Thomas was to cartoons. He was the Walt Disney of his day and I wonder if he wasn’t an inspiration. Remember that William Randolph Hearst was also a San Franciscan. It was truly the golden age of the amalgamation of newspapers. There’s been filmed presentations on how cartoons and sports were so influential on American culture at this period in time. Thomas is credited for having added numerous slang sayings and clichés to everyday language during his period in time.
By 1925 the family had moved out of the Bronx to the Flushing suburbs by 146th Street in Election District 77 of Assembly District 4. Besides Edwin and Susie, both age 40, their family now included Eileen A., age 7 (b. 03/02/1918), and 5-year-old Edwin (b.06/16/1919). They were actually just several miles south of Susie’s sister Catherine Nelson’s family near the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx, except being separated by the Long Island Sound.
By 1930 the family consisted of Edwin and Susan, both age 45, daughter Eileen age 12 and son Edwin Jr. age 10. Their residence was at 146-11 Kalmia Avenue in the East Flushing area of Queens County, NYC. Edwin was still employed as an inspector at the newspaper.
Ten years later, at the start of April 1940, the family was still residing at the same house. Oddly, Edwin is reported as age 54 while Susie is reported as being age 60. Daughter Eileen was now age 22 and son Edwin Thomas is recorded as being age 21. Edwin (Sr.) was still an inspector at the newspaper and daughter Eileen was a secretary at a publisher. It appears that Edwin (Jr.) was not employed. Both children had completed high school.
Edwin Thomas and wife Evelyn (b.08/29/1918, d. 04/10/1996), had one child, a daughter, Arleen, b. 03/04/1946. Evelyn was a Private First Class in the U.S. Army and is interred out at Calverton National Cemetery (Plot 20, 0, 4146), along with her husband. Edwin Thomas was a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Eileen Anne went on to marry Edwin Robert Convery (b.1913). They too resided in Flushing, Queens, NY. Edwin, born 04/25/1913, was a private in the U.S. Army during World War II. He passed on February 28th, 1997. Together they had two children: Robert E. and Kathleen Susan (b.1947) (later to marry Robert Gross, b.1947, divorced 09/25/1981).
Robert E., resided in Carle Place, Long Island with his wife Diane (nee Valesio), together they had one daughter, Erin. Robert passed on 03/29/2008 at age 62 (b.02/23/1946). He is interred at Saint Charles Cemetery in East Farmingdale, Section: 041, Row: M, Plot: St. John – St. Paul, Grave: 7140.
Eileen passed on April 27, 2014 and is interred out on Long Island in Calverton National Cemetery (Suffolk County). She was 96 and nearly two months old at time of passing on. She rests in eternal peace with her husband Edwin at section 22, site 239
As to Edwin Jos.’ 10 siblings, Marie Helen passed on from Cincinnati, OH, Chas. Jas. From Colfax, CA, while seven of the balance passed on from the Flushing-Bayside neighborhoods of Queens County, Long Island, New York. I’m not sure about from where Catherine Marie (Dorgan) Heath passed on.
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