William Brennan's father died before the family left Ireland for America.His mother and her farther emigrated with her children. The family lived on Sullivan street in Grenwich village. Both of Williams parents died young. William was the oldest child.,He was forced to leave his brothers and sisters in a Catholic orphanage in order to goto work.Wolliam was required to supply them with shoes and clothing and many of the other necessities while they were there.
When William was a young man, he was walking hime in tpicked it up and he he village when he saw a paper bag in the street that aroused his curiosity since it appeared to have something in it. He reached down and he almost passed out when he saw what was in it. It contained $5,000, a very huge amount in the last half of the nineteenth century. He rushed home and told his mother. Being Irish and a roman Catholic (her maiden name was Bridget Mara)she told him that he shhould turn it in at the police station the nest morning since it didn't belong to him. However there was an ad in the paper stating that a local construction company had lost it's payroll and that there was a $500 dollar reward. William turned it in and the head of the company was so taken with his honesty that he also gave the boy a job and sent him To Cooper Union engineering school.
William Married Anna Woolley whosw ancestors came from England and Ireland.They were married at Saint Josephs Church in Greebwich Village and had seven children who grew up in Brooklyn.
William and Anna's childrens names were Jim,Margaret (Daisy),Alice, Bill, Edward, Florence and Frank.
William Brennan died in 1916.
When William was a young man, he was walking hime in tpicked it up and he he village when he saw a paper bag in the street that aroused his curiosity since it appeared to have something in it. He reached down and he almost passed out when he saw what was in it. It contained $5,000, a very huge amount in the last half of the nineteenth century. He rushed home and told his mother. Being Irish and a roman Catholic (her maiden name was Bridget Mara)she told him that he shhould turn it in at the police station the nest morning since it didn't belong to him. However there was an ad in the paper stating that a local construction company had lost it's payroll and that there was a $500 dollar reward. William turned it in and the head of the company was so taken with his honesty that he also gave the boy a job and sent him To Cooper Union engineering school.
William Married Anna Woolley whosw ancestors came from England and Ireland.They were married at Saint Josephs Church in Greebwich Village and had seven children who grew up in Brooklyn.
William and Anna's childrens names were Jim,Margaret (Daisy),Alice, Bill, Edward, Florence and Frank.
William Brennan died in 1916.
William Brennan's father died before the family left Ireland for America.His mother and her farther emigrated with her children. The family lived on Sullivan street in Grenwich village. Both of Williams parents died young. William was the oldest child.,He was forced to leave his brothers and sisters in a Catholic orphanage in order to goto work.Wolliam was required to supply them with shoes and clothing and many of the other necessities while they were there.
When William was a young man, he was walking hime in tpicked it up and he he village when he saw a paper bag in the street that aroused his curiosity since it appeared to have something in it. He reached down and he almost passed out when he saw what was in it. It contained $5,000, a very huge amount in the last half of the nineteenth century. He rushed home and told his mother. Being Irish and a roman Catholic (her maiden name was Bridget Mara)she told him that he shhould turn it in at the police station the nest morning since it didn't belong to him. However there was an ad in the paper stating that a local construction company had lost it's payroll and that there was a $500 dollar reward. William turned it in and the head of the company was so taken with his honesty that he also gave the boy a job and sent him To Cooper Union engineering school.
William Married Anna Woolley whosw ancestors came from England and Ireland.They were married at Saint Josephs Church in Greebwich Village and had seven children who grew up in Brooklyn.
William and Anna's childrens names were Jim,Margaret (Daisy),Alice, Bill, Edward, Florence and Frank.
William Brennan died in 1916.
When William was a young man, he was walking hime in tpicked it up and he he village when he saw a paper bag in the street that aroused his curiosity since it appeared to have something in it. He reached down and he almost passed out when he saw what was in it. It contained $5,000, a very huge amount in the last half of the nineteenth century. He rushed home and told his mother. Being Irish and a roman Catholic (her maiden name was Bridget Mara)she told him that he shhould turn it in at the police station the nest morning since it didn't belong to him. However there was an ad in the paper stating that a local construction company had lost it's payroll and that there was a $500 dollar reward. William turned it in and the head of the company was so taken with his honesty that he also gave the boy a job and sent him To Cooper Union engineering school.
William Married Anna Woolley whosw ancestors came from England and Ireland.They were married at Saint Josephs Church in Greebwich Village and had seven children who grew up in Brooklyn.
William and Anna's childrens names were Jim,Margaret (Daisy),Alice, Bill, Edward, Florence and Frank.
William Brennan died in 1916.
