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are the descendants of Joseph O’Brian. Jo30Ph had left 4 
sons in Ireland: Mike, Luke, Mark, and John, and of these 
we know nothing*. Maggie, Thomas, and Oran he brought to 
County H., where they married and have left behind them a 
large number of descendants. 
Maggie married James Dunigan, by whom she had 6 chil- 
dren: Martin, Mary, Jane, Pat, John, and Mike. The well- 
known member of this fraternity is Pat, a well-known '‘levy 
rat” of the west end. He is the man spoken of in the Mc- 
Haley- Johnson history who was associated with Hazel Gard- 
ner. He is now living at the home of Hazel’s step-daughter, 
Martha Calvin. He is alcoholic, criminal, licentious, and 
feeble-minded. 
Thomas O’Brian, the sixth child of Joseph, was not seen. 
Oran, the seventh child of Joseph O’Brian, first married 
Mary Murphy, by whom he had 1 child, Ruth. Oran was 
extremely alcoholic and considered a bad man to get along 
with. When drunk, as he was most of the time, he considered 
it his duty to the Irish to fight some one, and he usually had 
little trouble in finding some other Irishman who thought as 
he did. Mary finally decided that she would be happier with- 
out him than with him and left the daughter and husband to 
care for themselves. 
Ruth first married Everett Bruce, by whom she had 7 
children. Bruce is a member of the Morris family of Town- 
ship 5. Her daughters were all immoral, and the boys were 
alcoholic good-for-nothing rascals. This is not to be won- 
dered at when their early home life is taken into considera- 
tion. Ruth and her husband led a cat and dog life, and the 
children were encouraged to do likewise. When they were 
arrested she would go down to police headquarters and swear 
and rave until the police would have to arrest her too. When 
they were released, she would nag and curse at them until 
they would as soon be in jail as at home. When the field 
worker went in the first thing Ruth did was to begin to tell 
her what a godless, low-down family she had brought up — 
that her children always had insisted on associating with the 
meanest and most no-account people of the town and how 
nothing could make men and women of them. All this was 
said in the presence of her grown-up children, who were sit- 
ting about with their husbands. Some of them looked ashamed 
