Parents and siblings of John T. Cavanagh

John & Catherine Allen Cavanagh at home on Academy Street, Boonville, NY 

with daughters Helen, Mary & Catherine.

John T. Cavanagh's parents: 

John Cavanagh, Jr. b.1845, England, died Boonville, NY, 1916, 

son of John & Bridget O'Brien Cavanagh. 

Death of John Cavanagh.

Old and Esteemed Business Man of

Boonville Passes Away.

John Cavanagh, for thirty years a 

prominent shoe merchant of Boonville

and a highly esteemed resident, 

died last Thursday, following a serious

illness from pneumonia.

Mr. Cavanagh was born in England

June 6, 1846, and came to America when

four years old.  He came to Boonville

when he was nine years of age and two

years later began to learn the trade of a 

shoemaker.  He worked 12 years for A. L. Pelligo 

and later for James Fagdn.   He was also employed in 

Clayton and Oneida and Jan. 1, 1886, started a 

shoe store in Boonville.  In Aug. of that year 

a partnership was formed with

A. D. Snow, under the firm name of 

Snow A. Cavanagh, and which continued for three years.

In 1894 Mr. Cavanagh started in business for

himself and later his son was admitted to 

partnership in the firm, which has been 

one of the most successful business 

concerns in that village.  

About two months ago the deceased began 

to fail in health, and three weeks ago he was 

stricken with pneumonia, which proved fatal. 

Mr. Cavanagh was a Democrat in  politics 

and held many positions of trust and confidence 

in the village.  Besides his wife there survive -

three sons, John T. and Charles G. of Boonville, 

and Austin H. of Utica; 

also three daughters, Catherine, Mary and Helen, 

of Boonville; one sister, Mrs. G. H. Fassell, of Fulton.

<http://news.nnyln.net/>; Lowville Journal & Republican; Nov. 1916; on 11/21/2013. 

His wife, Catherine Allen Cavanagh, b. 1844, on Leyden Hill, died Boonville, NY, 1918, 

daughter of David and Mary Ferris Allen.

Mrs. Catherine Cavanagh.

Mrs. Catherine Cavanagh, widow of the late John Cavanagh, 

after an illness of ten weeks with a complication of diseases, 

passed away last Friday at her home in Boonville.  

Mrs. Cavanagh was born in Lewis County, June 3, 1844, 

and had been for many years a resident of Boonville, 

where she had ever been held in the highest esteem of all.  

She was a devoted wife and mother and a devoted 

member of St. Joseph's Catholic church.  

She was also a member of the Rosary Society of her church.  

She leaves to mourn her loss six children, 

 John T. Cavanagh, Boonville: Austin H. Cavanagh, Utica; 

Charles G. Cavanagh and Misses Catherine, Mary and Helen, of Boonville; 

a brother, John J. Allen, Augusta,Kansas; a sister, Mrs. N. Robert Barr, Lowville.  

Her grandchildren are Edward A. Cavanagh, 

with the American expeditionary forces overseas; 

Harold and Stuart Cavanagh, Utica; 

Reginald Cavanagh, and Misses Noreen, Dorothy and Ardra Cavanagh, of Boonville.  

The funeral services were held Monday morning 

from St. Joseph's church, Boonville, Rev. D. C. Flynn officiating.  

<http://news.nnyln.net/>; Lowville Journal & Republican; April/June 1918; on 11/21/2013.

Early picture of John Cavanagh, shoemaker.  

John Cavanagh (Grandpa Cavanagh) in later years, at home on Academy St., Boonville, NY.