his parents were from tipperary in ireland and he came from a big family. when he came here he worked in the story is, and it is truth that he liked to gamble on the horses. and he won a bet on a horse named climax. and with those winnings he opened a saloon and a boardinghouse down in the west bottom where the irish lived down along the river. kind of among the shantytowns and boarding houses in the train station all that. and did very well. he was considered a really up, a very positive sort of guy. a very honest guy. he held a lot of the old immigrants' money in the saloon. he was kind of their banker. they did not trust banks. he was one to take people in, young men at the encouragement of their parents take the pledge to quit drinking. he won the courage to one as an -- run as an alderman for city councilman and he continued to win until he died in the 1914. he built up a trust among the poor, especially, because he did it the old-fashioned way. today's politicians promise platitudes and all these, just, you know, things they could never deliver, but h