Hello all! I am never excited to be coming here today and talking a bit more about my family! I am very happy to share more of what I have learned! However, we have got to talk about movies first! This month's family movie is The Incredibles.
Once in a not so distant long ago, superheroes were the big thing! There were a ton all over the place constantly saving their city and everyone in it! However, everything changed who one hero got sued. They were sued for saving the life of someone who was trying to end their life. Due to this all superheroes everywhere had to go into hiding and blend in with everyone else in the world. For some people it ended up being a fine transition. Others, like Bob, it was very hard to let go of the past. They are being relocated all of the time because of the slip up and still trying to be the hero. When an opportunity to be a hero once more comes up, Bob jumps at the chance to try and save the world. Everything seems to be going great. Bob and the kids are happy but no one knows what he is really doing. Everything starts to fall apart and his wife starts to find where he is at. Their superhero family must find him and come together and save the day once more!
Let me tell you the more I find out about my family the more I love hearing about it. I have never really thought much about what kinds of stories I would find when I started but I mean I have found some crazy stories thus far! So far, I have only really talked about people that I am a direct descendant from. However, today we are going to talk about an Uncle today. In order to do that we have to go back to my 5 times great grandma Annie Donahue, who I have talked about before. This is one of her sons (I am a descendant from her daughter May Louise). This is my 4 times great Uncle Thomas Patrick Gorman.
So, what I have found out is that this family has some pretty impressive resumes! I mean his brother was a well known poet, and Annie has a great story about surviving that fire. His father owed a beautiful farm, that still stands. What I have learned so far about Thomas is that he was a newspaper man. A very successful newspaper man. He was 39 when he died of complications from pneumonia. He became an expert printer when he worked at Era, Charlottetown. He was an editor the Surn-Menide Progrenx. In 1880 he joined the editorial staff of the Herald and was their representative at the Press Gallery of the House of Commons. He was a correspondent of the Globe in Toronto as well. He joined the Free Press in 1857 as and editor and did some writing as well. He wrote for them and his articles were printed daily, until a few days before he dies, on the latest doing of the session. He was also elected presided of the Parliamentary Press during his life.
I got all of this information from "The Ottawa Journal" and there are a least three other newspapers form the area that speak of his passing, and also covered his funeral. I had no clue that anyone like him was in my family. I doubt that my mom knew either. We didn't have much verbal history from mom's side of the family. So, being able to go on this journey and just even start looking into it has been a journey.
I knew that I was going to learn a lot by doing this, but I never thought I was going to learn this much! I mean, I would never would have thought I would have such creative people in my family.
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