The Irish American Dream

The Ford family name has become synonymous with the auto industry in America, but long before Henry Ford made his millions and the Ford Foundation began its charity work, the Fords were Protestant settlers in Ireland in the 1600s. The Fords left Somerset, England, to settle into farmland granted by Elizabeth I in Munster. There the Fords remained for generations, farming and established the Madame Estate in Crohane, Ballinascarthy.

It was on this estate that Henry Ford’s grandfather, John lived and prospered for some time. However, Black ’47 was no kinder to the Fords than to any family rooted in Irish farmlands. John uprooted his family, including his son William, in 1847 and left the family estate in Cobh and traveled across the Atlantic, landing in Quebec. The coffin ship journey was grueling, taking the life of Henry’s grandmother Tomasine Smith Ford.

By 1848, John had traveled to Dearborn, Michigan, where he bought an eight-acre farm from a fellow Cork man, Henry Maybury. William met there Mary Litogot, the foster child of his employer, another Cork man named Patrick Ahern. William and Mary married and in 1863 gave birth to Henry Ford.

Henry Ford traveled to Ireland in 1912 where he established what would become a piece of Ford Motor Company. His story as the son of famine immigrants and his persistent rise in history to the dominant figure of the America automotive industry is the quintessential inspirational tale of the Irish in America. – Tara Dougherty

John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s incredible story of becoming the first Catholic president of the United States began with his great-grandfather, Patrick Kennedy, was born in Dunganstown, Co. Wexford, Ireland and emigrated to the US at the age of 26 in the midst of the Great Hunger.

Patrick arrived in Boston on April 22, 1849, having sailed from Liverpool on the ship the Washington Irving, a packet ship. His fiancée Bridget came to Boston shortly afterward and they were married in the Holy Redeemer Church on September 26, 1849. Patrick died at age 35 of cholera on November 22, 1858, and Bridget was a widow with four small children, the youngest of whom, Patrick Joseph Kennedy, would become John F. Kennedy’s grandfather.

In June 1963, John F. Kennedy made a visit to Ireland on which he visited Dunganstown and New Ross in Co. Wexford. At the airport to say his farewell, he told crowds, “Last night, somebody sang a song, the words of which I’m sure you know, of ‘Come back to Erin, mavourneen, mavourneen, come back around to the land of my birth. Come with the shamrock in the springtime, mavourneen…’ This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection. And I certainly will come back in the springtime.”

Alas, a return visit was not to be. President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Incredibly, he died on the same date which Patrick had died 105 years earlier. – Kara Rota

According to biographer Elliott Gorn, author of Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America, Mary “Mother Jones” Harris never spoke of the real reason that her family immigrated to the United States in her early teens. That reason was the Great Famine, which swept Harris’ village of Inchigeelagh in County Cork in 1846. When Mary was ten (this is disputable; Mother Jones always claimed her birthday was May 1, 1830, but scholars today suggest that this birthday was merely symbolic and that she was actually born sometime in 1837), her father Richard and her brother Richard Jr. left for America. The rest of the family followed soon after.

Mother Jones’ own autobiography, which chronicles her life as a labor organizer and co-founder of the Industrial Workers of the World, sums up her entire childhood in less than a page. Her migration to America is described succinctly as such: “[My father’s] work as a laborer with railway construction crews brought him to Toronto, Canada. Here I was brought up but always as the child of an American citizen. Of that citizenship I have ever been proud.” She soon became a teacher and worked as a dressmaker for extra money.

While we do not know why Mother Jones chose to omit such important details of her life, we do know that the first time the Harris family shows up in the census in 1850. Richard and his son are listed as living in Burlington, Vermont as boarders with another family. Because the family settled close to Canada in Vermont, we can assume they probably arrived in one of the Canadian ports, which rivaled American ports as the major destinations of famine Irish in 1847. By the early 1850s, Richard Sr. had saved enough to bring his wife Ellen and daughter Mary to North America, where they soon settled in Toronto. Mary married George Jones, a member of the Iron Workers’ Union, in 1861. After losing her husband and four children to yellow fever in 1867, she turned to politics, becoming the most powerful voice of the labor movement in the late 1800s and earning the moniker “Mother Jones” for her famous storytelling and matronly appearance. – Aliah O’Neill

George Michael Cohan was the third child born to Jeremiah and Nellie Cohen, in 1878 in Providence, Rhode Island. His birth certificate indicated his birthday as July 3, but his parents always insisted he was born on the Fourth of July. Cohan’s parents were traveling vaudeville performers and brought him onstage with them, as well as his sister Josie (an older sister Maude died in infancy) when they were young. Cohan wrote over 1500 songs in his lifetime, including hits ‘Give My Regards to Broadway’ and ‘The Yankee Doodle Boy,’ and created many Broadway musicals.

George’s father, Jeremiah Cohan (adapted from Keohane) was born on Blackstone Street in Boston on January 31, 1848, the son of Cork emigrants Michael Keohane and Jane Scott. The family came from Ballinascarty, between Bandon and Clonakilty in Cork.

When he played in Philadelphia, George visited Keohanes from Barryroe parish.

Jeremiah worked as a saddle and harness maker and served as a surgeon’s orderly in the Civil War, but was particularly fond of Irish dances he learned as a child. He developed an act combining his step dancing with fiddle and harp tunes, and began touring with minstrel shows. He met his wife Nellie Costigan on tour, and the pair married in 1874. They formed a Hibernicon, a kind of Irish vaudeville that involved dancing, singing and rapid-fire sketch acting, and went on the road together. Patsy Touhey traveled with the troupe in 1886 and 87.

In a magazine interview, Nellie Cohan talked about the struggles of The Four Cohans, as the family called themselves.

“It was a joke, our pennilessness. I don’t think anyone could blame me for wanting a home I could call my own, away from some of those overly theatrical types, and where I could raise my children without having to run eternally for a train or rehearse in some dirty barn or theater. But my husband was always an optimist and he kept us happy. I could sew adequately and thus the children were always well dressed. But lack of money always bothered us. [Jeremiah] would never take a salary from anyone for my work. He was just too proud. He always said that if he couldn’t earn a living, he might as well just give up the show business.

“And he just couldn’t give it up. He couldn’t and I knew that. It was a very hard life. Sometimes we didn’t have streetcar fare and we carried the children for miles in our arms to the theater. Still, somehow, when we got to the theater, and we put the children to sleep in a drawer or a trunk, it was worth it because my husband made it worth it. He loved what he was doing so much that we all caught fire from him. . . . We four were sufficient unto each other.”

In Twenty Years On Broadway, And What It Took To Get There, his autobiography, George wrote, “My father was a very timid man, and always seemed to me to have a holy terror of talking business, especially with the theatrical managers. His quiet, gentle manner, and the way they used to take advantage of his let-well-enough-alone way of going along, was a thing which taught me that aggressiveness was a very necessary quality in dealing with the boys who were out to accumulate nickels and dimes.” Out of these early struggles would come one of the most famous American “song and dance men: of all time.     – Kara Rota

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s incredible story of becoming a famous labor leader, co-founder of the ACLU and national chairperson of the Communist Party begins with her Irish parents and grandparents, who were equally active in radical movements. Born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1890, Flynn’s father was a socialist and her mother was a feminist and Irish republican. Flynn’s autobiography The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography of My First Life (1920-1926) begins with a detailed description of her family’s exploits during the 1798 rebellion, when all four of her great-grandfathers—a Gurley, Flynn, Ryan and Conneran—joined the French to fight for a free Ireland.

Flynn’s grandfather, Tom Flynn, also had a revolutionary streak. He was arrested at the age of 16 for fishing for salmon on a Sunday morning in what was apparently a privately owned river. She writes, “Enraged because hungry people could not have fish for food in a Famine year, Tom threw lime in the water so the fish floated bellies up, dead, to greet the gentry. Then he ran away to America.” His mother and siblings followed in the later 1840s during the worst years of the Famine. Arriving on a coffin ship at St. John’s, New Brunswick, Tom rowed out on a small boat to rescue his family and whoever else could fit.

On her mother’s side, Flynn’s history is equally interesting. Annie Gurley arrived in Boston in 1877 following her Aunt Bina and Uncle James and Mike, who had immigrated to America during the Famine. Gurley came from Galway and spoke only Irish for most of her childhood. Coming from a long line of Fenians, she was heavily involved in progressive politics, particularly women’s issues, from the time she arrived in America. Upon her father’s death, Gurley sold his land in Ireland and was able to bring her nine children to America. She worked as a tailor to make ends meet and helped her brothers to learn trades.

Inspired by her Irish revolutionary forbears, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn gave her first speech in 1906 at the age of 16 at the Harlem Socialist Club. The following year she became an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World. Flynn died in the Soviet Union on September 5, 1964 while visiting on behalf of the Communist Party. –Aliah O’Neill

John Byrne was born in 1840 in County Wicklow.  He would have been barely five when the horror of the potato blight hit Ireland in 1845. He may have come alone to Buffalo, New York, during the Famine years, as their is no record of his parents emigrating. He was 14 when he arrived in America. John and his children would to go on to serve the United States well: fighting in her wars, working in politics and policing her streets.

When he was twenty-three John Byrne joined the 155th Regiment, one of four Irish regiments that formed the famous Corcoran Legion in the Civil War. In 1864 he received a musket ball to the left side of his face that left him blind in his left eye for the rest of his life.  In spite of his injury, on June 15th, 1865 the twenty-five-year-old Col. Byrne took command of the 155th regiment.

After his service and leadership in the Civil War, John Byrne rose to become the Police Chief of Buffalo. An article in the New York Times from 1879 describes how “under his management the Police force, which was before untrustworthy, speedily became and has remained one of the best in the whole country.”  He held the office for seven years and, when he left, his work was “universally recognized and commended…the people then, without respect to party, acknowledged their indebtedness and expressed their gratitude to Col. Byrne.”

In spite of his amazing life of service and sacrifice, John Byrne’s death holds a note of deep sadness.  We read in his obituary that just a few days before he suffered a “stroke of apoplexy,” he learned of the death of his son, Eugene Byrne, a cadet at West Point “from injuries received in a football game.”  After the death of their patriarch, John Byrne’s family continued to send their children into armed service for the United States, and John’s son Louis T. Byrne (Eisenhower was in his class at West Point) would go on to serve in WWII, but all of Richard’s brothers failed the physical due to ailments as a result of childhood diseases.

Col. John’s descendants continue to make a mark. Two of his great great grandsons, Brian Moynihan CEO of Bank of America and Patrick Moynihan who runs a school in Haiti, have been in the news of late. Their mother Pat, married to Bob Moynihan and mother of seven, all high achievers, is the granddaughter of Col. John’s sister Clara. – Anne Thompson

During the Famine years, leaving the ravaged lands of County Leitrim, the McHughs and Murrays traveled to America to the north east of Pennsylvania. “They were coal mining people,” their granddaughter later says of them. This granddaughter, Loretta Brennan Glucksman has honored their memory working extensively with Irish philanthropy and has made enormous contributions to Irish and Irish American education.

Loretta Brennan Glucksman began to recognize her passion for Irish education when her husband Lewis Glucksman began traveling between New York and Ireland frequently as a trustee at New York University. The couple established a home in Cobh, County Cork in 1984. Living in Ireland and New York on and off since that time, Brennan Glucksman established her own transcontinental identity as an Irish American.

Her work extends from philanthropy and huge contributions to Irish studies in America. She and her husband donated $3 million to the center for Irish Studies at New York University which now has the Glucksman Ireland House as its center for Irish language, history, music and literature studies situated at the corner of 5th Avenue and Washington Square Park. Several of Ireland’s universities have also benefited from the Glucksmans’ including Trinity College, University of Limerick and University College Dublin. Brennan Glucksman has also led successful careers in teaching, television production and ran her own public relations firm. She credits her passion for Irish organizations and education to her late husband.

She has served on the board of several Irish-related organizations, including the Irish American Cultural Institute, Cooperation Ireland and the Ireland-U.S. Council for Commerce and Industry. She and her husband have five children and five grandchildren. She is also head of the American Ireland Fund. Her husband, Lewis Glucksman passed away at their home in Cobh in 2006 and Loretta has continued the work they began together. – Tara Dougherty

The late John Joseph O’Connor, Cardinal Archbishop of New York and symbol of charity and compassion in the New York Catholic community, maintained his connection to his Irish roots throughout his life. His father, Thomas J. O’Connor (b. 1883) was the only one of thirteen children to be born in the United States after his family left Roscommon to settle in Pennsylvania in the mid-1800s. John was born to Thomas and his wife Mary in 1920 in Scranton and grew up in a devout Catholic family. John was ordained a priest in 1945 and was Bishop of Scranton for a year before becoming head of the Archdiocese of New York, a position he held until his death in 2000.

Cardinal O’Connor was an active participant in the affairs of Northern Ireland. He stood strong in his convictions often against the urging of politicians. Two examples stand out in particular: the Joe Doherty case and the 1985 New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Joe Doherty, a member of the IRA had been arrested in New York and was help on an extradition warrant. O’Connor demanded and eventually got his return to New York City when Doherty was trasnfered to a remote Upstate New York prison. The 1985 parade was to be marshaled by Peter King, then comptroller of Nassau County and Sinn Féin supporter. While O’Connor was urged to boycott, he maintained his responsibility to the people of New York and participated in the parade.

The last St. Patrick’s Day before his death, Cardinal O’Connor proclaimed the responsibility of the Irish in America to embrace those immigrants who suffer now in ways not unlike their own ancestors. He said, “We have arrived, but thousands and hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters of other colors, of other ethnic backgrounds, of other languages, are still struggling to make their way…Let the Irish be the first to offer refuge and a helping hand to those immigrants desperately in need…who have come to this golden land to which every one of us here, without exception, owes so very much.” – Tara Dougherty

Born in New York in 1888, playwright Eugene O’Neill’s parents were both of Irish ancestry. His father was born in 1845 in Kilkenny and emigrated with his family to Buffalo at age 9. James O’Neill gained fame in his early adulthood acting in plays in Cinncinati and moved on to perform in Chicago, New York and San Francisco. He is best known for his role as Edmund Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo, which he reprised over 6,000 times in the course of his career.

Eugene O’Neill’s mother, Ella Quinlan, was born in 1857 in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Thomas and Bridget Quinlan. Ella met James O’Neill when she was 15 and married the touring actor in 1877.

O’Neill would go on to model James and Mary Tyrone after his parents in his most famous play Long Day’s Journey Into Night, which focuses on the dysfunctional Tyrone family. Foregoing the melodrama and sentimentality of 19th century era plays, O’Neill instead focused on serious topics such as addiction and adultery. Loosely based upon his own family troubles, the Tyrones’ battle alcohol and drug addiction in coastal Connecticut (the O’Neills spent their summers at the Monte Cristo Cottage in New London, CT).

Of his childhood in famine-era Ireland, James remarks in the play, “It was at home I first learned…the fear of the poorhouse…There was no damned romance in our poverty.” O’Neill depicted Mary Tyrone as a morphine addict, just as his mother was for most of her adult life. His sense of realism and uniquely American take on tragedy is a quality that has given Eugene O’Neill the distinction of being one of the greatest American playwrights. The controversy surrounding the subject matter of his plays paved the way for contemporary American theater. – Aliah O’Neill

Many may not be aware that Argentina houses the fifth-largest Irish community in the world. During the Irish Diaspora, many Irish from the Midlands, Wexford and other counties traveled to Argentina from 1830 to 1930, with the greatest influx taking place between 1850 and 1870, in the wake of the Irish Famine. Some 500,000 of the descendants of these immigrants now compose the modern Irish-Argentine community.

One of the most significant of these descendants was Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Born to Celia de la Serna y Llosa and Ernesto Guevara Lynch, in Buenos Aires in 1928, Che was of Spanish, Basque and Irish descent. Ernesto Guevara Lynch’s mother, Ana Isabel Lynch, was the daughter of immigrants who arrived in Argentina from County Galway, Ireland in 1849 or 1850, during the Irish Famine. Che was close with his grandmother, and Che’s father said in a 1969 interview, “The first thing to note is that in my son’s veins flowed the blood of the Irish rebels. …Che inherited some of the features of our restless ancestors. There was something in his nature which drew him to distant wandering, dangerous adventures and new ideas.”

Che’s Irish roots have since been excavated in more detail. In 1999, historian Peter Berresford Ellis lectured on the subject at the Desmond Greaves Summer School and discussed Che’s fascination with Ireland’s history. In 1965, Irish Times journalist Arthur Quinlan conducted an interview with Che at the Shannon Airport. “He talked of his Irish connections through the name Lynch, and after a good chat he told me he wanted to go with a few friends to ‘see the nightlife’,” said Quinlan about the interview in 2003. I recommended that he should visit Hanratty’s Hotel on Glentworth Street I knew he would be welcomed there.” The White Horse pub, on the corner of O’Connell and Glentworth Streets in Limerick, still tells of the night Che Guevara came to share a pint with his grandmother’s people.

In an interview with Paricia Harty, Maureen O’Hara talked about meeting Che when she was in Cuba filming Our Man in Havana in 1959. He talked to her about his Irish grandmother. Che Guevara died in 1967. – Kara Rota

Architect Louis Sullivan is called the “father of modernism.” A critic of the Chicago School, he was a forerunner and mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright and an influence on the Chicago architects known as the Prairie School. Sullivan created the form of the steel high-rise that allowed tall buildings to be created with a strong steel skeleton. He worked with the “father of the skyscraper” William le Baron Jenney in Chicago, studied in Paris, and in 1879 began working with Dankmar Adler. The two architects paired up to become Adler & Sullivan. In the late 1800s Sullivan designed one of his most famous buildings, the department store in Chicago that became Carson Pirie Scott & Co., and then created a collection of banks and commercial buildings in the Midwest.

Sullivan was born in 1856 in Boston to a Swiss-born mother of German, Swiss, and French descent and an Irish-born father, both of who emigrated to America during the Famine years of the late 1840s. His father, Patrick Sullivan, was a dance instructor who came from Cork. Sullivan was raised on his maternal grandparents’ farm and was not close with his father, about whom he wrote in his memoir that Patrick Sullivan was “a free-mason and not even sure he was a Catholic or an Orangeman.” In an article by Adolf Placzek, Louis Sullivan in his youth is described as “the most Celtic of Celts, if there is such a thing.” – Kara Rota

When Tip O’Neill coined the phrase “All politics is local,” he must have had his childhood home of “Old Dublin,” North Cambridge, Massachusetts, in mind. He was born in the Irish middle-class neighborhood in 1912 to Thomas P. O’Neill Sr. and Rose Tolan O’Neill. He was educated in Roman Catholic schools and graduated Boston College in 1936. And it was in that same town, at only 15 years old, that Tip got his start in politics, campaigning for Al Smith in the 1928 presidential election.

O’Neill’s great-great-grandparents Daniel and Catherine O’Connell moved their family from Ireland to America in the early 19th century. They settled in Portland, Maine, and made their way to North Cambridge, Massachusetts by the 1840s. At that time, the area was on the skirts of the Great Swamp, a vacant landscape with rich deposits of clay. The clay, which could be used to fire bricks, turned Old Cambridge from a rural community into an industrial center. The family prospered and often went back to Ireland to visit relatives in Mallow.

One daughter, Johanna, had stayed in Ireland during the O’Connell’s move, marrying John O’Neill in 1822. They had five children, including Tip’s grandfather Patrick, born in 1832. Patrick was only nineteen when he left Ireland in 1851 to join his relatives in North Cambridge. At the height of the famine in Mallow riots broke out and landlords were assassinated. Patrick returned to Mallow in 1858 and married Julia Fox, but quickly returned to America to be with his family. Both Tip O’Neill’s grandfather Patrick and father Thomas Sr., born in 1874, made their living as bricklayers in the now heavily Irish community. In 1904, Thomas Sr. married Rose Tolan, a Massachusetts native whose parents had emigrated from Donegal in the 1870s.

Tragically, Rose died of tuberculosis nine months after Thomas O’Neill Jr. was born. Tip was raised by his aunts and a family housekeeper until his father remarried when Tip was seven. Despite early hardships, Tip O’Neill went on to become one of the most respected members of the U.S. Congress. A Democrat and champion of the working class, O’Neill is known for his passion for politics and good-natured sense of humor. –Aliah O’Neill

In 1953, Collier’s magazine published “I Go Back to Ireland,” a story about John Steinbeck’s search for his Irish roots. The famed American author traveled to Mulkeraugh, Co. Derry, to trace his ancestry on his maternal grandparents’ side. He writes in that article, “Every Irishman—and that means anyone with one drop of Irish blood—sooner or later makes a pilgrimage to the home of his ancestors. There he crows and squeals over the wee cot or the houseen, pats mossy rocks, goes into ecstasies over the quaint furniture, and finds it charming that the livestock lives with the family…I have just made such a pilgrimage.”

Steinbeck may have written of the visit with his usual tinge of sarcasm, but he was not without a feeling of romance for his Irish roots: East of Eden, which began as a historical account of his family’s migration from New England to California, retained one accurate element during its transformation into a work of fiction: one of the main characters, Samuel Hamilton, is named after Steinbeck’s maternal grandfather. The Hamilton Ranch is also the setting for The Red Pony.

Samuel Hamilton was born in Ballykelly in 1830. He fled the famine in 1847 at age 17, landing in New York and marrying an Irish woman named Elizabeth Fagan in 1849. They quickly traveled to California and bought almost 2,000 acres of land in Salinas Valley. There they raised nine children, including Olive Hamilton, Steinbeck’s mother. Hamilton would go on to marry John Steinbeck Sr., who was of German descent.

He writes of his childhood understanding of Ireland, “I guess the people of my family thought of Ireland as a green paradise, mother of heroes, where golden people sprang full-flowered from the sod. I don’t remember my mother actually telling me these things, but she must have given me such an impression of delight. Only kings and heroes came from this Holy Island, and at the very top of the glittering pyramid was our family, the Hamiltons.” By the time Steinbeck arrived in Ireland in 1952, however, all of the Hamiltons had passed away. It was Samuel Hamilton’s pioneering spirit that had made the lasting impression on Steinbeck, whose novel East of Eden came out later that year. As Steinbeck said himself, “Irish blood doesn’t water down very well; the strain must be very strong.” – Aliah O’Neill

Andy Leonard was the first Irish-born major leaguer. Born in County Cavan in the Famine year of 1846, he made his debut with the Washington Olympics of the old National Association just before his 25th birthday. He played more than 500 games with the Olympics, Boston Red Stockings, Boston Red Caps and the Cincinnati Reds, retiring with a career batting average of .299 while playing in both the infield and outfield.

Other native-born Irishmen who enjoyed relatively lengthy careers include Patsy Donovan, born in County Cork in 1865 and owner of a lifetime .301 batting average and more than 2,200 base hits; “Dirty Jack” Doyle (Killorglin, 1869), who drove in nearly 1,000 runs to go along with his .299 average over sixteen seasons; Tommy Bond (Granard, 1856), who won 234 games; and Tony Mullane (Cork, 1859), winner of 284 contests.

Michael “King” Kelly was a first-generation Irish-American baseballist and one of the first “superstars” of the game (although such a term had yet to be invented). He was a charming, handsome fellow with a personality that augured well for him away from the diamond. One year he made $2,000 for playing ball but another $3,000 for permission to use his photograph for the team publicity. He toured the vaudeville circuit in the off-season, augmenting his income in excess of $5,000. A song written in his honor – “Slide, Kelly, Slide” – was one of the most popular tunes of his day. He batted over .300 and used his superb running speed to steal at least 350 bases (records from those days are somewhat incomplete) during his 16-year career (1878-93). All this earned Kelly a place in baseball’s Valhalla, the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

The Baltimore Orioles were the bad boys of baseball in the late 1800s, doing whatever it took to win. In those days there was only one umpire to keep track of all the activity and he certainly had his hands full. The Orioles would often trip opposing base runners, grab at their uniforms or hide balls in the field to use in case of emergencies. Among the Irish contingent on that team were John McGraw, Wee Willie Keeler, Big Dan Brouthers, Hugh Jennings and Joe Kelley, all of whom are enshrined in baseball’s Hall of Fame. Ned Hanlon, the Orioles’ manager, is credited with refining many of the tactics and strategies that have become routine, such as the hit-and-run, the squeeze play and the “Baltimore chop.” He must have shown inspiring leadership since several of his crew went on to manage after their playing days came to an end, including McGraw, Kelley, Jennings, Miller Huggins and Wilbert Robinson. – Ron Kaplan