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Thomas Hynes

Photo Album:
The Road to the Bright City

Submitted by Thomas Hynes, Boston, Mass.
June / July 2015

May 14, 2015 by 2 Comments

My grandfather John Bernard “Barney” Hynes and his brother Thomas J. Hynes emigrated from Loughrea, Galway, Ireland to Boston, Massachusetts in 1875. They were in their early teens. Barney got a job with the Elevated Railroad Company, where he worked for 40 years and moonlighted at night singing, mostly at Irish wakes. Tom went to Harvard where he spent countless hours on the … [Read more...] about Photo Album:
The Road to the Bright City

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