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Daniel Michael McGarry known also as Daniel M. McGarry and D.M. McGarry, (1842–1903) was a Chicago, Illinois, coal dealer and in the later part of his life a civic leader and businessman in Los Angeles, California, where he was a member of the Los Angeles City Council. ==Biography== McGarry was born on January 20, 1842, in Loughgiel, County Antrim, Ireland, and came to the United States in 1865 (or in the "early seventies"),〔 settling at first in Cleveland, Ohio, where, with a cousin, he "engaged in the fuel business." He returned to Ireland in 1871 to marry Margaret McCaughan and brought her back to Chicago. Their children were Michael Joseph, Daniel Francis, John A., Christina, Mary T., Anna M.〔() Florence H. Goddard, Los Angeles Public Library reference file, January 13, 1938, citing other sources there〕 (or Annie) and Patrick J.〔〔 The family visited Los Angeles in 1881 and, impressed, they decided to move there. McGarry sold his business in Chicago and relocated with his wife and children to Los Angeles later that year.〔〔("M'Garry Follows His Friend Francis," ''Los Angeles Times,'' July 5, 1903, page B-7 )〕 McGarry died on July 4, 1903, in his Santa Monica, California, summer home: He had been suffering from an affection of the heart. It was noted that McGarry's death came just "a few hours" after he had read of the impending death of his "intimate friend and associate," fellow civic leader John F. Francis.〔 On July 6, a requiem mass was celebrated at what the ''Los Angeles Times'' called "the largest funeral that has taken place at St. Vibiana's Cathedral since the obsequies of the late Stephen M. White." A procession accompanied the casket to First and Alameda streets, where funeral streetcars took it and the mourners to Calvary Cemetery.〔("Laid to Rest," ''Los Angeles Times,'' July 7, 1903, page A-8 )〕 The newspaper reported that: when the funeral approached the Sisters' Orphanage on Boyle Heights(the ) bell was tolled and the girls stood with bowed heads and clasped hands, at the roadside, as the funeral passed by. This school had been a special object of charity at the hands of the deceased.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel Michael McGarry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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