7 September 1974, Mildred Haggerty Ltr to
Mary DeNapoli):
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1. Charles Haggerty & Louisa Laverty were
m: at St Mary's RCCh,Bangor ME. Charles
didn't like the priest in Houlton ME.
2. Some of the Haggerty's settled in the
Maritimes.
3. Hannah Laverty had a son William.
4. Father Bill had a twin who d: shortly
after birth.
5. Hannah Laverty had a son William who had a
tobacco business, that failed.
6. Hannah enjoyed drinking which Martha
Haggerty disliked.
7. Mildred thought Martha & her sister
Myrtle had an unnatural abhorence to
the consumption of liquor.
8. Old Tim Donovan & Uncle Johnny Donovan
were both womanizers & boozers. Dr Joe
Donovan was the worst.
9. Gf Charles Haggerty, early on, was in
love with "Teeny" Hogan. Old Tim Donovan
won her. At her death, during the wake,
Gf Charles & Old Tim got into a rowe over
there past rivalry. The Hogan's,
apparently big people, separated them.
10. Gf Charles sojourned to Alaska as
part of his trip "out west".
Purportedly appointed by the
then President of the USA to help
"open up (??)" northern CA.
11. Gf Charles was in the Bangor State
Hosp, acute depression, d: there.
12. Mildred Haggerty attended St Josephs,
Bangor ME.
13. Pat Gillen was Gf Charles & Louisa's
"best man", as well as their lawyer.
14. Hannah Coleman's, a cousin, husband
Tom was Chief of Police in Cambridge MA
15. The Coleman's introduced John Costello
to Martha Haggerty & were very generous
to Mildred. They wanted to adopt her
after the demise of her father,
Gf Charles Haggerty.
16. Waldo Haggerty, after a household fire,
d: of burns & smoke inhalation @ 3.1/2
years old. Gf Charles was devestated.
"From community leader ------ he sat &
twiddled his thumbs ------ he folded
right up" Tried susicide ----- Gm Louisa
cut him down from a hanging rope in the
woodshed. He was then hospitalized in
the State Hospital in Bangor ME.
17. Mame Conlogue was a McSheffery, niece to
Gf Charles. ----- She attended a RC
boarding school in Calais. She was there
with Lizzie Abbott, daughter of Hannah
Laverty & later became Sister Mary
Adelaide.
18. Mag Kiley, Gf Charles sister, was
widowed, stayed 6 years at the Haggerty
Ridge residence & is interred at St
Mary's, probably with her parents
(Peter Haggerty & Nancy McGuire).
19. Mildred's Uncle John Haggerty visited
from Portland OR.
20. Aunt Nancy White was from Ludlow ME
(may have been Ggf Peter Haggerty's
sister).
21. Gm Louisa visited Mildred in NYC during
the winter.
22. Gm Louisa brought up 10 kids alone.
23. Elsie Haggerty eloped with Johnny Lee
------ She was the best in school ---
---- wanted her father home so she
could take care of him.
24. Mildred had the "gout".
25. The Haggerty family came to Bangor ME
thru St John's. Some stayed in the
Maritimes, others went on to the States.
Shortly after the revolution (sez Mil)
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Ed Costello