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View Tree for Edward Omeagher CondonEdward Omeagher Condon (b. 1841, d. December 15, 1915)


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164th NY Infantry

Edward Omeagher Condon (son of Thomas Martin Condon and Ellen Omeagher) was born 1841 in Mitchelstown County Cork Ireland, and died December 15, 1915 in New York City. He married Sarah Quinn on May 24, 1866 in Toronto Canada most likely or St Johns Newfoundland, daughter of Hugh Quinn and Catherine Devlin.

 Includes NotesNotes for Edward Omeagher Condon:
Edward Omeagher Condon, the gallant American soldier and Irish patriot, whose name is honored wherever one of the Irish name is to be found, was born in the year 1840, in Mitchelstown, county Cork Ireland, his father was one of the Condons of Brigoun, near Mitchelstown, and his mother of the O'meagher family of Pollardstown. Both the Condons and O'meaghers were famous for their patriotism, and noted throughout that region for their uncompromising hostility to the English domination, and their opposition to the hirelings of English conquest, who lorded it over the Irish of the neighborhood. The natives of Mitchelstown and vicinity can bear testimony to the patriotism of the stock from which Edward O'Meagher Condon sprung.
When young Condon was two years old, his family emigrated to America. His father was a carpenter and followed that occupation in the lower British provinces for a short time, then removed to Toronto, Canada, where he engaged in the building and contracting line. After receiving a good education, Edward learned the carpenter's trade with his father, who did an extensive business. When old enough he took charge of his father's affairs. It was in Toronto that young Condon made the acquaintance of General Thomas Francis Bourke, Capt. Wm. Mackey Lomasney, the late Michael Murphy, Capt. Murty Moriarty. The Canadian Irish were full of patriotism, the sacred flame being fanned by the opposition and oppression attempted by the Orange supporters of British power in that city. However, it needed no opposition to make the Irish of Toronto patriotic. As a rule, it was inbibed by the young Irishmen of that city with their mothers milk. Toronto stands, par excellence, the foremost city of America for the number of true patriots it has produced during the past twenty years, in proportion to its Irish population. While loyal to their adopted country, and opposed to any invasion thereof, they never forgot their motherland, which they loved with the most intense devotion, and detested the opposition which the English excersised over their beloved Erin.
It was in this spirit that animated Edward O'Meagher Condon to visit New York in 1859 where he was initiated into the Fenian Brotherhood. then started by John O'Mahony, the Head Centre, who was a fellow townsman, as was W.H. Roberts, afterwards president of the"Senate Wing" on the occurrence of the "split" which caused so much disaster to the national spirit both in Ireland and America. While in New York, in 1859, young Condon became aquainted with Col. Michael Doheny, Col. Michael Corcoran, then Captain of Company A, Sixty-Ninth Regiment, Col. Michael Cavanagh, the present commander of the Sixty-Ninth, and Capt. Michael Phelen, of billiard fame, who was an ardent patriot, and one of the founders of the Brotherhood. After a short sojourn in New York, Edward Condon returned to Toronto. He there established the Fenian Brotherhood. The Toronto circle was composed of a few sterling patrons, and for a long time was the only circle in Canada. Afterwards the brotherhood was established in Lower Canada. The invasion of 1866 dispersed all the members of the Dominion. Michael Murphy, Capt. Condon, and three conferers raised the large sum, for Canada, of $3,800, and afterwards about $5,400, although the circle never numbered over sixty. Edward O'Meagher Condon was their delegate, in conjuction with Father Curley, to the Clinton Hall convention in January, 1866, which indorsed John O'Mahony, Michael Murphy representing the Toronto men .................
(The above accounts of the Manchester Martyrs is most likely in the Irish Journals Papers Historical Society in New York and is herewith incomplete........................)


DEATH OF NOTED IRISH PATRIOT 1915


The death of Captain Edward O'Meagher Condon at his home, 182 East Seventy Ninth Street, New York City on December 15 caused deep regret amongst those of Irish birth who knew of the conspicuous part he took in all the Irish movements during the last fifty years. His death revives memories of the stirring and tragic episode which resulted in the martyrdom in Manchester, England 1867 , of the three gallant Irishmen, Allen, Larkin and Obrien.
Edward O'Meagher Condon was born in Mitchelstown, County Cork, seventy four years ago. His parents brought him to this country when he was still an infant, and reared in Ohio. At the outbreak of the Civil War he promptly enlisted in the Irish Legion under the leadership of General Michael Corcoran. His gallantry as well as his pronounced ability to lead brought him to promotion through the various decades to the rank of Captain. At the Battle of Petersburg he was severely wounded and suffered for months in the hospital.
At the close of the war he joined the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, better known as the Fenian movement, and was sent to Ireland to assist in the work of preparing the country for the manned uprising of 1867. Early in that year Captain Condon crossed to Manchester England, to attend a conference of the leaders there but before the conference could be held two of the most important men in the movement, Captain Thomas J. Kelley and Captain John Deasy, were arrested on the technical charge of vagrancy, though in reality the British Government had ordered their apprehension as the most dangerous conspiritors against supremecy of Englands vicious rule in Ireland.
The story of the rescue of these men from the prison van in the streets of Manchester and the subsequent martyrdom of three gallant Irishmen sent a thrill through the hearts of Irishmen all over the world, strengthening their determination to win freedom for their native land.
Condon served eleven years in Portland prison, and on his release in 1879 he returned to America where he took up newspaper work and afterwards became Superintendent of Buildings for the Fire Department and still later entered the service of the United States Treasury Department as supervising architect.
His funeral took place on Saturday morning at the Church of St. Jean Baptiste, Seventy-Sixth Street and Lexington Avenue, New York City, after which the internment was made in Calvary Cemetery on December 18. Captain Condon is survived by his widow and one daughter. Captain Condon wrote the book The Irish Race in America Ogham House 6 Sherri Lane Spring Valley, NY 10977


More information on Edward may be found at The Journal of The American Irish Historical Society, Volume XV, 1916, pp.51-62

More About Edward Omeagher Condon:
Burial: December 18, 1915, Calvary Cemetery.

More About Edward Omeagher Condon and Sarah Quinn:
Marriage: May 24, 1866, Toronto Canada most likely or St Johns Newfoundland.

Children of Edward Omeagher Condon and Sarah Quinn are:
  1. Eva Condon.
  2. Helen Condon.
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