Starting Sept. 30, 2014, Genealogy.com will be making a big change. GenForum message boards, Family Tree Maker homepages, and the most popular articles will be preserved in a read-only format, while several other features will no longer be available, including member subscriptions and the Shop.
 
Learn more


Home Page |Surname List |Index of Individuals |InterneTree |Sources


View Tree for Captain Peter DooleyCaptain Peter Dooley (b. June 29, 1822, d. September 18, 1893)

Peter Dooley was born June 29, 1822 in Gort, County Galway, Ireland, and died September 18, 1893 in Clarksburg, Ma. He married (1) L.A. Stetson on September 22, 1843 in West Troy, NY. He married (2) Catherine Barden on April 26, 1855 in Chicopee, MA.

 Includes NotesNotes for Peter Dooley:
Captain Peter Dooley
Left Galway Ireland on June 24, 1840
Arrived in New York City, NY Aug 20, 1840
Peter Dooley came to Massachusetts and for some time taught school at Clarksburg. He also owned sawmills, wood lots and limekilns throughout Clarksburg, MA and Stamford, VT. He was a scholar and a man with an unusual sense of wit and humor, known throughout the countryside. He was also a solider in the civil war and was Com Capt. of Co. K 37th Regt., Mass. Volunteers, Sept.
4, 1862. His service was terminated due to disability, March 9, 1863. He was noted for his work, both physically and morally, among the wounded and convalescent. (Citizens Historical Association, Indianapolis, May 3, l947; NO. AGA/DLH)

Peter Dooley-
Second Lieutenant, 36th Mass Infantry, July 20, 1862. Transferred to 37th Infantry, July 30, 1862, Captain September 4, 1862. Discharged (disability, March 9, 1863. From "Massachusetts in the Army and Navy 1861-1865."

In 1840, Luther H Brown ran a saw mill that stood upon the ground now occupied by the sand bed of J.B. Dean. Peter Dooley and Dennis Meehan, also, were lumbering at the Notch cutting trees on the mountain. These trees were, when chopped the proper length, slid down the mountain side in a long trough constructed for the purpose and which landed the logs at a point where they could easily be hauled to the mills. Peter Dooley was one of the representative men of Cheshire. Strong in his business, he always found followers. He was interested in several lime kilns which were in active operation and which, with the saw mills and burning of charcoal on the mountains, afforded employment for many men. ( History of the Town of Cheshire, Mass., p. 140, Mrs. Ellen M Raynor and Mrs. Emma L Peticlerc; Clark W. Bryan & Co., Printers, Holyoke, Mass and New York City, 1885.)

The 37th Massachusetts Regiment left Pittsfield in September, 1862. The line, so strong and so brave, marched from Camp Briggs through the cheering throng, listened to the eloquent prayer of Rev. John Todd, as the halted at the village park, and then, after the last good byes were spoken, were off for the three years service. Then gala days were over, and the stern necessity of a soldier's life upon them. Mid rain and storm, they reached Washington, surrounded with sick and wounded soldiers, regiment after regiment crowded into the camp already full; with goats and hogs running at large to share their accommodations, they wrapped their blankets around them and lay down to a soldier's slumbers. The 37th was assigned to the Brigade of General Henry S. Briggs, which formed at that time a part of the defenders of Washington after Lee's first northern invasion, and were soon settled at Camp Chase on Harlington Heights. Ere the month was finished, they wre ordered to advance to the support of McClellan after the battle of Antietam. Then came the displacing of that general, and on the 13th of December, the attempt of General Burnside at Fredericksburg to storm the works of the Confederates, who, protected by that stonewall which has passed into history, sent their murderous fires into the ranks of the attacking party, until dense masses of men were piled upon the ground, not forty-eight yards from the muzzles of their guns. Probably, for the number of men engages, there was no battle throughout the war of the rebellion so bloody as this. In March, 1863, Peter Dooley, Captain of Company K, was discharged on account of an injury. He had been on duty much of the time during the winter although suffering from trouble in his ankle. He passed from camp hospitals to the front fifteen times, taking under his charge detachments of convalescents numbering hundreds, which he carried through without the loss of a single man by desertion, notwithstanding his own condition which must of necessity have weakened him physically. ( p. 165-166 History of the Town of Cheshire, Mass,; Mrs Ellen M. Raynor and Mrs. Emma Peticlerc; Published by Clark W. Bryan & Co., Printers, Holyoke Mass and New York City, 1885.)

Served in the 37th Infantry.

More About Peter Dooley:
37th Infantry: see Picture #3 .
Fact 1: August 20, 1840, Arrived in New York City from Ireland.
Fact 2: July 1862, Served in the Civil War.
Fact 3: March 09, 1863, Discharged fromCivil War (Disability).

More About Peter Dooley and L.A. Stetson:
Marriage: September 22, 1843, West Troy, NY.

More About Peter Dooley and Catherine Barden:
Marriage: April 26, 1855, Chicopee, MA.

Children of Peter Dooley and L.A. Stetson are:
  1. John Terrrance Dooley, b. October 27, 1846, Cheshire, Ma, d. April 22, 1922, Clarksburg, MA.
  2. +Julia Miria Dooley, b. September 11, 1848, Cheshire, MA, d. February 08, 1929, Clarksburg, MA.
  3. William Henry Dooley, b. September 21, 1850, Cheshire, MA, d. April 25, 1854, Cheshire, MA.
  4. Charles Edward Dooley, b. October 31, 1853, Cheshire, MA, d. January 31, 1854, Cheshire, MA.

Children of Peter Dooley and Catherine Barden are:
  1. Walter Michael Dooley, b. February 12, 1856, Cheshire, MA, d. May 19, 1910, Clarksburg, MA.
  2. +Richard Francis Dooley, b. May 15, 1858, Chesire, Ma, d. September 23, 1929, North Adams, MA.
  3. +Peter William Dooley, b. April 14, 1860, Cheshire, MA, d. November 24, 1938, Pittsburgh, PA.
  4. Charles Mathias Dooley, b. January 25, 1862, Chesire Ma, d. April 24, 1889.
  5. +Catherine Dooley, b. April 02, 1864, Cheshire, MA, d. February 05, 1939, Brooklyn, NY.
  6. +Mary Agnes Dooley, b. May 07, 1867, Clarksburg, MA, d. May 23, 1933, North Adams, MA.
  7. Terrance Dooley, b. June 09, 1870, Clarksburg, MA, d. May 18, 1872, Clarksburg, MA.
Created with Family Tree Maker


Search for Family - Learn About Genealogy - Helpful Web Sites - Message Boards - Guest Book - Home
© Copyright 1996-99, The Learning Company, Inc., and its subsidiaries. All rights reserved.
© Copyright 1995-97 by Matthew L. Helm. All Rights Reserved.