Free Download Mary Lynn Bayliss, "The Dooleys of Richmond: An Irish Immigrant Family in the Old and New South"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 0813939984 | EPUB | pages: 328 | 2.0 mb
The Dooleys of Richmond is the biography of two generations of a dynamic and philanthropic immigrant family in the urban South. While most Irish Catholic immigrants who poured into the region in the nineteenth century were poor and illiterate, John and Sarah Dooley were affluent and well educated. They brought sophistication and capital to Virginia, where John established one of the largest hat manufacturing companies in the United States. Noted for their business acumen and community service, the Dooleys became leaders in business, education, culture, and politics in Virginia. A bellwether of the South during these tumultuous times, the Dooleys’ fortunes would rise and fall and rise again.
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