Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — PATRICK EGAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PATRICK EGAN.

The Man Intrusted with Uncle Sam’s Business in Chill. The United States Government demands from that of Chili an explanation of the bloody attack on American seamen in Valparaiso and reparation for the injuries inflicted, and Patrick Egan, United States Minister in Chili, is the man who has presented these demands. His appointment to office was make in March, 1889. He has had an uncomfortable time on account of the civil war in Chili. Mr. Egan is an Irishman by birth, a native of the County Longford, where he first saw the light in 1841. His father was a farmer at Ballymahon before the troublous times between 1846 and 1849 compelled him to give up agriculture and remove to Dublin for the chance of making a living. In that city young Patrick received his education from the Christian Brothers. He took great interest in politics from a child, and was one of the first Home Rulers and an early member of the council at the head of the organization. Foremost among the founders of the Land League he was appointed its Treasurer, an office which he resigned in 1882. Owing to political difficulties at home he lived in France during the last two years of his Treasurership. Egan came to the United States in 1883 and settled in Lincoln, Neb.,

where he started a branch of the business in which he had an interest in Dublin, that of dealing in grain. He was chosen President of the Irish National Convention held in Boston in August, 1884.

PATRICK EGAN.