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26 October 2019

COOGAN story appearing in "New York Times"
(30 JUL 1889):


JAMES CONNOR'S BRAVE ACT

KINGSTON, N. Y., July 29 - James Connor, aged twenty-one, of 
347 East Eighteenth-street, New-York City, while walking on 
Saturday last along the docks that line the Rondout Creek
looking for an opportunity to get a deadhead passage on a 
canalboat to the metropolis, bravely saved a boy's life and
narrowly escaped losing his own.  It was a boy named Coogan
whom Connor saved.  The lad, while skylarking on a boat, had
fallen into the water.  The current in the creek was swift,
and Connor and the boy were rescued just in the nick of time.

Shortly after being brought to shore Connor had a severe
attack of chills.  He was put to bed between warm blankets
and properly cared for by a physician and nurse.

Connor says that he is a painter by occupation and they he
left his home in New-York on May 22 last "to look for a job."
At Sing Sing he found employment with Orlando B. Potter.
Later he came to Ulster County and hacked it on a farm.