Francis O’Neill
- 1848: Born on August 28th in Tralibane, County Cork.
- 1865: Ran away to sea. Mediterranean, Dardanelles, Black Sea.
- 1866:
- Liverpool to New York on the Emerald Isle (meeting his future wife, Anna Rogers).
- New York to Japan on the Minnehaha.
- Shipwrecked on Baker’s Island.
- Rescued by the Kanaka crew of the Zoe: 34 days to Hawaii.
- 1869: Teaching in Missouri before moving to Chicago (sailing the Great Lakes).
- 1873: Sworn in as a policeman. Shot a few months later by a gangster (bullet never removed).
- 1901: Chief of Police.
- 1903: The Music of Ireland.
- 1905: Retires.
- O’Neill’s 1001: “The Book”.
The Twentieth Century