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    Sullivan's of Bangor, Maine, 1860-1901

          We know very little about the family of our great-grandfather Cornelius Sullivan, who was born in Bangor ME in 1859 and migrated to Minneapolis in the early 1880s.  This page includes the extent of what we've been able to uncover thus far, which consists mainly of census data and entries in the Bangor city directory. 

          Many thanks to Phil Getchell, volunteer at the Bangor Public Library, for the city directory information.

1860 CENSUS    15 June 1860, Penobscot Co., City of Bangor, Ward 2, West Side, Kendusgeag Stream

Timothy Sullivan, 41, RR laborer, no real estate, b. Ireland
Mary Sullivan, 40, b. ME
Jeremiah, 14, b. ME
Daniel, 12
Edward, 11
Ellen, 8
Timothy, 5
Patrick, 3
CORNELIUS, 1

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1870 CENSUS   16 June 1870, Penobscot Co., City of Bangor, West Side, Kenduseag Stream

Timothy, 53, day laborer, $600 real estate, b. Ireland
Mary, 50, keeping house, b. Ireland
Daniel, 22 day laborer, b. ME
Edward, 20, day laborer
Ellen, 18
Timothy, 15
Patrick, 13
CORNELIUS, 11

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1880 CENSUS   7 June 1880, City of Bangor, Ward 2, no 3 Emerson St [next to Buck St]

Timothy, married, 63, laborer, b. Ireland
Mary, wife, 60, b. Ireland
Nellie, daughter, 25, dressmaker, b. ME
CORNELIUS, SON, 21, RIVER DRIVER

Youngest son Cornelius migrates alone to Minneapolis, MN in the early to mid 1880s.

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1900 CENSUS   Bangor, ME, no. 9 Emerson St

Timothy Sullivan, boarder, 84
b. Feb 1816, Ireland
mother and father b Ireland
in country 62 years; immigrated 1838

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CONTEMPORARY MAP SHOWING EMERSON ST., BANGOR, MAINE

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1875 PANORAMIC MAP OF BANGOR, MAINE

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BANGOR CITY DIRECTORY, 1860s-1900

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