DRISCOLL, John D.

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 served as a private in the 9th Massachusetts Infantry during the civil war and ws an ardent Irish Nationalist and a leader of the Fenian Brotherhood in Boston, which later earned him the nickname "Dynamite Driscoll" with his collaboration with Jeramiah O'Donovan Rossa (5747054) for Irish Independence. Driscoll died of cancer of the tongue. 

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John married SHAW, Catherine on 8 May 1853 in Boston, MA. Catherine was born in 1833 in County Tipperary, Ireland; died on 15 Jan 1893 in Boston, MA; was buried in Roslindale, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. DRISCOLL, Annie A. was born in Oct 1856 in Boston, MA; died in 1944 in MA; was buried in Lexington, MA.