. The history of Penacook, , from its first settlement in 1734 up to 1900 . Some of his childrenresiding in Penacook are Mrs. Andrew Spearman, anotherdaughter Rose A., and a son Alonzo, and a son Peter. was born in 1831. JOHN GAHAGAN. [CONTRIBUTED BY HON. J. C. LINEHAN.] John Gahagan was undoubtedly the first Irish Catholic makinghis home in Penacook permanently. He was born in the CountyMeath, Ireland, in 1816. He was in Penacook before 1852. Hedied on March 20, 1856, aged thirty-eight. A stepson of his,.Richard Nolan, was killed while with the Seventh New Hamp-shire Volunteers
. The history of Penacook, , from its first settlement in 1734 up to 1900 . Some of his childrenresiding in Penacook are Mrs. Andrew Spearman, anotherdaughter Rose A., and a son Alonzo, and a son Peter. was born in 1831. JOHN GAHAGAN. [CONTRIBUTED BY HON. J. C. LINEHAN.] John Gahagan was undoubtedly the first Irish Catholic makinghis home in Penacook permanently. He was born in the CountyMeath, Ireland, in 1816. He was in Penacook before 1852. Hedied on March 20, 1856, aged thirty-eight. A stepson of his,.Richard Nolan, was killed while with the Seventh New Hamp-shire Volunteers at Fort Wagner. A son of his, ThomasGahagan, served through the war in the Fifth New Hampshire,Company A. This son and another named Vincent, and Mary, ANDREW FOLEY. 487 the wife of James Kelley of the police force, are the sole sur-vivors of his family. He built the house now occupied by thedaughter named. (ANDREW FOLEY. [CONTRIBUTED BY HON. J. C. LINEHAN.] Andrew Foley was born near Macroom, County Cork, came to Penacook in 1864, and has resided here constantly. Andrew Foley. since. During all of these years he has been in the employ ofthe Concord Axle company. He is a good, quiet, unobtrusiveman, -bearing his trials, and he has had his share of them, withChristian patience and resignation. He married a sister ofAndrew Keenan. Four children survive, Patrick, Thomas, John, 488 HISTORY OF PENACOOK. and Allen. A brother, John P., resides in the village; another,Patrick, a former employe of the Concord Axle company, is nowa prosperous farmer in Minnesota, where he has been since 1878. MARTIN NOLAN. [CONTRIBUTED BY HON. J. C. LINEHAN.] Martin Nolan came from Galvvay in the west of Ireland. Hewas in Penacook before 1860, and has resided there constantlysince. During all these years, until recently, he had charge ofthe Penacook section of the Northern Railroad, and it can safelybe said that the corporation never possessed a more faithfulservant. His family consists of two
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