Series 6 - Patrick Cudmore memoir

16pp

This reproduction was sent to Professor Kerby Miller by Peter A. Cudmore, a descendant of the Cudmore family living in Australia, via letter of 30 October 1989.

Materials pertaining to the Patrick Cudmore memoir. The following is from Herringshaw's Encyclopaedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century, which appears in this series: 'Cudmore, P., soldier, lawyer, historian, poet, was born June, 1831, in Ireland. After leaving the monastery of Dungarvan, he studied mathematics at the best academy in Munster. He emigrated to America in 1846; studied law; took a course of lectures on anatomy at Bellevue hospital; and a course of lectures at the Cooper Institute. He then traveled in Cuba, Mexico, Central and South America. In 1853 he moved to Dane county, Wisconsin, and in 1855 was elected a justice of the peace, and became a popular lawyer and public speaker. In 1856 he moved to Minnesota, and the following year settled in Faribault. In 1860 he commenced delivering lectures on Ireland, Mexico and Peru; and in 1862 mustered in as a soldier and served three years, first in Company H, Tenth Minnesota Infantry Volunteers, which he was instrumental in raising; and subsequently joined the Sixteenth Army Corps. He is the author of Cudmore's Constitutional History; Cudmore's Irish Republic; Cudmore's Poems and Songs; Cudmore's Battle of Clontarf and Other Poems; Buchanan's Conspiracy; The Nicaragua Canal and Reciprocity; Cudmore's Cleveland's Maladministration.' The series consists of a photocopy of Cudmore's Autobiography and The Pedigree of the Cudmore Family, and Kerby A. Miller's correspondence with Peter A. Cudmore.