James J. Hurley papers 1885-1945 1885-1910 Hurley, James J.

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James J. Hurley papers 1885-1945 1885-1910 Hurley, James J.

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The Hurley collection is primarily made up of the letters of James J. Hurley, an Irish Catholic working class man from Troy, New York. He and his family moved to Oneonta, New York after the Delaware & Hudson railroad shops were transferred there. Several photographs are also included in this collection.

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Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation

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Hurley, James J.

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As an industrial employee, an Irish Catholic, and a city boy, James J. Hurley is representative of the American working class at the turn of the twentieth century. His father had evidently died by the time the boy reached his teens, so work life started early as Hurley and two older brothers helped to support their mother. Sometime before 1901 he married Jennie B. Kiley and started work for the Delaware & Hudson railroad. Not long after, his mother died and his brothers, married...