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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkThomas KINSELLA
(1832-1884)
KINSELLA, Thomas, a
Representative from New York; born in County Wexford, Ireland,
December 31, 1832; immigrated to the United States and settled in
New York City; attended the common schools; moved to Cambridge,
N.Y., in 1851 and learned the printer’s trade; worked for the
Cambridge Post; moved to Brooklyn in 1858; became editor of the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle September 7, 1861; postmaster of Brooklyn in
1866; member of the city water commission and board of education;
elected as a Democrat to the Forty-second Congress (March 4,
1871-March 3, 1873); was not a candidate for renomination in 1872;
established the Brooklyn Sunday Sun in 1874, afterward combined
with the Daily Eagle, which he edited until his death in Brooklyn,
N.Y., February 11, 1884; interment in Holy Cross Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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