Same Event; Different Stories
In this month’s first feature article, we discovered a fair amount about Luke Magee and his family. We even began to discover a bit about Luke’s son-in-law, Adolph Cooning, including the fact that more records than not call him Adolph Cooney.
We could see that Adolph headed a household in 1892 that included his wife, Rose, three children, and his brother-in-law, Edward McGee.[1] We could see that Adolph headed a household in 1900 that included his wife, Rose, five children, and his father-in-law, Luke McGee.[2] And we could see that Luke Magee died at Adolph’s home just weeks later.[3] If that’s all we had to go on, we might think that Adolph was a pretty stand-up family guy.
But it’s not all we have to go on. Take this brief 1894 article about Adolph, for example. The facts relayed begin to paint a very different picture in significantly greater biographical detail than we might have expected to find. The gravity of the story almost overshadows the fact that extended family for the Magees is identified here as well.
ARRESTED HIS COUSIN’S HUSBAND
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About Author
Aaron Goodwin
Aaron is a genealogist and house historian specializing in New York City research across all time periods, from the Dutch colonial era to the 20th century. His book, New York City Municipal Archives: An Authorized Guide for Family Historians, won the National Genealogical Society’s 2017 Award for Excellence: Genealogical Methods and Sources. He is also editor of NGS Monthly, former contributing editor of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, and former editor of the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. In 2011, he received the American Society of Genealogists’ Scholar Award.