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Oswego Poet Shandy Maguire Remembered in Local History
Richard Palmer recounts Patrick Fennell known as Shandy Maguire, an Oswego native and 19th century poet. Born in Ireland, he moved with family to Oswego Falls, worked in a tannery, then spent 50 years on the O and W railroad rising to locomotive engineer and yardmaster. He wrote poems for the Engineer's Journal, befriended railroad leaders, and died August 3, 1916 at 75, survived by a daughter, brother, and two sisters.
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Patrick Fennell
Shandy Maguire
Ireland
Fulton
Oswego Falls
Fennell
Oswego & Syra
O.& S. Railroad
Oswego
Engineer’s Journal
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Sam Sloan
William B. Phelps
Chauncey M. Depew
New York Central
Syracuse
Stephen O’brien
James Fennell
Maria Ferguson
Kate Fennell
Boston
Mass