Wakarusa Weekly Sun in Wakarusa, Indiana

Oldest Irish immigrant recalls a century of life in Harlem

Edward McGovern of 1476 Second Avenue New York recalls birth in 1769 in Ulster Ireland and Tem pleport County Cavan. He describes a long life of farming boxing and sport and his memory of Robert Emmet and Thomas McGovern. He sleeps poorly talks in bed rises early prays beads and smokes a clay pipe. He is temperate and active for his age with a fondness for Irish whisky and punch.