Born: September 2, 1908
Occupation: Electrician, city employee
Ethnic Background: Irish/English
Interviewer: Clarisse Poirier, PhD. (#12), Hank Mastey (#119)
Comments: Subject: Irish Community. Tape describes parents background, finding jobs, connections, people's tendency to fraternize with their own kind, feeling about ethnic identity, Dacey Family and Irish Revolution, 1890s, feeling of animosity toward Germans during WWI, 1919 and 1931 strikes. Religious background and upbringing, people of different ethnic backgrounds on Fern St., hard times in the 1920s, ethnic territories in Lawrence, Irish predominance in politics in Lawrence. Republicans ran the mills in 1890s.
ICA ACC# 79.65.12 is written on the top of the index card.
Collection
Lawrence History Center Oral History Collection
https://lawrencehistory.org/files/audio/oh/2007.500.238-phewitt.mp3
Date (created)
1979-06-01