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Patrick Fennell

1842 – 1917

American locomotive engineer, trade unionist, and poet

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Lived 1842 – 1917 (aged 74–75). Patrick Fennell was an American writer, trade unionist and poet.

Patrick Fennell (1842–1917) was an American locomotive engineer, union member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and writer, whose verse as "Shandy Maguire", among others, was a staple of the Locomotive Engineers Journal, and other trade and union publications.

In May 1909 he was a guest of the United Kingdom's Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen at their triennial conference, in Liverpool, along with W. S. Carter, President of the American Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen. Their tour of England concluded with a special train to take them from London to Southampton. he died around age 75 in 1917.

Selected publications Recitations, epics, epistles, lyrics and poems, humorous and pathetic. (1886, Oswego, N.Y. : R.J. Oliphant, printer; reprinted 2012, Hardpress Publishing, ) Random rhymes and rhapsodies of the rail (1907, Cleveland, O., The Cleveland printing Co.; reprinted 2012, Rarebooksclub.com, )

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1842
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Died
1917
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Who was Patrick Fennell?

American locomotive engineer, trade unionist, and poet

When was Patrick Fennell born?

Patrick Fennell was born in 1842.

When did Patrick Fennell die?

Patrick Fennell died in 1917.

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Patrick Fennell was a writer, trade unionist and poet.

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Patrick Fennell was American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Patrick Fennell

· Wikidata: Q41751776

· DBpedia: Patrick Fennell

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