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Retracing Our Family Legacy
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John Francis Dorgan, Sr.
(1819 - 1894)
...I heard that he (John Dorgan) came from County Cork and that Dorgan was a name they took during the troubles with England as the real name was Curtis. It seems as I remember being told that the Curtis boys were wanted by the Crown of England for something they did while members of revolution groups which were trying to get rid of the English in Ireland. One of them got on a ship dressed as a woman and escaped to some foreign country, the others changed their name so as to get by. That must have been a long time ago as that trouble went on for 800 years and Ireland did not get her freedom until 1922 I believe...
*Source: Letter from Francis McAuliffe to Helen Dorgan Warren in response to a request for information on family history.
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Came to New York in c1854 and ran a boarding house while there. From there the family moved to Youngstown, Ohio; later they moved to Topeka, Kansas, where he owned and operated a surface coal mine on the present site of Gage Park from 1867-approx. 1872. He sold the property to G. G. Gage and the family moved to Rock Creek Township (Chalk Mound Area), Kansas.
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