Individual Details
Bryan Patrick CUNNINGHAM
(20 Dec 1828 - 29 Dec 1910)
Bryan lived in Mountcoal, Lixnaw, Co. Kerry prior to emigrating to the United States in 1860. Bryan lived with his young family in Atchison, Kansas initially before settling in Kansas City, Missouri in 1867. According to 'Kansas City, Missouri: its history and its people 1808-1908, Volume 3' (1908) by Carrie Westlake Whitney, "In 1879 he purchased one hundred and sixty-two and a half feet fronting on Liberty at the corner of Seventeenth Street, erected here a hotel [this was the Shields Hotel] and in 1884 built five cottage homes on the balance of his land. He has since continued in the hotel business".
According to an article in The Kerryman newspaper of 30 October 1915 on Bryan's brother Bishop John Cunningham of Concordia, Bryan was "one-time Mayor of Kansas".
In Bryan's will, dated 11 November 1907, when he had estimated the value of his property to be $42,000, he left $10,000 each to Ellen, Maggie, Anna and Bernard; and, 'as they had already been provided for', he left just $10 each to his other two surviving children, Thomas and Catherine. $1,000 was left to each of two grandchildren, and a final $1,000 was to be allocated for a monument for his wife and himself. The aforementioned Ellen, Maggie, Anna and Bernard, who appear never to have married, lived in their parents' hotel and were all still in residence at the time of the death of Bishop John Francis Cunningham, their uncle, in 1919.
Note: Bryan is listed as Patrick in some U.S. censuses.
According to an article in The Kerryman newspaper of 30 October 1915 on Bryan's brother Bishop John Cunningham of Concordia, Bryan was "one-time Mayor of Kansas".
In Bryan's will, dated 11 November 1907, when he had estimated the value of his property to be $42,000, he left $10,000 each to Ellen, Maggie, Anna and Bernard; and, 'as they had already been provided for', he left just $10 each to his other two surviving children, Thomas and Catherine. $1,000 was left to each of two grandchildren, and a final $1,000 was to be allocated for a monument for his wife and himself. The aforementioned Ellen, Maggie, Anna and Bernard, who appear never to have married, lived in their parents' hotel and were all still in residence at the time of the death of Bishop John Francis Cunningham, their uncle, in 1919.
Note: Bryan is listed as Patrick in some U.S. censuses.
Events
| Birth | 20 Dec 1828 | Co. Limerick | |||
| Marriage | 1 Jan 1857 | Ballylongford, Co. Kerry - Margaret SCANLON | |||
| Death | 29 Dec 1910 | 1630 Liberty, Kansas City, Missouri | |||
| Burial | Mount St. Mary's Cemetery, Kansas City |
Families
| Spouse | Margaret SCANLON (1838 - 1893) |
| Child | Catherine (Kate) C. CUNNINGHAM (1858 - 1952) |
| Child | John B. CUNNINGHAM (1859 - 1885) |
| Child | Thomas Benjamin CUNNINGHAM (1861 - 1914) |
| Child | Mary CUNNINGHAM ( - 1908) |
| Child | Ellen (Nellie) F. CUNNINGHAM (1865 - 1956) |
| Child | Margaret (Maggie) F. CUNNINGHAM (1866 - 1957) |
| Child | Bridget CUNNINGHAM ( - 1908) |
| Child | Patrick CUNNINGHAM ( - ) |
| Child | Patrick CUNNINGHAM ( - ) |
| Child | Anna (Annie) CUNNINGHAM (1874 - 1959) |
| Child | Bernard (Ben) J. CUNNINGHAM (1877 - 1971) |
| Child | James CUNNINGHAM (1882 - ) |
| Father | John CUNNINGHAM (caution: not verified) (1800 - 1887) |
| Mother | Catherine (Kate) FITZGERALD (1810 - 1842) |
| Sibling | Ellen CUNNINGHAM (1828 - 1919) |
| Sibling | Margaret CUNNINGHAM (1830 - 1901) |
| Sibling | Patrick CUNNINGHAM (1832 - 1877) |
| Sibling | James CUNNINGHAM (1832 - 1900) |
| Sibling | Mary CUNNINGHAM (1838 - ) |
| Sibling | Bridget CUNNINGHAM (1840 - ) |
| Sibling | Daniel J. CUNNINGHAM (1841 - 1919) |
| Sibling | John Francis CUNNINGHAM (1842 - 1919) |