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Diary of Dr Denis Meany, June 5th-6th, 1872

At Cheyenne, changed to the left. We passed along a long range of mountains covered in snow.

Sherman 8450 feet above the level of the sea. The highest mountain railway. Saw along the line snow in some parts about 6 or 8 foot deep inside the snow sheds. These sheds extend in some places about [...]

Diary of Dr Denis Meany – May 30th-31st, 1872

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After several weeks spent in New York City, Dr Meany sets out on the Transcontinental Railroad, bound for San Francisco, California.
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May 30th Left N. York 7 ½ P.M. with a large number of passengers for all parts west. Slept well in the Cars and wakened up at Harrisburgh in Pennsillvania [sic] [...]

The diary of Dr Denis Meany, MD

This dapper and impressively bewhiskered gent is Denis Redmond Meany, my great-grandfather. He was born in Clonea, Co. Waterford in 1834, the son of Pierce Meany, a Catholic tenant farmer. Pierce – or at least his many brothers, uncles and cousins who were priests in the Catholic Church – had enough means to give Denis [...]

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