Ohio State Senate / Irish American Archives Society / Western Reserve Historical Society / Ohio House of Representatives / LaSalle Club / Cleveland State University / LaSalle Club on West / Cleveland Municipal Court / /
Person
Abe Atell / Bridget McNulty / Johnny Kilbane / Irene McDonnell / Helen / Eugene Criqui / Joe Louis / John Kilbane / Danny Dunn / Jimmy Dunn / Mary / George Chaney / Dan Taylor / Frankie Burns / Tommy Kilbane / Margaret Lynch / /
Position
boxer / Manager / fire battalion chief / clerk / manager of the Kilbane boys / sheriff / /
Not many Clevelanders of Irish descent can boast that 200,000 people lined the streets of downtown Cleveland just to catch a glimpse of them. That’s what happened on March 17, 1912, when boxer Johnny Kilbane returned from California to his hometown after winning the world featherweight title for the first time a few weeks earlier, on February 22. It was a title Kilbane would retain