Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

JAMES CARRIGAN.  Ireland has given to Grant County many good and worthy
citizens, but none better or more worthy than James Carrigan, who left
his "native heath" in the county of Tipperary, Ireland, in 1866, and
migrated to the United States and finally found his abiding place in the
"good old county" of Grant.  He is the son of Cornelius and Winnefred
Carrigan, and was born in Ireland on the 10th day of May, 1846.  His
father was a stone mason and James and all of his brothers followed in
the parental footsteps, and when he was a lad of only sixteen years he
had learned his trade and was ready to make his fight for a living with
his hammer and trowel.  At the close of our great Civil War he
determined to migrate from the parental roof, and with his sister, who 
now lives in Jeffersonville, Indiana, he came to the United States, 
landing in New York, and coming from there direct to Cincinnati.  He 
lived in Cincinnati for eight years working at his trade.  When the 
Downingsville bridge was being built, in 1881, he came to Grant County 
to do the stone work on that structure.  When he had finished his work 
he had so fallen in love with the county that he decided to make it his 
permanent abiding place, and he has been a resident of the county from 
that day until this.  Jimmie Carrigan is a first-class stone mason, and 
does practically all of that kind of work in this part of the world. 
He is a jolly good Irishman, speaking with a strong Tipperary brogue. 
He is a Democrat and in times of political excitement a "hot member" of 
the rooters' club.  He is an active member of the Catholic Church, and 
altogether a very good citizen.

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