Lahiff, Edward Maguire
born in: Whitegate, County Cork, Ireland, 1863;
son of: Patrick Lahiff and Bridget Lahiff, nee: Bridget Barry
education: St. Vincent's Seminary, Cork;
married: Ellen Lahiff, nee: Ellen Malone, Ireland, in 1895;
Sons: John Lahiff, Edward Lahiff, Gerald Lahiff, Maurice Lahiff.
Came to U.S. in 1886, and for a year or two was in employ of W.P. Rend & Company, Coal merchants, as coal shoveler;
was in newspaper work in Chicago on staff of the Chicago Herald and its successor, the Chicago Times-Herald;
went East and was for a time with the New York World;
hired out to the Carnegie Steel Company as a "scab" workman, in order to gain admission to the fortified works of that company during the Homestead Strike;
in 1895 secured a lengthy interview with the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, the first time Mr. Gladstone ever consented to an interview with a newspaper representative;
private secretary to Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison, Jr., (1897-1903);
City Collector of Chicago, 1903 to October 1, 1905.
Secretary: Democratic County Committee of Cook County, 1904.
Office: City Hall.
Residence: 957 W. Pratt Avenue, Rogers Park
Source: Book of Chicagoans, 1905