Who has forgotten the matchless eloquence of the great V. Bourke Cockran. whose voice. which so often resounded through these very halls and charmed. captivated. and held his auditors spellbound and enthralled. was stilled forever three years ago this very month? Among the Presidents whose ancestors came from Erins isle were Andrew Jackson. James Buchanan. Arthur. Polk. McKinley. and Wilson. whose paternal grandfather and grandmother were both born in Ireland. The Erie Canal and aqueducts to supply the city of New York were projected by Christopher Colles. an Irish Immigrant. Robert Fulton. who caused the steamboat Clermont to be built and launched on the Hudson River in 1807. Morse.
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