Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Memoir of Algernon Sydney Sullivan: Together With Memorial Tributes Collected and Arranged by His Son
Lgernon sydney sullivan, the subject Of this memoir, was de scended from an old Irish family, long settled in the vicinity of Cork, but transplanted to America about a hundred years ago. Thomas Lyttleton Sullivan, the son Of an Irish bar rister, came to America from Charleville, County Cork, Ireland, and settled in Augusta County, Virginia, where in March, 1791, he married Margaret Irwin, a daughter of James Irwin. Margaret Irwin was of Scotch descent, a woman of strong character and deeply re ligious nature, whose in?uence left an indel ible impression upon her only son and his children. This son, Jeremiah, was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, in 1794. His father, a devout Catholic, intended him for zro'
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