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footnote:
Henry O'Loughlin was born in
St. Catharines on December 13, 1856 and would become a significant force
in 19th century lacrosse in the Garden City.
He was the son of a
Barnard O'Loughlin, an Irish immigrant who operated a well-known
St. Catharines saloon that he named the Mansion House, an
establishment that exists to this day. Henry was once the
youngest purser on a great lakes ship, served in the St.
Catharines Garrison Artillery for nine years, was secretary of the
Citizen's Hose Company (as the volunteer fire department was then
known), founded the O' Loughlin Insurance Co., and was Sheriff of
Lincoln County for well over 10 years.
But his
accomplishments in the sport of lacrosse were no less impressive.
He assisted in the formation of the St. Catharines Lacrosse Club
in 1876 and a year later joined the newly formed Athletics
Lacrosse Club. After several years as an Athletics player, O'
Loughlin would perform as an executive with the team, then an
executive with the old Canadian Lacrosse Association before
becoming that league's vice-president and eventually president.
He was also a
referee of note and was often called upon to officiate the games
between Cornwall and the Torontos at the old Rosedale Grounds. And
in 1901 he was one of the driving forces along with W. B. Burgoyne
in the formation of the original St. Catharines Old Boys
Association.
Henry O' Loughlin
passed away in 1933, a legend of the great game in St. Catharines. Other
notables on the team included James
Chaplin, who would become
president of the Welland Vale Manufacturing Co. and a long time
Member of Parliament for Lincoln Riding, and
Art
Collins,
who would become a physician and practice medicine in Buffalo N.
Y. for many years. James
Adie and wife Frances would see their four sons enlist
into the Canadian Expeditionary Force of World War I, and the Adie
family of Adams Street, St. Catharines would make a tremendous
sacrifice... Gunner Allan Adie, aged 21, was killed at
Passchendaele in 1917, 26-year-old Archibald Adie died of wounds
in April 1918, and then in the closing days of the war,
35-year-old Lieutenant John Adie would perish in November of 1918.
Captain Robert Adie of the 19th Canadian Infantry would be wounded
on April 11th 1916, but survived the war. |