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Buffalo Courier-Express
Monday, March 1, 1943

                             T. J. O'BRIEN
                             Grain Figure
                             Is Dead at 86
                             
                         Pioneer in Developing
                          The Port of Buffalo.
                          
   THOMAS J. O'BRIEN, prominent	         Wide Span of Development.
 figure in the grain business and        When MR. O'BRIEN started on his
 pioneer in the developement of the    business career it was the era of
 port of Buffalo into one of the       the sailing vessel. He could re-
 great shipping centers of the	       call distinctly that in those days
 world, died at his home, 67 Lan-      a record was sent when the small
 caster Avenue, yesterday.	       two-masted schooner M. P. Barkalow
   His business activites which	       sailed proudly into the port of
 made him well known not only in       Buffalo with a record cargo of
 his home port, but in every other     8,500 bushels of wheat aboard.
 shipping center in the country,       He was to know the day when the
 spanned 60 years.		       steamer LeMoyne was to come into
   Born in 1856.		       port with a record cargo of 525,
   MR. O'BRIEN was born in Buffalo     000 bushels of wheat.
 in 1856. He attended Public	         MR. O'BRIEN was married to
 Schools 3 and 7. He was only sev-     MARY McLEOD, who died in 1919.
 enteen years old when he entered      She was the daughter of CAPT.
 the employ of Preston & Wright,       GEORGE McLEOD, commander of the
 grain merchants on the old cen-       old Northwest and many other
 tral wharf.			       famous lake schooner of his day.
   He continued with this firm	       Since the death of his wife, MR.
 after its reorganization as A. P.     O'BRIEN had made his home with
 Wright & Son when MR. PRESTON re-     his daughters in Lancaster Ave-
 tired and the late A. J. WRIGHT       nue.
 became a partner, and continued         Funeral Wednesday.
 on when, in 1883, all grain and         He is survived by six children:
 shipping interests became centered    GEORGE M., MARY K., THOMAS C.
 in the Board of Trade in Seneca       and WILLIAM E. O'BRIEN, advertis-
 Street near Main Street.	       ing manager of the Courier-Express,
   With a background of fourteen       and CATHERINE J. O'BRIEN and MRS.
 years of sound business experi-       CHARLES B. LASCELLES.
 ence, he left the Wright Company        Funeral services will be held in
 to launch his own grain receiving     his home at 9:30 a.m. and in St.
 and forwarding business. In 1904      Joseph's Cathedral, Delaware Ave-
 he merged his firm with the Marine    nue and West Utica Street, at
 Forwarding Company and carried on     10 a.m. Wednesday. Burial will be
 his duties as president of the	       in Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
 company until his retirement in         
 1933.

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