| Title: | Letter of Regret for Death of Rev. McFadden, Pittsburg. |
|---|---|
| ID | 4023 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1931-40/1 |
| Year | 1933 |
| Sender | An Ulsterman |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | letter published in The Belfast Weekly News |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | re death of Rev. McFadden |
| Source | The Belfast Weekly News, Thursday, March 2, 1933. |
| Archive | The Linenhall Library, Belfast. |
| Doc. No. | 9605045 |
| Date | 2/3/1933 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | LTE |
| Log | Document added by LT, 29:04:96. |
| Word Count | 511 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | AN ULSTERMAN'S LETTER. A Friend of Ulster I note with deep regret the death of Rev. Dr. E.M. McFadden of Pittsburg U.S.A. Members of the Ulster Delegation which made a memorable tour in the United States and Canada thirteen years ago, will gratefully recall his services. Dr. McFadden, who was a native of Larne, Co. Antrim, never forgot to fight the battles of his native province, and he was one of the first to approach the visiting Ulstermen with an offer of help. He personally conducted the Delegation on its visit to many of the largest cities in the Eastern States, and freely put his intimate experience of American conditions at the visitors' disposal. In his own city of Pittsburg, the delegation received a marvellous welcome from the Ulster community, and this was largely due to Dr. McFadden's inspiring leadership as President of the Ulster Society of Pittsburg. His knowledge of Ulster's influence on the history of the United States was particularly good, and he brought to the Delegation's notice a very interesting passage in Theodore Roosevelt's "Winning of the West" in which this remarkable tribute was paid to the Scotch Irish, as the Ulster settleres [settlers?] were called:- "Mingled with the descendants of many other races they nevertheless formed the kernel of the distinctively and interesting American stock who were the pioneers of our people in their march westward, the vanguard of the army of fighting settlers, who with axe and rifle, won their way from the Alleghenies to the Rio Grande and the Pacific". With melancholy pleasure I recall the details of the Delegation's visit to Dr. McFadden's city. There was the very happy reception in the roof gardens of the Hotel Chatham on Saturday evening, 10th January 1920. with a very full programme of church services conducted by the members of the Delegation on the following day. Then on the Monday morning Dr. McFadden conducted the Delegation to a crowded meeting of ministers only in Smithfield M.E. Church. The visit wound up with the huge mass meetings at the Syria Mosque and the Soldiers' Memorial Hall, meetings the like of which the writer never expects to see excelled. The meetings were not without an element of disturbance, but the Delegation's supporters in Pittsburg were numerous and enthusiastic, and the visit to the "Smokey City" was one long triumph. Opportunity was taken during our visit to see Dr. McFadden's own work - he was a minister to the Jews, the second oldest of its kind in the United States. Of other good friends to the Ulster Society of Pittsburg I can only recall the names of Rev. Dr. J.S. Megaw and Mr. J.H. Fulton. Death has taken its toll of the Delegation itself. Rev. Edward Hazelton and Mr. Wm. [William?] Coote, M.P. having joined the great majority. The passing of Dr. McFadden, indeed, revives memories of a happy fellowship, which has served to make the position and claims of Ulster people much better known, and did not a little to defeat the Republican demand for an independent Ireland ULSTERMAN. Word count: 511 |
