Michael Donohoe

Michael Donohoe was born in Killeshandra, County Cavan, Ireland, on February 22, 1864, before becoming a U.S. representative from Pennsylvania. He left that small Irish place for Philadelphia in 1886, then spent decades shaping American public life as a politician, hospital director and real-estate assessor. His birthplace is not famous for its own name, but it is the starting point of an unusual cross-Atlantic life: from a Cavan childhood to a long career in one of America’s biggest cities.