CAPTAIN JAMES O'KANE

Information collected by Helen Stone Woodruff

You will note on Page 6, I quoted Morris Schaff, as saying Captain JAMES O"KANE was a nephew of JAMES O'KANE in Kirkersville

Military Records-File #33699 verifies that CAPTAIN JAMES O'KANE did serve on the Brooklyn in the navy during the Civil War and did graduate from Annapolis. The following is the information I gleaned from this file.

The father of CAPTAIN JAMES O'KANE was JOHN O'KANE, a Dissenting Clergyman. (I have found nothing on JOHN, except there was a JOHN O"KANE named as a signed on the deed mentioned on Page 2 in Rockingham, Virginia.)

JAMES O"KANE entered ANNAPOLIS as a Cadet on 30-September-1858. (I have been unable to find a copy of his application).

Married NELLIE FERBGUSON CORNING, the daughter of GEORGE CORNING, a merchant on 12-June-1878 in the Parish Church of Pancras in Middlesex, England. He as 40 years old at this time, which makes him born in 1838.

NELLIE was 23, making her born in 1855, she was graduated from Vassar in 1875.

Captain O'KANE was retired on 30-Sep-1896. Died in the Vetern Hospital at Fergerson, Missouri on January 5, 1897. He was buried on 10-January, 1897 in Auburn New York.

NELLIE O'KANE never remarried and died 14-July-1924 in Auburn, N.Y. They had 1 child, a daughter NELLIE ROSAMOND, born 2-Feb-1888.

Modified Tuesday, March 19, 2002