Thomas Garrigan Obituary; father worked for Hemingray during Civil War

OBITUARY.

THOMAS J. GARRIGAN, manager and buyer for Burley & Co., the wholesale crockery house at No. 82 Lake street, Chicago, and an old resident of Hyde Park, was found dead in his room at No. 5634 Madison avenue on Tuesday morning, December 5. His wife and eleven-year-old son went to Hot Springs some weeks ago, and Mr. Garrigan was alone in the house. When Officer James Lynch, of the Hyde Park Police Station, passed the house on Tuesday morning, he saw Mr. Garrigan leaning out of an upstairs window in an unnatural position. After calling to him and receiveing no response he entered the house and found that Mr. Garrigan was dead sitting in a chair. Mr. Garrigan had been subject to attacks of heart disease and asthma for a number of years. It is supposed that during Monday night he was seized by a violent coughing spell, and that he went to the window to regain his breath, and died in that position. Mr. Garrigan entered the service of Burley & Co., before the fire of 1871, and had been with them ever since. Mr. Garrigan was born December 17, 1845, in Galaway, Ireland, and came to this country when a child with his parents, who first settled near New Orleans. They afterward moved to Covington, Ky., where his father was employed by the Hemingray Glass Co. during the war. The elder Garrigan went to Chicago, and started the Chicago Glass Works, with Thomas as manager. At the death of his father the factory was closed, and Mr. G. accepted a position as salesman for the house with which he has been identified for twenty-two years. He was forty-seven years old, and leaves a wife and an eleven-year-old son. He was a director in the Northwest Travelling Men's Association, and first vice-president of the National Association of Jobbers of Crockery and Glassware. He was one of the best known men in the trade, and a friend to the travelling man.