DAY - Second Generation: Family of Ira Martin DAY and Mary Agnes Connell

Figure 2: World War ll Draft Card

 DAY - Second Generation

Family of Ira Martin DAY and Mary Agnes Connell

• Ira Martin DAY (1889-1955)

  (grandson of George Day 1818 & Sarah Gaskill Day 1822 through their son, IRA DAY 1854)

  Wife: Mary Agnes Connell DAY (1894-1987)

  Children: Ira Reese DAY (1921-1970)

  [Days - GORMANS - ]

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  1940 Paterson NJ Census- Ira Reese DAY and parents-IRA Martin DAY and Mary Agnes Connell

  Father: Ira DAY (1854-bef 1915)

  Mother: Helen GORMAN (1863-1931)

  Residence in 1885 (age -5–4) Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey, USA.  Nov 9, 1889 Ira was delivered by Mrs. Francies, 5 Peach St. Paterson, NJ.

  Occupation:Ira Martin DAY 1889, was a Plumber at John T. Mc Brides Marshal St.; Boilermaker in 1949; Welder/Boiler Repairs. A welder for 22 years at Vanderback Co. His last year a watchman Center Lamber C.On his birth record he was delivered by a Mrs. Frances from 5 Peach Street, Paterson. His father was Ira Day, b. August 5, 1854 (about 31 at son's birth), and his mother was Helen (or Ellen/Nilly/Nellie) Gorman Day born in Ireland and 25 yrs. old at her son's birth. He died on May 30, 1955. He had cancer of the throat. Death record said he had two nephews. He was called Dada by his grandchildren.

Ira. Day: Vital • New Jersey, Births and Christenings, 1660-1980. Name: Ira Day. Father's Name: Ira Day. Father's Age: 31. Father's Birth Year (Estimated): 1858. Father's Birthplace: U.S. Mother's Name: Nelly Gorman. Mother's Age: 25. Mother's Birth Year (Estimated:) 1864. Mother's Birthplace: Ireland. Event Type: Birth. Event Date: 9 Nov 1889. Event Place: Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey, United States. Source Details: v 33 p 156. Ira. Day's Parents and Siblings" Cite This Record "New Jersey, Births and Christenings, 1660-1980", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC5W-J8R : 26 August 2020), Ira. Day, 1889.

Event Date	1900 Census
Event Place	Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey, United States

Ira DAY's Parents and Siblings Ellen Day, Mother, F, 33 years, Ireland. Ira Day, Father, M, 43, New Jersey.  Link The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Halstead Day, Brother, M, 16 years, New Jersey. Minnie Day Sister F 19 years, New Jersey. William Day, Brother, M, 13 years, New Jersey .

Name

Ira Day

Birth Date

November 1889

Age

11 years

Cite This Record "United States, Census, 1900", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9NZ-9K7 : Tue Mar 04 16:48:09 UTC 2025), Entry for Ira Day and Ellen Day, 1900.

1905 Census Paterson NJ. Source Date: 1905.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMH6-4HR

Citation: "New Jersey, State Census, 1905", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMH6-4HL : Thu Mar 07 21:01:23 UTC 2024), Entry for Ira Day and Ellen Day, 1905. Ira Day Census • New Jersey, State Census, 1905.

Ira Day, person details: Name: Ira Day. Sex: Male. Age: 17 years. Birth Year (Estimated:) 1888. Event Place: Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey, United States.

Household Identifier: 370. Other People on This Record: Ira Day, 51 years. Ellen Day, 47 years. Halstead Day, 21 years. William Day, 19 years. Minnie Day, 14 years.

O n WW1 DRAFT CARD for Ira Martin Day 1889-1955, JUNE 1917, 27 age,

medium height, stout, black hair, grey eyes, born 11-9-1889.

World War 1 Draft Card - Ira Martin Day born 11-9-1889 Plumber, lived on
 Marshal Street, Paterson, N.J.

WW2 Draft card for Ira Martin Day -born 1889- 52 yr old

Find A Grave: Ira M. Day

Birth 11 Nov 1889 - Death: 30 May 1955 (aged 65)

Burial: Laurel Grove Memorial ParkTotowa, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA Plot: 242057431 Memorial ID: 242057971 · View Source

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/242057971/ira_m-day: accessed May 13, 2025), memorial page for Ira M. Day (11 Nov 1889–30 May 1955), Find a Grave Memorial ID 242057971, citing Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA; Maintained by J. Day (contributor 51253809).

Mary Agnes Connell DAY (1894-1987)

Mary Agnes Connell mentioned in Street Directory 1956 and living on Chadwick Street. She is listed as a Widow.

Father: Patrick CONNELL (1869-1926)

Mother: Sarah MCGEE (c. 1870-1900)

[Days - CONNELLS - McGees- ]

She was called May. Notes for Mary Agnes Connell Day:

SARAH MCGEE CONNELL was born Abt. 1870 in Ireland. She married PATRICK CONNELL September 27, 1894 in St. Agnes Church, Paterson, NJ, son of THOMAS CONNELL and ANN CONNELL. He was born Abt. 1871 in Ireland. Notes for PATRICK CONNELL: After the death of his wife, Sarah McGee, Patrick's brother and his wife took Mary Agnes and her sister Ann in. Though Mary Agnes took everyone they were placed in St. Joseph's Orphanage (an orphanage) in Totowa, NJ. Her granddaughter, Doris Day remember her grandmother, Mary (May) Connell Day, say that she tracked her father down by finding out his milk rout, and when she found him, she grabbed the horses reins and asked him why he abandoned them. But MARY Agnes and ANNE actually lived with their father's brother's family: John Connell, his wife Katherine Connell and children- found on the 1910 census under Anne's name. LINK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LRSZ-WZT .

Name • Anna Connell, Age in 1910 • 9 Birth Year • abt 1901 Birthplace • New Jersey Home in 1910 • Paterson Ward 11, Passaic, New Jersey

Street • East Twenty First Street Relation to Head of House • Adopted Daughter.

Attended School -Yes. Able to read- Yes. Able to Write- Yes.

Household Members: Name-Age: John Connell born 1866, 44. Katherine C Connell, 42. Katherine C Connell, 19.Thomas J Connell, 17.Mary F Connell, 16.Joseph Connell, 13. Mary Agnes Connell, 14. Anna Connell, 9.

Mary Agnes Connell Day and Ira Martin Day had the one child: Ira Reese Day 1921 in St Joseph's Hospital, Paterson, NJ. He died on 27 Jun 1970 in Paterson, Passaic, New Jersey, USA.

Mary Agnes gave her son Ira, the middle name Reese which was a wealthy Jewish family in Paterson, New Jersey Mary Agnes worked for as a servant, sewing and where she learned to cook. She made a living as a cook and was still working in the 1970s.

Mary Connell Day 1970 -taken at 

the house on 5 Lake Ave

Obituary for
Ira Reese DAY 1921-1970

Mary Connell Day. Death • Find a Grave . Birth 2 Jun 1895. Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA. Death Nov 1987 (aged 92) Burial: Laurel Grove Memorial Park. GPS-Latitude: 40.8976606, Longitude: -74.2029648 Totowa, Passaic County, New Jersey, USAShow Map Plot: 242057431.Memorial ID: 242057431 · View Source Family Members: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/242057431/mary-day: accessed May 22, 2025), memorial page for Mary “May” Connell Day (2 Jun 1895–Nov 1987), Find a Grave Memorial ID 242057431, citing Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa, Passaic County, New Jersey, USA; Maintained by J. Day (contributor 51253809). https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/242057431/mary-day

Woman stood guard with Garden Hose as she refuses to allow painters to work!

My great-uncle, Halstead J. Day and two others were caught in a battle with Mrs. Whitford over painting of her neighbor's house.

A garden hose was her weapon!

 

Ads from PATERSON Daily Press, Paterson, NJ 1903

COAL, delivered CLEAN!
Lowest price of the year!

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$4.00 a PAIR and guaranteed for 1 YEAR! 
Don't forget to pick up a garden hose! Just 3 cents per foot!

Excellence of Design, Tone and Flexibility of ACTION!

Get a new automobile for just $650!

A heartfelt words of sympathy from George Washington to Mrs. Stephen Day

 From A Brief history of Chatham Morris County, New Jersey by Charles A.  Philhower - pg.  21. 

After the battle of Springfield, General Washington on his return to Morristown sent word ahead to Mrs. Stephen Day (2nd wife of Captain Stephen DAY) that he would stop off to see her on his way through Chatham.  Accordingly, Mrs. Day dressed herself in a fine black silk gown with a large white scarf about her neck and awaited the coming of her distinguished visitor.  A small mahogany table

(Not the Caldwell attack.)
Battle of Long Island, an 1858 painting
 by Alonzo Chappel

was placed on the lawn in front of the house, and a pleasing repast was prepared for the General.  The call was made and heartfelt words of sympathy were extended to Mrs. Day in behalf of the horrible murder of her sister Hannah (Ogden) Caldwell at Connecticut Farms.  Much appreciation was shown by the General for her hospitality and often afterword's it is said the Washington called at the Day Mansion.  Captain Stephen Day, the husband of Mrs. Jeremiah Ogden Day was on of the staunchest patriots.  He was justice of the peace under both the British and Continental rule, served in the army, and was on of the first to aid the Continentals when requisitions for supplies were made.  It is said the he gave a whole beef when the first call was issued.  

Historic Stephen Day House c. 1936

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Captain Stephen Day was my 5th Great-uncle.  -Jan

Born about 1733 in Newark, Essex, New JerseySon of  Joseph Day and Hannah Sargeant Day. Stephen Day commanded a company under Colonel Ford, Eastern Battalion, Morris County, New Jersey Militia, at the Battle of Springfield, Union Co., New Jersey, June 23, 1780.  This was one of the last major engagement of the Revolutionary War in the North and it effectively put an end to the British "ambitions" in New Jersey.  General Washington praised the New Jersey Militia in this battle, writing later, "They flew to arms universally and acted with a spirit equal to anything I have seen in the course of the war."  

Hannah (Ogden) Caldwell.  Hannah, wife of Rev.  James CALDWELL & daughter of John OGDEN of Newark, was killed at Connecticut Farms by a shot from a British soldier, 25 Jun 1780. 

Recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) as a female patriot. 

htps://www.americanrevolution.org/hannah-caldwell-biography/

Grave Inscription 

"was killed at Connecticut Farms by a shot from a British Soldier.  Cruelly sacrificed by the enemies of her husband and her country" 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Borough,_New_Jersey#/media/File:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey_R._Merritt_Lacey,_Photographer_April_30,_1936_EXTERIOR_-_NORTH_ELEVATION_-_Stephen_Day_House,_62_Elmwood_Road,_Chatham,_Morris_County,_NJ_HABS_NJ,14-CHAT,2-1.tif

 

Pvt John Craig, who died in World War 1.

John Craig was my 1st cousin twice removed sharing with him grandparents John Craig b. 1834 and Mary McQuillan b.1835. John was born on 26 Apr 1892 in Belfast, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland.
He was a Private in WW1 and died in battle of  Flanders Belgium on 31 Mar 1917, age 25 and buried in Aix-Noulette Communal Cemetery Extension Aix-Noulette , Departement du Pas-de-Calais , Nord-Pas-de-Calais , France. He was in D Company, 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment. And the son of Patrick and Agnes Craig, of 22 Lady St., Cullingtree Rd., Belfast.

His father and mother received pension after his death. They are listed on the pension.

More at: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Craig-17948-2

 

1899 Thanksgiving Menu in CENTS!

 

Family relationships

First-degree family links are those between parents and children. 

Second-degree links include brothers and sisters, and grandchildren and grandparents. 

At the third degree, there are great-grandparents, uncles and aunts, and nieces and nephews. 

At the fourth degree, we find a person’s first cousins.

MORE in the diagram.

In short, the degree of kinship represents the number of intermediaries between two people, going back to the common ancestor, then returning to them. 

 

A Prescription from Winston Churchill’s Doctor, 1932.

 

How Poor was Poor.

 There were times in history when urine was used to tan animal skins. AND, when a whole family would pee in one pot and the contents sold to a local Tannery.

These were poor families. Once a day they would take the pot and sell the urine to live on the money.  

These people were said to be, “piss poor.”  And worse than that, there were families that could not afford a pot, there for “didn’t have a pot to piss in”.

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History from McGee Equine & Livestock Farrier Service, Rescue, and Rehabilitation

Found at: Mc Gee Equine & Livestock Farrier Service, Rescue, and Rehabilitation – The Horse Manure Problem of 1894
The 15 to 30 pounds of manure produced daily by each beast multiplied by the 150,000+ horses in New York city resulted in more than three million pounds of horse manure per day that somehow needed to be disposed of. That’s not to mention the daily 40,000 gallons of horse urine. Read the rest and check out their posts. https://www.facebook.com/McGeeEquineLivestockFarrierServiceandrescuecenter