Person:James Eagan (2)

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• World War I Draft Cards in the National Archives - East Point, GA *
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 No draft card for James Eagan in Monroe County, NY. If he enlisted,
 there would be no draft record.

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• 1920 Federal Census for New York - Monroe County, Rochester *
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(Enumerated on the 9th day of January, 1920.) Eagan, James Vol. 84 E. D. 129 Sheet 9 Line 34 Address: Rochester, 85 Prospect Street

Eagan, James . Head, M, W, 33, M NY, NY, NY Electrician

 "  , Mary                    Wife, F, W, 30, M            KY, KY, KY  Tailoress
 "  , Eugena (?)        Daugh F, W, 10, S           KY, NY, KY  None

NOTE: Although James listed the birthplace of his mother as NY, she was

     actually born in Cinncinati, OH.

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• Rochester City Directory - 1909 thru 1927 *
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1909-1910 Eagan, James W., blacksmith, bds. 85 Prospect Street

         [Eagan, Stephen, blacksmith, h. 85 Prospect Street]

1911-1912 Eagan, James W., blacksmith, bds. 85 Prospect Street

         [Eagan, Stephen, blacksmith, h. 85 Prospect Street]

1911 Eagan, James W., auto repair, 13 Canal, bds. 85 Prospect Street

         [Eagan, Stephen, blacksmith, 13 Canal, h. 85 Prospect Street]

1920 Eagan, James, helper, 85 Prospect Street

              Eagan, Mae, wife, 85 Prospect Street
              Eagan, Elizabeth, wife of Stephen, 85 Prospect Street

1921 Eagan, James, helper, 209 Pansy Street

              Eagan, Mae, wife, 209 Pansy Street

1922-1923 Eagan, James, helper, 209 Pansy Street

              Eagan, Mae, wife, 209 Pansy Street
              Eagan, Elizabeth, 211 Pansy Street

1924 Eagan, James, helper, 209 Pansy Street

              Eagan, Mae, wife, 209 Pansy Street

1925 Eagan, James, 81 Reynolds Street

              Eagan, Mae, wife, 81 Reynolds Street

1926 Eagan, James, died on March 6, 1925

              Eagan, Mary, widow of James, clerk, 81 Reynolds Street

1927 Eagan, Mary, clerk, Genesee Provisioning Co., Inc., 37 Front St., lives 218 ½ Tremont St.

Letter from James Eagan to his brother Austin on Sept. 2, 1918

                              ON ACTIVE SERVICE
                                  WITH THE
                        AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES

                                               Sept. 2, 1918

Dear Austin,

  I received your letter and was very surprised and also very very glad to

hear from you. I was thinking you had forgotten me. I am very glad to hear you are getting along so well and take my advise kid and forget the army. The war will be over before you are old enough to be drafted and don't hope for it to last for it's lasted long enough now, and any way if you go then Mother will be alone and that wouldn't do, bud, so forget it.

  You want souveniers, maybe I'll get some, but if I do I recon I'll

either have to steal some or someone will have to give them to me for the only Germans I have seen have been prisoners marching past our camp and the only shooting I have done was at fish in the river and I never even got one of them either. The outfit, bud, it's a supply train and I am a cook way back from the lines but I can sure hear the fighting and see some of the results of it. Once in a while we have to dig for cover when the airplanes are around and the schrapnell starts whistling but the drivers have it harder for the Boche [unintelligible] this and they have to do most of their running at night without lights but so far we have had no caaualities in our Company. Bill is in the outfit that will get it. He is in a depot brigade. They use the men from the depot brigade to fill the places of men who are knocked out. So you can take off your hat to Bill if he gets back. I wrote to him but have never received an answer. It takes a long time for mail to come and go here but I expect to here from him soon. So if Mame told you I was a fighter she must have meant a booze fighter.

    You want to take good care of the Bum and if you know of anyone

that has a good bull bitch and would like to mate with him you aught to get a pretty goof pup out of it. I saw some of his pups in Sheridan and they were all of them pretty good looking pups. There [unintelligible] and all good dogs. I don't know how old he is about 7 or 8 months old when I got him. That was July 14, 1917 so he isn't very old.

  Well, Bud, there isn't much to tell you.  The weather is getting chilly

and it won't be long till winter is here. They tell me it only gets down to 30 below here, but we have plenty of good warm clothes. An advantage over Fritz, but I don't think it will be enough

  [ two lines unintelligible]

they are sure giving the Germans hell and that's the truth. I think Fritz is on his last legs now.

 [ several lines unintelligible]

  Will close for this time and hope you will write again.  I will write to

you again sometime and let you know how I'm getting along. Give mother my love.

                                               From Your Brother,
                                                     Jim

Cook Jas. W. Eagan Co. E. 112 Supply Train A.P.O. 763 American E. F.

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...write about and there are all kinds of rumors about going home. I sure will be glad to get back, too. Mame tells me our brother-in-law is with us again, well I don't know...

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...through away as I could not carry it around with me and I had no place to hide it but the bayonet I can carry in my pack so may get it home for you. I got some buttons and a couple of rings I got off some good...

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...some pieces of Boche planes and a cigarette lighter but that will be about all the souveniers I can get away with. Some of the boys are paying fabulous sums for Iron Crosses and officers helmets but the best souvenier for me will be my old red head back home. She seems to think pretty well of you so I guess you must be treating her alright. She told that you slipped her some change on pay nights. I guess she needed it too. She never forgets a favor either. Well there is not very much to....

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...can't say much. I am sending you a piece of Belgium money. It is 50 centimes, which in regualr do is a little less than a dime. Imagine a guy with a good roll of these in his pick. He would think he was a John D., what! Well, Buddy it is getting late so I will close for this time. With love to all and a Merry Xmas. From Your Brother,

                                                Jim

We think we will be home around Christmas but don't tell this to Mame, for

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I want to surprise her. Get me. Don't tell the rest either.

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This is a part of a Bosche plane brought down Aug. 5 in the Alsace Loraine where we were at the time. He dropped 10 bombs before they got him.

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Picture of James Eagan in his uniform taken at a photo shop, Quick Finish Studio, A. P. Bernardi, Montgomery, Alabama.

1. ↑ number 26.
2. ↑ Rochester City Directory 1926.