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	Edward J. Flanagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Joseph Flanagan (July 13, 1886 – May 15, 1948) was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.
		Flanagan was born in Ballymoe, County Roscommon, Ireland, came to the USA in 1904, and became a US citizen in 1919.
		Under Flanagan's direction, Boys Town grew to be a large community with its own boy-mayor, schools, chapel, post office, cottages, gymnasium, and other facilities where boys between ages 10 and 16 could receive an education and learn a trade.
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	Ed Flanagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward S. Flanagan (born December 18, 1950), commonly known as Ed Flanagan, is an American politician from Vermont.
		Flanagan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in history/political science in 1973, and earned a J.D. from Harvard University in 1976.
		Flanagan was the Democratic nominee in the U.S. Senate contest in 2000, becoming the first openly gay individual to be nominated by a major party as a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_S._Flanagan (360 words)

	Edward Joseph Flanagan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Edward J. Flanagan, founder of Boys Town, came to Nebraska in l9l2 to serve as an assistant pastor at St. Patrick's Catholic Church at O'Neill, Nebraska.
		Flanagan studied at St Joseph's Seminary in Dunwoodie, New York, and then continued his studies in Italy and Austria.
		Flanagan was made a member of the Nebraska Hall of Fame in 1965.
	www.nde.state.ne.us /SS/notables/flanagan.html (343 words)

	Flanagan Edward Joseph - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Flanagan Edward Joseph - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Flanagan, Edward Joseph (1886-1948), American Roman Catholic clergyman, born in Ireland, and educated there and in Rome.
		Dudley, Joseph (1647-1720), colonial administrator in America, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard College (now Harvard...
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		Edward J. Flanagan, founder of Boys Town, came to Nebraska in 1912 to serve as an assistant pastor at St. Patrick's Catholic Church at O'Neill, Nebraska.
		A native of Ireland, Flanagan came to America in 1904 and became an American citizen in 1919.
		He attended Mount St. Mary's College in Emmetsburg, Maryland, where in 1906, he received a bachelor of arts degree and a master of arts degree in 1908.
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	History
		Flanagan was ordained with the Jesuits at Innsbruck, Austria, July 26, 1912.
		Edward’s duty was to keep the animals from wandering into the dangerous peat bogs that bordered their property on two sides.
		He entered Saint Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, New York, in September, 1906, and left in the the spring of 1907 due to poor health.
	www.fatherflanagan.org /history.htm (1412 words)

	August 16, 1999 TOP 100 CATHOLICS: (aug16top.htm)
		Flanagan could see the pattern of how young and vulnerable youth could easily turn to crime because of their circumstances that were not their fault.
		Flanagan persevered, holding to the belief that "there was no such thing as a bad boy." Two weeks after opening the home it was already overcrowded with 25 boys.
		Flanagan's fame and accomplishments had spread worldwide and the international exposure prompted him to travel to Asia and back to Europe, his first opportunity since his seminary days, where he worked feverishly to establish international Boys Towns so young men the world over could be accommodated.
	www.dailycatholic.org /issue/archives/1999Aug/152aug13,vol.10,no.152-157txt/aug16top.htm (1870 words)

	Kidd excerpt
		Flanagan denounced the corrupting influence of media but was quick to use it to his own ends.
		Flanagan began his boy work career by pleading on behalf of boy offenders in juvenile court.
		The real Flanagan brought his five boys home on December 12, 1917, and though he continued to visit juvenile court, more often than not boys were sent to him, as the Home for Boys became better known and supported.Whatever the film's inaccuracies, the cinematic Flanagan is generous with the personal touch.
	www.upress.umn.edu /excerpts/Kidd.html (2909 words)

	FLANAGAN, Edward Joseph, of Boys Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		(1886-1948), Father Flanagan was born in Ireland, and educated there and in Rome.
		He went to the U.S. in 1904 and was ordained a priest after completing his studies at the Jesuit University, Innsbruck, Austria, in 1912.
		On September 8, 1948 our council was rededicated to the principles of charity and faith in God and man which Father Flanagan practiced in his work at Boys Town.
	www.nebraskakofc.org /kc652/frejf.html (205 words)

	FAMOUS NEBRASKANS
		Edward was a banker and pioneer of the telegraph in Nebraska.
		As a child, she was a great storyteller with an intense desire to write, scribbling stories when she was not cooking, working in the garden, or caring for her brothers and sisters.
		Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy were two of her favorites.
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	Goldsmith: Scientific superstitions.
		However, according to Ruth Flanagan [6], the U.S. Geological Survey is having second thoughts.
		Ruth Flanagan notes all sorts of factors that are increasingly associated with the occurrence of earthquakes.
		Joseph Barcroft, 1938, The Brain and its Environment, Yale University Press, New Haven, pp.73-81.
	www.edwardgoldsmith.com /page26.html (5107 words)

	Father Flanagan Timeline - History - About Us - Girls and Boys Town
		Edward Joseph Flanagan is born on Leabeg farm, near Ballymoe, Roscommon County, Ireland.
		Suffers from double pneumonia and is sent home from St. Joseph's Seminary in New York.
		With a borrowed $90, rents a home at 25th and Dodge Streets and officially opens Father Flanagan's Boys'; Home to five young boys assigned to him by the court.
	www.girlsandboystown.org /aboutus/history/Flantimeline.asp (357 words)

	TIME.com: -- May 24, 1948 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Edward Dmytryk, 39, ace Hollywood director (Crossfire) cited (with nine others) for contempt of Congress for refusing to tell whether he was a Communist; and Jean Porter, 24, player in B pictures; each for the second time; in Ellicott City, Md.
		Edward Joseph Flanagan, 61, bluntspoken, kindly director of Boys Town, Neb.; in Berlin, Germany, where he had gone to advise the U.S. Army on youth problems.
		James Edward West, 71, longtime Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America (1911-43); of an intestinal disease; in New Rochelle, N.Y. An orphan lamed by tuberculosis, he was a veteran in social work and child-welfare reform when he took over the Scouts.
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	DETE - Press Releases - Address by Mr. Noel Treacy TD Minister for Science, Technology and Commerce At the Unveiling of ...
		Edward Joseph Flanagan Founder of Boystown, Omaha, Nebraska, USA At his birthplace: Ballymoe, Co Galway On Saturday 6th October 2001 at 1.00pm
		Flanagan passed away in 1948 and shortly before his death he was asked if he was worried that his work would continue.
		Flanagan's vision who would be interested in visiting his birthplace and the Museum, which will be opened tomorrow.
	www.entemp.ie /press/2001/061001.htm (1661 words)

	Nebraska National Register Sites in Douglas County
		Built in 1904 for Arthur and Zerlina Brandeis, the house was purchased in 1909 by Jessie H. Millard as a residence for herself and her father, Senator Joseph H. Millard.
		The personal home of Father Flanagan was the second building erected on the campus and is now the oldest remaining structure at Boys Town.
		Built in 1890 for Joseph Garneau, Jr., of the Garneau Cracker Company, the house was later associated with Thomas Kilpatrick, who occupied it from 1903 until his death in 1916.
	www.nebraskahistory.org /histpres/nebraska/douglas.htm (3677 words)

	Boys Town (1938) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Quotes: Father Edward J. Flanagan: There is no such thing as a bad boy.
		Boys Town is not the actual story of the founding of the famous orphanage in Nebraska for homeless male youth.
		True some of the problems that Father Edward J. Flanagan had in making his dream come true are dealt with here.
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	Hazel Vaughn Leigh and the Fort Worth Boys' Club
		When Hazel visited Hull House, she noted that the crafts and programs were similar to those at the FWBC.
		Hazel can also be compared to Edward Joseph Flanagan, the "Father Flanagan" of Boys' Town, west of Omaha, Nebraska.
		Flanagan's at first had a home or shelter near the Omaha stockyards, just as Hull House and the FWBC were near the stockyards and meat-packing plants in their cities.
	www.tamu.edu /upress/books/patelog.htm (918 words)

	Miracle of the Heart - A Boys Town Story (1986) \| Ars Mar Multimedia DVD & VHS video online catalog \| www.arsmar.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Boys Town was founded in 1917 in Omaha Nebraska, by Father Edward Joseph Flanagan (1886-1948), a Catholic priest born in Ireland.
		Miracle of the Heart deals with the Boys Town of today, but recalls the fundamental ideals of Father Flanagan which have not changed: «There are no bad boys.
		Flanagan, and now faces retirement and struggles to keep the methodology of the "Monsignor" Flanagan alive.
	www.arsmar.com /multimedia/drama/Miracle-of-the-Heart.html (207 words)

	Genealogy.com: FAMILY ANDREW EDWARD JOSEPH FLANAGAN. Co. ROSCOMMON, IRELAND
		He was already 62 years old in 1948 when he inherited the very small (18 acres) farm from his mother MARGARET whose husband EDWARD Flanagan died prior to the 1911 Census.
		The 1901 Census details for Cloonmullin lists EDWARD Flanagan as the head of the family, aged 70, a tenant farmer by occupation.
		The 1911 occupants of the Flanagan home are MARGARET aged 64, a widowed head of family and farmer, and her children, NORAH (HONORIA) aged 27, MICHAEL aged 22, a farmer's son, and JAMES aged 19, also listed as a farmer's son.
	www.genealogy.com /genealogy/users/g/a/s/Olga-Gascn (390 words)

	Full Moon Meditation
		The movie centres around John and Michael Murphy, the sons of two Irish immigrants living in New York in the early 20s, whose parents are killed in a gas explosion, leaving them orphans.
		Eventually Boystown is within sight and Michael, carrying the now sick and lame John on his back, staggers towards it.
		Father Flanagan, seeing them approaching, rushes out to greet them and says to Michael "That boy on your back must be very heavy", and Michael utters the motto of Boystown, "He ain't heavy; he's my brother".
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	Edward Medical Group - 2007 95th Street
		Daphne also received her Bachelor of Science degree, graduating with high honors, from Elmhurst College.
		Michele Flanagan is a registered nurse who obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Arizona State University in 1981, and her Master of Science degree from Northern Illinois University in 1997.
		In August 1999, she completed the advanced education and clinical training necessary to become a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), allowing her to provide primary healthcare to individuals and families of all ages.
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	Edward Joseph Flanagan Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
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		Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder of Boys Town, consultant to presidents and generals, immortalized on the Hollywood screen, was known and revered throughout the world.
		In a voice that carried the cadence of County Roscommon, his Irish birthplace, he spoke passionately on issues of youth and family before countless audiences over 30 years' time....
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Edward_Joseph_Flanagan (147 words)

	cbs4denver.com - Today In History - July 13, 2005
		In 1878, the Treaty of Berlin amended the terms of the Treaty of San Stefano, which had ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.
		In 1886, Father Edward Joseph Flanagan, the founder of Boys Town, was born in Roscommon, Ireland.
		In 1960, John F. Kennedy won the Democratic presidential nomination at his party’s convention in Los Angeles.
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	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Flanagan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Flanagan, De Witt Clinton (1870-1946) — also known as De Witt C. Flanagan — of Morristown,
		U.S. Representative from New Jersey 4th District, 1902-03; delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey,
		Florida state house of representatives 68th District, 1995-.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/flanagan.html (449 words)

	Goshorn History
		He is buried St. Joseph's Cemetery, Fremont, Sandusky Co., OH.
		Benedict Joseph TOMPKINS., b; 09/08/1880 in KY., son of John J. (1842-) and Mary (1846-) Tompkins.
		Edward J. Feidner, b; 1931 Marion, Marion Co., OH., m.
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	Irish on the Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		My Flanagan family: My grandfather Andrew Edward Joseph Flanagan born 20th October 1917, Castlerea, Co. Roscommon and lived with his family in 108 Irving Street, Birmingham, England.
		Andrew got a brother Michael (who joined in the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1937) and 2 sisters Eileen and Mary/Norah.
		Andrew Flanagan "Eddie" came to Spain on December 1937 and fougth in Spanish Civil War, joined in the International Brigades, XV British Battalion was promote to sergeant.
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	Find in a Library: Father Edward J. Flanagan, who founded Boys Town in 1917
		Find in a Library: Father Edward J. Flanagan, who founded Boys Town in 1917
		Father Edward J. Flanagan, who founded Boys Town in 1917
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	Definition of Flanagan - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		Edward Joseph 1886-1948 American (Irish-born) R.C. priest & founder of Boys Town
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	Boys Town, Omaha
		west of Omaha's city center is Boys Town, an institution for the care of young people founded by Father Edward Joseph Flanagan in 1917, and made famous by the film starring Spencer Tracy.
		Highlights of the site include Father Flanagan's Shrine, Garden of the Bible, Dowd Memorial Chapel and Father Flanagan's House.
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	August 13-22: Top 100 Catholic Countdown (augtop.htm)
		The 84th person selected out of the TOP 100 CATHOLICS OF THE CENTURY is Father Edward Joseph Flanagan, the Irish-born priest who saw a need to help those less fortunate, especially young orphaned and troubled boys in the early part of this century.
		His life and efforts were made famous in the film "Boys Town" in which Spencer Tracy won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Fr.
		For more on the 84th selection, click on FATHER EDWARD FLANAGAN
	www.dailycatholic.org /issue/99Aug/augtop.htm (735 words)

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