Title: Ada M. Halloran
Dates: circa 1880-1921
Collection Number: 2013-P-014
Quantity: 9 items
Abstract: Images of early Bismarck and Mandan.
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired this collection from Ada M. (Mrs. Francis) Halloran in January and February 1965.
Property Rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
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Related Collection:
00148 John C. Halloran
Biographical Sketch
From the Bismarck Tribune, Tuesday October 2, 1973
Mrs. Francis (Ada M.) Halloran, 81, a daughter of Bismarck’s pioneer families, died Monday at a Bismarck Hospital. She was born here in 1891 to Sherman and Mary Lyons Maurer and she graduated from Bismarck High School as valedictorian of the class of 1910. She attended Valley City Normal School and taught for 10 years in rural Dawson and Minto and for seven years here at the Will and North Ward schools.
She married Francis Halloran, a postal employee, here on June 29, 1920 and he died in 1940. Mrs. Halloran was a granddaughter of John Lyons who came here in 1871 with his family from Virginia as a soldier assigned to the infantry at Fort Rice. She was a niece of the late Jack Lyons, an early Bismarck café operator.
Mrs. Halloran is a past grand regent of the Bismarck Catholic daughters.
She leaves one son, John, Bismarck, two daughters, Mary, Bismarck and Margaret, Denver, Colo.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. William F. Garvin officiating. Burial will be made in St. Mary’s Cemetery and pallbearers will be Paul Homan, Robert Guthrie, Charles Enders, John Geiermann, Breen Kennedy, and William Fox.
Inventory
2013-P-014-00001 After the flood, Mandan (D.T.) 1880-1882
2013-P-014-00002 French Marshal Ferdinand Foch and Governor Ragnvald Nestos, St. Mary's School, Bismarck (N.D.) 11/1921
2013-P-014-00003 Early automobile on 4th Street and Main Avenue, Bismarck (N.D.) circa 1905
2013-P-014-00004 James J. Hill speaking at conservation convention in Bismarck (N.D.) 1909
2013-P-014-00005 Northern Pacific Railroad Bridge with original deck, Bismarck (N.D.) ca. 1900
2013-P-014-00006 William Moore School and students, Bismarck (N.D.) circa 1900
2013-P-014-00007 Winter scene on Main Avenue, Bismarck (N.D.) 1895-1896
2013-P-014-00008 Red Tomahawk explaining symbols of pipe to French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Bismarck (N.D.) 11/27/1921
2013-P-014-00009 Bismarck (N.D.) High School basketball team 1904
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