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Philip Regan Harrington
Male 1886 - 1949

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  • Birth  28 Jan 1886  Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender  Male 
    Census  1910  Chillicothe, Peoria, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census  1930  Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation  1942 
    Engineer; City of Chicago, IL 
    Residence  1942  434 Melrose St. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died  11 Feb 1949  West Palm Beach, Florida Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I6583  West Brookfield Families
    Last Modified  11 Mar 2024 
     
    Father  Michael Harrington,   b. 28 Sep 1848, Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Jan 1930, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Ellen Ryan,   b. 10 Jun 1857, Walpole, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Mar 1945, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  26 Sep 1875  Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F2098  Group Sheet
     
    Family 1  Mabel Pearson 
    Married  16 Mar 1927  Waukegan, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
     1. Living
     2. Living
    Family ID  F2857  Group Sheet
     
    Family 2  Marie Stellman,   b. Abt 1891, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  16 Nov 1908  [3
    Children 
     1. Marjorie Harrington,   b. 22 Nov 1910, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Jul 1985, San Diego, California, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Philip Harrington,   b. 1 Jun 1912, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jun 1912, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID  F2856  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • In 1945 Philip Harrington was named Chairman of the Chicago Transit Board which was the city department which owned and operated elevated, subway and streetcar lines. He was credited with a major role in three public improvement projects in Chicago - the initial subway system, the superhighway system which was nearing the construction stage at the time of his death in 1949, and the unification and modernization of local transit facilities.
      Source:
      Springfield Sunday Republican, Feb. 13, 1939; pg. 22A
      Designer of Chicago's First Subway Dies
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S1785] World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, Ancestry.com, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, Utah, USA; Date: 2007;), Massachusetts > Sherrick, Frederick Joseph - Zyzys, Stanley Frank > Weagle, Fredrick Wilbur - West, John Francis; Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 22 December 2021.).
      Born 24 Mar 1889, Cornville, Maine
      https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/imageviewer/collections/1002/images/2wwii_1148712-4580

    2. [S1191] Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, (Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society; Location: Boston, Massachusetts; Date: 2004;), Massachusetts, Worcester, Worcester, Births, 1886; Vol. 369: pg. 425.
      Born Jan. 28, 1886, Philip Regan Harrington, son of Michael, Machinist, born in Mass., and Ellen Ryan, born in NH.

    3. [S950] Harrington Family History, Michael Harrington.