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Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald was born in Boston’s North End on July 22, 1890, the eldest child of John F. (“Honey Fitz”) and Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald. She was first introduced to politics as a child. When she was 5, her father was a congressman. By the time she turned 15, Honey Fitz was one of the most popular and colorful mayors Boston had ever known. He once took Rose and her ...
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age —a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four ...
John Francis Fitzgerald served as the thirty-fifth mayor of Boston, and served terms in 1906-07, and from 1910 to 1913. He was considered one of the most energetic men to have held the office. During his terms as mayor, he left no stone unturned to make Boston one of the great seaports of the east coast, as well as a great manufacturing and ...
Jan 24, 2024 · First Steps to the White House. As a boy, JFK’s parents never expected he would grow up to be president. Yet in his birthplace home he learned values that inspired a life in public service. His mother, Rose Kennedy, recreated her family’s first home to share her memories of those early years with visitors.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, America’s first Irish-Catholic president, was the offspring of two families whose roots stretched back to Ireland. The Fitzgerald family was from western Ireland in the rural County Limerick village of Bruff. Sometime between 1846 and 1855 some of the Fitzgeralds migrated to America because of the devastating potato famine. Thomas Fitzgerald, born in Bruff in 1823 ...
May 7, 2024 · F. Scott Fitzgerald (born September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.—died December 21, 1940, Hollywood, California) was an American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), his most brilliant novel being The Great Gatsby (1925). His private life, with his wife, Zelda, in both America and France ...
BOSTON, Aug. 8— Mrs. Josephine Mary Hannon Fitzgerald, maternal grandmother of President Kennedy, died today at the age of 98. She was the widow of John F. Fitzgerald, former Mayor of Boston.
