The 1900 census shows a Richard Flaherty living in Niles with his parents Mikel and Margaret, the youngest of several siblings. A Richard Flaherty is also recorded on June 6, 1919 in the Ohio, Roster of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in World War I as living at 115 Morse Avenue, Niles. His draft registration card lists his birth date as February 28, 1889, his occupation as a musician at the Hippodrome theater in Youngstown, and that he claimed medical exemption. He was discharged July 31, 1919. He died in Youngstown, 28 November 28, 1939.
Richard is first on the left.
Gift of Don Chamberlain.
