DANIEL S. MAHONY, LT, USN
Daniel Mahony '97
Lucky Bag
From the 1897 Lucky Bag:
Mahony, Daniel Sullivan
Detroit, Michigan
"Mike"
Lucky Bag Committee, '94; Board of Editors, '97 Lucky Bag.
Photo cropped from "Editors of the '97 Lucky Bag" page.
Mahony, Daniel Sullivan
Detroit, Michigan
"Mike"
Lucky Bag Committee, '94; Board of Editors, '97 Lucky Bag.
Photo cropped from "Editors of the '97 Lucky Bag" page.
Loss
Daniel "died at Mare Island, Cal." on August 10, 1909. He was stationed at the Navy Yard there. He died of "febris typhoides" (typhoid) per his mother's pension request (which was denied).
The Baltimore Sun reported (three days after his death) that he had orders to the Naval Hospital "to continue treatment."
Other Information
From researcher Kathy Franz:
Daniel graduated from Cass and Detroit high schools. He received his appointment to the Naval Academy by Congressman John Logan Chipman.
In June 1897, Daniel with Controller Blades and Israel Charland presented a box with the U.S. flag and the Union Jack to Mayor William C. Maybury in honor of the new steamer named Detroit. The Mayor read a letter from Commander George Reiter of the Detroit that the crew purchased the large, silk flags with their own money.
In May 1898, Daniel was on the Monitor Monterey going to Manila. In July 1899, he was chief engineer of the steamship Albatross. She went on a 20,000-mile cruise with members of the U. S. fish commission on board who were doing scientific studies.
Daniel also served on the Philadelphia and the training ships Adams and Alert.
In October 1903, he was chief engineer of the new protected cruiser Cleveland. In 1905 he was on the Washington which went to the tropics.
In 1906 he became assistant to Commander Clarence A. Carr (Class of 1879) in the Steam Engineering Department at Mare Island.
Daniel's father Timothy was an alderman and later deputy sheriff. His mother Mary was a schoolteacher. His sisters were Mary Maybury, a schoolteacher and principal, and Elizabeth Jeanette, secretary to the Board of Education. His brother was John, and his grandmother was Mary (Maybury) Mahoney.
Daniel was a relative of Mayor William Maybury. William's father Thomas was the brother of Daniel's grandmother Mary.
In October 1903 the Detroit Free Press had an article on the occasion of his promotion to Lieutenant. It marked "another step upward on a career which has been little short of phenomenal and which has been won solely on merit." He was taking a furlough to visit his mother and sisters in Detroit.
He was a member of the board conducting trials for the "submarine boats" Plunger, Porpoise, and Shark. He also wrote an article on "Speed and Coal-Consumption Curves."
He was an usher in a wedding of his classmate in 1903.
He is buried in Michigan with his parents. He was survived by his mother, two sisters, and a brother.
Photographs
From the Detroit Free Press on October 13, 1903. Located by Kathy Franz.
Memorial Hall Error
Daniel's name is spelled "Mahoney" in Memorial Hall; however, it is spelled without the "E" in Lucky Bag. He was an editor of the Lucky Bag. (It is also spelled without an "E" in the Register of Officers and on his headstone.) More significantly, though, illness is not a criteria for inclusion in Memorial Hall.
Daniel is one of 3 members of the Class of 1897 on Virtual Memorial Hall.
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