Early Characters Archives - Page 6 of 14

Vinegar Hill – Irishtown – Brooklyn New York

In the 1800's and during the Great Famine of Ireland many Irish settled along the banks of the Brooklyn Waterfront,...

After the deaths of "Wild" Bill Lovett & Richard "Peg Leg" Lonergan, the White Hand Gang were in turmoil. After a...

John or James "Yakey Yake" Brady was the founder and leader of the Yakey Yakes, an independent street gang based in...

From 1866 to 1877 river pirates terrorized the water of New York's rivers and harbor robbing cargo and what ever other...

James Hope was born in Philadelphia to Irish parents in 1836, the family were poor and Jimmy took a job as a machinist...

John Allen, also known as E.E. Van Allen or "The Allen" was a notorious underworld gangster and who owned a saloon on...

On this day in 1925 Richard "Peg Leg" Lonergan was shot dead, along with some of his key men at the Adonis Social Club...

"Big" Jim O'Leary was a gambler & racketeer in early Chicago, he is credited in forming one of the cities first...

William "Little Patsy Doyle" Moore was the leader of the Hudson Dusters gang in the 1910's and he was killed at the...