Dillon O'Brien: a Minnesota pioneer
St. Paul, Minnesota: Catholic Historical Society of St. Paul, 1933. 5.5" x 8" pp. 40. Hardcover bound in hunter green cloth boards with gold text. Boards are slightly scuffed but otherwise sound. Inscribed by the author on the front free end paper. Very good.
Tipped in are two newspaper clippings regarding the death of author Thomas D. O'Brien in 1935.
Dillon O'Brien was an Irish Immigrant to St. Paul, Minnesota. A successful author and editor, O'Brien was known both for his literature and for his advocacy work regarding Irish immigrants to Minnesota (MN Writers on the Map).
Thomas D. O'Brien, son of Dillon and author of his biography, was a successful lawyer and Minnesota Supreme Court Justice who co-founded William Mitchell College of Law (Thomas D. O'Brien Wikipedia). Item #2266
Price: $140.00