File:Patrick H. Keenan (1837-1907) funeral in the New York Times on May 9, 1907.pdf

Throng At Keenan Funeral. 500 Carriages Bear Friends of Late City Chamberlain to Cemetery. City Chamberlain Patrick Keenan, who died on Sunday evening, was buried yesterday in Calvary Cemetery. His funeral was the largest that ever left town, there being more than 500 carriages in line. Every city official of prominence attended the funeral, excepting Mayor McClellan, who was busy at his office in the City Hall with the public hearing on measures that have recently passed the Legislature. From 8 o'clock' in the morning Until 10 a steady stream of men and women passed in and out of the Keenan home, at 253 Seventh Street, where the casket had been opened so that Mr. Keenan's friends might view the remains previous to the funeral services at the church. The block in which the Keenan home is situated, Seventh Street, between Avenues C and D, was crowded with a surging mass of people long before the funeral procession got under way. Police Captain Herlihy and a squad of forty patrolmen from the Union Market Station had all they could do to clear the roadway for the coaches to pass. The funeral procession proceeded from the house to St. Brigid's Roman Catholic Church, at Eighth Street and Avenue B. The members of the Jefferson Club, the Tammany organization of the district, turned out in a body. There were 800 of them in line. Mr. Keenan was practically the father of the Jefferson Club and had spent $50,000 to put it on its feet But there were many other organizations in line, including several Jewish benevolent societies, two Italian-American political clubs, several German singing societies, and social and political clubs. The honorary pall bearers were two ex-Mayors of New York, Hugh J. Grant and Robert Van Wyck, together with Supreme Court Justices Leonard A. Giegerich, Joseph Newburger, Judge Morgan J. O'Brien, Judge Otto A. Rosalsky of General Sessions, Borough President John F. Ahearn, Controller Herman A. Metz, Charles F. Murphy, the leader of Tammany Hall; John Fox, President of the Democratic Club; Deputy Chamberlain John H. Campbell, Congressman Timothy I. Sullivan, Robert A. Pinkerton. Richard Croker, Jr., Civil Justice Hoffman, Congressman William Sulzer, William Hanna, Gerald Fitzgibbon, Borough President Coler of Brooklyn, David Gideon, Dr. Henry Berg, William Tait, David Buckley, Abraham Rosman, Thomas Shiels, John F. Carroll, and School Commissioner Abraham Stern. Lieut. Gov. Chanler was also there, with Congressman Goldfogle, Tom Sharkey, the pugilist; Coroner Julius Harburger, John C. Sheehan, City Magistrate Joseph Moss, Judge Foster, Judge O'Sullivan, and every Tammany leader In New York. It required fifteen open carriages to carry the floral pieces, some of which stood ten feet in height. At St. Brigid's Church a requiem mass was sung, the Rev. William J. Donahue being the celebrant, Father Rossi acting as deacon, and Father Flood acting as sub-deacon. Nearly all of those who attended the services in the church followed the remains to Calvary Cemetery, the funeral procession passing through the streets of the east side and crossing to Williamsburg by way of the Williamsburg Bridge.

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