Armagh County Ireland Archives Obituaries.....Kilpatrick, Thomas November 23, 1902 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/copyright.htm http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ ************************************************ File contributed for use in Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives by: Rosemary Nunnally rosemarykn@comcast.net March 27, 2010, 9:52 pm Brooklyn Daily Eagle, NY, November 1902 Thomas Kirkpatrick, one of the oldest builders in the city, died at his residence, 122 East Seventy-third street, Manhattan, yesterday, in his eighty-first year. He was born in Killyleagh, County Armagh, Ireland, in 1822, and came to this city in 1848, where he has been continuously engaged in the building business until his retirement about 5 years ago. He was a man of original and progressive ideas, and was a pioneer in building apartment houses. In 1853 he built in Thirtieth street, near Lexington avenue, Manhattan, the first apartment house in New York that contained bathrooms, hot and cold water, and other improvements. File at: http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/armagh/obits/k/kilpatri224gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/irfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb