Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Dolan, James November 9, 1853 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, page 429
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    James Dolan, the accommodating proprietor of the "Central Hotel" at
Vanderbilt, was born at Brandy Gap Tunnel, near Clarksburg, West Virginia, 
November 9, 1853, and is a son of Micheal Dolan and Mary Burk Dolan.  
    Micheal Dolan Sr, grandfather, came from Ireland to Clarksburg, West
Virginia, about 1846 and died at Grafton aged seventy six years.  His wife
was Mary Cummings, who died before he left Ireland.
    Micheal Dolan, father, was a native of Ireland; he came with his father
in 1846 to Virginia, now West Virginia, where he married Miss Mary Burk,
daughter of Patrick Burk and Mary Barry Burk, natives of Ireland who are
now living in Buckhannon, West Virginia, he in the ninety sixth year of
his age, and she in the ninety third.
    James Dolan was educated in the primary schools of Virginia and the
academy at Clarksburg; in 1870 was crippled in an explosion at Brooks
Tunnel in Somerset county, Penna.  The first regular business that he
engaged in was keeping a grocery store at Clarksburg in 1871.  In 1874 
when able to resume work, he removed to Hill Farm Coke Works in Fayette
county, and engaged as a contractor at the mines.  He next became
proprietor for two years of a grocery store at Dunbar, and then removed
in 1883 to Braddock's Fields where he opened at conducted for eighteen
months the Central Hotel.  
US Steel's Edger Thompson Plant stands on the site of Braddock's Field.
    Disposing of his Braddock's Fields property in 1885, he returned to
Fayette county, opened the Central Hotel at Vanderbilt, and has continued
to run it successfully up to the present time.  
    In 1879 he married Miss Mary Elizabeth Thornton Rogan, a native of
Ireland.  The father died at Clarksburg, West Virginia, in 1887.  To their
union were born four children: William Francis Dolan, James Edward Dolan,
Arthur Augustus Dolan, and Mary Ellen Dolan.  Mrs Dolan died August 5, 1888.

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