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Show Death of Mrs. J. Sadlier. Montreal, April 5.-Mrs. j; A. Sadlier the .well known author, died todav in J5ulty' in her e-Rhy-thfrd year Mrs Sadl e was especially known through her tales of "Irish Life," . For years she ' resided in New York, and moved to Canada some fifteen years ago to live near a married daughter. She . was born in Cootehill, County Cavah, ' her father, Francis Madden, being a man of culture and literary attainments. She emigrated to Canada in 1344. and there met and married James A. Sadlier, a member of the firm of D. and J. Sadlier, New York publishers, pub-lishers, who had a branch in Canada. She began her literary, work before she left Ireland, and continued.it in Canada, Can-ada, j .When she settled in New York shr was a constant contributor to the old j Freeman's Journal, the Tablet, the Pilot Pi-lot and American Celt, in which papers many, of her interesting stories were first -published. For some time she edited ed-ited the Tablet. Her last notable work was a series of delightful reminiscences, contributed to the Ave Marie, and ;t is matter of regret they -were not longer, for she had met many, celebrated men during her residence here. Among other distinguished Catholics who crcssed Mrs. Sadlier's path, was the illustrious Father Mathew. She had first met him at dinner in Ireland, with h,- father, then a widower, and renewed re-newed the aerinalntano ln'.6w Ynrk many .years later, when she was the guest of another admiring friend, the great Archbishop Hughes. Father. Tom Burke, John Francis Ma-guire, Ma-guire, mayor of Cork, and member for Cork City in the house of commons, and who was also a colleague of Gavan Duffy In the tentative Irish parliamentary parliamen-tary party of the early fifties, visited New York and were on more than one cecasion the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sadlier. The former was one of those, who organized a public dinner tendered by representative Irishmen to their distinguished dis-tinguished fellow countrymen. In 1893 she was given the Laetare medal. One of her daughters is Miss Anna T. Sadlier. who has inherited no little of her mother's ability as a writer. wri-ter. A son became a Jesuit. The remains of the deceased were brought to this city, and after a requiem requi-em mass on Thursday morning at St. Ignatius' church, at which Archbishop Earley presided, the funeral took place to the family plot in Calvary cemetery. |