Researching John Healy

Originating from a base of operations in Montana, he and Alfred B. Hamilton established a whiskey trading post near present-day Lethbridge, Alberta in 1869. The post was originally named after Hamilton, but a second, larger post nearby was given the name of Fort Whoop-Up.

Healy sold the fort to Dave Akers in 1876.

He then took up work as the sheriff of Chouteau County in Montana, a newspaper editor and a businessman in Fort Benton, Montana.

Healy moved to the North, operating a trading post at Dyea, Alaska, He later moved to Yukon Territory to operate a transportation company during the Klondike Gold Rush.

Healy died in 1908 as a rich and famous man.

He was buried in Seattle, Washington.

He was born in London in 1943 to Irish immigrant parents in London's Kentish Town. Leaving school at the age of 14, he spent his formative years in the army, where he had a successful boxing career. Dishonourably discharged for drunkenness and going absent without leave, Healy began a downward spiral that brought him into the subculture of London's homeless street drinkers. He spent fifteen years as a homeless alcoholic and was convicted of many petty crimes during this time.

Born on 2 January 1841 in Ballinafad, a village in the south of County Sligo in the west of Ireland, Healy was educated at Maynooth College, where he was ordained a priest in September 1867. He then served as a curate and parish priest in the Diocese of Elphin, before being offered two professorial chairs at Maynooth, those of Theology and Classics. He accepted the first and held it until 1883, when he became Prefect of Maynooth.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica on 3 December 1900, he was ordained to the priesthood on 11 June 1927. He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Gibraltar by Pope Pius XII on 18 July 1956. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 11 October 1956; the principal consecrator was the Most Reverend Gerald O'Hara, Bishop of Savannah, Georgia, USA, with the Right Reverend Cyril Cowderoy, Archbishop of Southwark, England and the Right Reverend John Petit, Bishop of Menevia, Wales, serving as co-consecrators. Bishop Healy participated in all the four sessions of the Second Vatican Council, held between in 1962 and 1965.

He died in office on 17 February 1973, aged 72.

Healy was a staunch Unionist, had shots were fired at his home during the War of Independence, he defended the Unionist cause in his writings in the Irish Times as his obituary in The Times of London it was noted that, he was the protagonist of a losing cause.

He died in 1934 at the age of 62 and was survived by his wife Adeline, born Adeline Alton in Cork, (1872–1961) whom he married in 1898 and two sons, Ernest Alton Healy a flight lieutenant with the RAF, and Lewis Edward Healy a journalist.

He is buried in Deans Grange Cemetery.