Residents objected to East Side street name, but were defeated by a poem.
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Cool!
Joseph Donnelly was creative, witty and good at defusing conflict.
Carl, did he ever get a street named after him?
Virginia, There is no street named for Donnelly. His older brother, Patrick, was a teacher and principal at the Third Ward school for many years. He was said to have known every man, woman, and child in the Third Ward at the time of the Third Ward Fire of 1892 and shepherded thousands of boys and girls through their school years. So maybe the Donnelly family does deserve to have a street named for them.
Thanks,Carl. Despite the Third Ward being predominantly Irish in its earliest years there’s not much evidence of that in street names–except Corcoran Avenue named for the councilman who served for almost 44 years, as you described here..
http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2016/03/25/city-streets-tiny-corcoran-ave-raised-a-big-star/
Maybe something could be named for Donnelly. Given his contributions to educating the young, a public school would seem fitting.