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Donaby, Richard, was born in Norfolk. England, December 6, 1835, and was a son of Thomas Donaby, a well known
brewer. At the age of twenty one Mr. Donahy shipped on a merchant vessel bound to Calcutta, where he served with
the British East India Company for one year. helping to quell the mutiny of 1856-57. In the spring of 1857 he came
to New York city where he remained eight months, when he went to Norfolk, Ma., enlisting in the United States Navy
as able seaman, on board the battle ship, Preble, which was almost immediately ordered to Paraguay, S. A.. to settle
the disagreement of the fall of 1858; after a two years cruise his ship returned to Boston, where he was honorably
discharged. He returned to New York where at the first call for volunteers, in the spring of 1861, he re-enlisted
in the United States Navy and sailed on the Powhattan, commanded by (then) Lieut. David D. Porter. At the expiration
of his term of enlistment, in the fall of 1864, he returned to New York city, and entering the service of the New
York Central Railroad Company, was sent to Albany as a carpenter (having learned and follownd that occupation previous
to leaving his home in England, in 1856.) He remained in the Albany shops for fourteen years, when he was transferred
to the shops at Niagara Falls as foreman of repairs, and is still in active service in that capacity.
From:
Landmarks of Niagara County, New York
Edited by William Pool
D. Mason & Company, Publishers, 1897
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