Name: Beaver Island-born artist John Aloysius “Allie” McDonough dies, 2010
Start: 2010-02-28
End: 2010-02-28
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2010-02-28
Kind: Death
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: deathfamilyheritagecommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

John Aloysius “Allie” McDonough died on February 28, 2010, at age 105. The April Beacon obituary describes his Beaver Island birth, the McDonough family and its move to Manistique, his Chicago art education, and paintings, stories, and poems that preserved memories of the Island.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper obituary and reminiscence, not a civil record, complete family history, or catalog of McDonough’s artwork.

Sources

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Sources

Marie LaFreniere and Beaver Island community, "Allie McDonough RIP," Beaver Island Forum, February 28–March 7, 2010.
The forum reports McDonough’s February 28 death at age 105 and reproduces a Chicago Tribune obituary and family account describing his Beaver Island birth, art, poetry, and memories of the island. The Beacon remains the stronger held source; the forum copy adds contemporaneous community circulation.
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Beaver Beacon, April 2010, "John A. McDonough."
Reports Allie McDonough's February 28 death at age 105, Beaver Island birth and family, Chicago art education, island paintings, poems, and recollections of early Beaver life. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2010-04_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, April 2010, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the obituary and reproduced poems.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2010-04_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island-born artist John Aloysius “Allie” McDonough dies, 2010”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-john-mcdonough-death-2010/, accessed [date], citing Marie LaFreniere and Beaver Island community, "Allie McDonough RIP," Beaver Island Forum, February 28–March 7, 2010. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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