Timothy Sr. and Catherine (Quinlan) McAuliffe were Irish immigrants. They moved to the Cleveland Avenue farm around 1871. They had three children: Mary, Jerry, and Timothy Jr. The younger McAuliffes would spend the rest of their lives together on that farm. None of them ever married.
I will let Jocelyn explain the relationship of the McAuliffes with the Hahns, in her own words:
Sometimes in the early 1900s Mary [McAuliffe] took in homeless boys in order to help with farm chores, as well as perhaps give extra income. Among those boys were my father Edward Hahn and his 2 older brothers, Arthur Jr., and Hubert. The 2 older boys arrived first, probably in 1911 and Edward in 1912.
(Arthur Hahn Sr., the boys' father, was born in Sydney, Australia — their mother, Lilian, perhaps born in England, later emigrated to Australia. Arthur Sr. was a singer and had been entertaining in Vaudeville in Australia as well as New Zealand. Little is known about Lilian but she may have been an entertainer as well. In 1902 they left that area, along with their 2 boys born in Australia and New Zealand. Eventually they ended up in Chicago where Lilian died in 1906, having given birth to my father sometime earlier there although his birth registration has never been found. After Lilian died, Arthur continued traveling on the Vaudeville circuit; the boys went to orphanages and/or lived with friends of their father's. In 1911 the 2 older boys arrived in Hobart at the McAuliffe farm, but it is unknown to me how Arthur Sr. found this place. Edward later arrived to join his brothers.)
As the boys grew into their teens, Arthur and Hubert left the McAuliffe's in order to find jobs. Occasionally they came back for awhile, but in general did not stay. Arthur Jr. became a stonemason and eventually built at least 3 homes in Hobart which remain standing today; he and his family stayed in the Lake County region all his life, as far as I know. Hubert soon moved to the west coast where he remained until he died.
Edward, however, spent his teen years on the farm and attended Hobart High School. In 1931 when he married Mildred Nelson from Lake Station/East Gary. During these years he and Mary developed a close bond which lasted through the rest of her life (she died in 1945). Edward paid the taxes on the land when she couldn't, helped her with maintenance, and supported her in many other ways. He became the heir to the McAuliffe property since Mary, Tim (junior) and Jerry had no children.
To begin the McAuliffe/Hahn collection, here is the McAuliffe farmhouse, in an undated photo.
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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society and Jocelyn Hahn Johnson.
No one in the photo is identified, but I like to tell myself that the man at left is Timothy McAuliffe, Sr., and the woman standing by the fence with her arms crossed is his wife, Catherine. (We have a photo of Catherine, but this photo is too blurry to make a positive ID.) Perhaps the younger woman at right is their only daughter, Mary.
If that man is Timothy, then the photo must date to before February 23, 1911; if that woman is Catherine, then it must date to before October 26, 1899.
Here is Catherine's obituary, from the Hobart Gazette of Nov. 4, 1899:
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And here is Timothy Sr.'s, from the Hobart Gazette of March 3, 1911:
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