Geo Mahoney House

Geo Mahoney House

Captain George Dickey Mahoney's home on Salmond Street (built 1892) PERSONAL HISTORY Capt. Mahoney was born Jan 4, 1849 and died in 1931. He was married to Ida Albertine Wilson Mahoney (1859 - 1951). They had one child, Georgia who died in infancy (1878 - 1880). The family is buried in Grove Cemetery. On September 9, 1881 the schooner M. W. Drew, Captain George Dickey Mahoney, from Jacksonville, Florida, for New London, Connecticut, was swept by a gale off North Carolina, became waterlogged, and was abandoned. The crew was taken off by the steamer Seminole. She was of 165 tons, built in Belfast by Carter & Co., in 1870, and was uninsured. On March 14, 1886 Captain George Dickey Mahoney, of the schooner Fannie A. Gorham, rendered valuable aid in rescuing passengers from the Oregon, a Cunard steamer of 7000 tons, which was wrecked by collision with a vessel near New York. In September, Captain Mahoney received from the British Government a gold medal as a testimonial. It is of solid gold, the size of a twenty-dollar piece. On one side is a vignette of Queen Victoria, with the following motto : " Victoria D: G: Britanarium Regina F : D:" On the reverse is a wreath and crown with the words: "Presented by the British Government for Saving the Lives of British Subjects." On the edge of the medal appears the captain's name and the date of the rescue, March 14, 1886.