papers at the Representative Women's and the Catholic Congress were among the best read. Of her style, Author Walter Lecky said:Although the youngest of Chicago's literary coterie, she is a writer of marked ability. There is a graceful mingling of strength and delicacy in her writings. If she will have patience, learn to use the pruning hook, her future is assured. The product of Ireland in America, a Celt in artistic environment—the only environment natural to a Celt—she points to what the Celt must be before another century lapses. Death Mary Gallery died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 12, 1941. She was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Evanston, Illinois. Selected works By Mary Josephine Onahan "John Mitchel's Daughter", Catholic World, 1886 "Chicago's White City by the Sea", The Irish Monthly, 1893 Catholic Women's Part in Philanthropy, 1893 "An Incident in Old Bologna, The Irish Monthly, 1895 "Pierre Loti", Catholic World, 1895 By Mary Onahan Gallery Life of William J. Onahan : stories of men who made Chicago, 1929 References Attribution Bibliography External links 1866 births 1941 deaths 19th-century American writers 19th-century American women writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American women writers Editors of Illinois newspapers Writers from Chicago American Roman Catholic religious writers American women non-fiction writers Women newspaper editors