for cruisers and battleships at the yard. he also won appropriations of $750,000 for the construction of the new Philadelphia Mint building. He resumed business activities in Philadelphia and died in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, aged 74. He is interred at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania. References |- 1838 births 1912 deaths Burials at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery People from County Tyrone Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) Democratic Party Pennsylvania state senators Philadelphia City Council members Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians