His family emigrated from Clare, Ireland to England. He was born in Wales in 1846 as his family traveled there and he grew up in England. He left for the United States in 1866, at the age of 19. He built his home at 230 Cypress St, Brookline and operated a business as a mason/plasterer there.

One of ten children of James Moloney, she and her family lived at 230 Cypress St. with her parents. She served as chair of the Democratic Town Committee; was elected as a member of the School Committee in 1925 and served for six years; and was a Town Meeting member, president of the American Legion Auxiliary of the Brookline Post, and a member of the National Civic Foundation. In 1939, a playground was created at Cypress and Franklin Streets and named the Margaret Robinson Playground.

Bicycling club. James Moloney, Jr. was president in 1904

Rear: Duke Connelly, Mike Cunniff, Tim Killion, Fred Fleming, Pat Rutledge, Sgt. Connors, Jim Casey, George Driscoll, Ed Mac Murray

Front: Joe O’Connell, Walter Johnson, Jim Ward, Eddie Moloney, John Donovan

Son of James Moloney, Sr., brother to Margaret and James Jr. who are also featured in this collection.

Home of Lawrence T. Moloney, his wife Katherine, and four children.

Circa 1940. 83 Brook St. is visible in the rear.

Lawrence Moloney, Jr.; graduated from St. Mary High School in 1937, attended Suffolk University and Georgetown Law School. Despite the fact that he held a civil service job in Washington DC, which exempted him from the military draft, he enlisted in the Army in 1943. He became an officer (Lieutenant) and was deployed overseas with the 128th infantry division in the fall of 1944. He was killed in action December 20, 1944 at Elsenbourne Ridge, Belgium, in the Battle of the Bulge. His body was initially interred in the Field of Flanders, Belgium, but was flown back to the US in 1947 and returned to Brookline where he was buried in a military service at Holyhood Cemetery in Chestnut Hill. Lt. Lawrence T. Moloney Square at the intersection of Cypress and Walnut Streets is named after him.

Lawrence Moloney graduated from St. Mary’s High School in 1937, attended Suffolk University and Georgetown Law School. Despite the fact that he held a civil service job in Washington DC, which precluded him from the military draft, he enlisted in the Army in 1943. He became an officer (Lieutenant) and was eventually deployed overseas with the 128th infantry division in the fall of 1944. He was killed in action December 20, 1944, at Elsenbourne Ridge, Belgium, in the Battle of the Bulge. His body was initially interred by the military in the Field of Flanders, Belgium, but was finally flown back to the US in 1947 and returned to Brookline, where he was buried in a military service at Holyhood Cemetery in Chestnut Hill. Lt. Lawrence T. Moloney Square at the intersection of Cypress and Walnut Sts. is named in his honor.

Mothers who lost a son in WWII. Katherine Moloney, who lost her son Lawrence in WWII, was active in the group, she is in the second row, second from the left.

Margaret "Mardi" Robinson, daughter of Margaret (Moloney) Robinson is at the end of the second row (There is a hole in the photo at her left arm).

Billy Ward was a classmate of Lawrence Moloney, Jr. and lived at 90 Brook St. The William Billy Ward Playground, located between Aspinwall Ave. and Brook St., is named for him.

Senior class photo of Pauline Moloney, daughter of Lawrence T. Moloney.

This is the southeast corner with Boylston St. The new tracks are being laid out to the Newton line. The Burke store has been at this location for several years - it can be assumed that he was anticipating an increase in traffic and business from the new trolley line.

(ID) 024
(Slide ID) 5-17
[Source: William Robert Murphy Collection]

Jonathan Lambert Dexter worked for many years as a partner at Sands, Furber & Co., a large wholesale fruit and produce dealer in Faneuil Hall Market, Boston. His wife, Mary L. Seaverns, was the sister of Henry Seaverns of H. G. Seaverns & Co., also a wholesale fruit dealer in Faneuil Hall Market. They married in 1875 and moved in with her widowed stepmother, Lucy S. Seaverns, whose house was on Harvard St. just north of the Coolidge & Brother store. Lucy Seaverns died at the end of 1885 and the Dexters moved into their new house at 390 Harvard St., two blocks away between Williams St. and Fuller St. Mary Dexter died in 1901 and Jonathan Dexter remained in the house until his death in 1926.

Shown in the photo are Lucy Amelia Dexter (1876-1940), who married and lived for years on nearby Stetson St., and Frank Seaverns Dexter (1891-1959), who remained in the house along with his sister, Mary, until his death in 1959, both were unmarried. The house was then torn down and the property acquired by Congregation Kehillath Israel which was next door at 380 Harvard St.