[John Frederick]. Irish-American journalist, born in Galway, Ireland, in 1846; was educated in private schools, and became identified, while still a boy, with the Irish revolutionary movement. In 1864 he left Ireland for America, and served for about a year in the Union army. He became attached to the press of Chicago in 1865, and in this capacity witnessed the Fenian raids in Canada in 1866 and 1870. Thereafter he served in various capacities on other Chicago newspapers, and as a press correspondent visited the Rio Grande, Texas, and old Mexico, and was with General Miles during the historical campaign against Sitting Bull in 1879. Mr. Finerty organized the Irish Land League convention which met in Chicago in 1881, and which raised $500,000 for the cause of Ireland. In 1882 he began the publication of the Citizen newspaper, and in November of that year was elected to Congress as an independent from the second district of Illinois. He published Warpath and Bivouac; or, The Conquest of the Sioux Indians (1890).
