Biography
Hourihan, Martin William b. October 13, 1913 (1905) (1907) (1910) (1911), Towanda, Pennsylvania; Irish American; Six and a half years prior military service in the US Army; Single; Seaman and Teacher; CP 1926 (1928) and IWW; Received Passport# 359480 on December 31, 1936 which listed his address as Mobile, Alabama, and Towanda, Pennsylvania; Sailed January 23, 1937 aboard the Champlain; Arrived in Spain on February 2, 1937; Served with the XV BDE, Lincoln BN, Co. 2, Section 3, Section Leader; In March promoted BN Adjutant then BN Commander; Promoted to Regimental Adjutant prior to the Brunete Campaign; WIA April 15, 1937 at Jarama and at Brunete while attempting to extricate the pinned Lincoln BN on the first day of the Brunete Offensive; Returned to the US on June 24, 1938 aboard the Washington; WWII US Army Air Force, 307th Air Base Group, HQ Squadron, McDill Air Force Base, Florida, enlisted September 1942 Discharged December 20, 1945; d. December 4, 1995.
Sources: Sail; Scope of Soviet Activity; Cadre; Lincoln; Repatriation List (5/14/1938, ll. 181); Voros-Jarama; RGASPI; Daily Worker June 25, 1938. [possible Find-a-Grave# 98204936 dob 10/13/1911] Hourihan provided multiple dates of birth on multiple documents. Code A
Photographs: Martin Hourihan. True Americans; and Martin Hourihan and Mirko Markovics, Folder 191, Box 2, Folder 17, ALBA Photo 177-191043; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries. Martin Hourihan. Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Photograph Collection; ALBA Photo 15; Series I Photographs 1930s-1990s, Box 1, Folder 129. Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.
Sources: Sail; Scope of Soviet Activity; Cadre; Lincoln; Repatriation List (5/14/1938, ll. 181); Voros-Jarama; RGASPI; Daily Worker June 25, 1938. [possible Find-a-Grave# 98204936 dob 10/13/1911] Hourihan provided multiple dates of birth on multiple documents. Code A
Photographs: Martin Hourihan. True Americans; and Martin Hourihan and Mirko Markovics, Folder 191, Box 2, Folder 17, ALBA Photo 177-191043; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries. Martin Hourihan. Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Photograph Collection; ALBA Photo 15; Series I Photographs 1930s-1990s, Box 1, Folder 129. Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.