Background
Devlin was born at Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland, in 1814, the son of Jeremiah Devlin, a farmer and merchant tailor, and his wife, Elizabeth Foster.
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Daniel Devlin
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As a young merchant tailor, Daniel emigrated to America in 1833. Daniel Devlin was named City Chamberlain of New York in 1861, and remained in that position until his death. After the outbreak of the American Civil War, he headed the executive committee charged with recruitment and financing for the Irish Brigade of the Union Army.
In politics, he was a Democrat, and played a prominent role in the New York State Democratic convention in 1864.
He was a director of the Union Trust Company of New York, and a prominent Catholic layman who in 1863 helped found the Society for the Protection of Destitute Roman Catholic Children in the City of New York and in 1864 established a scholarship at Saint Francis Xavier College. Devlin died in New York on February 22, 1867.
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Roman Catholic -
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Democratic party