Background
Cudahy was born on Saint Patrick"s Day in Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland. A few months after he was born, his family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Cudahy was born on Saint Patrick"s Day in Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland. A few months after he was born, his family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
He worked his way up at the Plankinton and Armour meat packing plant in the Menomonee River Valley, becoming the superintendent in 1874. The company became known as "Cudahy Brothers." The company changed its name to "Patrick Cudahy, Incorporated." in 1957, long after Cudahy"s death. This land was in the former Town of Lake, which is now divided between the municipalities of Milwaukee, Saint Francis, and Cudahy.
Cudahy "had a bittersweet relationship with the village of Cudahy" in part because he supported temperance and "fought against liquor".
He "argued with the Cudahy Common Council about the spread of taverns in the village", although he also worked to start assist business development and the construction of a new library. Patrick Cudahy is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Milwaukee.
Patrick Cudahy"s family includes: Patrick Cudahy, Senior, father (1849-1919), self Michael Francis Cudahy (since 1886), son (President of Patrick Cudahy, Incorporated from 1919 onwards) Richard Dickson Cudahy (1926-2015), grandson (jurist) Robert J. Beck (since 1961), great-great grandson (educator and international law scholar) John Clarence Cudahy (1887-1943), son (lawyer, real estate broker, and United States ambassador to Poland, Ireland and Belgium) Helen Cudahy (1890/1-1917), daughter, committed suicide by leaping from a ship into the ocean Edward Aloysius Cudahy, Junior. (1884-1961), nephew.