Christopher William TIERNAN b. 25 Nov 1867 District of Columbia, USA d. : Coon Family Genealogy Pages

1867 -

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Birth 25 Nov 1867 District of Columbia, USA [1]

Gender Male

Newspaper Article 10 Aug 1916 Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska

Competition between restaurants across the street from the Burlington depot resulted in Christopher W. Tiernan and Christopher A. Tiernan each drawing fines of $1 and costs in police court Thursday morning. Mrs. Anna Kuntz, who has been running a restaurant across the alley, testified that the Tiernan family had been using unfair means to run her out of business, had slandered her and told customers that their place was not respectable and unclean. A similar complaint against Mrs. Maria Tiernan was dismissed. The Tiernans claimed that the competition at the depot had been going on for many years. The costs in the case amounted to $10.45. The Tiernans gave notice of appeal.
Lincoln Daily News, Aug 10, 1916; pg ten

Newspaper Article 10 Aug 1916 Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska

FRICTION BETWEEN RESTAURANT OWNERS AIRED IN COURT.
Friction between two restaurant owners, whose establishments are located in the same block, across from the Burlington depot, was threshed out in police court on Thursday. At the conclusion of a trial lasting two hours, Christopher W. Tiernan, 230 North Seventh street, restaurant proprietor was fined $1 and costs and his son, Christopher A. Tiernan was given a similar fine for disturbing the peace. The total in each case amounted to $12.45. A complaint against Maria Tiernan was dismissed. Defendants gave notice of appeal.
Anna Kuntz was the complaining witness. She testified that the Tiernans attempted to injure her business by making untrue statements regarding the quality of food sold and against her character. The defendants denied this. They said arguements took place between "spielers" for each place but denied use of any indecent language.
Attorney Ledwith representing the defendants said the situation was only keen competition which had existed for the last twenty years.
-The Lincoln Daily Star, August 10, 1916; pg. 3; Lincoln, Nebraska

Newspaper Article 29 Dec 1916 Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska

FINED RESTAURANT MAN ON CHARGE OF CALLING WOMAN RIVAL NAMES.
Chris W. Tiernan, a restaurant keeper of 230 North Seventh street, was fined $25 and costs by Police Judge Fullerton Friday morning on the charge of disturbing the peace. The complainant was Mrs. Keturah Freeman, who had been employed by a rival restaurant. Mrs. Freeman testified that Mr. Tiernan called her names, referring to her as a pelican and a stork. The defendant denied the charge of the woman. He declared that he did not even know what a stork or a pelican was.
"What is a stork and what is a pelican?" he asked Prosecutor Mutz while under cross examination. Mr. Mutz did not enlighten him.
The evidence showed that the case was the outgrowth of trouble between rival food purveyors on North Seventh street. Mrs. Freeman said she had been asked to go out in front and drum for trade for the restaurant and while she was performing her task Tiernan turned on her and abused her. She did not like the reflection he had made on her thirteen-year-old daughter who was working in the eating place.
"He told her to go in the house and get a hammer and nails and tack down her dress." she said. "I don't think he should have jumped on a child."
Jake Shapiro, a spieler employed at the same place as Mrs. Freeman, corroborated her story that Tiernan had called her names. He testified to the clownish tactics of the defendant towards his rival.
The attorney for Tiernan gave notice that he would appeal the case to the district court. Bond in the sum of $100 was furnished to perfect the appeal.
Lincoln Daily News, September 29, 1916; pg.1; Lincoln, Nebraska

Newspaper Article 03 Oct 1922 Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska

*[during Prohibition]
TIERNAN FINED $100
-Chris W. Tiernan, 55, arrested at 2;05 a.m. Monday by Officers Rymer and Waite at the Rock Island depot, with a black grip said to contain twenty-four pints of liquor, was fined $100 and costs in police court Tuesday morning on a charge of illegal possession of liquor.
The Lincoln Star, Oct 3, 1922; pg two

Newspaper Article 12 May 1923 Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska

TIERNAN CONVICTION UPHELD
Chris Tiernan the second was found guilty Friday afternoon of drunkeness by District Judge W.E. Stewart and fined $30 and costs. Tiernan said he was unable to pay the fine. Tiernan was found guilty in police court and fined $25. He appealed to the district court.
-The Lincoln Star, May 12, 1923; pg two

Newspaper Article 23 Sep 1925 Omaha, , Nebraska

OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 23.-(AP)- Heir to an income of about $700 a month, Christopher W. Tiernan, 59, returned to Omaha last night from attending the funeral of his father at Lincoln, Neb., and went to work at his old job of potato peeler in a Douglas street cafe.
As he bent over a bushel basket of potatoes this noon he explained that he intends to contest his father's will. He also explained the potatoes were late in arriving and that he had little time to discuss matters of finance.
By the terms of the will, his father's estate, estimated, he said, at between $200,000 and $250,000 by his attorney in Lincoln, is held in trust by the First Trust company of Lincoln. The trust provides that Chris and a daughter of the elder Tiernan, Mrs. Katherine Tiernan Burdick, are to share equally in the bulk of the income, estimated at $1,700 a month, with the residue to fo to the St. Thomas orphanage Lincoln.
Tiernan said he does not recognize the trust provision in the will and wants his share of the estate itself, not merely the income.
He refused to discuss his relations with his father. He has been preparing vegetables at the restaurant where he was found today, for two months, earning $15 a week.
Tiernan was seperated from his wife, he said, in 1916. He has two sons, Chris A., 28, and W.E., 38, both of Lincoln, and two daughters Mrs. Christina Schlager of Lincoln and Mrs. Emily Lewis, Falls City.
His employer today said Tiernan had told him the estate amounted to "about $780,000."
-The Lincoln Star, Sept 23, 1925; Lincoln, Neb.

Newspaper Article 13 Oct 1925 Omaha, , Nebraska

Quits Restaurant Job to Try For Control of $250,000 Estate
OMAHA, Oct. 13.-Chris W. Tiernan, 59, has given up his job of peeling potatoes at the Wymore cafe, 1313 Douglas street, at $15 a week, and in Lincoln Saturday began his fight to control the $250,000 estate left by his father, Christopher Tiernan, who died recently.
By launching his court fight, Tiernan rejects an income of $700 a month, offered by the First Trust company of Lincoln under the terms of a will said to have been written shortly before the father's death. His petition, filed in the county court, asks that he be appointed administrator of his father's estate.
Tiernan is not living in Lincoln in the style to which his fortune would soon enable him to become accustomed. He took a small room in a private home, and carried on in the same modest manner of life that has been his since he came to Omaha in 1888.
His attorney, C.J. Campbell, announced that Tiernan would not recognize the supposed deeds of trust the father gave the First Trust company of Lincoln, by which Tiernan and a sister, Mrs. Katherine Tiernan Burdick of California, were to share an income of $1,700 a month, with the residue of the income from the estate to go to the St. Thomas Orphanage in Lincoln.
"The trust company also asserts it has a will, made by the elder Tiernan a day or so before he died," said Campbell. "We do not mention it in our petition, because it has never been produced by the trust company.
"If the trust company recognizes the will, it will thus implicitly deny the validity of the trust deeds it claims to have."
Tiernan said he had no other interest than to have the court decide his rights to his father's estate, which consists largely of Lincoln property.
Recently in Omaha Tiernan said that in coming into his fortune, he would not overlook his children. He has two sons, W.E. Tiernan, 38, and Chris A. Tiernan, 28, of Lincoln; and two daughters, Mrs. Christine Schlager of Lincoln and Mrs. Emily Lewis, Falls City, Neb.
-The Lincoln Star;13 Oct 1925, Lincoln, Nebraska

Age: 59

Newspaper Article 14 Dec 1925 Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska

TIERNAN IS NOW ENJOYING LIFE ON WEST COAST
Chris W. Tiernan, Omaha restaurant worker who inherited with his sister the bulk of the income from the estate of his father, Christopher W. Tiernan of Lincoln, early in September, is having a lively time seeing the country on his share of the estimated $1,700 a month, according to letters and postcards received in Omaha by his former employers, says an article in an Omaha newspaper.
His suit to gain possession of his share of the fortune itself, is pending in the courts here, but he intends to keep on spending in California until called back for the trial.
"With nobody to care about you, it makes a fellow feel blue, but I should worry, I ain't peeling potatoes and eating stew." he remarks poetically in a letter written December 2.
After visiting El Paso, Tiernan went to Los Angeles to look up some former Omaha and Lincoln residents he knew there, and write:
"Well they knew I had more than 30 cents so they took me out to see the town with the shade down. I wish you were here that first night."
After the next night he wrote:
"We went out into the hills. O boy, talk about dresses. Two threads of silk make a whole costume. Get your smoked glasses or you will go blind. I still had my eyesight so the next night we had a little party. They said it was a nice place to dine but the first look down the line I began to wonder if my eyes were still in my head. Top sirloin, $3.50; French fried, $1; coffee 25 cents. and everything in proportion. I stared and let the others order and then put up a stiff upper lip and dove in like I was an old timer. But I called the head waiter to turn on the fan."
Tiernan went from Los Angeles to San Diego because he heard the inhabitants there were of a more lively nature, he wrote. His ticket gives him nine months to see the country, and he intends to stay out the tune.
-The Lincoln Star, December 14, 1925;pg. ten; Lincoln, Nebraska

Newspaper Article 18 May 1926 Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska

TIERNANS TAKE $60,000, ESTATE TO ORPHANAGE.
HEIRS CONTESTING FATHER'S WILL DROP CASE ON SETTLEMENT.
SON DEMANDS SHARE IN CASH-DRIVES AWAY WITH CURRENCY.
The Christopher Tiernan will contest was closed Monday afternoon when the son, C.W.Tiernan, and the daughter, Mrs. Catherine Loepeer, signed quit-claim deeds to all their father's property in return for $30,000 paid each of them by the St.Thomas Orphanage.
...The agreement made also specifies that $37,500 is to be divided among the children of these two as soon as they have also signed quit claim deeds...Mr. Tiernan has four children but only three will share in the division of the $37,000. The other, W.E. Tiernan, has already received an 80-acre farm.
...When offered this settlement Monday, Chris demanded that the $30,000 be paid him in cash. He took it in $1, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills, then, accompanied by Mrs Loepeer, who had accepted a cashier's check, called a taxi and drove away.
The Lincoln Star, May 18, 1926; pg four

Newspaper Article 10 Oct 1927 Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska

POTATO PEELER IS BECOMING WEALTHY
CHRIS TIERNAN, WHO INHERITED $30,000 A YEAR AGO, HAS RUN IT UP TO $160,000...
Omaha, Oct. 10.-(U.P.)-Chris Tiernan, former Omaha potato peeler, who, his former associates predicted, would 'soon squader' his fortune, after it became known that he inherited $30,000 on the death of his father in Lincoln a year ago, came back to town long enough Saturday to prove to his friends that they were wrong. Tiernan, who now calls southern California his home, confided to his cronies that he has run the $30,000 up to $160,000 and that he hasn't got a good start yet. He hopes to be in the millianaire class in a few years, he said. "Women and drink have no place in my life," Chris asserted. Tiernan, who refused to take checks from the administrator of his father's estate, and insisting that he be paid his $30,000 in $1,$5 and $10 bills, has lost his fear of banking institutions, he said, and now does business in a big way.
The Lincoln State Journal, Oct 10 1927; pg. two

Person ID I2913 Coon Family | The Gray branch

Last Modified 29 Oct 2008

Father Christopher TIERNAN, b. 20 Nov 1839, , , , Ireland , d. 15 Sep 1925, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska

Mother Emily O'BRIEN, b. Abt 1841, , , , Ireland

Family ID F1201 Group Sheet

SPOUSE Maria GRAY, b. 24 Jul 1870, , , , Ireland , d. After 1948

Children

	1. William TIERNAN, b. 20 Feb 1891, , , Nebraska , d. Oct 1974, Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska
	2. Emily A. TIERNAN, b. 12 Feb 1889, , , Nebraska
	3. Christopher A. TIERNAN, b. Aug 1896, , , Nebraska
	4. Christina TIERNAN, b. Aug 1896, , , Nebraska

Last Modified 28 Oct 2008

Family ID F1075 Group Sheet

Notes

Sources

[S22] 1900 United States Federal Census, United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Lincoln Ward 5, Lancaster, Nebraska; Roll: T623 933; Page: 1B; ..
Christopher W. Tiernan, 32, Nov 25 1867; Maria Tiernan, 29, Jul 24 1870; Emily A. Tiernan, 11, Feb 12, 1889; Willie E. Tiernan, 9, Feb 20 1891; Christopher Tiernan, 3, Aug 1896; Christina Tiernan, 3, Aug 1896.