There is so much family information in this news report that I thought I would transcribe it and add to the blog in case anyone searches for these names.
The Sun, New York, USA
July 21, 1894
NOT ONE SULLIVAN LEFT
Did the Public Administrator Search the Third Assembly District.
Dennis Sullivan, a member of the Produce Exchange, a bachelor, died in the fall of 1889, leaving his estate of $60.000 to sister, Sarah Ann Sullivan, whom he made sole executor of his will. She had about $50,000 of it left on her death, on Jan. 8. 1892. She left no will and no near relatives and the Public Administrator took charge of the estate. A large part of the earth has since been scoured at his instance, and with some young lawyers to aid him, to find some of her distant relatives. When all have returned from the chase the matter of determining who are the heirs was sent to William H. Willis as referee. Mr Willis made a report that the estate should go to Michael Cussen, a first cousin, a school teacher, and to Cussen's half-sister, Ellen Donovan, both of Melbourne, Australia, who came on to prove their claims of kinship.
The Sullivans came from county Clare, Ireland, from which place their nearest of kin emigrated from thirty to forty years ago, and with the exception of the two Australian cousins, all trace of the family has been lost. One first cousin, Ann Malone, left for service in England thirty-six years ago, but trace of her was lost in London. James Sullivan, another first cousin, came to this country in the forties and served through the war. In 1867 he boarded at the house of a Mrs. Dyer, in Pacific street, Brookly. Patrick Sullivan, an uncle, came here in 1860 and drifted to the West or South but traces of him was lost four years after his arrival, when he ceased to write home.
The Public Administrator opposed the confirmation of the report on the ground that it had not shown that the other relatives are dead and have left no issue. Surrogate Fitzgerald reserved the decision.
