Jeremiah Halleran

Halleran was born on March 18, 1843 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was educated at St. Mary's College there.^[1] He came to Newfoundland as a young child but returned to Nova Scotia to attend school. He trained to be a carpenter and joiner.^[2] Halleran worked in Little Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Portland, Maine, Boston and later Brooklyn, where he operated his own business. In 1875, he moved to Newfoundland and established a construction business. In 1879, in partnership with H.G. Herder, he set up a factory which manufactured wood products; the business also was involved in construction work. The factory was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1892.^[2]

Halleran was elected as a Liberal in 1889 but then ran unsuccessfully for reelection as an independent candidate in 1893. He was a member of the St. John's Mechanics' Society and was president from 1891 to 1894. Soon afterwards, he left Newfoundland and died in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1925.^[2]