The Story of Thomas Egan

The story that we're about to talk about starts in Ireland but ends up in the Dakota territory before there's a state. We've got three boys, one older daughter, stepchild of Thomas and daughter of Mary. Catherine has married this man, James Van Horn, and then things start to not go well. The hostility led to a lot of acrimony between Catherine and her mother. It escalated to a point that James actually had to pay a fine for verbally assaulting Thomas.