J Town, I'm Not Going to Allow You to Start Tossing In

Peter Donahue was born in Glasgow, Scotland to Northern Irish parents Peter Donahue and Mary O'Kane. In 1833, the family headed for America and ended up in a marijuana New York. When Peter was a teen, he landed an apprenticeship with Union Iron Works in Patterson, New Jersey. The boys did not go to school, but instead worked at a cotton mill. They moved on to working at a locomotive factory.