Michael was born about 1840 in County Roscommon, Ireland to Martin Grady and Maria Hopkins. He came to the United States in December 1865 and settled with his family in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he worked in a woolen mill.
Sources
"Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch, Michael R Grady, 9 July 1909; citing Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 473, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,313,602.
"United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch, Michael Grady, 1870. Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, p. 235.
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch, Michal Gradey, Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts; citing enumeration district (ED) 60, sheet 460A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), FHL microfilm 1,254,522.
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 16 May 2020), Michael Grady, Pittsfield Ward 1, Berkshire County, Massachusetts; citing ED 63, sheet 11B, family 210, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972); FHL microfilm 1,240,632.
"United States, New England, Petitions for Naturalization, 1787-1906," images, FamilySearch, Massachusetts > Berkshire County > Superior Court at Pittsfield > Petitions for naturalization, 1878-1879, pg 1-128 A > images 32–33 of 257; citing NARA NAID 4752894, National Archives at Boston, Waltham, Massachusetts.
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