Patrick Cudmore
Selected Bibliography
The Irish Republic: A Historical Memoir on Ireland and Her Oppressors (1871)
The Civil Government of the States, and the Constitutional History of the United States (1975)
Poems and Songs (1885)
Buchanan’s Conspiracy, the Nicaragua Canal, and Reciprocity (1892)
Cudmore’s Prophecy of the Twentieth Century (1899)
Autobiography (1902)
Patrick Cudmore (1831-1916) emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1846 and settled first in Merton, Minnesota and later in Faribault, Minnesota after studying law in New York. He fought in the Civil War for the Union and traveled extensively through the United States, Mexico, and Central and South America. He ran for several political positions, served as a town clerk in Merton, as a notary public in Rice County, and was elected the county attorney of LeSeuer County. Throughout his lifetime, Cudmore delivered free lectures about the places he had visited.
Cudmore used his travels as an inspiration for his books. He studied poetry at school, in addition to history, various sciences, and politics. In an autobiographical statement, Cudmore said that he began a novel entitled, The Irish Landlord, which was never published. In addition to more scholarly works, such as Constitutional Histories and The Irish Republic, Cudmore also published Poems and Songs in 1885.