Jimmy Haggerty

rdf:langString Jimmy Haggerty

rdf:langString Jimmy Haggerty

rdf:langString Jimmy Haggerty

rdf:langString Schuylkill Rangers

rdf:langString McAran's Garden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

rdf:langString Catheral Cemetery, Cathedral Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

rdf:langString Most Irish gangs

rdf:langString Jimmy Haggerty and his gang the Schuylkill Rangers committed many crimes along the Philadelphia waterfront in the 1850s.

rdf:langString street fighting, knife fighting, assault, murder, robbery

rdf:langString Irish

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rdf:langString Being a longtime underworld figure in Philadelphia and New York City; a leader of the Irish criminal gang the Schuylkill Rangers who committed crimes on the Philadelphia waterfront and took part in the disorder at the urging of the Dead Rabbits and the Baltimore Plug Uglies in the 1863 New York City Draft Riots

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rdf:langString mule driver, saloon keeper, soldier, bounty jumper, criminal gang leader, thief

rdf:langString Wild Jimmy

rdf:langString Nativist gangs

rdf:langString South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Manhattan, New York City, New York

rdf:langString James "Wild Jimmy" Haggerty (died January 25, 1871) was an American criminal and well-known underworld mob figure in Philadelphia and later in New York City during the mid-to late 19th century. Jimmy Haggerty was the leader of the , a predominantly Irish-American street gang, which terrorized the South Philadelphia waterfront, specifically its local wharves and coal yards, for over 25 years. The notorious Philadelphia gangs existed from 1836-1878 being sixty-five in all including the Schuylkill Rangers were the American Guards *(also in New York City); Bleeders; Blood Tubs *(also in Baltimore); Blossoms; Bouncers; Buffers; Bugs; Bulldogs; Centre Street Boys; Chesapeakes; Crockets; Darts; Deathfetchers; Dogs; Dog-Towners; Flayers; Fly-By-Nights; Garroters; Gumballs; Hyenas; Jack of Clubs; Jumpers; Juniatta Club; Kensington Blackhawks; Kerryonians *(also in New York City); Keystone No. 2; Killers; Lancers; Molly Maguires; Neckers; Nighthawks; Orangemen; Pickwick Club; Pluckers; Pots No. 2; Privateer Club No. 1; Rangers; Rats; Reading Hose Club; Rebels; Red Roses; Reed Birds; Shifflers; Skinners; Smashers; Snakers; Snappers; Spiggots; Spitfires; Sporters; Springers; Stingers; Stockholders; The Forty Thieves (also in New York City); The Vesper Social; Tormentors; Turks; Vampyres; Waynetowners; Weecys; Whelps; Wild Cats; Wreckers. Many of these criminal gangs were originally organized as volunteer Philadelphia Fire Department companies similar to the gang the Bowery Boys of the New York City Fire Department. Jimmy Haggerty ruled over the Schuylkill Rangers throughout the 1850s and was the gang's last leader until their break up following the American Civil War by an undercover Philadelphia Police lieutenant. He remained one of the city's most notorious bank robbers during the post-Civil War era and later resided in New York where he spent his last years before being murdered by during a bar brawl in January 1871.

rdf:langString murder by gunshot wound

rdf:langString self-employed

rdf:langString Jimmy Haggerty

rdf:langString Wild Jimmy