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John "Black Jack" Kehoe, "King of the Molly Magurires, Schuylkill County Delegate of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Born in County Wicklow, Ireland, July 1837, Hung by the neck until dead on December 18, 1878 for the stoning of Frank W.J. Langdon. Buried in Girardville, where his tavern, "The House of the Hibernians," still stands