Joseph P. Garland did not have things easy. His parents came from Ireland. He was born on Manhattan's lower east side in 1888 and his father died in 1890 and his mother in 1897. He grew up in a Catholic orphanage on Madison Avenue. By 1910, he again lived on the lower east side. In 1917, he told the draft board that he worked as a clerk in what was then New York City's diamond district, on Maiden Lane near Wall Street.Bridget Dermody was also born...