Bryan Fay

Family story said he was last heard of in Chicago 1890ish

I found a Bryan Fay in the 1930 census in Chicago. Age 67, so born 1863, in Ireland, widowed having married at 18, emigrated to US in 1886 (married) Living with daughter Katherine 34, son-in-law James McElray 46(parents from Scotland) and grandsons James 19 and Louis 9

He's not working. James and Katherine are a doorman and servant in a hotel. Katherine, James and eldest boy James were born in Pennsylvania, Louis in Illinois

If so, in the 1940 census, Katherine, James and Louis are still there in the same jobs, with Louis as errand boy, but no Bryan