Samuel Crosby Halahan

Samuel Crosby Halahan was also known as Crosby in records. He was born on 23 April 1869 in Forest Hill, Sydenham, Kent. He was the son of Capt Samuel Handy Halahan and Hannah Croucher Engeham. Samuel Crosby Halahan was christened on 4 June 1869 in St John the Evangelist, East Dulwich, Surrey.

    Samuel Crosby Halahan and Ellen Lucy Halahan appeared on the 1881 census. Hannah Crosby, head, widow, 71, dividends born Hastings, Ssx; with Samuel C Halahan, 11, nephew, born Forest Hill, Kent with for 4 servants and a visitor Ellen L Halahan, 49, domestic nurse, born East Indies. 

    Samuel matriculated at Corpus Christi in 1889 and was awarded Bacheor of Arts in 1892. He trained as a doctor and suffered from paralysis. 

    Samuel Crosby Halahan married Maud Ethel Galton on 14 July 1897 in St Paul's, Upper Norwood, Surrey. On the 14tth July at St Paul's Upper Norwood, by the Rev H Stevens, MA, vicar of Holy Trinity, Sydenham, assisted by Rev R B Ransford, MA, vicar of St Paul's; Crosby Halahan of Leigh Manor, Cuckfield, Sussex, eldest son of hte late Col. S H Halahan, of Haighlands, Sydenham Hill, to Maud Ethel, second daughter of John H Galton, MD (Lond), of Chunan[?]. Sylvan Road, Upper Norwood. China papers, please copy. 

    Samuel Crosby Halahan and Maud Ethel Galton appeared on the 1901 census in Cuckfield, Sussex. Samuel C Halahan, aged 31, living on own means, born Forest Hill, with his wife Maud E 28 born Norwood, Sry and children Frederick J C 2 and Margaret M 9 months, both born at Cuckfield. Samuel Crosby Halahan and Kathleen Mary Halahan witnessed James Henry Baker and Constance Maud Halahan's wedding on 10 July 1901 in St Mary, Chiddingfold, Surrey. 

    Samuel Crosby Halahan appeared on the 1911 census. 

    Samuel Crosby Halahan and Maud Ethel Galton lived at Littlecroft, Chiddingfold, Surrey, 1929. 

    Samuel Crosby Halahan and Maud Ethel Galton lived at Chiddingfold, Surrey, 1931. 

    MACHINE THAT BREATHES FOR SICK MAN. I have just talked with a man by whose bedside stands a machine that breathes for him. The man is Mr. S. Crosby Halahan, who, day and night for nearly two years, has been kept alive by artificial respiration. First they applied it by air; now they use a water-driven apparatus. I found him lying in a shady room on the ground floor on a house that nestles in the heart of Surrey's woodlands, two miles from the village of Chiddingfold (writes a special correspondent of the London "Daily Express"), The bedroom of this painfully wasted but indomitably plucky man of 63 overlooks a well-kept rose garden and a rich green lanni. A pretty fair haired girl - his daughter showed me to his presence. Mr. Halahan was rest ing. But the silence of the room was broken by the rhythmic beat of a strange-looking machine connected by a rubber tube to his chest. "Very interesting, isn't it," said Mr. Hnlahan, suddenly looking up, "and all worked by hydraulic water power. If it stopped I should not be able to last two minutes unless they come to my aid. That is why I have ¡L nurse during the night and my family during the day always close at hand.". 

    His will was proved in 1936. 

    Samuel died on 17 February 1936 aged 66.