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James Aloysius (Jimmy) Hoare (1880-1959) engine driver and trade union official

Birth: 28 April 1880 at Carrieton (Yanyarrie), South Australia, son of Patrick James Hoare (1845-1918), miner, and Mary, née Dwyer (1857-1950). Both parents had been born in South Australia. Marriage: 3 April 1914 at St Laurence Church, Adelaide, SA, to native-born Beatrice Mary Smith (1881-1951). They had one daughter and two sons. Death: 30 August 1959 in his residence at Pell Street, Railway Town, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Religion: Catholic. 

• To Broken Hill in 1880, leaving and returning several times.
• Member of the Amalgamated Miners’ Association from 1895 to 1916. Steward at the Pinnacles for about ten years.
• Executive member of the Federated Engine Drivers’ and Firemen’s Association of Australasia (FED&FA) in 1912. Vice-president of FED&FA in 1915. Elected president of the FED&FA in 1926 after disconnection with union for many years. Represented FED&FA on Barrier Industrial Council and Barrier District Assembly of the Australian Labor Party several times.
• Resigned from Barrier District Assembly of ALP after “declaring for the late Mr Percy Brookfield in split some years ago”.
• Appointed justice of the Peace on 8 February 1928. For many years a member of the Broken Hill hospital board. Director of the Old Folks’ Home.
• Cause of death: congestive cardiac failure and myocardial infarctions.

Sources
Barrier Daily Truth (Broken Hill), 17 December 1926.