George Ahearn
- Actor
George C. Ahern was born in Oakland, California to Irish parents Daniel
J. Ahern, who was born in California and Annie Gallen Ahern, born in
County Fermanagh, Ireland. His best friend was
John Sheehan and together they
started out acting on stage in Oakland. George toured with Grace Nile
in "A Tonic for Temper" in the east, and in 1910 George and Jack were
living in a boarding house for actors in New York City. George returned
to California and began working in silent films while living in Santa
Barbara, California. In 1918 he and Sheehan enlisted in the US Army and
were sent together to France, where he died on the first day of the
battle of Meuse-Argonne. He is buried in the military cemetery there.
