Notable historical links to Longford including James Kirkland, the Potsdam Giants; the codebreaker Alan Turing; Frank McCoppin, the first Irish-born mayor of San Francisco; Annie Oakley’s gun-slinging husband Frank Butler; the poet Pádraic Colum, as well as Jasper O’Farrell who laid out San Francisco’s streets and Frances Greville, a Georgian poet.
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