John Edward "Jack" Reagan dies

John Edward "Jack" Reagan (1883–1941) was the father of United States President Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) and his older brother Neil "Moon" Reagan (1908–1996).
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Early life

Jack was of Irish ancestry, the youngest of four children born to Jennie (née Cusick) and John Michael Reagan. he met Nelle Wilson in a farm town along the Illinois prairie. The two were married in Fulton, Illinois in November 1904. They had two children: Neil "Moon" John Reagan and Ronald Wilson Reagan. After the birth of their second son, Reagan's wife Nelle was told not to have any more children.[4] The Reagan family moved from Tampico to many small Illinois towns, and Chicago, depending on Reagan's employment.

My dad - his name was John Edward Reagan but everyone called him Jack - was destined by God, I think, to be a salesman. His forebears had come to America from County Tipperary by way of England during Ireland's potato famine and he was endowed with the gift of blarney and the charm of a leprechaun. No one I ever met could tell a story better than he could.