About: Jeremiah Halleran

Jeremiah Halleran (1843 – January 3, 1925) was a Newfoundland merchant and politician. He represented St. John's East in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1889 to 1893 as a Liberal. Halleran was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was educated at St. Mary's College there. He came to Newfoundland as a young child but returned to Nova Scotia to attend school. He trained to be a carpenter and joiner. Halleran worked in Little Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Portland, Maine, Boston and later Brooklyn, where he operated his own business. In 1875, he moved to Newfoundland and established a construction business. In 1879, in partnership with , he set up a factory which manufactured wood products; the business also was involved in construction work. The factory was destroyed in the Great Fire of