Daniel "Pegleg" Sullivan was a Chicagoan who is often credited with being the first to sound the alarm when a fire broke out in Catherine O'Leary's barn on October 8, 1871, the beginning of the Great Chicago Fire. More recent evidence suggests that Sullivan may have been responsible for the fire. In his testimony before the Fire Department inquiry on November 25, 1871, … Wikipedia
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for Daniel Sullivan. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sullivan
Also, as shown in the diagram of the O'Leary area, Sullivan could not have seen the fire break out in the barn, as his view would have been completely blocked by the home of James Dalton. www.thechicagofire.com/pegleg.php