I am doing genealogical research and need personal biographic and
career information for a former professional wrestler who wrestled
under the name of "Chick Breen."  His birth name was Charles Breen and
I have tentatively identified him as having been born in 1889 in
Illniois and died in l963 in California.  I particularly am looking
for his parent's names (as well as anything else I can get my hands on!)

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 25 Apr 2004 19:02 PDT

I found a Charles Breen born in Illinois in 1886 and died in 1960. His
parents names are listed as his is mother's maiden name. Is this the
person you are looking for? If so I can post this as an answer for
you.

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

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Clarification of Question by neetz-ga on 26 Apr 2004 06:27 PDT

I have a conflict with death date but that would not be unusual as
there are a number of Charles Breen's out there about this time period
(that's my problem!). To further clarify, he was married to Bessie
(Elizabeth)O'Brien (daughter of Patrick) and had at least two
children:  David, b 1912 and Katherine, b 1914.  If the information
you can provide can be confirmed as definitely being the Charles Breen
who wrestled as "Chick" Breen, he's my man!

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Clarification of Question by neetz-ga on 27 Apr 2004 03:09 PDT

I have been rechecking the info I have again and the Charles I have
identified in my previous info may not be the right guy because he was
a "watch maker" and it doesn't seem to go along with wrestling.  I
have tried to find the info using "Chick Breen" and can only come up
with a couple of newspaper articles in the early 1900's (1909-25) that
give outcomes of his matches only. I have already tried to identify
him thru family search, genealogy.com and ancestry.com but it has been
very illusive because, as I said, there are several Charles Breen's
out there in the same time period.  I DO know for sure that he had a
daughter named Katherine who was born in Illinois (but there are also
a number of Katherine's out there as well!).   Sorry for the
confusion.

This guy seems to match your data:

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/ssdi/individual_record.asp?recid=326220927&lds=3&region=%2D1&regionfriendly=&juris1=&juris2=&juris3=&juris4=&regionfriendly=&juris1friendly=All+Countries&juris2friendly=&juris3friendly=&juris4friendly=

http://www.familysearch.org has lots of info...