On board the U.S.S. Kearsarge at Shanghai, China, 23 January 1875. Displaying gallant conduct, Dempsey jumped overboard from the Kearsarge and rescued from drowning one of the crew of that vessel.
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Accredited to: Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Awarded Posthumously: No
Born: 1848, Ireland
Died: September 17, 1874, San Francisco, CA, United States
Buried: Greenlawn Memorial Park (reinterred from closed Odd Fellows Cemetery, Colma, CA), Colma, CA, United States