Biography
P. McMahon was a member of the Montana contingent of Coxey's Army, the 1894 unemployment protest movement. A contemporary jail interview identified him as helping conduct the contingent's affairs while William Hogan was absent.
The Anaconda Standard of May 9, 1894 identifies P. McMahon as one of the prisoners interviewed at the guarded Helena fairgrounds detention camp during the reporter’s visit the previous afternoon of May 7. The interviewees described donated bread being withheld for four days during their confinement. These are the prisoners’ reported complaints; the report gives no individual sentence or exact admission or release date.
Anaconda Standard, May 9, 1894, page 5, “Liscum Gets a Scoring.”
