TIERNAN, Luke, merchant, born in County Neath, Ireland, in 1757; died in Baltimore, Maryland, 10 November, 1839. He came in 1787 to the United States, and settled first at Hagerstown, Maryland, but soon removed to Baltimore, where he engaged in the shipping business, being the first in that city to engage in the direct trade between Baltimore and Liverpool. He took a deep interest in the prosperity of his adopted city and in politics. He was a Whig, and a warm personal friend of Henry Clay, who frequently visited his house, and spoke of him as the patriarch of the Whig party in Maryland. He was a presidential elector, voting for John Quincy Adams in 1824, and one of the founders of the Hibernian society of Maryland, and for many years its president. In 1826-'7 he was one of a committee to urge upon the legislature of Maryland the incorporation of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company, the first railroad company incorporated in this country, and he was also a member of the committee of the Washington monument of Baltimore.