He worked in the coal and wood industry and the newspaper and advertising business.
[14] He then worked as second deputy clerk of New York County, leaving the position in 1938.
[2] Kiernan was a member of the Yorkville Chamber of Commerce, the Royal Arcanum, Tammany Hall,[2] and the school associations of the churches of St. Ignatius Loyola and Our Lady of Good Counsel.
Their children were Eugene Clark, Eugenie Anne,[3] Gertrude, and Florence.
[2] Kiernan died in Misericordia Hospital from a four-day illness on September 14, 1940.