Corporal Edward Sullivan of the. United States Marine Corps was born May 16, 1870, in Cork, County Cork, Ireland. He died March 11, 1955, at Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA Sullivan was born in 1870 in Cork, Ireland, and died in 1955 in Uxbridge. He was a hero of the Spanish American War. He was awarded the nation's top honor, the Medal of Honor, for heroism in this war of 1898. Uxbridge, Massachusetts has proud connections to the military history of America. Uniforms for the U.S. military were manufactured in Uxbridge for more than 100 years.