 By the outbreak of the Civil War, Peter, having been medically advised to leave Ireland, was living in the Bronx, New York, and working as a ticket agent for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company.He met his future wife, Minnie Daly (1906 - 1991) at a Síbín that her aunt owned during Prohibition.They married in 1928, and their first son, Peter Maurice Crowley, was born in New York in December 1929.