Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Burke, Thomas 1824 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co IL 1882

Thomas Burke, farmer, P. O. Minooka. Of the highly respected citizens of Au 
Sable Township, Thomas Burke ranks among the first. He was born December 22, 
1824, in County Clare, Ireland, in the same house that his ancestors for three 
generations were born. His father, Garrett Burke, was born in 1804; his wife, 
who bore our subject, (Thomas, the only son), was Sarah Kleine. Garrett Burke, 
the youngest, was a son of Patrick, who was a son of Michael Burke, who 
settled in County Clare prior to the Revolution. In 1847, the subject of this 
sketch left the old country and came to America, landing in New York in the 
spring of that year. He lived in New York about one year, then came to Pike 
County, Ind., where he lived until the fall of 1851, when he came to this 
township, and, for about six years, rented land, after which he made a 
purchase of eighty acres of unimproved land, paying for it $9 per acre, and 
has since added to the same, and now has 160 acres and some timber. In 1851, 
he married Elizabeth Welch, a native of Kings County, Ireland, daughter of 
William Welch; they have two children - Michael and Elizabeth; the former is 
the wife of Peter Briscoe, of this township.

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Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers, p43

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