Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Cronin, Daniel G 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Cronin, Daniel G. - A substantial hardware merchant, located at Morris, Ill., 
has risen to the forefront among business men of this city by reason of his 
reliability, industry, and perseverance.  He is a native of Grundy County, 
Ill., born on a farm in Saratoga Township, March 31, 1875, and is a son of 
James D. and Mary (Redmond) Cronin.  The paternal grandparents of Mr. Cronin 
of Mr. Cronin, James and Ellen (Brown) Cronin, were born in Dublin, Ireland, 
and were there married.  Some time thereafter they came to the United States 
and located at Morris, Ill., Mr. Cronin receiving a contract for the building 
at a certain section of the Illinois and Michigan Canal for completing which 
he was deeded 160 acres of land.  This he subsequently improved, spent the 
remaining years of his life in farming, and became one of his community's 
substantial and highly esteemed citizens.  James D. Cronin was born in Morris, 
Ill., and was there married to Miss Mary Redmond, a native of Aux Sable 
Township, Grundy County, Ill.  Not long thereafter they moved to the old 
homestead farm, which Mr. Cronin continued to operate until selling out to his 
twin brothers, and then moved to Watertown, S. D., where he is still making 
his home at the age of seventy-one years.  His wife passed away in 1905.

Daniel G. Cronin was given good educational advantages, attending the Morris 
academy, the parochial schools and Watertown (S.D.) High school, where he was 
a student for four years.  He resided with his parents until ten years after 
they made removal to South Dakota, where he was engaged in farming, and then 
returned to Morris and engaged in business for his uncles, Thomas and Daniel 
Cronin, who had established a hardware store in 1885, and had purchased an 
implement business in 1900, both at Morris, the two establishments being 
conducted together.  Mr. Cronin remained with his uncles until they both died, 
caring for them tenderly during their declining years.  Thomas Cronin passed 
away July 4, 1907, and Daniel, June 5, 1903.  Since his uncles' death, Mr. 
Cronin has conducted the business and has made a decided success of the 
enterprise.  He now carries an up-to-date and complete line of heavy and shelf 
hardware, a full line of farm implements, firearms and ammunition, furnaces 
and stoves, and conducts a tinshop in connection.  He has always been noted 
for his good business judgment and strict integrity and to these may be 
attributed a large part of his success.

Mr. Cronin was married August 21, 1900, to Miss Mary Byrnes, who was born at 
Morris, Ill., daughter of Peter Byrnes, a native of Canada.  To this union 
there has been born children as follows:  Gladys May, Eileen, Anna, Daniel, 
Thomas and Frank.  Mr. and Mrs. Cronin are members of the Catholic Church of 
the Immaculate Conception, and Mr. Cronin belongs to the Catholic Order of 
Foresters No. 216, of the Immaculate Conception, and Dupont Terrace No. 845, 
Knights of Columbus.  In political matters he is independent, preferring to 
vote for the man he deems best fitted for the office rather than support the 
choice of any particular political organization.  His good citizenship has 
never been questioned.

page 795

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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