Grundy-Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Cunnea, James January 6, 1810 - 
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Author: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", 1882

JAMES CUNNEA, banker, Morris, was born in Ireland January 6, 1810, and is a 
son of Patrick and Isabella (BROWN) CUNNEA. Patrick CUNNEA was born in Ireland 
in 1783, was a farmer and merchant by occupation, merchandized largely, and 
died in Ireland in 1840; having been sick but six days; his wife died the same 
year. The parents had sixteen children born to them, twelve of whom were 
raised to maturity - six sons, of whom subject is the oldest, and six 
daughters. Our subject received a limited education in the common schools in 
Ireland. He began for himself by keeping store and farming, which he continued 
about six years, and then, in 1846, times getting a little hard there, he said 
to his wife, "We will go to America", and at once sold out his effects and 
emigrated to the United States, stopping about two years in New York; then he 
came to Illinois (1848), and purchasing a large tract of land in Will County, 
began farming and stockraising, which he followed in connection with his sons 
till about 1866; from there he came to Morris, and opened a loan office for a 
few years, and, in 1872, purchased the First National Bank of Seneca, and 
removed the same to Morris, changing the name to First National Bank of 
Morris. From that time to the present, he and his sons have run a general 
banking business here. The officers of the bank are as follows: James CUNNEA 
(subject), President and Director; John CUNNEA, Cashier and Director; John 
McCAMBRIDGE, Director; George A. CUNNEA, Director; James CUNNEA, Jr., 
Director. Subject and sons also own considerable land in this and other 
States, besides other valuable property. Subject is a Democrat in politics. He 
was married in Ireland, March 4, 1834, to Ann GLACKIN, a daughter of Dennis 
and Catherine (McHUGH) GLACKIN; his wife was born in March, 1817. They had 
twelve children born to them; eight raised to maturity, one of whom, Thomas, 
died at the age of twenty-three years. Those living are three sons - John, 
James and George A., and four daughters, viz., Isabella, Maria (now the wife 
of John McCAMBRIDGE), Catharine and Anna. Mr. CUNNEA and wife and all the 
family are members of the Catholic Church. James CUNNEA, Jr., was married in 
1876, to Estella SMITH, daughter of Patrick SMITH, of Cleveland, Ohio.

[Source: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 
Historical Publishers, Lake Side Building, 1882]

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