Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Dempsey, Thomas 1835 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Thomas Dempsey, butcher, Minooka. Among the interests of the town of Minooka 
that is deserving of especial mention is that of Thomas Dempsey, who supplies 
the people in this town and locality with the best of meats, and thereby 
contributes not only to the comfort and happiness of the people in this 
direction, but is filling a need that is indispensable in the way of 
refreshing the "inner man". He has been carrying on this business since 1873. 
He was born in the town of Lee, Oneida Co., N. Y., June 20, 1835, the second 
son of Thomas and Margaret (Taylor) Dempsey, natives of Ireland, he born in 
County Kildare, she in County Down; they emigrated to New York about 1834, 
locating there, and came West, to Kendall County, Ill., about 1845; stayed 
there one year, then moved to Will County, Ill. Subject's father is still 
living; his mother died in 1863; they had a family of five sons and one 
daughter - John (deceased), Thomas, William, James, Hugh and Jane, wife of M. 
Hinsler, of Chicago. Our subject left home at the age of twenty-one, and 
engaged in farming; in 1864, he bought eighty acres of land in Will County, 
where he remained a few years, then came to Minooka. In June, 1857, he married 
Miss C. Tyrrell, a native of Connecticut and daughter of James T. Tyrrell; 
they have nine children - Mary J., Maggie, Nellie, Elizabeth, Lydia, William, 
Edward, Burton and Vincent. Mr. Dempsey is a Democrat.

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

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