Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Henneberry, David A 1873 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com February 20, 2006, 8:10 am Author: History of Grundy County 1914 Henneberry, David A., cashier of the Farmers First National Bank of Minooka, is a man whose career presents results of earnes endeavor which resolve themselves into a successful progress and a development towards honorable citizenship which is the goal in life to which all should work. He was born May 12, 1873, at Lorenzo, in Wilmington Township, Will County, Ill., a son of John and Catherine (O’Brien) Henneberry, the former born in County Limerick, Ireland, and the latter at Boston, Mass. After finished his course in the local schools, David A. Henneberry took a course at Bryant & Stratton’s Commercial College of Chicago, and when only eighteen years old began teaching school in his native township. Until the spring of 1896, he alternated teaching school during the winter, with working on farms in the summer, but at that time bought 120 acres of land in Goose Lake Township, then known as the old Phelan farm. Within three years, he rented his property, and went to Chicago to learn the details of the grocery business. In the following spring he went to Minooka, and interested himself in a grain elevator at that point, conducting the business until June, 1903, when he lost his property by fire. He then went tow work for A. K. Knapp in the grain business, and August 1, 1908, he with H. P. Dwyer organized the Farmers First National Bank of Minooka, with a capital stock of $25,000. The officers were: J. P. Clennon, president; H. P. Dwyer, vice president; and D. A. Henneberry, cashier. This has developed into one of the leading financial institutions of the county, and its conservative policies have gained it a reasonable amount of business. It is now the only bank in the village, it having absorbed the Exchange Bank of Minooka on November 1, 1912. On April 4, 1904, Mr. Henneberry married Margaret Brannick, who was born at Minooka in the spring of 1873, a daughter of Michael and Mary (Sterling) Brannick, natives of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Henneberry have had the following children: Mary Eileen, Catherine Patricia, John Sterling and Joseph Donald. Mr. Henneberry is a man whose connections make him very prominent in every respect. What he has, he earned himself, and he has worked himself up until he now controls large property interests and handles important financial matters of the people of his community. He is a Catholic in religious faith, while his fraternal connections are with the Modern Woodmen, Elks, Knights of Columbus and Knights of Pythias. Republican in his sentiments, he has served his township as Supervisor acceptably and faithfully. Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. Publishers; 1914, p824-5 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/grundy/bios/henneber216nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb