Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Conboy, Thomas 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Thomas Conboy is a farmer on section 1, Hume Township. He was born Sept. 12, 
1842, in Galway, Ireland, and is the son of Patrick and Margaret Conboy. They 
were natives of the same part of Ireland. In 1861 the son emigrated to 
America. He made his first location in the town of Clarence, in Cedar Co., 
Iowa. A year later he came to Como, in Whiteside County. He engaged as a 
laborer on the farm of C. H. Holmes, where he was employed four years. A year 
after, in 1868, he purchased 80 acres on section 1, Hume Township, on which he 
had resided during the year 1866 as a renter. In 1873 he bought 80 acres more 
and in 1882 he made another purchase of 43 acres. The tract is now all under 
improvement, and is supplied with a fine large residence and suitable farm 
buildings. Mr. Conboy is engaged to a considerable extent in raising fine 
graded stock. April 8, 1866, he was married, in Hume Township, to Mary, 
daughter of Patrick and Bridget (Bly) Noonen. Her parents were born and 
married in the west of Ireland. A few years later they emigrated to America 
and made a temporary settlement in Monmouth Co., N. J., where Mrs. Conboy was 
born, May 15, 1848. Later, her parents came to Como, where they located when 
she was a small girl. Her mother lives with her. Her children are eight in 
number and are named Martin, Maggie, Mary, Eddie, Thomas, Anna, Willie and 
John. The family belong to the Catholic Church. Mr. Conboy is Democratic in 
political opinion. He has officiated as School Director and as Highway 
Commissioner.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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