Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Bannon, Michael E 1846 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

MICHAEL E. BANNON. For the past twenty years, Mr. Bannon has been successfully 
engaged in the grocery trade at Joliet. He has thus become widely and 
favorably known to a large number of its people and by upright dealing and 
prompt attention to the wants of his customers, has built up an extended 
patronage. His native haunts were on the other side of the Atlantic, in County 
Roscommon, Ireland, where he was presented to his parents on Christmas day, 
1846. The latter were Edward and Catherine (Lennon) Bannon who emigrated to 
America in 1851, and in the spring following located in Joliet. The father, an 
honest and industrious man, employed himself as a laborer and departed this 
life in Joliet, in 1884. The mother is living in Joliet. To the parents of Mr. 
Bannon there was born a family of eight children, five sons and three 
daughters of whom M. E., was the eldest. One son and two daughters are 
deceased. P. R., is numbered among the contractors and builders of Joliet; 
John M., occupies himself as a butcher; Edward follows carpentering in this 
city; Kate is at home with her widowed mother; M. E., our subject, although 
but five years old when leaving his native Ireland, carries in his mind a 
picture of his old home, and many of the incidents occuring on the trip across 
the ocean. Mr. Bannon was not permitted to spend very much time in school 
during his boyhood and when but a lad assumed the sterner duties of life, 
going into the country to work for a farmer by the name of Michael Bannon at 
$6 per month. He was occupied in farm pursuits until a youth of about eighteen 
years, and then for two years went into the stone quarries of Sanger & Steele. 
He, however, could only work in the quarry during the summer time and in the 
winter he dealt in coal. In 1869, Mr. Bannon embarked in the grocery business 
which he has since successfully followed. In 1884, he invested some of his 
capital in the tile business which proved a bad venture, and he states that 
whenever he has experimented with any business outside of groceries and 
provisions, he got the worst of the bargain. When reaching his majority he 
allied himself with the Democratic party, and in religion he adheres to the 
Catholic faith of his forefathers. Mr. Bannon took unto himself as wife and 
helpmate, August 28, 1886, Miss Anna, daughter of James O'Reilly, of Joliet, 
and they are the parents of three bright children, Maurice, Eviline and 
Margaret.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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