Will County IL Archives Biographies.....O'Gara, Father Thomas F 1846 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

FATHER THOMAS F. O'GARA, Pastor of St. Rose's Church at Wilmington, was born 
in Ireland in 1846; his parents Thomas and Bridget (McGinnis) O'Gara, having 
also been natives of the Emerald Isle. They came to America when our subject 
was an infant of one year and located in Lawrence, Mass., where they resided 
for several years. In 1879, they removed to Ottawa, Ill., where they were both 
called to the land of eternal happiness, the father in 1887, at the advanced 
age of eighty-two years, and the mother one year later at the age of eighty 
years. They left eleven children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the 
seventh in order of birth. He of whom we write, grew to manhood in Lawrence, 
Mass., and received an academic education. He was in the dry-goods business 
for several years and when about twenty-three years of age began studying for 
the priesthood and completed his studies at Montreal, Canada, in 1878, being 
the same year ordained a priest. He immediately came to Wilmington and took 
charge of the present parish where he has continually resided since that time. 
He has besides his work here, charge of St. Patrick's Church at Wilton, this 
county, and is a man held in high esteem by all the citizens of Wilmington and 
elsewhere with whom he comes in contact. A fine portrait of Father O'Gara is 
shown on another page of this volume.

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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