Carroll-Fayette County IN Archives Biographies.....McGreevy, Michael J. 1845 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

MICHAEL J. McGREEVY.

   Michael J. McGreevy, farmer and banker, Burrows, Indiana, was born March 22,
1845, in Fayette county, near Connersville, Indiana, and is a son of John and
Mary (Guckien) McGreevy. His youth was spent on a farm, and he received a good
public school education for his time. On January 14, 1866, he settled in Carroll
county, without any funds, but soon secured employment at teaching, which he
followed during the winter months, employing his time at farm work during the
summers.

   Eventually, Mr. McGreevy became eminently prosperous, owning, in addition to
his farm, a saw-mill, which he established in 1871, and operated for thirty-four
years, making during this time a great deal of money, and was the most prominent
man in Burrows for a number of years, during which time he was a liberal spender
of money. Politically, Mr. McGreevy is a stanch Democrat, and has officiated as
justice of the peace, while his religious sympathies are with the Catholic
church at Logansport, Indiana. Fraternally, he belongs to the Knights of
Columbus, and was at one time president and one of the largest stockholders of
the Farmers and Merchants Bank at Logansport, Indiana, in which he still owns
considerable stock, and is one of the directors.   He is also a stockholder in
the Walton Bank.

   John and Mary (Guckien) McGreevy were both born in Ireland and became
acquainted after their arrival in the United States. Mr. McGreevy was a
contractor, and had charge of the building of the Whitewater canal, and finally
located in Butler county, Ohio, where he became eminently wealthy for a man
living in those days, possessing about forty thousand dollars, besides his real
estate holdings. Politically, Mr. McGreevy was originally a Whig, but later gave
his support to the Democratic party. Religiously, he was a prominent member of
St. Mary's church. To Mr. and Mrs. McGreevy were born ten children, three of
whom were living in 1915, Colonel McGreevy, a contractor, of Logansport,
Indiana; Thomas K McGreevy, a retired farmer, of Butler county, Ohio, and our
subject.

   Michael J. McGreevy was united in marriage with Anna J. Conaughton, daughter
of Thomas and Bessie Conaughton. She was born July 11, 1850, at Hamilton, Ohio,
and is of Irish lineage, her parents both coming from Ireland to the United
States, and were married here. She was reared and educated at Hamilton, her
native city. Mr. and Mrs. McGreevy have been blest with eight children, only one
of whom is now living, Agatha, a graduate of St. Mary's at South Bend, and the
wife of Peter Dwyer, of Logansport, Indiana. They have one son, Michael J., born
July 14, 1915. Mr. McGreevy represents the substantial citizenship of a
community, where he has long been an important factor.


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Biographical Section of
HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana

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