Title: Bio John E. Dooley: Union County, KY

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>From History of Union County, KY
Courier Co, Evansville, Indiana, 1886
Pages 558-559


JOHN E. DOOLEY,
furniture dealer of Uniontown, is the son of John E. and Ellen Dooley. His parents were 
taken from him at Natchez, by yellow fever, in 1863 and he knows but little of them and 
his ancestry. He was born in Natchez, Miss., on July 12, 1849, so that the death of his 
parents left him an orphan at time age of four years.  When the war broke out he was too 
young to go, but he offered his services to the Confederate cause: his brother, Daniel, 
now a resident of Uniontown, was quickly enlisted, but the recruiting officer could not 
take our subject. The martial spirit, of the times, however, fired his youthful mind, and he 
determined on going to the wars on one side or the other. In 1863 he went to Baton 
Rouge on a raft of logs, and there enlisted in Company F, of the Twenty-first Kentucky 
(Federal) Infantry, he was employed as Orderly to the Colonel all the time, and was 
mostly engaged with his regiment in garrison duty. He was discharged at Louisville in 
1866. He then went to Princeton, Ky., where he received some three years of common 
school training.
Mr. Dooley was married on December 14, 1816, to Annie Elizabeth McGehee, of 
Princeton. She was born in Madisonville, in June, 1866, the daughter of Rev. William 
and Mary (Dudley) McGehee.  Her father, a professor in the College at Princeton, died 
there time year previous to her marriage; but her mother is still alive. Three children, 
Willie Daniel, John Dudley and Charles Lewis have been born of this union.
In March, 1877, Mr. Dooley removed to Uniontown and began work at his trade of 
furniture making. He was already a journeyman, having served six years in Princeton, but 
he soon began business for himself, buying out Green & Co. in 1880, and running a 
furniture store with good success until 1886, when he bought out Alvey & Co. He does 
not manufacture furniture now, but confines himself to selling and mending. He has been 
a member of the City Council for several years, and has belonged to the Methodist 
Church for fifteen years. He has been Sunday School Superintendent in Uniontown since 
he came to the place, and has also filled time less popular, but not less important, office 
of Steward. He is a valuable citizen and worthy man.