Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Noonan, Thomas P. 1857 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  THOMAS P. NOONAN. Among the older settlers of Lismore township is Thomas P.

Noonan, who owns and farms a half section of land on sections 22 and 23. He has

been a resident of the county twenty-seven years.



  Mr. Noonan was born in the city of Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 13, 1857, in which

city his parents had located some two or three years before, upon their arrival

from Ireland. When the subject of this sketch was about two years of age the

family moved to Fulton county, Ill., which was his home until his arrival in

Nobles county in 1881. There he was raised on a farm.



  The elder Noonan was a carriage maker by trade. He served in the union army

during the war of the rebellion. He enlisted in company C, of the 90th Illinois

infantry, in 1862 and served three years, taking part in three severe battles

and many smaller ones. At the battle of Lookout Mountain he received a gunshot

wound in the left shoulder. He died at Philadelphia in February, 1905. Our

subject's mother died in the fall of 1898.



  In the spring of 1881 Mr. Noonan came to Nobles county and located on the farm

where he has ever since resided. He has a finely improved farm, and in addition

to his general farming raises registered stock. He is a stockholder in the

Lismore Farmers' Elevator company, of which he holds the office of president. He

held the office of supervisor several years and at the present time is chairman

of the board. He is also clerk of the school board of district No. 68.



  Mr. Noonan was married at Luverne, Minn., June 2, 1888, to Catherine McGee, a

native of Ireland. She came to the United States with her parents in 1876 and

located at Providence, R. I. Her father died in Scotland, and in 1880 she came

to Nobles county and Lismore township with her mother and a brother. To Mr. and

Mrs. Noonan have been born the following children: Anna, Bessie, Alice, Thomas,

Lillian, Mary and Katie. Mary died at the age of fifteen years and Katie in

infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Noonan are members of the Catholic church.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908



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