Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....O'Connor, Patrick 1857 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  PATRICK O'CONNOR, proprietor of the Commercial hotel of Wilmont, is an early

day settler of Nobles county. He is a native of Westport, Ontario, Canada, where

he was born Oct. 26, 1853, the eldest of a family of three children. His father

was John O'Connor, who was born in Ireland, and who emigrated to Canada in an

early day. He saw service in the Union army during the war of the rebellion and

died in Canada in February, 1884. Our subject's mother was Annie (Cunningham)

O'Connor. She was born in Ireland and died in Canada in the fall of 1906, aged

71 years.



  Pat came to the states in the fall of 1877 and during the first three or four

years was unsettled as to location. He moved to Worthington in 1881, and has

ever since been a resident of the county. During the first six or seven years he

engaged in the saloon business. Later he operated a dray line, was street

commissioner of Worthington for many years, and for a time was a bridge

carpenter in the employ of the Omaha railroad. He moved to Wilmont in the winter

of 1904 and opened a saloon, which he conducted nine months. He then started the

Commercial hotel, and has been its landlord ever since.



  Mr. O'Connor was married at Worthington in February, 1884, to Margaret

Kennedy, who was born in Ireland and who came to the United States when a child.

To Mr. and Mrs. O'Connor have been born four children- Mamie, Winnie, John and

Raymond. The family 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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