Bio of Dennis Kinsella (b.1848)Wabasha Co., MN

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Note: This Biography is taken from the book "History of Wabasha County" 
copyrighted 1920.

Kinsella - 

Dennis Kinsella, one of the early settlers in Oakwood Township, now 
retired and living in Plainview village, was born in County Wicklow, 
Ireland, August 10, 1848, son of Daniel and Catherine Delany Kinsella. 
In 1855, at the age of about seven years, he accompanied his parents to 
the United States, the family landing at New Orleans, where they remained 
for one year. They then came up the river to Alton, Illinois, which place 
they made their home until 1862, when they came to Wabasha County, 
Minnesota, settling on land in Oakwood Township. 
Dennis Kinsella was then about 14 years old, and he soon began to make 
himself useful on the farm, working for his father until he reached the 
age of twenty-two. He then farmed a 40-acre tract in Highland Township, 
and after selling it, he bought a farm of 160 acres in Oakwood Township, 
on which he made extensive and valuable improvements, erecting a new set 
of buildings, including a house, barn and outbuildings, also fencing the 
entire farm, There he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1911, 
except for a period of 10 years, during which he worked at the carpenter's 
trade in St. Paul. As a general farmer and stock raiser he was successful 
and became widely known. He served as supervisor on the Highland town 
board, and was clerk of the school board in Oakwood Township for a number 
of years, and belongs to the Old Settlers' Association of Greenwood 
Prairie. He took up his residence in Plainview in 1911, and where he and 
his wife now live with their adopted daughter, Mrs. George Neinow. 
In 1918 he sold his farm. Mr. Kinsella was married July 24, 1870, to 
Catherine Feehan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Feehan. They were natives 
of Tipperary, Ireland, and came to the United States in 1867, settling in 
Oakwood Township, Wabasha county, on a farm which they homesteaded, and 
here spent the rest of their lives, she passing away August 18, 1888, and 
he on January 11, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Kinsella, and their adopted daughter, 
Mrs. Neinow, are members of the Catholic church.

Note: This Biography is taken from the book "History of Wabasha County" 
copyrighted 1920.
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