Bio of McInnery, Patrick M. (b.1822) Wabasha Co., MN
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McInnery, Patrick M., merchant, Lake City, is a native of Mount Rivers,
County Clare, Ireland, and was born in 1822. His early boyhood was spent
on a farm, after which he received a classical education, which was
completed by a collegiate course at Ennis, the seat of government in his
native county; soon after he received a government appointment as
superintendent of public works. These works were suspended in 1848, and on
April 22, 1849, he sailed on the Lady Harvey from Kilrush, on the Shannon,
for New York. This bark was commanded by Capt. Douglass, who sailed her
safely into New York harbor on the 27th of the following May. The first
position of trust filled by Mr. McInerney in the country, was in the
Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, in the city of New York. This position
he resigned in a few months, notwithstanding the many and urgent
protestations of Dr. Nickols, who was at that time at the head of that
institution, to accept a position as assistant bookkeeper for a large
wholesale house in New York city. For a short time in 1851 he was
connected with the New York and Erie railway, and in 1852 came to Chicago,
to take charge of a construction train on the old Chicago & Galena
railroad. He subsequently accepted a position on the Illinois Central
railway at Freeport, Illinois. In 1855 he arrived at Pepin, Wisconsin, and
there engaged in the transaction of a real-estate business; was postmaster
at Pepin during the administration of James Buchanan, and, upon the
organization of the county of Pepin, was appointed clerk of the circuit
court for the Eighth judicial district. In the fall of 1874 he removed to
Lake City, and the next spring embarked in a general merchandise business
and is now in trade on Centre street.