Bio of FITZPATRICK, Dennis, Wright Co., MN

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1072       HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY



Dennis Fitzpatrick, an influential farmer of Woodland township, was born 

in Jeffersonville, Ind., one of the eighteen children of John 

Fitzpatrick. He was brought to Minnesota as a boy, and experienced all 

the rigors of pioneer life. He helped clear the land, and worked hard to 

help the family get a start in the world. His educational opportunities 

were limited, but by much reading and deep thinking, coupled with sound 

sense, he has acquired considerable learning, and his opinions on all 

subjects are highly valued. At the age of fifteen he started to earn 

money to help out with the household expenses. He remained at home until 

twenty-eight years of age. Then he married and located on his present 

place of eighty acres in section 8, Woodland town- 



1073       HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY



ship. An old building stood on the place. Mr. Fitzpatrick has erected a 

complete set of new buildings, with a good silo; he has fenced the whole 

farm, and has secured excellent equipment in the way of tools and 

implements. He carries on general farming, on a successful scale, making 

a specialty of Shorthorn dairy cattle, Poland-China swine, Plymouth Rock 

fowls and White Holland turkeys. Mr. Fitzpatrick has been called upon to 

serve in many public capacities, fraternal, political and co-operative. 

He is a stockholder in the Farmers' Co-operative Store, at Waverly; 

treasurer of the Waverly Co-operative Creamery, and secretary of the 

Farmers' Elevator at Waverly. He is also secretary of the Waverly lodge 

of the Catholic Order of Foresters. He is township assessor, and justice 

of the peace, and has served for some time as clerk of school district 

67. Mr. Fitzpatrick was married June 6, 1894, to Josephine Borell. The 

children are: Mamie, Alice, Patrick, John, James and Genevieve. The 

family faith is that of the Catholic church.