Bio of Patrick B. GEARY (b.1839), Wright Co., MN

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This Bio is from the HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY, Volumes I and II,
Published in 1915 by Franklin Curtiss - Wedge.
Surname Index for The HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY can be found at:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/wright/wright.html
Under HISTORY.

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be some typos.

Patrick B. Geary, a respected farmer of Corinna township was born in 
Ireland, January 17, 1839. son of Michael and Mary (Hogan) Geary, who 
in 1849 came to America and located in Port Hope Province of Ontario, 
Canada, sixty miles east of Toronto.  Patrick B. was brought to this 
country when he was ten years of age and grew to manhood on his parents 
farm in Canada.   It was about 1869 when he cane to Minnesota and bought 
eighty acres of school land in section 36, Corinna township.  This land 
was absolutely wild and was covered with elm, oak and Basswood trees 
and a thick undergrowth of brush.  He had $55 in cash, and this he paid 
as an advance installment on his land.  He erected a log house, cleared 
off the land, made furniture on the p1ace, and aside from an ax and a 
hoe got along as best he could without tools. For seven years he did not 
have a team of any sort.  When he wanted help he worked two days two 
days in retuern for the services of a team and driver one day. He worked 
a whole day for a bushel of wheat with which to make bread.  At one time 
he chopped off three acres of trees in order to obtain a heifer two and 
a half years old. When he finally owned a yoke of oxen they were ones 
that he had raised himself. He cut grain with a cradle  and paid ten 
cents a bushel to have it threshed. With this beginning Mr. Geary has 
achieved success. He developed the farm, erected good buildings, look 
an active part in the affairs of the community. and reared a splendid 
family of children.  In 1910 Mr. Geary retired from hard labor but still 
continues to live on the farm, winch is in the corporate limits of Maple 
Lake. He has been assessor of Maple Lake village two years and treasurer 
one year.  He has been clerk of the school board for twelve years. Mr. 
Geary was married November 7, 1872, to Margaret Gorman, a native of Canada. 
This union has been blessed with eleven children Edmond, of Bruel, Wis.; 
John, of Bellingham, Wash; William and Thomas of Newport, Wash.; Matthew S. 
and Frederick B. on the home farm; Aloysius, of I)uQuene, Penn; Mary J. 
and Annie, both deceased; Johanna, now Mrs. C. W Nelson. of Calgary, and 
Loretta now Mrs. J.J. Ackerman, of Roxton, Sask. Marie and Mary Geary, 
twin daughters of J. V. Geary, have made their hone with Mr. and Mrs. 
Patrick B. Geary since early childhood.