Bio of Patrick E. O'NEIL (b.1850), 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:
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276            HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

Patrick E. O'Neil, of Albion township, was born in Ellsworth, Me., 
July 15, 1850, son of Patrick and Margaret (Desmond) O'Neil, the
pioneers. Patrick O'Neil was born in County Cork, Ireland, and was 
there married. As a young man he came to America, and took up 
lumbering in the state of Maine. It was in 1857 that he came to 
Wright county, and located on section 31, Monticello township, 
where he lived until his death in 1859. The members of the family 
erected a two-story log cabin and started clearing the land. In 
1859, the year the father died, they had little to eat but corn meal. 
In 1862 they fled to the stockade in Monticello township to escape 
from the Indians that were supposed to be coming. Patrick H. O'Neil 
received his education in the district schools, and as he grew to 
manhood took charge of the home farm. In 1895 he took up his father's 
old occupation of lumbering, going for this purpose to the woods 
in northern Minnesota. Since 1903 he has lived with his son-in-law, 
Joseph P. Hannon, of Albion township. He is an estimable man, and 
has served as a member of the school board for four years. 
Mr. O'Neil was married April 19, 1881, to Catherine Ryan, daughter 
of Luke and Catherine (Smith) Ryan, natives of Ireland. Mrs. O'Neil 
died December 24, 1894, leaving six children: William, of Willmar, 
Minn.; Frederick, of Drake, N. D.; Margaret, wife of J. P. Hannon; 
Mary F., wife of George Welton; Alice, wife of Conrad Behrenbrinker, 
of Melrose, Minn.; and Catherine, of Minneapolis. The family faith 
is that of the Roman Catholic Church.