Biographical Sketch of Joseph McInerny, St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Joseph McInerny, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, was born in the
parish of Kilmurry McMahon, County Clare, Ireland, April 29, 1841, 
and came to this country in 1862, and settled in Freehold, New Jersey,
where he worked in a hotel.  In 1863, he went to Great Valley, New 
York, remaining there until early in 1864.  At the beginning of the 
coal oil excitement he went to the oil regions in Pennsylvania, and
worked there first in putting up machinery and then at masonry till
1867, at which time he went to Meadville, Pennsylvania, remaining 
there speculating in oil and other stocks till early in 1869.  He 
moved to Kent, Ohio, where he kept a billiard hall for some nineteen
months, and then came West, settling at Rock Island, Illinois.  Then
he visited the principal towns of Iowa, Illinois and Dakota, and 
finally landed in St. Joseph, Missouri, in September, 1870, when he
settled and bought the property now located on the corner of Mitchell
Avenue and Tenth Street, then an open prairie.  He purchased from
Milton Tootle the property he still owns, on which stands the Commer-
cial Hotel.  He was married to Miss Mary Kelly, in Davenport, Iowa,
October 3, 1871.  They have two children living.  Mr. McInerny attend-
ed school in Ireland with the lady who is now his wife.  They had not
seen each other for fourteen years, when they accidentally met in 
Davenport.  Mr. McInerny keeps an excellent house, and enjoys great
personal popularity.  For several years has been elected Alderman of
his ward, a position the duties of which he discharged acceptably. He
is President of the Land League of St. Joseph, and is notably active
and liberal in all church and school enterprises.  He is a Catholic
in religion and a Democrat in politics.

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