Biographical Sketch of Thomas O'Halloran, Camden County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Maj. Thomas O'Halloran was born in the "Emerald Isle" in 1827, and 
there resided until 1848, when he immigrated to the United States with
his brothers, Maurice and James, and his sister, Eliza.  After landing
in New York City they remained there three of four months, and then 
went to Chicago, where the sister died in the fall of 1848.  The bro-
thers then came to Missouri, Maurice and James locating in St. Charles
county, on a farm, where the former died a short time after.  James is
now living in Pulaski county.  Maj. Thomas O'Halloran remained in St.
Louis until about 1856, where he was engaged in the pork packing house
of Murphy, McClurg & Co.; then he came to his present farm, which he 
had purchased the previous year, and which he has resided ever since,
with the exception of a short time during the late war.  He enlisted 
as a private in the Forty-seventh Enrolled Militia, and August 12, 1862
was commissioned captain of a company he organized, and September 18,
1862, rose to the rank of major, and afterward to lieutenant-colonel of
the Forty-seventh Regiment.  He resigned in 1864, after doing honorable
and active service.  In the fall of 1863, while at home on furlough to
put up his winter's meat, a party of six men rode up and inquired of 
his family the way to Mineral Point, Linn Creek and Tuscumbia.  Soon 
after they left the house the Major though something was not right, and
mounted his horse and started after them.  When he reached them they 
asked him which of the three roads led to Linn Creek.  He told them not
to matter about the roads, but to consider themselves under arrest as
prisoners; to which one of them, who afterward proved to be Maj. Rucker
of the Confederate army, replied that he thought it rather cool for one
man to take six men; but Maj. O'Halloran marched them down the road,
single file, for about a miles and half, where he secured help to dis-
arm them, and found on their persons over 300 letters for Southern
sympathizers in Northern Missouri and St. Louis.  For this act of 
bravery the Major received a vote of thanks from the State Senate, and
won the respect and admiration of all his friends.  He came to the home
place when the war was over, and has since been actively engaged in
improving his farm of 440 acres, and has 150 acres in a fine state of
cultivation.  December 28, 1858, he was married in Linn Creek, by Lewis
Coy, to Miss Frances M. Murphy, by whom he became the father of eight
children, two being deceased: William D., who died at the age of six
years, and Thomas W., whose death occurred when twenty-three years old.
Those living are Edwin C., James, Mary E. (wife of Berry Hendricks),
Fannie B., John M. and Katie F.  Mr. O'Halloran is a Republican in 
politics.

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