P. F. O'Neil Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Patricia Cooper - pcooper@peaknet.net

Surname: O'NEIL
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1210

  P. F. O'NEIL, assistant superintendent of the Derry Shoe Company, at
Derry, N. H., which has the largest factory in Rockingham County, was 
born in Manchester, N. H., July 23, 1870, a son of Michael and Mary 
O'Neil. He was reared and educated in Manchester and on completing his 
schooling began industrial life in the shoe factories, working for some 
time in the Kimball factories, as well as in others. Later he became 
foreman and boss laster in the factory of George P. Croft & Co., at 
Manchester, remaining there about ten years. He then went to Chelsea, 
Mass., where he entered the employ of the Bartell & Thelin Company, 
being in charge of their last department for four years and eight 
months. His next employment was with Donavan & Co., at Everett, Mass., 
where he had charge of the lasting and making forms for seven years. He 
then went to the factory of D. D. Lefavre, at Salem, Mass., and from 
there to the A.G. Walton factory, at Chelsea, Mass. In 1910, on the 
starting of the Derry Shoe Company, he came to this village and entered 
the employ of said company and has since remained with them, now 
holding the position of assistant superintendent, as above
stated. That he is a more than usually competent man in his line is 
proved by the fact that for a number of years he has held responsible 
positions int the various factories in which he has been employed. 
  Mr. O'Neil was married in 1892 to Margaret Shea, who died in 1897,
leaving two sons, Robert, who died Oct. 29, 1914, and Harold, Mr. 
O'Neil was married to Alma Demerse, and has six children: Alma, Helen, 
Mary , Jennette, William and Alice. Mr. O'Neil and family are members 
of the Catholic church.

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