FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: EAGAN, P. A. (published 1880)
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History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties,  Ohio
Pub by Williams Bros.,  1880

P.A. EGAN,

  county coroner,  was born in Ireland,  Prairie county,  on September
14,  1830.  He is of a family of thirteen,  the children of John and
Bridget Egan,  who died,  the mother on September 24,  1851,  and the
father on October 24,  1852.  The gentleman whose life is briefly
sketched in the following lines,  acquired his education in his native
country.  On January 16,  1850,  he,  in company with his two sisters, 
Mary and johanna,  left his home for America,  that land whose flag
guarantees protection and equal rights to all,  and on the sixteenth day
of the following March,  he landed in New York,  with but two dollars
and fifty cents in his pocket,  and a stranger in a great city.  His
prospects were not particularly flattering,  but he was not of those who
turn back,  and soon found work for himself and sisters, in Washington
County,  New York.  The subsequent fall,  he secured a situation in a
foundry,  in Boston,  Massachusetts.  On May 9,  1852,  he arrived in
Columbus,  Ohio,  and soon obtained employment with Huntington Fitch,
esq.  This he continued until fall,  when he secured a situation at the
Columbus Asylum for the Insane,  and in this he remained until the
spring of 1855,  when he took his departure for california.  He remained
in the "land of gold" four years,  returning to Columbus on December
28,  1859.  The next spring he purchased two carriages,  and went into
business.  This he continued until October 15,  1865,  when he engaged
in the livery and undertaking business.  Mr. Egan is one of those
unassuming gentlemen,  who,  though modest,  is energetic and tireless
in his devotion to business.  Courteous and obliging,  he has built up
for himself a trade and a reputation which are flattering to his
business attainments.  His prosperity and success,  which are due to his
untiring industry,  are especially gratifying to his numerous friends, 
who have associated with him here for the past quarter of a century.  He
has the largest establishment of its kind in the city,  employing
twenty-seven horses.

Mr. Egan was elected coroner of Franklin county in the fall of 1869, 
and has held the office continuously until the present time,  than which
no better proof of his capability can be adduced.

On October 21,  1861,  he was united in marriage to mary,  daughter of
Timothy and Nancy A. Ryen.  Of the eight children born of this union, 
seven are now living:  Johanna,  Mary,  Maggie,  John,  Joseph,  Alice
and kate.  Mrs. Egan died on the twenty-first day of October,  1879.
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