Bios of PATRICK HENRY MORONEY.
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   Named in honor of one of America's most illustrious patriots, this
representative member of the Tulsa bar has shown in his individual
career the same high spirit of loyalty and patriotism that
characterized Patrick. Henry when he uttered the immortal words, "Give
me liberty or give me death," and mindful of the sorrows and
afflictions of the land of his forefathers, it is but natural that Mr.
Moroney should likewise be found as an opponent of tyranny and
oppression in the fair Emerald isle and thus be a stalwart advocate of
the cause of Irish freedom.
 
   Mr. Moroney was born in Oberlin, Ohio, on the 2d of January, 1867,
and is a son of James P. and Mary (Shiel) Moroney, both representatives
of the stanchest of Irish ancestry. James P. Moroney was, however, born
in London, England, on the 22d of February, 1839, his wife having been
born at Laughrea, County Galway, Ireland, on the 4th of March, 1840.
His death occurred in 1898, his loved and devoted wife having passed
away in the preceding year. James P. Moroney gained a common school
education in the city of his nativity and his alert and receptive mind
caused him to profit fully by the discipline Which he thereafter gained
through individual effort, as a great student and reader and acquired a
true perspective of human affairs through his association with the
practical duties and responsibilities of life. He was a youth when he
came to the United States, where he became identified with newspaper
work on the New York Sun, of which Charles A. Dana was then the
presiding genius. From the national metropolis he made his way to Ohio,
and became editor and publisher of a newspaper at Bucyrus, that state.
However, he subordinated all personal interests to tender his aid in
defense of the nation when the Civil war was precipitated. He enlisted
as a member of Company E, Forty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with
this command he took part in many engagements and lived up to the full
tension of the great conflict through which the integrity of the nation
was preserved. At the battle of Chickamauga he was wounded, but he was
not long incapacitated by his injuries. In later years he vitalized his
deep interest in his old comrades by maintaining appreciative
affiliation with the Grand Army of the Republic. His marriage was
solemnized in 1865, in Ohio, and in that state he became a prosperous
farmer and influential citizen of Huron county, where he and his wife
continued to reside until their death.
 
   The public schools of the old Buckeye state afforded to Patrick H.
Moroney his early education, which included the discipline of the high
school, and thereafter he completed a normal course in what is now the
great Valparaiso University. at Valparaiso, Indiana, in which he was
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He became a
successful teacher in the schools of Ohio and Louisiana, as well as in
the city of Chicago, where simultaneously he availed himself of the
advantages of the law department of Northwestern University, from which
he received in 1896 his degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the following
year he engaged in the practice of law in Chicago, continuing his
professional activities there until 1903, when he removed to
Parkersburg, West Virginia, where he became a successful general
practitioner of law and also influential in public affairs, as a
vigorous advocate of the principles of the republican party. He was
elected police judge of Parkersburg and in his rulings on this bench he
was specially considerate of boys and young men, whose misdemeanors he
endeavored to correct by suspending sentence and giving the judicial
advice that might turn them from their evil practices. In this
connection he followed' virtually the same kindly policies as has Judge
Ben B. Lindsey of Denver, Colorado, who has made fame for himself in
the field of juvenile jurisprudence. After having made a splendid
record on the bench of the criminal branch of the municipal court of
Parkersburg, Judge Moroney sought a broader field of professional
endeavor and thus it was that in 1913 he came to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where
he has built up a substantial and representative law business, mainly
in the department of civil practice, and where he has secure status as
an able lawyer and loyal and public-spirited citizen. He is a member of
the republican county committee of Tulsa county and has shown much
ability in connection with the manoeuvering of political forces. He was
one of the organizers of the Mid-Continent Brick & Tile Company, of
which he is secretary, and which has developed one of the important
manufacturing industries of Tulsa.
 
   Special attention should be directed to the very active part Judge
Moroney has taken as a member of the American Committee for Irish
Independence and as a vigorous member of the Friends of Irish Freedom.
In this connection he was prominently concerned with the drafting of
resolutions, issued at a representative assemblage of American citizens
at Tulsa, signifying unqualified approval of the independence of
Ireland, copies of these resolutions having been sent to the secretary
of state at Washington and also the British ambassador. His zeal in
this cause is a characteristic exemplification of the broad
humanitarian spirit and the ideals of justice maintained by Judge
Moroney. He and his wife are earnest communicants of the Catholic
church, in which they are members of the parish of Holy Family church
in Tulsa.
 
   On February 22, 1898, occurred the marriage of Judge Moroney to Miss
Margaret Patterson, who was born at Pittsfield, Illinois, and who is a
daughter of John and Margaret (McDonald) Patterson, who were born in
County Mayo, and County Clare, Ireland, respectively, and were young
folk when they immigrated to the United States. Mr. Patterson landed at
New Orleans and later went to Galveston, Texas. When the Civil war was
initiated he there became a soldier of the Confederacy, while his
brothers who had settled in the northwest became Union soldiers. After
the close of the war Mr. Patterson engaged in farm enterprise in
Illinois, and in the early '70s he became a pioneer farmer near Avoca,
Iowa, where he developed a fine farm property and became a leader in
his community, both he and his wife having there continued their
residence until their death. Judge and Mrs. Moroney have six children:
Helen Frances, Donald Patrick, Mary Elizabeth, Margaret Mona, John
Charles Carroll, and Catherine Anna.