OBIT: Dennis O'BRIAN, 1880, Gaysport, Blair County, PA

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HOLLIDAYSBURG HAPPENINGS.
Departed.
  
  Yesterday morning at 9:30 o'clock Dennis O'Brian, the proprietor of 
the Blair House in Gaysport, died.  His disease was dropsy.  Mr. 
O'Brian was about 48 years of age, a native of Ireland and for the last 
twenty-five or thirty years a resident of this town.  He worked for 
many years in the ore mines, and when diseases unfitted him for work in 
the mines he rented the Blair House.  He was a quiet, law-abiding 
citizen and a consistent member of the Catholic church.  His funeral 
will take place at 10 o'clock on Friday.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, February 12, 1880

HOLLIDAYSBURG HAPPENINGS.

  The funeral of Dennis O'Brian was largely attended yesterday.  His 
remains were conveyed to St. John's Catholic church, and after high mass 
were laid in the church yard.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, February 14, 1880

1870 Hollidaysburg, Blair County census - 
Dennis O'Brien, 50, ore miner, b. Ireland 
Mary O'Brien, 40, b. Ireland
Hannah O'Brien, 9, all children b. PA 
Kate O'Brien, 8 
Mary O'Brien, 6 
Eliza O'Brien, 4 
Maggie O'Brien, 3 
Dennis O'Brien, 1 
Catharine O'Brien, 90, b. Ireland