Patrick H. O'Neil Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1803-1804 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	PATRICK H. O'NEIL, who has a large and finely improved stock farm 
in Faulk county, is a native of the Badger state, having been born in 
New Richmond, St. Croix county, Wisconsin, on the 16th of February, 
1866, and being a son of Thomas O'Neil, who was born and reared in 
Ireland, when he came to America as a young man and located in 
Wisconsin, where he has maintained his home for the past forty years. 
The subject was reared and educated in his native county and continued 
to reside in Wisconsin until he had attained his legal majority, when, 
in 1887, he came to South Dakota and located in Faulkton, where he 
engaged in the meat-market business, in which he continued until 1898. 
Soon after his arrival in the county he also identified himself, on a 
modest scale, with the livestock industry, to which he has given his 
exclusive attention since the year mentioned. He has twenty-two thousand 
acres under fence, and in the connection it may be stated that for his 
purpose fully eighty miles of fencing are used, while of his land he has 
deeded title to twelve thousand acres. He raises both cattle and sheep 
and has the best graded stock, so that he is enabled to command the 
highest market prices. In the summer of 1892 he sold ninety-seven 
thousand eight hundred dollars' worth of stock at one sale and to one 
man. His average run of sheep is about fifteen thousand head and in 1903 
he sold seventy-two thousand nine hundred pounds of wool to one buyer, 
the Shropshire type of sheep being his favorite. All of his land is in 
Faulk county, and he has the best of facilities for the care and 
handling of his stock, an abundant supply of pure water being secured 
from three artesian wells. In politics h; is a staunch adherent of the 
Republican party and both he and his wife hold the faith of the Catholic 
church.

	On the 13th of June, 1887, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
O'Neill to Miss Annie Carlin, who was born in McLean county, Illinois. 
and they have five children, namely: Aloyisius, Mary, Ignatius, John and 
Henry.