Maurice Dinneen Biography


	This biography appears on page 703 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				MAURICE DINNEEN.

	The name of Dinneen has long been a familiar one to the citizens 
of Beadle county, South Dakota, and as a representative of one of the 
worthy and honored families Maurice Dinneen is well known. He was born 
April 11, 1860, in Malone, New York, but during his early boyhood was 
brought by his parents to the middle west, the family home being 
established in Brown county, Minnesota. There he was reared and 
remained until he came with his father to Huron. Here he embarked 
immediately in the livery business, building barns and maintaining the 
business along the most strictly modern lines until he now owns one of 
the best equipped liveries either in this state or North Dakota. He has 
a fine funeral outfit, a bus line, a hack line, an ambulance and 
various kinds of vehicles for private use, keeping twenty-six head of 
horses. He has always lived an active life but has confined his 
attention chiefly to the livery business, which has brought him a 
substantial measure of success. Besides his fine barn he owns 
considerable city property in Huron.  

	In 1891 Mr. Dinneen was united in marriage to Miss Ellen Lavery, 
of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, and to them have been born two children: 
Josephine, who married Mart Kunie of Aberdeen and has one son, Maurice 
J.; and John, who is in the revenue office in Aberdeen. No history of 
Beadle county would be complete without extended reference to the 
Dinneen family and a lengthy sketch of Michael J. Dinneen, father of 
Maurice, is given on another page of this volume. Like his father, 
Maurice Dinneen has ever proved himself a public spirited citizen and 
one ready to give active support to any project for the betterment of 
the community.