BIOGRAPHIES:  Francis DONNELLY, Oak Grove Township, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  24 February 2004
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Francis Donnelly, pioneer school teacher and farmer, was born in Canada,
and there received a good education. He married Bridget Haughian. They came
to America in the early seventies, and homesteaded 160 acres in Section 26,
Oak Grove Township, this county. He cleared a small tract, put up a log
cabin and sheds, and started to develop a farm, teaching in the meantime in
the early rural schools for a very small wage in order to secure a little
money. As the years passed, he succeeded in clearing seventy acres, and
replaced the original crude structures with good modern buildings. Being a
man of superior intelligence, it is natural that his official services
should be in demand, and he was called upon to serve several years as a
member of the town board and a member of the county board, of which latter
he was chairman a number of years. He was also on the school board for many
years. In all, his was a useful life, and he is remembered as one of the
influential, and one of the foremost men of the township. He died March 1,
1908, and in his death the town lost a good citizen and his family a loving
and understanding husband and father. The widow now lives in Herbert,
Canada, with her son, Patrick. There are nine children in the family: Bert,
Thomas, Clara, Charles, Elizabeth, Minnie, Margaret, Patrick and James J.
All have done well in their respective communities. The family faith is
that of the Roman Catholic church.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 337.


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