BIOGRAPHIES:   Patrick McGEOUGH, Oak Grove Township, Barron County, WI

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Patrick McGeough, who has farmed in Oak Grove Township since early manhood,
is one of the well-to-do men of the township, and his intelligent effort and
well-directed hard work has resulted in success. He was born in Upper Canada
March 7, 1861, son of Owen and Bridget (Kennedy) McGeough, who brought him to
Barron County when he was eleven years of age. He attended school for a while
and worked with his parents, helping them to develop a farm from the
wilderness. As a young man he entered the employ of Knapp, Stout & Co.,
working for them in the woods in the winter time and engaging in farm work in
the summer time. In 1887 he purchased 160 acres of railroad land in section
11, Oak Grove Township, to the development and operating of which he has 
since devoted his attention. He has cleared 80 acres, erected a good set of
buildings, including a good silo built in 1920, and made many other
improvements. He carries on mixed farming and dairying and has a herd of
graded Holsteins. He is a stockholder in the Brill Creamery Co. at Brill. Mr.
McGeough was married April 17, 1893 to Rosie Cosgrove, a most worthy woman,
who was born in Benton, Wis., and died Feb. 16, 1902. In the family there 
were three daughters: Mary, Rosella and Loretta. Mary was born March 12, 1894.
After her mother's death she kept house for her father until her own death,
March 30, 1920. Rosella was born April 3, 1895, and is the wife of Frank
Drost, of this county. Loretta was born Aug. 23, 1900, and is now Mrs. Earl
Bollman, of this county.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pg. 355.