PATRICK CONNOR - Biography

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This biography appears on page 637-638 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

PATRICK CONNOR, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O, Wheatland. He was born in County
Cork, Ireland, in March, 1821. He came to Wisconsin first in 1851. He
worked a short time at farming, in Brighton Township; went to Illinois
and worked in different parts of the State. In 1855, be returned to
Wisconsin, bought a farm, and located in Burlington Township, where he
has constantly lived for the last twenty-four years. He married, in
Burlington, October, 1857, Mrs. Alice O'Neil, born in County Tipperary,
Ireland, in 1825. They have had two children- Ellen, born June 26, 1859;
died Aug. 14, 1867; Johnnie, born Sept. 18, 1862; died Aug. 12, 1867.
Mr. Connor has led an industrious life. He owns forty acres of good
land, fertile and productive. Members of the Wheatland Catholic Church.