Biography: Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin: Owen Bannon

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Owen Bannon, farmer, Sec. 7; P.O. New Cassel; born in County Louth,
Ireland, in 1806; came to America in 1834, and worked sixteen years as a
laborer in Dutchess Co., N.Y.  Married in 1849, Miss Rose Hoy, of his
native county, who came to America in 1847.  In May, 1850, Mr. B. came to
Auburn and bought 160 acres of his present farm; of this only ten acres
were poorly cleared, on which a floorless and doorless log house; holes
were cut for doors and windows, and blankets hunger therein, which seemed a
slight protection against the bears that used to be neighborly, so much as
top occasionally "borrow" a pig of him; Mr. B. has seen much of pioneer
life, and, as a result of his chopping, breaking and planning, he has 440
acres, mostly improved, and a cozy brick farmhouse in place of the early
settlers' log house.  Michael, his elder son, was born Jan. 28, 1850; he
grew to manhood on the farm; was a student at Milton College, and a
graduate of Notre Dame College, a young man of more than ordinary
abilities; his death on the 10th of January, 1880, was a severe blow to a
large circle of admiring friends.  James- the younger son, was born May 28,
1852, and was educated in the High School in Fond du Lac, and the
Northwestern College, Evanston, Ill.; he married, Sept. 10, 1878, Miss
Bertha Husting, of New Cassel, by whom he has one son- Arnold J.  The young
couple are on the homestead, and the entire family member of the Roman
Catholic Church; politics, Democratic.

Transcribed from The History of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin Chicago :
Western Historical Company, 1880 pg. 962