Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Gorman, Michael 1827 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 October 27, 2008, 9:47 pm Author: Western Historical Society (1879) MICHAEL GORMAN, engineer Whitaker Engine and Skein Co.; born in Ireland in 1827; came to Wisconsin in 1856, locating at Paris, where he remained for five years, then moved to Kenosha and worked at farming for ten years; afterward purchased a small farm near the city; in 1872, commenced work for the Whitaker Engine and Skein Co. Married, in 1856, Miss Ann Rooney, a native of Ireland; they have had four children-two boys and two girls-one girl deceased. Members of the Catholic Church; Democrat. Additional Comments: Extracted from: THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN, CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC., ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN, MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC. ILLUSTRATED. CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY. MDCCCLXXIX. (1879) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/kenosha/bios/gorman510nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb