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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Bio of Daniel F. Hennessey
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 21:07:14 -0500


Surnames: HENNESSEY, SWEENEY, SULLIVAN, KELLY, RHUBY

History of Delaware County, Iowa...Captain John F. Merry, supervising ed. 2
vols. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1914

For more than two decades Daniel F. Hennessey has been successfully engaged
in the livery business, conducting an enterprise of that character at
Manchester. His birth occurred in Linn county, Iowa, on the 16th of August,
1871, his parents being Thomas and Mary (Sweeney) Hennessey, both of whom
were natives of Ireland. The father, an agriculturist by occupation, passed
away in Linn county, Iowa, while the mother died in Manchester, about 1905.
They had eleven children, as follows: James, who resides on a farm in
Delaware county; Edward, a resident of Dubuque, Iowa; Ella, the widow of
Timothy Sullivan; Mary, who is the widow of Patrick Kelly; Maggie, who gave
her hand in marriage to Dan Sullivan; Thomas, who is deceased; Maurice,
residing in Manchester, who is now serving as sheriff; Daniel F., of this
review; Lizzie, a resident of Ryan, this county; and two who passed away in
early childhood.
Daniel F. Hennessey acquired his education in the common schools of his
native county and after putting aside his text-books was engaged in farming
until he had attained his majority. At the age of twenty-one years he
embarked in the livery business in Manchester, buying out A.A. Morse at that
time, and in this connection he has since built up and maintained an
excellent and gratifying patronage. He has a fine automobile and his other
facilities are sufficient to meet every demand.
On the 14th of November, 1900, Mr. Hennessey was united in marriage to Miss
Lizzie Rhuby, a native of Dubuque county and a daughter of John Rhuby, who
is living now retired. Our subject and his wife have one daughter, Marie,
who is in school. Mr. Hennessey gives his political allegiance to the
democracy and is identified fraternally with the Modern Woodmen of America,
while in religious faith he is a Catholic. He has always taken an interest
in all that pertains to the upbuilding or development of the community and
gladly gives his support to every measure the adoption of which he feels
would promote the general welfare.

Cathy Joynt Labath
The Irish in Iowa
http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/


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