History of Kane County 0873

              HISTORY   OF   KANE   COUNTY.
 
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War, and established the first store at Dundee, becoming closely identified with the mercantile trade until his retirement from active business in 1880. He served as Postmaster of Dundee for eight years and was a Justice of the Peace as early as 1844. He was married in 1836 to Miss Lucy Curtis Mowrey.
DENNIS P. O'BRIEN, Catholic Clergyman, Aurora, Ill., was born in County Limerick, Ireland, in 1860; educated at Mount Millirey Seminary. Waterford, Ireland, studied theology at St. John's Seminary in the latter city, graduating from that institution in 1883; was ordained priest in the latter year, and for two years thereafter traveled and studied in Europe; came to the United States in 1885, and was Assistant Rector of St. Mary's Parish, Chicago; later was appointed Assistant Rector of St. Columbkills Parish for ten years; came to Aurora in 1897 to take charge of Holy Angel's Parish, and remained there three years; has since been Rector of St. Mary's Parish, Aurora.
 
DOMINICK O'MALLEY, retired farmer, Maple Park, Kane County, Ill., born Jan. 1, 1812, in County Mayo, Ireland, and came to the United States in 1849, settling at St. Charles, Ill. He was largely employed for some years in and around Joliet at railroad-grading work, and in 1857 bought a farm in the town of Virgil. He was a general farmer until 1893, when his eye-sight became seriously impaired. Since 1900 he has been entirely blind. In 1893 he moved to Maple Park, where he has since made his home with his daughter. He has been Road Commissioner, and has filled other local positions. Mr. O'Malley was married Dec. 31, 1840, to Miss Judith Duffy, who died March 12, 1902. She became the mother of ten children, four of whom died in Ireland. Two of the daughters and four of the sons of this marriage are still living.
ERNEST WRAY ONEAL, clergyman and lecturer, Aurora, Ill., born at Glenwood, Iowa, August 29, 1863, the son of Rev. H. H. Oneal, D. D., one of the pioneer Methodist ministers of that State; was educated in the public schools and at Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, graduating from that institution in 1885. He then took a course in Garrett Biblical Institute, at Evanston, Ill., graduating there in 1889, when he was ordained to the ministry in the Methodist Episcopal Church and admitted to the Rock River Conference the same year, being assigned to the pastorate of the church at River Forest, a suburb of Chicago. He has since had charges at Woodlawn Park, Chicago; Plato Center and Ashton, Ill., and in 1899 was appointed to the pastorate of the Galena Street Methodist church, Aurora, which (1904) he still occupies. Mr. Oneal has gained distinction as a pulpit orator and lecturer. In 1887 he was married to Grace Ellinwood, of Rochelle, Ill., and they have one daughter, Janet Oneal.
RENALVIN OUTHOUSE (deceased), farmer, Lily Lake, Ill., born near Lily Lake, April 22, 1852; obtained his education in the public schools and at Jennings Seminary and Business College, Aurora, and later engaged in farming on his father's homestead, which was deeded to him previous to the latter's death; married Addle Leighton. Mr. Outhouse died Nov. 4, 1892.
WILLIAM W. ORMSBEE, dentist, Geneva, Ill., was born in Shoreham, Vt, March 8, 1832, son of John M. and Polly (Wilson) Ormsbee, where he was reared on the farm and educated in the local schools, and Brandon Seminary. In 1853 he began the study of dentistry at Mid-