Memorial and biographical record and illustrated compendium of biography ..of ..citizens of Columbia . COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY. 369 Freeiloni township, Sauk county; Anna, wiieof Luke Kelley, of Washington, D. C; andElizaheth, wife of John Norton, of Provi-dence, Rhode Island. John Rooney, whose name introducesthis review, was only three years okl whenlinuiglit hy his parents to the United States,and was only seven when his father following year the family moved toZanes\ille, Ohio, and the next vear \.o Rose-ville, that state. In 1855 they came toWhitewater, Wisconsin, and from therem
Memorial and biographical record and illustrated compendium of biography ..of ..citizens of Columbia . COMPENDIUM OF BIOGRAPHY. 369 Freeiloni township, Sauk county; Anna, wiieof Luke Kelley, of Washington, D. C; andElizaheth, wife of John Norton, of Provi-dence, Rhode Island. John Rooney, whose name introducesthis review, was only three years okl whenlinuiglit hy his parents to the United States,and was only seven when his father following year the family moved toZanes\ille, Ohio, and the next vear \.o Rose-ville, that state. In 1855 they came toWhitewater, Wisconsin, and from theremoved to Sugar Creek township, Wal-worth county, where our subject was em-ployed on the iild railroad grade which wasafterward abandoned. From the age ofseven years he had earned his own liveli-hood at railroad work, beginning as a waterboy in Ohio, and after the death of hisbrother, Patrick, he dro\e the latters to Cross Plains, he worked on the con-struction of the Chicago, Milwaukee &St. Paul Railroad between Madison andPrairie du Chien, and between Judah andMonroe, Wisconsin. In
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