. History of Milwaukee, city and county . ,Elkhorn, Whitewater, Hartford and West Bend, Wisconsin. The first year the businesssales amounted to one hundred and ten thousand dollars and in 1920 reached the mostsubstantial sum of three million, five hundred thousand dollars. Mr. ONeil has beenidentified with the business for forty-five years and has built up an enterprise secondto none of this character in the country. He has splendid powers of organization andreadily discriminates between the essential and the non-essential in all business energy is unfaltering and when one avenue o
. History of Milwaukee, city and county . ,Elkhorn, Whitewater, Hartford and West Bend, Wisconsin. The first year the businesssales amounted to one hundred and ten thousand dollars and in 1920 reached the mostsubstantial sum of three million, five hundred thousand dollars. Mr. ONeil has beenidentified with the business for forty-five years and has built up an enterprise secondto none of this character in the country. He has splendid powers of organization andreadily discriminates between the essential and the non-essential in all business energy is unfaltering and when one avenue of opportunity seems closed he carvesout other paths whereby to reach the desired goal. He is truly a self-made man andone who has gained a liberal education through experience and observation, whilehis labors have brought him substantial wealth. Mr. ONeil is very fond of dfomesticanimals and has a fine farm at Thiensville, Wisconsin, where he raises high bredGuernsey cattle, which he has imported from the Isle of Guernsey. He is also the. GEORGE F. ONEIL Vol. U—1 3 HISTORY OK .MII>\VAIJKEE 195 president of the ONeil Petroleum tompany, a corporation prospecting tor crude oilin Oklahoma and he is the president-of the Court Company, and the AlabamaInvestment Company, while of the Fiebing Chemical Company, The Milwaukee OpticalCompany and the Evinrude Motor Company he is a director. His business judgmentis regarded as a valuable asset in all of the corporations with which he has becomeidentified and he is today a dynamic force in the commercial circles of Milwaukee. Mr. ONeil married Miss Leila Davidson Quin. daughter of Edward and CatherineQuin, early settlers of Milwaukee. She took a great interest in war activities andtranslated for the fatherless children of France all of the letters thit cmie from tliatcountry to Wisconsin as well as those that were sent to France. The French govern-ment recently recognized her service by the awarding of an appropriate decorati
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