Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . faction and interestthe substantial growth of the place until it is now the capital of the Ozark,region in imjjortance commercially. He was for many )-ears a wclhkncjwngrocer here, and now being well past his eighty-third birthday, he is livingquietly in his little cottage in the heart of the city, still preferring to remainnear his old ])lace of business. He is Irish in blood, and, having many ofthe traits of that energetic and (|uick-witted race, has succeede
Past and present of Greene County Missouri; early and recent history and genealogical records of many of the representative citizens . faction and interestthe substantial growth of the place until it is now the capital of the Ozark,region in imjjortance commercially. He was for many )-ears a wclhkncjwngrocer here, and now being well past his eighty-third birthday, he is livingquietly in his little cottage in the heart of the city, still preferring to remainnear his old ])lace of business. He is Irish in blood, and, having many ofthe traits of that energetic and (|uick-witted race, has succeeded well in hislife work. ^ir. Hegarty was born in Ireland, in June. 1830. He is a son of Johnand Anna (Galaspy) Hegarty, both of whom were l)orn. reared, marriedand spent their lives in tlie Emerald Isle, dying there many years ago, thefather i^assing away when our subject was a small boy, in about the year1846. He was a tailor l)y trade and he and his wife both received goodeducations for that time. Their family consisted of ten children, two ofthe sons still living, namely: John of this sketch, and James, who lives inSt. JOHN HEGARTV. GREENE COUNTY, MISSOURI. 873 Jolin Hegarty grew to nianliuml in Ireland and there receixcd a sehool education. fJe emigrated to tlie United States in 1847 andsettled in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he remained eighteen or twentyyears, at different times, during which period he was a commercial traveler,selling dry goods for a Terre Haute house, then spent a year in differentparts of Illinois. He first came to Springfield, Missouri, in 1855, but notlong thereafter returned East, but took up his permanent residence here in1870, following farming near Springfield a short time, then moved intothe city and for a period of twenty years engaged in the grocery businessat Boonville street and Phelps avenue, having been in partnership with hisbrother James, under the firm name of Hegarty Bros. They enjoyed anextensive trade, and theirs was
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