Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . ations personally. While stillin the vigor of ripe manhood, by diligent ap-plication to his chosen pursuit, Mr. Doner hasreached that conditionof life which affordscontentment and repose, free from the caresand vexations of earlier years. He is a Repub-lican in politics. DOUGHERTY, Peter, formerly a farmer ofChalmers Township, McDonough County, 111.,and now living in retirement in Macomb, inthat county, was born in County Donegal, Ire-land, March 2, 1847, and there attended a sub-scriptiim school. His father and mother. Wil-liam and Hannah Dougherty, w
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . ations personally. While stillin the vigor of ripe manhood, by diligent ap-plication to his chosen pursuit, Mr. Doner hasreached that conditionof life which affordscontentment and repose, free from the caresand vexations of earlier years. He is a Repub-lican in politics. DOUGHERTY, Peter, formerly a farmer ofChalmers Township, McDonough County, 111.,and now living in retirement in Macomb, inthat county, was born in County Donegal, Ire-land, March 2, 1847, and there attended a sub-scriptiim school. His father and mother. Wil-liam and Hannah Dougherty, were natives ofthe same country. Peter Dougherty left homeat the age of twelve years and spent fivemonths in Pulton County, 111. Thence he cameto New Salem Township, McDonough County,where he worked on a farm. At the time of thegreat Chicago fire in 1871 he was a studentat Porters Telegraphy School in that city. In1880 he moved to Mound Township, where hetook the township census, and was again cen-sus enumerator in 1890. He was engaged in.
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