Donnelly, D. K.

DONNELLY

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/3/2008 at 16:10:05

D. K. Donnelly

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.19, Council Bluffs)
D. K. Donnelly, engineer, Union Pacific Water Works, Council Bluffs, is a native of Detroit, Mich.; born in 1845. He enlisted in Ann Arbor, Mich., in the Second Michigan Cavalry, and, during the late war, served three years and nine months. After the war, he went to California, where he remained a number of years, engaged as engineer in crushing and smelting works. In 1871, he came to Council Bluffs, and engaged as engineer of the Union Pacific Water Works till 1872, when he went to St. Joseph, but in 1875, returned to Council Bluffs, and has since held his present position there. His duty consists in running the engine four hours in the twenty-four. June 26, 1872, he married Miss Anna Butler, of Nodaway, Mo., and by this union they have been blessed with two children - Cora, aged nine, and Ethel, aged three years.