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HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY IOWA

A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement

VOLUME II ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1912

Transcribed by Sharon Elijah August 20, 2020

Patrick Doran, who owns one of the fine farms of Union township, in the operation of which he is meeting with much success, was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin, on the 24th of April, 1861, and is a son of Patrick and Mary (Pendergast) Doran. The parents were both natives of Ireland, the father having been born in County Tipperary and the mother in County Waterford. Patrick Doran was reared in the county where he was born and when old enough to become a wage earner was employed on the public works. He emigrated to the United States in his early manhood and soon thereafter located in Rock county, Wisconsin, in the vicinity of Edgerton. In 1877 he came to Carroll county, purchasing a farm of eighty acres in Union township. This he improved and cultivated with such excellent success that he was later able to increase his homestead by the addition of another eighty acres. Both he and his wife passed away at the age of eighty-four years, his demise occurring in January, 1901, and Mrs. Doran’s in September, 1909. They were life-long communicants of the Roman Catholic church. To them were born six children, in the following order: John, who is a resident of Union township; Patrick, our subject; Mary, the wife of Frank Trullinger, of Guthrie county; Maggie, who married John Christie, of Richmond township; Annie, the wife of James Christie of Zell, South Dakota; and Katie, the wife of George Trullinger, of Guthrie county.

The boyhood and early youth of Patrick Doran were passed on his father’s farm in Wisconsin, in the surrounding district schools of which he obtained his education. He was sixteen years of age when his parents removed to Iowa in 1877, and he has ever since continuously resided here. Agricultural pursuits have always engaged his attention and he now owns one hundred and sixty acres of land on section 12, Union township, a portion of which he inherited after the death of his father. He is one of the progressive and enterprising agriculturists of the township, which means he is also one of the prosperous. His place is well improved and kept up and his fields given the capable supervision which always insures abundant harvests.

On the 26th of November, 1885, Mr. Doran was united in marriage to Miss Agnes Egan, a daughter of John and Hannah (Martin) Egan, both natives of Ireland, from which country they emigrated to the United States, locating in Green county, Wisconsin. There they both passed away, the mother at the age of seventy-one, and the father at eighty-six. They were the parents of nine children: Catharine; Maria; Patrick, who is deceased; Celia; Margaret; Hannah; John; Nellie: and Agnes, now Mrs. Doran, who was born in Green county.

Mr. and Mrs. Doran have in their family eight children: Mabel, the wife of Edward Croake, who has one son, Harold; Harold, who is proving up on a claim in Tama and Meade counties, South Dakota; William; Alice; Grace; Helen; John and Celia.

All of the family are communicants of the Roman Catholic church, and Mr. Doran and two of his sons are affiliated with the Knights of Columbus. He is a democrat, but has never sought any office or political preferment in any way. He is one of the popular citizens of Union township whose upright business transactions and incorruptible integrity have won him the esteem of all with whom he has had dealings.

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