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Title:  History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio
Authors:  Aldrich, Lewis Cass.
City of Publication:  Syracuse, N.Y. :
Publisher:  D. Mason & Co.,
Publication Date:  1888

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DONNELLY, Peter, Washington, Grand Rapids, Wood county p.o., was born in
Galway county, Ireland in 1819, and was a son of Michael and Bridget
(Glynn) Donnelly, who had a family of four sons and one daughter--John,
Michael, Patrick, Peter and Elizabeth.  The children came to America, John
and Peter coming to Toledo in 1837, where Peter was engaged as a laborer on
the Wabash canal.  He purchased his present eighty acres in 1845 at $1.25
per acre, and erected his log cabin thereon.  He was married in 1846 to
Nancy Murphy, who died in 1854, leaving four children.  He then married his
second wife in 1855.  She was Alice O'Hearn, and was born in Tipperary,
Ireland, in 1829.  They have had seven children--Michael, James, John,
Edward, Patrick and Elizabeth.  Michael is a lawyer; Patrick, a farmer, and
Peter a student, the others are engaged in teaching.

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