Golden, Anna

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Immigration:
Unknown

Buried:
Name:Anna O'Connor
Birth Date:19 Aug 1834
Birth Place:Templeboy, County Sligo, Ireland
Death Date:30 Apr 1923
Death Place:Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, USA
Cemetery:Saint Peters Catholic Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place:Eagle River, Vilas County, Wisconsin, USA
Has Bio?:Y
Spouse:John O'conner
Father:William Golden
Mother:Mary Golden

Anna married O'Connor, John 27 Nov 1854, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA. John (son of O'Connor, Edward and Walsh, Catharine Margaret) was born Abt 1833, New Castle, New Brunswick, Canada; died 4 Jul 1889, Eagle River, Vilas, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• 1880 Census: 1880, Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA

Notes:

1880 Census:
John O'connor47
Ann O'connor46
Wm. E. O'connor21
Ella B. O'connor19
Annie O'connor16
George E. O'connor14
Tilla K. O'connor12
Henry C. O'connor10
John O'connor6
Walter F. O'connor6
Harriet O'connor4

Other Events:

• Biography: Abt 1895; Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Wisconsin counties of Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade and Shawno

Notes:

Biography:
GEORGE E. O'CONNOR
George E. O'Connor, the popular and efficient sheriff of Vilas county, with residence at Eagle River, is a native of Wisconsin, born August 31, 1865, a son of John O'Connor, who first saw the light, in 1833, near the city of Newcastle, New Brunswick, Canada.
EDWARD O'CONNOR, grandfather of our subject, was born in Tipperary, Ireland, whence, when a young man, he emigrated to New Brunswick, where he married Miss Catherine Welch [sic - Walsh], by whom he had seven children, named respectively: John, Timothy [aka: Themothy], Kate [aka: Catherine], Richard, Mary, Maurice [aka: Morris] and Alice, the last two dying when quite young [sic - another son, Edward, was omitted from this publication]. In the spring of 1845 the family came to Wisconsin, locating in Milwaukee, where the father took up a homestead, near where the city hall now stands, and there remained some three years; but, thinking to better himself farther west, he abandoned his first Wisconsin home, and after a brief sojourn in Oshkosh settled on a farm in Brown county, whereon he passed the rest of his days, dying in 1859; his wife survived him till July, 1883 [sic - 1881], when she, too, passed to the "great unknown." He was a farmer and lumberman, prominent in politics as an ardent Whig and Republican. His ancestry in Ireland were all well-to-do agriculturists. John O'Connor, father of our subject, was twelve years old when the family took up their residence in Milwaukee, at the common schools of which then village he received a somewhat limited education, having in his boyhood to assist his father in getting out square timber and clearing the farm. At about the age of eighteen he commenced to work away from home, finding employment in mills and at lumbering, when nineteen years old having charge of a mill as foreman. In 1855, in the meantime marrying, he moved to Oconto, having been offered, and accepted, the position of head sawyer in a mill at that place, also following the logging business. Here he remained till 1866, in which year he took up his residence in Green Bay, where in connection with his lumbering interests he conducted a hotel, and was also interested in a sailing vessel, which, however, was wrecked. After about eight years' residence in Green Bay, he removed to Eau Claire, where he resided some nine years, with the exception of three years passed in Texas and Arkansas, erecting there a mill which turned out a failure. In Eau Claire he followed lumbering, and in April, 1883, he came to Eagle River, buying a tract of one thousand acres of land, in August, same year, platting the town of Eagle River, which was described as the plat of the N. E. quarter of the N.W. quarter of Section 33, Town 40 North, of Range 10 East, being the first plat of the town. Afterward he added two additions known as the Original Plat, and then one called the Ann O'Connor Addition. He came to be known as "the father of Eagle River." Here he logged one winter, and then embarked in the real-estate business, including the buying and selling of city property and pine lands, in connection with which he carried on a general supply store. He died July 4, 1889, a stanch Republican in his political affiliations. He was a typical self-made man, one who was favored with few school privileges, but was a great reader and a close student of human nature. At the time of the Pike's Peak excitement, he passed some six months in that region. Although reared a strict Catholic, yet he was liberal toward all denominations, and was particularly charitable to the poor. He was never called upon to serve his adopted country as a soldier, but he had two brothers in the army - Timothy and Richard.
In 1855, at Green Bay, Wis., John O'Connor was married to Miss Anna Golden, a native of County Sligo, Ireland, born in 1835, a daughter of William and Mary (Flatley) Golden, farming people, both also of Irish nativity, who came to America about the year 1838. For a time they sojourned in New York City, thence proceeding to Rome, N. Y., whence after three years passed in that city they came to Wisconsin, settling at Wrightstown, Brown county, on wild land, where they passed the rest of their days, the father dying in 1860, the mother in 1868. They were the first settlers of Wrightstown, and the old log cabin wherein they lived is still standing. They had nine children, to wit: Thomas, Peter, Patrick, Mary, Martin, James, Margaret, Ellen and Anna. The father was a "dyed-in-the-wool" Democrat. To John and Anna O'Connor were born ten children, named respectively: Mary, Edward, Ellen, Anna, George E., Matilda, Henry C, Don and Walter F. (twins), and Harriet.
George E. O'Connor, the subject proper of this memoir, was reared and educated in Eau Claire, and there at the early age of eleven years commenced learning the trade of printer, which he followed four years, after which he worked for a time in a shingle mill, then learned the trade of plumber. In 1883 he came to Eagle River with his father, whom he assisted in the latter's extensive lumbering interests - sometimes working in the woods, at other times running the river - so continuing some three years. At the age of twenty he entered the Northwestern Business College, at Madison, which institution he attended two summer terms, working in the woods winters, for a time keeping books for a lumber camp. In the fall of 1888 he commenced the management of his father's store, and after the latter's death he was appointed administrator of the estate. Politically he is a stanch Republican, and in 1894 he was elected to his present position of sheriff of Vilas county; for two years he served as town clerk, was secretary of the school board, and filled several minor offices. Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F. and K. of P. He has two brothers attending school at Detroit, Mich., while another brother, Henry C, is studying for the profession of dentist, at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (at one time he was register of deeds for Oneida county. Wis.). Our subject has not yet joined the noble army of Benedicts.
Source: "Commemorative Biographical Record of the Upper Wisconsin counties of Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade and Shawno" 1895, transcribed by Mary Saggio.

Other Events:

• 1880 Census: 1880, Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA
• 1940 Census: 1940, Ladysmith, Rusk, Wisconsin, USA

Notes:

1880 Census:
John O'connor47
Ann O'connor46
Wm. E. O'connor21
Ella B. O'connor19
Annie O'connor16
George E. O'connor14
Tilla K. O'connor12
Henry C. O'connor10
John O'connor6
Walter F. O'connor6
Harriet O'connor4

1940 Census:
Walter F Olonnor65
Elsie Olonnor61
Ann Jon OConnor27