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Patrick Dinneen Sr.

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Birth	:	17 Mar 1834 Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Death	:	5 Mar 1921 Yankton County, South Dakota, USA
Burial	:	Sacred Heart Cemetery, Yankton, Yankton County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.9007988, -97.3927994
Description	:	Patrick Dinneen is a retired farmer of Yankton county. He has made his home continuously in this state since arriving in Yankton on the 10th of May, 1868. He is now an octogenarian, his birth having occurred in County Cork, Ireland, on St. Patrick's day, 1834, and he was named for his patron saint. When he had attained his majority he sought farm work in England and was employed in that way in England and Scotland for a number of years, after which he returned to Ireland and, attracted by the opportunities of the new world, came to the United... Read More	Patrick Dinneen is a retired farmer of Yankton county. He has made his home continuously in this state since arriving in Yankton on the 10th of May, 1868. He is now an octogenarian, his birth having occurred in County Cork, Ireland, on St. Patrick's day, 1834, and he was named for his patron saint. When he had attained his majority he sought farm work in England and was employed in that way in England and Scotland for a number of years, after which he returned to Ireland and, attracted by the opportunities of the new world, came to the United States in the spring of 1866, leaving a wife and six children to follow him three years later. He sailed from Queenstown on the City of Manchester, having fair weather and a quiet passage of nine days to New York. For a brief period he worked in New Jersey and then made his way westward to Iowa, where he was employed in the mines He afterward went to Murphysboro, Illinois, where he worked in the mines, and still later went to New Orleans and afterward to Galveston, Texas. He secured work on a ranch in the Panhandle of Texas, the owner being engaged in shipping beef to Galveston. On one occasion he killed three thousand cattle in a corral of a ranch and shipped the beef by boat to Galveston. Later Mr. Dinneen returned to New Orleans and worked on the levee along the Mississippi river between Lake Providence and Memphis. His next move took him to Chicago, where he secured a situation in a brickyard shoveling clay. An agent for a railroad employed him to go west to work on the Union Pacific Railroad. He began work at Rock Creek and remained in the service until the two parts of the road, the east and the west, were joined. He saw the two golden spikes driven into the mahogany tie, the ends of the rails resting on a silver "chair," and there are today few living who witnessed that event. Mr. Dinneen saw the opportunities of the west and filed on a homestead on section 32, township 94, range 54, in Yankton county, since which time he has made his home continuously upon this farm and has added to his original holdings. Not a furrow had been turned nor an improvement made upon the place when he took possession of the property. He planted all of the trees upon his farm, erected two dwellings and all the outbuildings and transformed his property into a valuable country place. He broke the ground with oxen, for he owned no horses at the beginning of his residence here. He lived first in a log house, securing the logs in Nebraska. He worked all day cutting timber for a man across the river, bringing a small load home each night for home supply. He went through the usual hardships and privations incident to settlement upon the frontier. In the '70s the grasshoppers injured or totally destroyed the crops for five years, taking everything for two years. The flood of March and April 1881, also proved very disastrous to Mr. Dinneen, the water being ten feet deep where his buildings stood. He got his cattle on straw stacks and filled the holes with straw if the cattle sank into the stacks. He saw the stacks with the cattle upon them rise and float away but they were grounded across the line in Clay county and part of the cattle were recovered. Altogether forty-seven head of cattle floated away and sixteen were recovered and he also lost one of his three horses. It was twenty-eight days before the water went down so he could get the cattle, but he sprinkled salt on the stacks so that they would eat the straw and keep alive. Such were only a few of the difficulties which the early settlers of the valley had to endure, but with marked determination and progressiveness, Mr. Dinneen kept on his way and became in time one of the substantial farmers of the district, and in the course of years acquired a substantial competence that now enables him to rest from further labor. Mr. Dinneen was married in England to Miss Mary Walsh, and they have become the parents of nine children, seven of whom are living. Six of that number were born in England. The record is as follows: Daniel, now a resident of Welleston, South Dakota; Margaret, who is the widow of Albert Amen and resides in Yankton county; Timothy, who died at the age of fourteen years; John, who is employed in a round house of the Great Northern Railroad Company at Yankton; Hannah, who died in California; Pat, who is engaged in business in Irene, South Dakota; James, who is farming his father's land; George, who is on a farm north of the home place; and Nellie, the wife of Tom Garvie, of Gayville. The last three children were born in America. In his political faith, Mr. Dinneen is a democrat but has never sought nor desired office. His religious belief is that of the Catholic church, in which he was reared. A residence of forty-seven years has made him widely known in Yankton county and he is today one of the venerable citizens here, as well as one of the pioneer settlers. Source- History of Dakota Territory IV, By George W. Kingsbury, 1915

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Patrick Dinneen Sr.'s memorial is located at: Sacred Heart Cemetery, Yankton, Yankton County, USA.
When did Patrick Dinneen Sr. death?
Patrick Dinneen Sr. death on 5 Mar 1921 in Yankton County, South Dakota, USA
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Latitude: 42.9007988
Longitude: -97.3927994

Family Members:

Spouse

Mary Walsh Dinneen

(1834 - 1916)

Children

Margaret Agnes Dinneen Aman

(1857 - 1948)

Timothy “Ted” Dinneen

(1861 - 1913)

John Dinneen

(1862 - 1923)

Patrick J Dinneen Jr.

(1868 - 1940)

James “Jim” Dinneen

(1870 - 1931)

Mary E. Dinneen Garvey

(1873 - 1924)

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