This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZFC.2ACI/506.1 Message Board Post: Hi! These may well be the O'Briens I knew. I lived in Itasca, the last part of one side of Superior, until I was 9, and in the next neighborhood for several more years. O'Brien Oil Company was the big business there, run by Bill O'Brien. I'd have to ask my Dad to fill in details. Last I knew, there still was an O'Brien Oil office there, don't know if the family still owns it. My greatgrandfather was allowed to put a barber's chair in some part of Bill's office, to help tidy up the railroad men on their way home from work. I remember Bill as a friendly, nice man who occasionally bought candy or ice cream for me and the other neighbor kids. I'm pretty sure he belonged to St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Allouez (that next part of town). This Bill must have been about my grandparents' age, born in the late 1800s. I'm not sure I ever knew his wife, so she may have died quite a while before him. I think his sons were Bob and Eddy. Hope this helps! Barb