This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: RMunns7272 Surnames: O'Brien, Carr, O'Kieffe, Magoon Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.lacrosse/551.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: >From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 781. City of La Crosse TIMOTHY O'BRIEN, proprietor of the Troy House; has been a resident of La Crosse since 1855, and has been in the saloon and hotel business during the whole time, except when in the army. He was brought up in Troy, N. Y., and learned the cigar-maker's trade of Joseph B. Carr, the present Secretary of State of New York, and came from there to La Crosse in 1855. Oct. 8, 1861, he enlisted in the 14th W. V. I., Co. D, and served till the close of the war as 1st Lieutenant of that company; he was wounded in the hip July 16, 1864, at Tupelo, Miss. He was married in Milwaukee Jan. 1, 1866, to Mary Ann, daughter of Edward O'Kieffe, a merchant tailor, who located in La Crosse in 1857, and still resides there; he was the first merchant tailor to locate in La Crosse. Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien have had fourteen children, only three of whom are now living - Mary Ellen, Arthur and Edward. Rev. James P. O'Kieffe, Pastor of the Catholic Church at Mineral Point, Wis., and Arthur J. O'Kieffe of the ! law firm of Magoon & O'Kieffe, of Darlington, Wis., are brothers of Mrs. O'Brien. [I am not related to this family and have no further information. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!] Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.