HISTORY OF MANITOWOC COUNTY


mission, and now the SS. Peter and Paul church owns a property two hundred
and thirty feet by one hundred and ninety-five feet, and the priest's house
is a
two-story structure of frame.  When completed the new church will be a
beautiful one, commodious and a dignified example of ecclesiastical architec-
ture. It replaces the one erected in i886, which was the first one built.
MICHAEL DOOLAN.
Michael Doolan, the owner of a well cultivated property of eighty acres sit-
uated on section i8, town of Franklin, is one of Manitowoc county's good
agri-
culturists, and has the distinction of being the oldest living settler in
his part of
the county. He is a native of Massachusetts and was born June 9, 1842, a
son of
John and Julia (Noonan) Doolan, who were born in Ireland and there married.
John Doolan came to America in I832, and eight years later sent for his family,
who settled in Massachusetts in I840, and after four years removed to Hartford,
Connecticut, where they remained until July, I849. They then came to Wiscon-
sin and spent two months in Milwaukee and two months in Manitowoc, after
which Mr. Doolan purchased i6o acres of land, a part of which is the present
farm of Michael Doolan. It took the family two and one-half days to make
the
journey from Manitowoc, they being moved by a Mr. McIntosh, who owned an
ox team. Mr. McIntosh also hauled lumber from a lumber camp, situated on
what is now section 8, town of Franklin, and with this lumber Mr. Doolan
built
a shanty to house his family, while with only his axe he started to clear
his land
from the heavy timber. A hard and faithful worker, Mr. Doolan continued to
develop his land and at the time of his death, in I874, when he was seventy-one
years of age, he had a well-cultivated and productive property. His widow
sur-
vived him until 1879, and was seventy-two years of age at the time of her
death.
Both are buried in St. Patrick's cemetery at Maple Grove. Mr. Doolan took
an
active interest in politics, but never aspired to public office. Mr. and
Mrs. Doo-
lan had a family of five children. Mary, who married William Falvey, and
died
July I3, 1903, being buried at St. Patrick's cemetery, left a family of five
chil-
dren. Michael is the subject of this review. Bartholomew, who is married
and
living in Brown county, Wisconsin, has ten children. Ellen, who married John
Moran, of De Pere, has four children. John, married and living in Minnesota,
has two children. At the age of twenty years Michael Doolan engaged in the
lumber business, and worked in the woods and on the rivers until I870. He
was
married February 23, i873, to Miss Mary Mullane, born April 29, i856, the
onl)
child of James and Mary (Connell) Mullane, natives of Ireland who were mar-
ried in Pennsylvania, shortly after which they came to Wisconsin and purchasec
eighty acres of wild timber land on section i8, town of Franklin. Mr. Mullane
died on this land in April, i890, at the age of sixty-eight years, and his
widow
passed away in March, I903, when living with her son-in-law, Mr. Doolan,
and
both are buried in St. Patrick's cemetery of Maple Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Doolan
have had ten children. Mary married James O'Hearn, of Franklin, and has four
children. Catherine, a graduate of Oshkosh Normal School, is now teaching
at
Kasson, Manitowoc county. Ellen, who lives at home, is engaged in keeping


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