Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Doonan, Francis P. January 13, 1854 - ????
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Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, page 429
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Francis P Doonan is of Irish descent and was born January 13, 1854, near
Kingwood, Preston county, West Virginia, then Virginia.  He is a son of
John Doonan and Bridget Kenney Doonan, both natives of County Longford,
Ireland.
    John Doonan, father, emigrated to America in 1837 and resided at Mt
Savage, Allegany county, Maryland, for some time when he removed to
Preston county, Virginia, and died at Wheeling in 1860.  He had six
children: James Doonan; Francis P Doonan; John Doonan, dead; Mary E
Doonan, now Mrs Laffey of Mineral county, West Virginia; Anna D Doonan;
Elizabeth Doonan, now Mrs Locke of Uniontown.
    Francis P Doonan was educated in the free schools, and Catholic schools
of Clarksburg, West Virginia, and the Normal schools of Somerset,
Pennsylvania.  He taught six terms of school, two in Mineral county, West
Virginia, two in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, and two in this county.
    Intelligent, quick and energetic, as a boy he naturally attracted
observation, and was in governmental employ at Clarksburg, West Virginia,
when only fourteen years of age.
    Being of good business tact and talent, his services have often been in
demand in that line, he has successfully clerked at Clarksburg, kept time
on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and been an efficient bookkeeper at
Lemont Furnace.  Specifically qualified by this varied commercial
experience, he embarked in the general mercantile and drug business at
Dunbar in 1882; has built up and is energetically conducting a very
successful business.
    Mr Doonan was married in September, 1887, to Miss Ellen Cray, daughter
of James Cray, a successful businessman of Dunbar.
    In 1886 and in 1888 he was the regular nominee of the democratic party
of Fayette county as one of their candidates for the legislature, but at
both elections republicans were elected.  
    Having determined upon the law as a profession, he pursued the study for
one year (1885-86) in the law department of Georgetown University.  Having
successfully passed the preliminary examination in Fayette county, is now
a registered student of law at Uniontown.  He is intelligent, active and
reliable and gives promise of making his mark in the future. 

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