CANANDAIGUA DAILY MESSENGER
Friday - February 12, 1926
VETERAN WAGON BUILDER DIES - EAST BLOOMFIELD,
Dennis Neenan, aged 72 years, well known local carriage builder, died at his home here this morning at 7 o'clock.
He was stricken with apoplexy last evening about five o'clock while attending the furnace at his home, his brother, Daniel Neenan hearing his call for assistance.
Mr. Neenan was known throughout the county and this section as an expert carriage and wagon builder, and iron and wood repair worker, being associated with his brother, Daniel, in the business which they purchased from William Taft on April 1, 1882.
Deceased was born in West Bloomfield on March 9, 1852, the son of John and Catherine Curran Neenan, moving with his parents to East Bloomfield at the age of seven years. When 15 years of age he became associated with Mumford Hayes in carriage work, as an apprentice learning the fine trade of ironing on carriages. At the close of his apprenticeship he went to South Bend, Indiana, for three years, on his return being employed by William Taft, whose carriage business he and his brother later bought out.
On October 30, 1879 he was married to Miss Mary B. Gleason. He leaves his wife and a foster son, Robert W. Norton of this place, also five brothers and two sisters, Thomas, Peter, Daniel, Edward and William Neenan and Mrs. John McDonnough, all of East Bloomfield, and Mrs. Jane Costello, Penn Yan.
Funeral services will be held from St. Bridget's Church here Monday at 10 o'clock, Rev. P. A. Neville, officiating.
Interment in the church cemetery. [St. Bridget's]
Friday - February 12, 1926
VETERAN WAGON BUILDER DIES - EAST BLOOMFIELD,
Dennis Neenan, aged 72 years, well known local carriage builder, died at his home here this morning at 7 o'clock.
He was stricken with apoplexy last evening about five o'clock while attending the furnace at his home, his brother, Daniel Neenan hearing his call for assistance.
Mr. Neenan was known throughout the county and this section as an expert carriage and wagon builder, and iron and wood repair worker, being associated with his brother, Daniel, in the business which they purchased from William Taft on April 1, 1882.
Deceased was born in West Bloomfield on March 9, 1852, the son of John and Catherine Curran Neenan, moving with his parents to East Bloomfield at the age of seven years. When 15 years of age he became associated with Mumford Hayes in carriage work, as an apprentice learning the fine trade of ironing on carriages. At the close of his apprenticeship he went to South Bend, Indiana, for three years, on his return being employed by William Taft, whose carriage business he and his brother later bought out.
On October 30, 1879 he was married to Miss Mary B. Gleason. He leaves his wife and a foster son, Robert W. Norton of this place, also five brothers and two sisters, Thomas, Peter, Daniel, Edward and William Neenan and Mrs. John McDonnough, all of East Bloomfield, and Mrs. Jane Costello, Penn Yan.
Funeral services will be held from St. Bridget's Church here Monday at 10 o'clock, Rev. P. A. Neville, officiating.
Interment in the church cemetery. [St. Bridget's]
CANANDAIGUA DAILY MESSENGER
Friday - February 12, 1926
VETERAN WAGON BUILDER DIES - EAST BLOOMFIELD,
Dennis Neenan, aged 72 years, well known local carriage builder, died at his home here this morning at 7 o'clock.
He was stricken with apoplexy last evening about five o'clock while attending the furnace at his home, his brother, Daniel Neenan hearing his call for assistance.
Mr. Neenan was known throughout the county and this section as an expert carriage and wagon builder, and iron and wood repair worker, being associated with his brother, Daniel, in the business which they purchased from William Taft on April 1, 1882.
Deceased was born in West Bloomfield on March 9, 1852, the son of John and Catherine Curran Neenan, moving with his parents to East Bloomfield at the age of seven years. When 15 years of age he became associated with Mumford Hayes in carriage work, as an apprentice learning the fine trade of ironing on carriages. At the close of his apprenticeship he went to South Bend, Indiana, for three years, on his return being employed by William Taft, whose carriage business he and his brother later bought out.
On October 30, 1879 he was married to Miss Mary B. Gleason. He leaves his wife and a foster son, Robert W. Norton of this place, also five brothers and two sisters, Thomas, Peter, Daniel, Edward and William Neenan and Mrs. John McDonnough, all of East Bloomfield, and Mrs. Jane Costello, Penn Yan.
Funeral services will be held from St. Bridget's Church here Monday at 10 o'clock, Rev. P. A. Neville, officiating.
Interment in the church cemetery. [St. Bridget's]
Friday - February 12, 1926
VETERAN WAGON BUILDER DIES - EAST BLOOMFIELD,
Dennis Neenan, aged 72 years, well known local carriage builder, died at his home here this morning at 7 o'clock.
He was stricken with apoplexy last evening about five o'clock while attending the furnace at his home, his brother, Daniel Neenan hearing his call for assistance.
Mr. Neenan was known throughout the county and this section as an expert carriage and wagon builder, and iron and wood repair worker, being associated with his brother, Daniel, in the business which they purchased from William Taft on April 1, 1882.
Deceased was born in West Bloomfield on March 9, 1852, the son of John and Catherine Curran Neenan, moving with his parents to East Bloomfield at the age of seven years. When 15 years of age he became associated with Mumford Hayes in carriage work, as an apprentice learning the fine trade of ironing on carriages. At the close of his apprenticeship he went to South Bend, Indiana, for three years, on his return being employed by William Taft, whose carriage business he and his brother later bought out.
On October 30, 1879 he was married to Miss Mary B. Gleason. He leaves his wife and a foster son, Robert W. Norton of this place, also five brothers and two sisters, Thomas, Peter, Daniel, Edward and William Neenan and Mrs. John McDonnough, all of East Bloomfield, and Mrs. Jane Costello, Penn Yan.
Funeral services will be held from St. Bridget's Church here Monday at 10 o'clock, Rev. P. A. Neville, officiating.
Interment in the church cemetery. [St. Bridget's]
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