Minahan, Victor I.

1881 - 1954  (73 years)

• Name	Minahan, Victor I.
  Birth	6 Jun 1881	Chilton, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA
  Gender	Male
  Biography	Abt 1913
  History of Brown County Page 369
  VICTOR I. MINAHAN. No man can be an active and successful lawyer in whom the qualities of public spirit and ambition are not present. The legal profession calls for energy, enterprise and a mind, capable of mastering details. The career of Victor I. Minahan is an example of the value of these virtues in the study of jurisprudence. He is a member of the firm of Minahan & Minahan. with offices at 202 Minahan building, where he has been practicing since 1900. He was born at Chilton, Calumet county, Wisconsin, June 2, 1877, and is a son of William B. and Mary Minahan. His father was a native of Ireland, coming to America with his parents in 1840. They settled on a farm in New York state, where William B. Minahan remained until i860. In this year he came to Calumet county, Wisconsin, and engaged in the occupation of farming for some time. He was prominent in local affairs, was superintendent of schools for some time and a firm adherent of the republican party. He died in [906 when he was seventy-three years old, having survived his wife for three years. Victor I. Minahan entered the public schools of Oshkosh at the usual age, spent four years in the normal school at Stevens Point, and graduated in 1897 from that institution. He entered the law department of the Wisconsin State University and received his degree of LL.B. from that institution in 1900. He immediately came to Green Bay where he practiced law alone for five years. In 1905 he entered into partnership with E. R. Minahan under the name of Minahan & Minahan which is today one of the most prominent law firms of this city and county. Victor I. Minahan has given his qualities— undoubted ability, strict integrity, energy and capacity for hard work— to the building up of a legal practice and his success since the first year in Green Bay has been rapid and brilliant. He has many interests outside of his profession and they have made him well known in business circles of this city. He is vice president of the Minahan Building Company of which his brother. J. R. Minahan, is president. He was responsible for the erection of the Minahan building, the largest office structure in the city of Green Bay, in which the law firm with which Victor I. Minahan is connected, has its offices. He is a director of the Bank of Green Bay and is connected with the Godfredson Brothers Company. Politically he is a democrat, and fraternally is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and is prominent in the affairs of the Royal Arcanum. His home is at 202 North Jefferson avenue and his friends in Green Bay are numbered among its most prominent and important citizens. Mr. Minahan is among the most promising of the rising young lawyers of this city and in his twelve years of legal practice has made a record remarkable for its brilliancv and success.
  Reference Number	50
  Death	5 Aug 1954	Egg Harbor, Door, Wisconsin, USA
  Person ID	I321587	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	Minahan, William B.,   b. 17 Nov 1833, North Inishkae Island, Mayo, Ireland d. 31 Oct 1906, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Shaughnessy, Mary,   b. 18 Aug 1839, Adare, Limerick, Munster, Ireland d. 5 Jul 1902, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA (Age 62 years)
  Family ID	F209685	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Bush, Bertha,   b. 16 Apr 1884, Leroy, Presque Isle, Michigan, USA d. 1 Apr 1959, De Pere, Brown, Wisconsin, USA (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1918
  Children	1. Minahan, Victor Ivan Jr.,   b. 28 Apr 1921   d. 28 Feb 2003, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 81 years)
  Family ID	F207474	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Sep 2016