Prunty, Patrick H.

Other Events:

• Immigration: Abt 1845
• 1880 Census: 1880, Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• Biography: 1911; History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 0918

Notes:

Other Info or Events:
Children;
Peter Sylvester Prunty
Son
14 Aug 1858
Stephensville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
29 Aug 1885
Andover, Day County, South Dakota

John Henry Prunty
Son
21 Sep 1859
Stephensville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
07 Aug 1901
Andover, Day County, South Dakota

Patrick Lachlin Prunty
Son
1862
Stephensville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
09 Aug 1916
Montana

Mary Jane Prunty
Daughter
1863
Stephensville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
29 Oct 1947
Santa Ana, California

Michael Edward Prunty
Son
31 Jan 1864
Stephensville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
06 Apr 1956
Santa Ana, California

Honorah Ellen Prunty
Daughter
Sep 1866
Stephensville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
27 May 1945
Santa Ana, California

Catherine Prunty
Daughter
13 Mar 1867
Ellington, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
13 Mar 1912
Stephensville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin

Thomas Francis Prunty
Son
01 Sep 1868
Stephensville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
18 Dec 1961
Chicago, Illinois

James Martin Prunty
Son
15 Mar 1870
Stephensville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
29 Apr 1948
Appleton, Wisconsin

Anna Elizabeth Prunty
Daughter
28 May 1872
Stephensville, Outagamie County, Wisconsin
05 Dec 1960
Appleton Memorial Hospital, Appleton, Wisconsin

1880 Census:
Patrick Puenty55
Ann Puenty45
Peter Puenty20
John Puenty19
Patk. Puenty18
Mary Puenty16
Mchail Puenty15
Nora Puenty14
Catherine Puenty11
Frank Puenty10
James Puenty8
Anna Puenty6

Biography:
PATRICK H. PRUNTY, a well-known citizen of Outagamie county, was born in Province Connaught, Ireland, and came to the United States with his brother, Peter, in 1845, when nineteen years of age, settling near Boston, Massachusetts, where he secured employment on farms. In 1851 the brothers started for California, via the Isthmus of Panama, making their way by foot across to the Pacific coast, where they took a vessel. After spending three years in placer mining they returned over the same route, and remained in Boston during the winter of 1855, when they came to Outagamie county, via Milwaukee. Patrick H. Prunty bought the south one-half of section 15, Town 22, range 16 east, in Ellington township. His brother Peter also purchased a quarter section of land north of the town of Stephensville. Patrick H. Prunty sold the east one-half of the southeast quarter of section 15 later on, and still later disposed of another eighty acres, but continued to hold 200 acres, which he developed from a wild waste of timber land on which only a small claim shanty had been built, into a fertile, productive farm with large residence, handsome barns and other farm buildings. On July 18, 1858, he was married to Anna Haffnier, who was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and came to this country when three years of age in 1837, with her father and mother, John and Nora (Dwyer) Haffnier, who came. to this county in 1848 and settled in Greenville township, where both died. Mr. and Mrs. Prunty have been the parents of ten children, as follows: Peter S., who met an accidental death while operating a threshing machine in South Dakota, August 29, 1885, at the age of twenty-seven years; John H., who died in 1902, when forty-three years old; Patrick L., residing in Canada; Mary J., who married J. P. Crow and lives in South Dakota; Nora E., who married Frank Sheelar, of South Dakota; Michael E., unmarried and living on the homestead; Catherine, who is keeping house for her father in Appleton; Francis T., who married Agnes Corney and lives at Bear Creek; James, living on the homestead; and Anna E., teaching in the Third Ward school, Appleton, Wisconsin.

Patrick married Hafner, Anna 18 Jul 1858. Anna (daughter of Hafner, John and Dwyer, Nora) was born 24 Dec 1837, , County Tipperary, Ireland; died 13 Feb 1910, Stephensville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; was buried , St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Biography: 1911; History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Page 0918
• Obituary: 30 Apr 1948; Appleton Post Crescent

Notes:

Biography:
JAMES PRUNTY, chairman of Ellington township and one of the leading agriculturists of his section, is a son of Patrick H. Prunty. He was born March 15, 1872, on the homestead farm in Ellington township, and after attending the district schools of his neighborhood entered the High school in Appleton, where he continued three years. He then taught district school No. 4, Ellington township, for one year, after which he rented a farm near Aberdeen, South Dakota, for two years. During the two years that followed he was engaged in railroad construction in North Dakota and Minnesota, and he then went to Superior, Wisconsin, where for one year he was engaged in the wood and coal business with his brothers, Patrick L. and Michael E. They also made their headquarters there for jobbing in lumbering, and in 1899 returned to the old homestead. In 1900, with his brother, Michael E., Mr. Prunty began working the home farm for his father, and in 1904 the brothers purchased the land, their father retiring in the following year and moving to Appleton, where he now resides. Mrs. Prunty died during the winter of 1909. On October 6, 1908, Mr. Prunty was married to Lillie Louise Kimm, daughter of Francis and Julia (Downing) Kimm, of Minnesota, Mrs. Prunty having been reared in Mankato, that State. Mr. and Mrs. Prunty have one son, Kimm Patrick, born January 23, 1910. They belong to St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church. In politics Mr. Prunty is a Democrat, but he relies on his own judgment to tell him the best man for the position. He was township clerk for two terms, township assessor for a like period, and in the spring of 1911 was elected to the office of township chairman, in which capacity he is now acting.

Obituary:
Prunty James M. 3/17/1870 4/29/1948 Post Crescent 4/30/1948 10

James married Kimm, Lillian Louise 6 Oct 1908. Lillian was born Abt 1874, Mankato, Blue Earth, Minnesota, USA; died 1 Jun 1950, New London, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]