Biography extracted from History of Sauk County, Wisconsin Chicago: Western Historical Company, published 1880.

Washington:

Owen Cooney, deceased; was born in Ireland in 1820; came to the United States with his parents while a boy; lived in Michigan and Ohio till 1855, when he came to Sauk Co., Wis., settled in the town of Bear Creek. Was married about 1850 to Ann Graham; they have six children, of whom four are living – Eliza, John E., Anna and Mary; those last bore the same names as the two last written, Anna and Mary. Mr. Cooney died at his farm on Bear Creek, in March, 1865. Mrs. Cooney was married to James Quinn in 1867; they resided on Sec. 35, Washington. Mr. Quinn died in 1875; Mrs. Quinn and her son John live on the farm still; they have 120 acres.

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