HISTORY OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY - page 577
WENDEN O'NEAL was born in Boone county, Ky., April 28, 1839. He is a Son of George and Sarah (Sleet) O'Neal, both natives of Kentucky, the former of Scotch the latter Of Irish descent. We den O'Neal was graduated from the Kentucky University, Lexington. Ky., in 1859, and afterward, and up to the breaking out of the war, taught school in Boone county, daring which time he studied law. In April, 1863, he enlisted, was mustered in as colonel of the Fifty-fifth Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, served in that command throughout the war, and was breveted brigadier general at its close. In 1865 he was admitted to the Bar, and entered upon the practice of law in Covington. Ky., where he remained until 1885, when he came to Cincinnati and formed a law partnership with Maj. Charles H. Blackburn, with whom he was associated until 1892, Mr. O'Neal was United States Marshal for Kentucky under Gen. Grant's second term; was twice the Republican candidate for Congress from the Sixth Congressional District of Kentucky, and was each time defeated, reducing however, the Democratic majority over three thousand.
On September 5, 1862, Mr. O'Neal was married to Caroline, daughter of the late John W. Fenley, of Crittendon, Grant Co., Ky. Three children born of this marriage are John B., George, and Zue Lou. John B. O'Neal is an attorney admitted to the Bar in Circuit Court of Covington in 1886. and is unmarried. George O'Neal married Fredericka, daughter of Judge F. W. Moore, of Cincinnati. The family reside in Covington, and are members of the Fifth Street Christian Church.
HISTORY OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY - page 577
WENDEN O'NEAL was born in Boone county, Ky., April 28, 1839. He is a Son of George and Sarah (Sleet) O'Neal, both natives of Kentucky, the former of Scotch the latter Of Irish descent. We den O'Neal was graduated from the Kentucky University, Lexington. Ky., in 1859, and afterward, and up to the breaking out of the war, taught school in Boone county, daring which time he studied law. In April, 1863, he enlisted, was mustered in as colonel of the Fifty-fifth Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry, served in that command throughout the war, and was breveted brigadier general at its close. In 1865 he was admitted to the Bar, and entered upon the practice of law in Covington. Ky., where he remained until 1885, when he came to Cincinnati and formed a law partnership with Maj. Charles H. Blackburn, with whom he was associated until 1892, Mr. O'Neal was United States Marshal for Kentucky under Gen. Grant's second term; was twice the Republican candidate for Congress from the Sixth Congressional District of Kentucky, and was each time defeated, reducing however, the Democratic majority over three thousand.
On September 5, 1862, Mr. O'Neal was married to Caroline, daughter of the late John W. Fenley, of Crittendon, Grant Co., Ky. Three children born of this marriage are John B., George, and Zue Lou. John B. O'Neal is an attorney admitted to the Bar in Circuit Court of Covington in 1886. and is unmarried. George O'Neal married Fredericka, daughter of Judge F. W. Moore, of Cincinnati. The family reside in Covington, and are members of the Fifth Street Christian Church.
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