In November of 1887 when Daniel Lafayette was 9 months old, his mother died,and his father asked his wife's sister to take of him. She lived in Worcester, Mass, and that is where he was raised. However, she died when he was 8 or 9 years old, and his mother's brother, a parish priest, Rev. William Thomas Finneran, then took him in. Daniel lived in the rectory with his uncle while he went through grammar school and high school. Daniel's father Daniel David Donovan remarried in 1893, but never took him back to live with him. His father and his second wife, Ann Fullerton, had five children and continued to live in Pawtucket, RI.
Daniel started college at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1905. During his first two years, he worked on the Boston and Albany railroad. He was a flagman and rode the train from Worcester to Springfield or Albany at night and went to school in the daytime. After two years of college, he left and worked full time on the railroad to make enough money to pay for his last two years of college. He returned to Holy Cross inSeptember, 1908, and graduated in June, 1910. He was forst inhis class and graduated magna cum laude. He was awarded a full scholarship to Harvard law school, from which he graduated n 1913. He immediately moved to Chicago, Illinois where he began to practice law. He was in solo practice at 11 S. LaSalle St. in his early years. In 1920, at the age of 33, he married Mildred Francis Prendergast. He was then in the practice of Lattimer, Donovan, and Brown, a corporate law firm. Daniel and Mildred had four children together and lived on the south side of Chicago.
compiled from "The Ancestors and Descendants of Daniel Lafayette Donovan" by William T. Donovan
Daniel started college at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1905. During his first two years, he worked on the Boston and Albany railroad. He was a flagman and rode the train from Worcester to Springfield or Albany at night and went to school in the daytime. After two years of college, he left and worked full time on the railroad to make enough money to pay for his last two years of college. He returned to Holy Cross inSeptember, 1908, and graduated in June, 1910. He was forst inhis class and graduated magna cum laude. He was awarded a full scholarship to Harvard law school, from which he graduated n 1913. He immediately moved to Chicago, Illinois where he began to practice law. He was in solo practice at 11 S. LaSalle St. in his early years. In 1920, at the age of 33, he married Mildred Francis Prendergast. He was then in the practice of Lattimer, Donovan, and Brown, a corporate law firm. Daniel and Mildred had four children together and lived on the south side of Chicago.
compiled from "The Ancestors and Descendants of Daniel Lafayette Donovan" by William T. Donovan
In November of 1887 when Daniel Lafayette was 9 months old, his mother died,and his father asked his wife's sister to take of him. She lived in Worcester, Mass, and that is where he was raised. However, she died when he was 8 or 9 years old, and his mother's brother, a parish priest, Rev. William Thomas Finneran, then took him in. Daniel lived in the rectory with his uncle while he went through grammar school and high school. Daniel's father Daniel David Donovan remarried in 1893, but never took him back to live with him. His father and his second wife, Ann Fullerton, had five children and continued to live in Pawtucket, RI.
Daniel started college at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1905. During his first two years, he worked on the Boston and Albany railroad. He was a flagman and rode the train from Worcester to Springfield or Albany at night and went to school in the daytime. After two years of college, he left and worked full time on the railroad to make enough money to pay for his last two years of college. He returned to Holy Cross inSeptember, 1908, and graduated in June, 1910. He was forst inhis class and graduated magna cum laude. He was awarded a full scholarship to Harvard law school, from which he graduated n 1913. He immediately moved to Chicago, Illinois where he began to practice law. He was in solo practice at 11 S. LaSalle St. in his early years. In 1920, at the age of 33, he married Mildred Francis Prendergast. He was then in the practice of Lattimer, Donovan, and Brown, a corporate law firm. Daniel and Mildred had four children together and lived on the south side of Chicago.
compiled from "The Ancestors and Descendants of Daniel Lafayette Donovan" by William T. Donovan
Daniel started college at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1905. During his first two years, he worked on the Boston and Albany railroad. He was a flagman and rode the train from Worcester to Springfield or Albany at night and went to school in the daytime. After two years of college, he left and worked full time on the railroad to make enough money to pay for his last two years of college. He returned to Holy Cross inSeptember, 1908, and graduated in June, 1910. He was forst inhis class and graduated magna cum laude. He was awarded a full scholarship to Harvard law school, from which he graduated n 1913. He immediately moved to Chicago, Illinois where he began to practice law. He was in solo practice at 11 S. LaSalle St. in his early years. In 1920, at the age of 33, he married Mildred Francis Prendergast. He was then in the practice of Lattimer, Donovan, and Brown, a corporate law firm. Daniel and Mildred had four children together and lived on the south side of Chicago.
compiled from "The Ancestors and Descendants of Daniel Lafayette Donovan" by William T. Donovan
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
