Michael F. Ahern

As printed in 1912

MICHAEL F. AHERN (1883) is cashier of the State Bank of Taunton and one of the prominent citizens of that village. He owns an elegant home in Taunton and 480 acres of Lyon county soil. For the past six years he has been treasurer of the village.

Mr. Ahern is a native of Springfield, Illinois, and was born September 15, 1876. When a child, in 1883, he came to Lyon county with his parents and lived on the farm on section 8, Eidsvold, until fifteen years old. During the next four years he was a student of the Marshall school and then for three years was manager of the Western Elevator Company at Taunton. He spent three years as assistant cashier of the Farmers 8c Merchants Bank of Minneota and then in 1905 organized the State Bank of Taunton, of which he has since been cashier.

Mr. Ahern married Alice G. Langan at Minneota on June 27, 1906. She is a native of Westerheim township and is the daughter of Pat Langan, one of the early settlers of that precinct. Mr. and Mrs. Ahern have three daughters: Genevieve, Catherine and Dorothy. Our subject is a member of the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Order of Foresters and Modern Woodmen lodges.

The parents of Mr. Ahern, Garrett A. and Catherine A. (Brown) Ahern, came from Ireland in the fifties and were married in Illinois. They came to Lyon county in 1883 and he died on the farm in Eidsvold in 1899, at the age of sixty-seven years. Mrs. Ahern lives with a son on the Eidsvold farm. In the family are the following named ten children: Philip P., of Taunton; Josie, William, Ellen (Mrs. Thomas Welch), of Minneota; James J., Michael F., of this review; Catherine (Mrs. Morris Breen), of Minneapolis; Thomas, assistant cashier of the Farmers Bank of Hampden, North Dakota; Garrett F., of Montana; and Annie.

As printed in An illustrated history of Lyon County, Minnesota (1912). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.