Philip Ahern

As printed in 1912

PHILIP P. AHERN (1883) is one of the old residents of Taunton and has been prominent in business and social circles in that village. He has served as president of the Village Council ever since Taunton was incorporated in the spring of 1900. Mr. Ahern is local manager of the C. M. Youmans Lumber Company and is interested in other lines of business.

Mr. Ahern was born in Springfield, Illinois, September 22, 18 67. When he was seventeen years of age, in 1883, he moved with his parents to Lyon county, and until he was twenty-three years old he lived with them on the farm on the west half of section 8, Eidsvold township, just north of Taunton station. Then he located in the little village and for seventeen years bought grain for O. L. Marfield, of Winona. After July, 1898, he also had the management of the C. M. Youmans Lumber Company's yard and elevator, an assistant looking after the grain department until he gave up that part of the business in 1905. Since that time Mr. Ahern has given his time to the management of the lumber yard.

In other lines of business Mr. Ahern has been interested. In the spring of 1895 he was one of the organizers of the Mutual Elevator Company, served as its secretary three years, and then severed his connection with the company. He is vice president of the State Bank of Taunton and owns a quarter section of land on section 5, Eidsvold. Mr. Ahern is a member of the

Knights of Columbus and Modern Woodmen lodges.

Philip Ahern is a son of the late Garrett Ahern and Catherine { Brown) Ahern, natives of Ireland. The father came to America about 18 55, the mother a short time later, and they were married at Springfield, Illinois. They settled in Eidsvold township, Lyon county, in 1883, and in that precinct Mr. Ahern died in 1899, at the age of sixty-seven years. Mrs. Ahern lives on the old home farm with her son, J. J. Ahern. Our subject is the eldest of ten children in this family, the others being as follows: Josie, William, Ellen (Mrs. Thomas Welch), of Minneota; James J., Michael F., Catherine (Mrs. Morris Breen), of Minneapolis; Thomas, assistant cashier of the Farmers Bank of Hampden, North Dakota; Garrett F., of Montana; and Annie.

Philip P. Ahern was married at Minneota in June, 1894, to Catherine Salmon, who died July 3, 1905. As a result of this union a son, Philip, was born. The second marriage of Mr. Ahern occurred at Chatfield, Minnesota, to Agnes Moore, a native of that place. To them two children have been born, named Garrett and John.

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.