Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Delaney, Patrick J. May 4, 1864 - ????
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

PATRICK J. DELANEY,
who is a reliable and skillful plumber and steam fitter of over twelve years'
experience in the Mountain City, was born in Altoona, Blair county,
Pennsylvania, May 4, 1864, and is a son of Patrick and Honora (Crimmers)
Delaney.  The Delaney family is one of the old families of Ireland, which
trace their ancestry through centuries of change, of want and war to an early
period in the history of the Emerald Isle.  Patrick Delaney (father) was born
in 1837, in County Kerry, province of Munster, southern Ireland.  He was
reared in his native county, and received his education in the schools of his
neighborhood.  From the fifteenth century down to the present time the
mechanical arts as well as manufactures have continually increased in many of
the towns and cities of Ireland, although the past curse and the present woe
of the beautiful island is land monopoly and political greed.  Not caring for
an agricultural life, Patrick Delaney learned the trade of plumber and steam
fitter, and in 1852 came to Pennsylvania, where he settled in Schuylkill
county.  He worked there at coal mining until 1860, when he came to Altoona,
where he has been a resident ever since.  He is a skilled workman, which fact
is attested by his forty years' continuous service in the employ of a railroad
company that never keeps any but first-class workmen in any department of
their railroad affairs.  He is a democrat in politics, and a Catholic in
religious faith.  He married Honora Crimmers, a native of County Cork,
Ireland, and to their union was born a family of seven children, four sons
and three daughters.
      Patrick J. Delaney grew to manhood in Altoona, and received his
education in the excellent parochial schools of that enterprising and
progressive city.  He learned the trade of plumber and steam fitter in the
shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in whose employ he worked for
twelve years.  At the end of that time, in 1891, he embarked in the plumbing
and steam fitting business for himself.  His establishment is on the corner
of Twelfth avenue and Twelfth street.  His twelve years of practical
experience, and his superior advantages for learning the more complicated
parts of his trade, enable him to give satisfaction in every difficult job of
work.  He has a large and increasing patronage.
      In politics Patrick Delaney is a democrat, but for county and city
officers he always votes for those whom he thinks best qualified for the
office, independent of political considerations.  He is industrious,
energetic and reliable as a business man, and has been for several years a
member of St. John's Catholic church of Altoona.

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