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Source:
Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio
including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton.
Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
1899.
Transcribed by
Sharon Wick
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HON. DENNIS D. DONOVAN.
Few men are more prominent or more widely known throughout
this section of the State than Dennis D. Donovan, the
present popular mayor of Deshler, Henry county. He is
public-spirited and thoroughly interested in whatever tends
to promote the welfare of his community, and since attaining
his majority he has been prominently identified with its
public affairs.
Mr. Donovan is a native of Henry county, born near
Texas, January 31, 1859, a son of the late John Donovan, who
died in Deshler, May 23, 1897. His mother, Mrs. Catherine (Hannan)
Donovan, is still living. Upon his father's farm our subject
spent the days of his boyhood and youth until seventeen
years of age, when he entered the Valparaiso (Indiana)
Normal School, where he pursued his studies for several
terms, in the meantime teaching school to some extent. While
at Valparaiso he began the study of law, which he continued
for some time in the office of Hon. G. H. Barger, of
Columbus, Ohio, and subsequently entered the law department
of the Georgetown University, at Washington, D. C, where he
graduated in 1895.
Previously Mr. Donovan had become greatly interested in
local politics. and his fellow citizens, recognizing his
worth and ability, elected him to the Ohio Legislature in
1887, and again in 1889. So acceptably did he serve in that
body, that in the fall of 1890 he was chosen to represent
the Sixth Congressional District in Congress, and two years
later was re-elected, this time representing the Fifth
District. Here in the councils of the State and Nation was
the first great opportunity that had come to him to exercise
to their umost the marvelous abilities with which
nature had endowed him. He is a born leader of men, and in
those august bodies his qualities were quickly recognized.
The measures which he advocated always met with warm and
cordial support, and he proved a most able and efficient
representative of his district.
Prior to his election to Congress, Mr. Donovan had
engaged in various business enterprises, but now gives his
attention exclusively to the practice of law. Since 1882 he
has been a resident of Deshler, and has been a leading
spirit in all local affairs. In the spring of 1896 he was
elected mayor of the town, and while serving in that
capacity he has greatly advanced its interests, the reins of
city government having never been in more capable hands.
In Baltimore, Maryland, Mr. Donovan was married in
December, 1891, to Miss Genevra Wattimire, only daughter of
J. C. Wattimire, of Deshler.
Source:
Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio
- including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton.
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