Raymond DONOVAN

8 SEP 1893 - 11 APR 1971

• RESIDENCE: 1930, Hartland, McHenry, Illinois
• BIRTH: 8 SEP 1893, Alden, McHenry, Illinois
• BURIAL: Calvary Cemetery, Woodstock, McHenry, Illinois
• DEATH: 11 APR 1971, Woodstock, McHenry, Illinois

• MARRIAGE: 5 FEB 1921, McHenry, Illinois

1.  Rose Mary DONOVAN
2.  Harold DONOVAN
3.  Evangeline DONOVAN
4.  Eleanor DONOVAN

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[N6072] Woodstock is a city located 51 miles (82 km) northwest of Chicago in McHenry County, Illinois and is the county seat of McHenry County.The population was 20,151 at the 2000 census. The 2010 census shows 24,770 residents. The city is the home of the historic Woodstock Opera House and Old McHenry County Courthouse. The city was named in 2007 as one of the nation's Dozen Distinctive Destinations 2007 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.Woodstock was originally called Centerville to attract the seat of McHenry County in 1842. It changed its name in 1845 to the present Woodstock (although it was still called "Center" in the 1850 Federal Census) and was incorporated as a city in 1873. A vital artery for the growing town was the train line, which allowed for a substantial industrial presence early in the town's history. In 1895, a Chicago federal court sentenced former president of the American Railway Union Eugene V. Debs for his participation in the 1894 Pullman labor strike. Fearing that he'd be surrounded with too many sympathetic people in a Chicago prison, officials decided to put him on a train for the Woodstock Jail (built 1887), then housed in the red courthouse on the Square. It is said that the Woodstock Jail is where he encountered the works of Karl Marx, which he read. By the time he was released (purportedly before 10,000+ onlookers in the Woodstock Square) in 1895, Debs had become a socialist. He later ran for the United States Presidency under the newly formed Social Democratic Party against William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan, and then again in 1904. During the early part of the 20th century, Woodstock had become "Typewriter City." Home to both the Emerson Typewriter Company and Oliver Typewriter, more than half the world's typewriters were produced in Woodstock by 1922.[5] This industrial boom continued through World War II, but began to gradually decline.

Birth: Sep. 7, 1893
Death: Apr. 11, 1971
Woodstock
McHenry County
Illinois, USA

Burial:
Calvary Cemetery
Woodstock
McHenry County
Illinois, USA
Plot: Row Y, section 38, plot 12, grave 102

[N21715] Name: Raymond Donovan
Titles and Terms:
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 05 Feb 1921
Event Place: McHenry, Illinois, United States
Age: 27
Birth Year (Estimated): 1894
Father's Name: Michael F. Donovan
Father's Titles and Terms:
Mother's Name: Catherine Gleason
Mother's Titles and Terms:
Spouse's Name: Mary Agnes Murray
Spouse's Titles and Terms:
Spouse's Age: 23
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1898
Spouse's Father's Name: Michael Murray
Spouse's Father's Titles and Terms:
Spouse's Mother's Name: Anna Graham

"Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KFLF-SCC : accessed 08 Jun 2013), Raymond Donovan and Mary Agnes Murray, 1921.