Biography

1838 - 11/27/1907


O’NEIL, John, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, 1838 in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland; carpenter; elected, local tax collector (1864); elected, select council, Pittsburgh; elected, school director, Pittsburgh; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1878 and 1880; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1882); hotel proprietor; president, Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association; died, November 27, 1907 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Saint Paul’s Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.


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