September 30, 1925 in the Anaconda Standard
John Ward Cooney, father of Byron E. Cooney of Butte and Frank H. Cooney of Missoula died Monday night at the home of his sone, Frank, in Missoula
Mr. Cooney was in his ninetieth year having been born Dec. 23, 1835. He is survived by three sons, Frank, Byron, and Professor Percival J. Cooney El Monte, Calif., and a daughter, Mrs. Ulric Ellerhausen, who, as Miss Florence Cooney, achieved distinction in New York before her marriage, as an artist and designer.
The funeral will be held this morning from Walsh’s chapel proceeding to St. Patrick’s church where solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated. The active pallbearers will be, William J. McGill, Judge J. J. Lynch, Orrie N. Olds, P. J. Brophy, John Sheehan, and James Francis Carey.
Honorary pallbearers will be Jere Clifford, Alex Johnson, Sam Denham, Mose Levy, Harry Gallway and Charles Joyce.
Mr. Cooney came of a long-lived stock. His grandfather attained the age of 104 years. His father was 94 at the time of his death. His sister died some years ago at St. Louis aged 86 years. His brother, Frank, of Chicago, survives him, age 88 years.
J. W. Cooney was a native of New York State. He was born on the estate of Martin Van Buren at Kinderhook. His father, Patrick Cooney ... was manager of Van Buren properties both before and after the election of Van Buren as president of the United States.
Mr. Cooney, as a boy, was brought in frequent contact with President Van Buren and entertained a warm attachment for the statesman whose opponents characterized as “the fox of Kinderhook.”
Largely through the influence of his father’s position as head of the huge agricultural properties of Van Buren, young Cooney developed a taste for horticulture and devoted himself to this line of endeavor.
He became recognized as an expert nursery man and florist. Before coming to Montana, he was in charge of properties for the D. M. Ferry Seed company, The Frost Brothers’ Seed company, and was for 19 years manager of the Renfrew Fruit and Floral company of Ontario, Canada. In Montana he was the originator of the famous McIntosh Red apple.
Placer Miner.
Mr. Cooney came to Montana 31 years ago. For five years he was engaged in mining in Pilgrim Gulch, north of Walkerville, and was successful. He has spent the last 25 years of his life in retirement from business and in trips to Honolulu, California and southern points.
During the past six years, he spent most of his time with his son Byron in Butte; with Frank in Missoula, or at Hunter’s or Boulder Hot Springs. His wife, whom as Mary O’Callahan he lead to the alter in his young manhood, died in Butte about 21 years ago.
Although long past the allotted three score and ten, Mr. Cooney carried his age and well, his chief infirmity being deafness, of which he was particularly sensitive.
Few of his earlier Montana associates survive him, but those who knew him in his more active years remember him as a genial, alert personality with a fund of quiet wit and a marvelous star of information regarding fruits and flowers.
John Ward Cooney, father of Byron E. Cooney of Butte and Frank H. Cooney of Missoula died Monday night at the home of his sone, Frank, in Missoula
Mr. Cooney was in his ninetieth year having been born Dec. 23, 1835. He is survived by three sons, Frank, Byron, and Professor Percival J. Cooney El Monte, Calif., and a daughter, Mrs. Ulric Ellerhausen, who, as Miss Florence Cooney, achieved distinction in New York before her marriage, as an artist and designer.
The funeral will be held this morning from Walsh’s chapel proceeding to St. Patrick’s church where solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated. The active pallbearers will be, William J. McGill, Judge J. J. Lynch, Orrie N. Olds, P. J. Brophy, John Sheehan, and James Francis Carey.
Honorary pallbearers will be Jere Clifford, Alex Johnson, Sam Denham, Mose Levy, Harry Gallway and Charles Joyce.
Mr. Cooney came of a long-lived stock. His grandfather attained the age of 104 years. His father was 94 at the time of his death. His sister died some years ago at St. Louis aged 86 years. His brother, Frank, of Chicago, survives him, age 88 years.
J. W. Cooney was a native of New York State. He was born on the estate of Martin Van Buren at Kinderhook. His father, Patrick Cooney ... was manager of Van Buren properties both before and after the election of Van Buren as president of the United States.
Mr. Cooney, as a boy, was brought in frequent contact with President Van Buren and entertained a warm attachment for the statesman whose opponents characterized as “the fox of Kinderhook.”
Largely through the influence of his father’s position as head of the huge agricultural properties of Van Buren, young Cooney developed a taste for horticulture and devoted himself to this line of endeavor.
He became recognized as an expert nursery man and florist. Before coming to Montana, he was in charge of properties for the D. M. Ferry Seed company, The Frost Brothers’ Seed company, and was for 19 years manager of the Renfrew Fruit and Floral company of Ontario, Canada. In Montana he was the originator of the famous McIntosh Red apple.
Placer Miner.
Mr. Cooney came to Montana 31 years ago. For five years he was engaged in mining in Pilgrim Gulch, north of Walkerville, and was successful. He has spent the last 25 years of his life in retirement from business and in trips to Honolulu, California and southern points.
During the past six years, he spent most of his time with his son Byron in Butte; with Frank in Missoula, or at Hunter’s or Boulder Hot Springs. His wife, whom as Mary O’Callahan he lead to the alter in his young manhood, died in Butte about 21 years ago.
Although long past the allotted three score and ten, Mr. Cooney carried his age and well, his chief infirmity being deafness, of which he was particularly sensitive.
Few of his earlier Montana associates survive him, but those who knew him in his more active years remember him as a genial, alert personality with a fund of quiet wit and a marvelous star of information regarding fruits and flowers.
September 30, 1925 in the Anaconda Standard
John Ward Cooney, father of Byron E. Cooney of Butte and Frank H. Cooney of Missoula died Monday night at the home of his sone, Frank, in Missoula
Mr. Cooney was in his ninetieth year having been born Dec. 23, 1835. He is survived by three sons, Frank, Byron, and Professor Percival J. Cooney El Monte, Calif., and a daughter, Mrs. Ulric Ellerhausen, who, as Miss Florence Cooney, achieved distinction in New York before her marriage, as an artist and designer.
The funeral will be held this morning from Walsh’s chapel proceeding to St. Patrick’s church where solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated. The active pallbearers will be, William J. McGill, Judge J. J. Lynch, Orrie N. Olds, P. J. Brophy, John Sheehan, and James Francis Carey.
Honorary pallbearers will be Jere Clifford, Alex Johnson, Sam Denham, Mose Levy, Harry Gallway and Charles Joyce.
Mr. Cooney came of a long-lived stock. His grandfather attained the age of 104 years. His father was 94 at the time of his death. His sister died some years ago at St. Louis aged 86 years. His brother, Frank, of Chicago, survives him, age 88 years.
J. W. Cooney was a native of New York State. He was born on the estate of Martin Van Buren at Kinderhook. His father, Patrick Cooney ... was manager of Van Buren properties both before and after the election of Van Buren as president of the United States.
Mr. Cooney, as a boy, was brought in frequent contact with President Van Buren and entertained a warm attachment for the statesman whose opponents characterized as “the fox of Kinderhook.”
Largely through the influence of his father’s position as head of the huge agricultural properties of Van Buren, young Cooney developed a taste for horticulture and devoted himself to this line of endeavor.
He became recognized as an expert nursery man and florist. Before coming to Montana, he was in charge of properties for the D. M. Ferry Seed company, The Frost Brothers’ Seed company, and was for 19 years manager of the Renfrew Fruit and Floral company of Ontario, Canada. In Montana he was the originator of the famous McIntosh Red apple.
Placer Miner.
Mr. Cooney came to Montana 31 years ago. For five years he was engaged in mining in Pilgrim Gulch, north of Walkerville, and was successful. He has spent the last 25 years of his life in retirement from business and in trips to Honolulu, California and southern points.
During the past six years, he spent most of his time with his son Byron in Butte; with Frank in Missoula, or at Hunter’s or Boulder Hot Springs. His wife, whom as Mary O’Callahan he lead to the alter in his young manhood, died in Butte about 21 years ago.
Although long past the allotted three score and ten, Mr. Cooney carried his age and well, his chief infirmity being deafness, of which he was particularly sensitive.
Few of his earlier Montana associates survive him, but those who knew him in his more active years remember him as a genial, alert personality with a fund of quiet wit and a marvelous star of information regarding fruits and flowers.
John Ward Cooney, father of Byron E. Cooney of Butte and Frank H. Cooney of Missoula died Monday night at the home of his sone, Frank, in Missoula
Mr. Cooney was in his ninetieth year having been born Dec. 23, 1835. He is survived by three sons, Frank, Byron, and Professor Percival J. Cooney El Monte, Calif., and a daughter, Mrs. Ulric Ellerhausen, who, as Miss Florence Cooney, achieved distinction in New York before her marriage, as an artist and designer.
The funeral will be held this morning from Walsh’s chapel proceeding to St. Patrick’s church where solemn requiem high mass will be celebrated. The active pallbearers will be, William J. McGill, Judge J. J. Lynch, Orrie N. Olds, P. J. Brophy, John Sheehan, and James Francis Carey.
Honorary pallbearers will be Jere Clifford, Alex Johnson, Sam Denham, Mose Levy, Harry Gallway and Charles Joyce.
Mr. Cooney came of a long-lived stock. His grandfather attained the age of 104 years. His father was 94 at the time of his death. His sister died some years ago at St. Louis aged 86 years. His brother, Frank, of Chicago, survives him, age 88 years.
J. W. Cooney was a native of New York State. He was born on the estate of Martin Van Buren at Kinderhook. His father, Patrick Cooney ... was manager of Van Buren properties both before and after the election of Van Buren as president of the United States.
Mr. Cooney, as a boy, was brought in frequent contact with President Van Buren and entertained a warm attachment for the statesman whose opponents characterized as “the fox of Kinderhook.”
Largely through the influence of his father’s position as head of the huge agricultural properties of Van Buren, young Cooney developed a taste for horticulture and devoted himself to this line of endeavor.
He became recognized as an expert nursery man and florist. Before coming to Montana, he was in charge of properties for the D. M. Ferry Seed company, The Frost Brothers’ Seed company, and was for 19 years manager of the Renfrew Fruit and Floral company of Ontario, Canada. In Montana he was the originator of the famous McIntosh Red apple.
Placer Miner.
Mr. Cooney came to Montana 31 years ago. For five years he was engaged in mining in Pilgrim Gulch, north of Walkerville, and was successful. He has spent the last 25 years of his life in retirement from business and in trips to Honolulu, California and southern points.
During the past six years, he spent most of his time with his son Byron in Butte; with Frank in Missoula, or at Hunter’s or Boulder Hot Springs. His wife, whom as Mary O’Callahan he lead to the alter in his young manhood, died in Butte about 21 years ago.
Although long past the allotted three score and ten, Mr. Cooney carried his age and well, his chief infirmity being deafness, of which he was particularly sensitive.
Few of his earlier Montana associates survive him, but those who knew him in his more active years remember him as a genial, alert personality with a fund of quiet wit and a marvelous star of information regarding fruits and flowers.
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