Daniel McKerren
Daniel McKerren, notary public, who is one of the well-known business men of Lima, conducting a real estate and pension claim business at No. 202½ North Main street, has been a citizen here for the past twenty years. He was born November 30, 1850, in the city of Londonderry, Ireland, and was brought to America by his parents, Daniel McKerren, Sr., and wife, Nee Margery Sweeney, both originally from the parish of Clondavodag, in County Donegal, Ireland. The first permanent settlement made by the parents of Daniel McKerren was at Greenville, Darke County, Ohio, where they lived a few years, then removing to near Fort Recovery, Mercer County, Ohio, where they purchased forty acres of land, and lived there a few years. Later exchanging this property for eighty acres of land, in the northern part of Darke County, they removed to the latter county and lived there until they retired from farm life and moved to Lima, where they died, having passed the four-score mark, leaving besides Daniel, two other sons, James D., and John, both of whom have since married and located in the city of Detroit. They also had one daughter, Mary, who married James Costello of Lima; both have since died.
Daniel McKerren, the subject of this sketch after leaving the farm home of his parents, learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed in various places until the fall of 1875, when he married Catharine M. Hillen, then a school teacher, the daughter of James and Mary Hillen, who lived a few miles northwest of Sidney, Ohio, where they owned a farm of eighty acres. To this union was born eight children, of whom one died in infancy. The oldest child living, James D., married and resides on North Metcalf street, Lima, being employed as a cigar maker at the Deise l- Wemmer factory. The second son, John H., married and now lives in Akron, Ohio; he is a molder by trade. A daughter, Catherine C., married and resides at Sidney, Ohio; previous to her marriage she was cashier at Feldman's store. The next, a son, Daniel E., deceased December 1, 1901, was at the time of his death 19 years old, and was collector for the Metropolitan Bank of Lima. Charles J. is employed as an accountant in the Buckeye Pipe Line Company's office. Mary Agnes, still living at home, will finish her high school course this year. The youngest member of the family, Bernard A., now 13 years old, is going to school. Mr. McKerren is a member of St. Rose Catholic Church and is the financial secretary of the C. M. B. A.