Born ‎20 Jun 1849 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada Event Description: or 20 June 1849, died ‎25 Jun 1929 Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Anthony of Padua Cemetery, Padua, Stearns, MN‎, age 80 years, buried Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota
Dennis was born in Canada and came to the United States in 1864 when he was 15 years old. He married Mary Ann Rooney and they farmed in the Padua area until around 1920 when they moved to Brooten and purchased a home there. The farm, in 1997, was owned by Jerome and Harold Ebensteiner.

In the 1885 census (under the name Eagan), Dennis and Mary Ann are living with his father John in Raymond Township, Stearns County.

Dennis and Mary had one natural-born child, Lavinia, who died at age six weeks. They later adopted four children. Henry, Mary and Eleanor were taken off the orphan train out of New York. The other child was George Egan, a nephew, the son of Elizabeth and Thomas Egan. George, age 2, and Henry, age 10, both born in Minnesota, are with them in the 1895 census (under the name "Denis Eagen").

The 1910 census of Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota: Dennis Egan was born in Canada and emigrated in 1865. His wife Mary A. emigrated in 1867. They had one child who died. Living with them are a nephew George Egan and a niece Inez E Egan and two adopted daughters from New York, their parents unknown. George's mother Elizabeth (Rooney) Egan, married to Thomas Edward Egan, died in 1904, and he then shows up in the 1905 and 1910 censuses of Raymond Township, Stearns county with Dennis and Mary Ann (Rooney) Egan.

Dennis was the brother of Annie Egan who married James Rooney.


Originally published Wednesday, June 26, 1929, St. Cloud Times

Dennis Egan, 76, Dies Yesterday; Mass Tomorrow

Well Known Resident of West Part of County to Be Buried at Padua

Mr. and Mrs. William Rooney, Seventh Avenue South, were called today to Brooten by the death of Mrs. Rooney's father, Dennis Egan, a well-known and pioneer resident of the western section of the county.

Mr. Egan died yesterday afternoon at his home at the age of 76 years. He is survived by his widow and four children; Mrs. William Rooney, St. Cloud; Henry Egan, Sauk Centre; George Egan, Minneapolis; and Loren Wendtlandt, Pontiac, Mich.

Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow at the Brooten Catholic church, and burial will be made in the family lot of the Padua cemetery.

Born ‎6 Jan 1865 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died ‎6 May 1937 Brooten, Stearns County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Anthony of Padua Cemetery, Padua, Stearns, MN‎, age 72 years, buried Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota
Baptismal sponsors: Thomas Rooney and Catherine Rooney

Mary died at age 72 of some sort of embolism.


Originally published Tuesday, May 11, 1937, St. Cloud Times

Mrs. Dennis Egan

Mrs. Dennis Egan died May 6 at her home in Brooten, aged 72 years. Her husband died eight years ago.

Mrs. Egan is survived by two brothers, William Rooney, Padua; Hugh Rooney, Sedan; and one adopted son, George Egan, Minneapolis; and two adopted daughters, Mrs. Lawrence Eindlund, Glenwood; and Mrs. William E. Rooney, St. Cloud.

Funeral services were held Saturday morning at St. Donatus church in Brooten and interment was made in the Padua cemetery. Out-of-town relatives attending the services were Mr. and Mrs. Clive Egan, Mr. and Mrs. James Egan, Mr. and Mrs. George Egan, Miss Mary Egan, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Martin, all of Minneapolis; Miss Mabel Rooney, St. Paul; Mr. and Mrs. William Rooney, Emmet Rooney, St. Cloud; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rooney, and son, Brainerd; Mrs. Mary Killeen, St. Cloud; Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Wendlund, and Mrs. Lizabeth Egan, Padua.

Originally published August 1998, Padua Cemetry, by Ginny Walz Borgerding

Dennis Egan was born in Canada June 20, 1849. He came to the United States in 1864 when he was 15 years old. Dennis married Mary Ann Rooney, daughter of John and Mary (McCool) Rooney. They farmed in the Padua area until around 1920 when they moved to Brooten and purchased a home there. The farm today is owned by Jerome and Harold Ebensteiner.

Dennis and Mary had a child, Lavinia Egan, who died June 27, 1889. She was six weeks old.

Dennis and Mary adopted four children. One boy, Henry, and two girls, Mary Richards and Eleanor ?, were taken off the orphan train out of New York. The other child was George Egan, a nephew, the son of Elizabeth and Thomas Egan.

Dennis and Mary's daughter, Lavinia, and son, Henry, and wife, Elizabeth, are buried in Padua. Dennis' sister Annie Rooney, along with Mary's parents, brothers and sisters, Catherine Martin, Michael J., James, Thomas T., William, and Elizabeth (Eliza) Egan, are also buried in Padua.