Illinois: History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. 
William Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

P.H. CORCORAN, farmer; P.O. Meredosia, Morgan County; was born in 
County Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1834; came to the United States at 
the age of fifteen years, and landed in Chicago about Dec. 1, 
1849, where he worked three months for a railroad company, 
receiving fifteen cents per hour. From Chicago he came to 
Meredosia, Morgan County, where he worked for Thompson Bros., pork 
packers, three months; then hired to a farmer name John Dampey; 
worked for him three years, and lost $360 of his wages by the 
failure of his employer. He went North in the fall of 1853, worked 
six months in the pineries of Wisconsin and Michigan; returned to 
Morgan County in 1854, and hired by the month at farm work for the 
next three years. In April, 1857, he married Miss Laurinah Graham, 
daughter of L.D. Graham, his employer; from this marriage seven 
children were born, three of whom are living, viz.: Martha E., 
married to Robert McAllister, of this county; Mary L. and George 
E. at home. He owns 350 acres in town seventeen, in this county, 
all with exception of twenty acres under good cultivation. He is a 
Democrat, and cast his first vote for James Buchanan. Thomas 
Corcoran, our subject's father, was born, and is still living in, 
County Kilkenny, Ireland, in advanced age; his wife died at the 
old home, in Ireland, in 1877. Mrs. Corcoran was born in Ross 
County, O., Aug. 15, 1828; her father, L.D. Graham, is a native of 
Ohio, and came to Morgan County, Ill., at an early day.

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