Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

PATRICK BANNON is a native of Ireland, and was born in the town of
Killough, County Down, July 12, 1824.  His father died when he was young,
when his mother married James Campbell, and they came to Louisville in
1851.  The subject received his education in Ireland, and learned the trade
of a plasterer, which he followed here until 1854, when he commenced the
manufacturer of terra cotta work, and in 1870 added to his business the
manufacture of sewer pipe.  From a rather small beginning his establishment
has grown to be one of the largest in the country, doing $75,000 to
$100,000 of business annually, and selling goods in every Southern State.
His son, M. J. Bannon, is superintendent and business manager of the works.
Mr. Bannon has been a man of considerable local prominence; served in the
city council, and in 1868 was its president; was for ten years president of
the Hibernian Loan Association, which wound up successfully.  He was
married in 1860 to Miss Lou Smith, a daughter of Early Smith, a prominent
farmer of the county.  She died in 1878; and in 1880 he married Mrs.
Sue Brackheimer.

Bannon Campbell Smith Brackheimer
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Ireland

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