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DANIEL F. TOOMEY, the proprietor of one of the largest and foremost flour, feed and grain houses in Dunkirk, is a son of Daniel and Catherine (Buckley) Toomey, and was born in the city of Dunkirk, Chautauqua county, New York, February 6, 1855. Daniel Toomey was born in 1811, in County Cork, where he married Catherine Buckley, a member of the Catholic church who died in 1860, at forty-four years of age. Daniel Toomey came to the United States in 1838, and settled at Piermont on the Hudson river, from where he removed to Dunkirk. He is a democrat and a member of the Catholic church and has been engaged for some years in the local freight business of the Erie railroad.

Daniel F. Toomey attended the public schools of his native city for a few terms and was engaged for two years on a farm which he left to enter the employ of Frank May, then in the flour and feed business in Dunkirk. At the end of seven years he left the employ of Mr. May to engage in the flour and feed business for himself. His office is at No. 434-36 Lion street, while his ware and salesrooms are on the corner of Lion and Fifth streets. He handles a full line of flour, feed and grain, has the Dunkirk agency for Higgins’ Eureka salt and Coe’s bone fertilizers and enjoys a wide trade.

In October, 1885, he united in marriage with Margaret A., daughter of Arthur and Ann Lascelles of Dunkirk. To Mr. and Mrs. Toomey have been born two children: Loretta and Arthur D., aged respectively four and two years of age.

D. F. Toomey is a member of the Catholic church, has always been a strong democrat, is now serving his fifth term as chairman of the Democratic district committee and was a delegate to the Democratic State Convention of 1889. He is a member of the Young Men’s association, which is limited to a membership of twenty-five and which was organized in 1887 as a philanthropic organization for the advancement of Dunkirk. This association has given one thousand dollars to the improvement of Washington park, besides donating books to the library association and in many other ways contributing to the progress of Dunkirk. Mr. Toomey has been engaged with good success for the last three years in the real estate business in Buffalo, N. Y. He and his younger brother, Michael P., are the proprietors of the Dunkirk Stock Improvement farm, where they keep very fine thoroughbred horses. Their summer headquarters are at the driving-park between Dunkirk and Fredonia, while their winter headquarters are in Dunkirk. They also buy and sell high-bred horses and have done much toward the improvement of the trotting stock of western New York. Mr. Toomey has achieved business success by his own unaided efforts and is energetic in whatever enterprise he engages.