My Genealogy Hound

PATRICK McENROE, one of the oldest residents of East Sedalia, is engaged in the wholesale and retail liquor business, and is agent for the Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee. For six years he served as Democratic Alderman from the Second Ward, was Chairman of the Committee on Waterworks, and also served on other committees. He has been much interested in real-estate matters here, and laid off the McEnroe & Hurley Addition to Sedalia, a tract of five acres lying east of the city. In 1882 he erected a building at the corner of Third and Engineer Streets, and afterwards put up a warehouse at Third Street and the railroad track, in addition to which he has also built a number of residences.

Mr. McEnroe was born in County Meath, Ireland, in 1839, being a son of Christopher and Elizabeth (Donnohue) McEnroe, natives of County Meath and Dublin, Ireland, respectively. The father was a stone contractor and builder, and was a man of good practical ability. Young McEnroe attended the schools of old Castletown, and while still a mere boy learned to “paddle his own canoe.” In his nineteenth year he left Liverpool in the sailing-vessel “Washington,” and at the end of six weeks and three days arrived safely in New York City. For a year he worked on a farm near Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and thence went to Cincinnati. Ohio, where he found work on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad. Later he was made foreman of a section, and in 1867, going to Jefferson, Mo., was given a position as foreman on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.

The year 1870 witnessed the arrival of Mr. McEnroe in Sedalia. At that time he was general foreman of the yards of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, which were in process of construction. Under his direction some thirty or forty men graded all the yards, placed the switches, etc. Next we find him roadmaster of the same railroad corporation, his territory lying between Sedalia and Parsons, Kan. At the end of two years he resigned that position in order to give attention to his own private business concerns. Mr. McEnroe is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, belongs to the Catholic Knights of America, and to the Irish Catholic Benevolent Society. Religiously he is a Catholic and attends St. Vincent’s Church.