This book has no cover, and no index, and no author. I bought it on Ebay; it
just has the insides, but it is full of Indiana biographies. I am not
researching this family, just thought I would share. I do not know anymore about these
families or these surnames. NOTE: I don’t know if there is any additional
mention of this family in the book, it has no index. I do not want to sell this
book. I am typing the biographies from it.
Typed by Lora Radiches:
Other surnames mentioned in the biography of JOHN J. LENNON are: Lennon,
McCann, Claney, Fitzmorris,
JOHN J. LENNON during most of his working career has been identified with the
chief industry of the Indiana ‘City of Roses,” and in the course of time he
capitalized his experience and savings in a business of his own. He is one of
Newcastle’s successful florists. Mr. Lennon was born in County Armagh,
Ireland, in 1877. His parents, James and Rose (McCann) Lennon, lived all their lives
in Ireland. His father died in 1928 and his mother is still in Ireland. John
J. Lennon attended common schools and was seventeen years of age when he left
his native land and came to America. During the next five years he worked for a
florist in Chicago and then came to Newcastle, Indiana. He found employment
in some of the local greenhouses and for nineteen years acted as superintendent
of the South Park Floral Company. Mr. Lennon made a beginning of a business
of his own when, in 1917, he bought a tract of ground 132 by 150 feet on South
Fourteenth Street. Here he put up a home and also started a greenhouse. Later
he bought two lots on Park Avenue just back of his home, which permitted of
expansion of his greenhouse facilities. Here he has 8,000 square feet under
glass and has a plant that makes a large contribution to the tremendous winter
production of flowers in Newcastle.
During the summer he specializes in the cultivation of vegetables. Mr. Lennon
married, in 1903, Miss Josephine Claney, who was born at Newcastle, daughter
of John and Bridget (Fitzmorris) Clancy. They have one daughter, Mildred, now
employed in the office of the Hoosier Manufacturing Company. Mr. Lennon and
family are Catholics. He is a Democrat in politics and a member of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles.