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O. G. DOOLEY, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 20; P. O. Downs; born in Clark Co., Ky., Sept. 20, 1837. He is a son of William Dooley, who emigrated from Kentucky and located in Old Town Township in the spring of 1852, where he purchased 1,500 acres of land and engaged in farming and stock-raising until his decease. The subject of this sketch attended the common school in Kentucky, and, after locating in McLean Co., he attended school at Bloomington one year, then, afterward, during the winter, in an old log schoolhouse in Old Town Township. In 1859, he went with a party of twenty teams to Pike’s Peak, being twenty days making the trip from Independence, Mo., to California Gulch, where he was clerk for J. H. Bean, from Kentucky, in selling merchandise and merchants’ supplies, where he remained two years; returning to McLean Co., he engaged in farming, which business he has since followed. He removed upon his present place in 1867, where has since lived; he owns 290 acres of prairie and timber land, all of which is under improvement and upon which he has good farm buildings; he is engaged feeding cattle and hogs, raising his own feed. His marriage with Amanda J. Cowden was celebrated in December, 1864; she was born in McLean Co., Ill.; she is a daughter of F. R. Cowden, one of the early pioneers of McLean Co., whose biography appears in this work. The children of O. G. and Amanda Dooley are four in number, viz., John C., William F., Charles A. and Dwight. Mr. Dooley is now Assessor of Old Town Township, which office he has held for four years.