Nicholas and Mary Ann McAneny moved from Franklin, WI to Iosco Township, MN in 1866 when Nicholas was 36 years old. This is a picture of the Breen home in Waseca. I don't have a street address.
Grandfather Nicholas also opened a blacksmith business in Waseca at First and Elm after moving to town. He later sold this property to the City of Waseca for its City Hall and proceeded to open the oat mill.
I have not been able to locate anything about the death of Grandmother Rose Anna McAneny Breen. They moved together from Franklin, WI to Iosco Township, MN in 1866 to farm. I don't have any references to Rose Anna after that.
There is a note about the leader of the Franciscan religious sisters visiting the Breen home in 1876 - scouting for locations for a convent and hospitals: "1876. Mother Albert of the Franciscan Sisters comes to Waseca and stays at the Breen home. She looks for land to build an academy, (later decides to build the Academy in Owatanna and also to establish a convent in Rochester where she will build St. Mary's Hospital for the use of the Mayo brothers) (see Mother Alfred and the Doctors Mayo, p. 126)" --- From Aunt Sheila Mary Fitzgerald's timeline of her mother Kathleen Moonan Fitzgerald.
Anotherview of the Nicholas Breen family home in Waseca. Undated. Picture from Aunt Sheila Mary Fitzgerald collection.
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