Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY
ADAMS TOWNSHIP
PAGE 306

JOHN W. MAHORNEY, M. D., was born in Hendricks County, Ind., 
January 13, 1857, and is the only living child born to Morgan D. and 
Julia A. S. (Reese) Mahorney, the former a native of Kentucky and the
latter of Hendricks County, Ind., and both of Irish descent.  Morgan D. 
Mahorney received his early education in his native State, but when a
lad of thirteen  summers removed with his parents to Hendricks County,
Ind.  At the age of fifteen, he left home and was employed as a laborer
on a railway for some three years, after which he worked on a farm 
for some three years longer.  At the age of twenty-one, he was married,
after which he farmed on shares until 1859, when he bought a farm in
Franklin Township, Hendricks Co., Ind., upon which he still resides.
John W. Mahorney, the subject our our sketch, received a good com-
mon school education.  His mother died when he was only five years
old, after which he made his home with an uncle for four years, when
his father was again married and he returned home, remaining until he
was twenty-one years old.  In the spring of 1878, he commenced the
study of medicine with Dr. J. N. Green, of Stilesville, Hendricks Co., 
Ind., and graduated from the Medical College of Indiana, at Indianapolis,
in March, 1883.  In the following April, he located at Little Point,
Morgan Co., Ind., where he now resides, and is rapidly building up a 
lucrative practice, and is regarded as one the rising young physicians
of the county.  He was married, October 24, 1883, to Miss Mary E.
Smith, a native of Morgan County, Ind.  Dr. Mahorney and wife are 
members of the church--he of the Regular Baptist and she of the 
Christian.  In politics, the Doctor is a liberal Republican.

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