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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

P. O. HALEY (of the firm of Haley & O'Donnell), attorney at law, Joliet; was born in Saranac, 
Clinton Co., N. Y., March 17, 1849, and came to this county with his parents in 1852; he was 
educated in the Joliet Union School and the University of Notre Dame, Ind., reading law during 
vacations in the office of T. L. BRECKENRIDGE, of this city; in 1870, he entered the law 
department of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., where he graduated in 1871; he 
was admitted to the bar in October, 1871, and began practice in May, 1872, in company with 
James B. FLANDERS, having an office in Joliet and also in Wilmington; this partnership 
continued until December, 1872, when it was dissolved, and Mr. HALEY continued alone until 
1874, when the present firm of Haley & O'Donnell was formed. Mr. HALEY is at present Alderman 
from the Fifth Ward, being elected in April 1878; he also served as City Attorney in 1874. He 
was married Dec. 1, 1875, to Miss Mary A. D'ARCY, of Joliet, and has one child - Margaret C.