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

Thomas F. MORAN, assistant superintendent of the Joliet Gas Works; born in the county of 
Roscommon, Ireland, in 1832, where he lived until 18 years of age, when he emigrated to 
America, landing in New York Jan. 9, 1851, going directly to Frostburg, Md.; he was 
engaged in the mining business for two years; from there he went to Philadelphia, where 
he was engaged in the Northern Liberty Gas Work's for eight years, when in 1861, he was 
called to fill the office of Assistant Superintendent of the Joliet Gas Works, which 
position he has since held during a period of seventeen years. He married in Philadelphia 
in 1853 to Mary BRANNAN; she was born in Philadelphia; they have six children now living,
viz.: Edward V., Mary, Michael J., Agnes, Catharine and Joseph L. Mr. MORAN has held the 
office of Alderman in the ward in which he lives in Joliet.