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JOHN DOLAN, farmer and stock-raiser; resides in Sec. 12; P. O. Char- lotte ; born in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1816. He married Catharine Murphy, native of same county ; he came to the United States in 1848; he lived one and a half years in Rutland Co., Vt; then removed to Livingston Co., N. Y., where he lived about three years ; he then went to Illinois; remained one year, and came to Clinton Co. in 1854 ; purchased part of his present farm in 1855; has eleven children-Martin, Thomas, Kate, Mary F., Ann I., Sarah E. Michael, Eliza, Theresa, James and Eva Alicelis ; has lost three sons and two daughters. Mr. Dolan owns about seven hundred acres of land ; he is one of the most successful farmers of Clinton Co .; he came to the county twenty- five years ago, a poor man ; has now several fine farms, well stocked and improved.
GEORGE FARRELL, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. Charlotte; born in the city of Dublin in 1828; he came to the United States about 1849; purchased his present farm in 1853. His first wife was Jane Collin, a native of Ireland. His pres- ent wife was Catherine Lawler ; Mr. Farrell has five children by his first marriage and seven by second. He has 160 acres of land.
BERNARD FLANNERY, farmer, Sec. 18; P. O. De Witt; born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, about 1820; he came to America, December, 1848 ; Mr. Flannery visited various parts of the country before he settled down ; he landed in New York, then visited Connecticut ; returned to New York ; went to New Orleans, then to Memphis and other parts of Tennessee, and came to Clinton Co., December, 1850, and entered his present farm. He married Margaret Trimbull, daughter of Michael Trimbull; they have nine children-Michael, Mary, John, Peter, William, Sarah, Bernard. James J. and Lawrence. Mr. Flannery's home farm contains 220 acres ; he also has another farm of 200 acres.
REV. JOHN B. GAFFNEY, Pastor of St. Patrick's Church, Wash- ington Township, and of St. Mary's Church, Hampshire Township; P. O. Charlotte ; Father Gaffney was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1843; his parents, John and Margaret Gaffney, emigrated to the United States in 1848; they first settled in Pennsylvania ; removed to Dubuque in 1851. Father Gaffney received his literary education at St. Francis' College, Cambria Co., Penn .; pursued his theological studies at Pittsburgh Seminary, completing the course in 1865; he was ordained in the fall of 1865, by Bishop Henni, of Milwaukee; his first charge was the pastorate of St. Paul's Church at Burlington ; was transferred in 1866, to Otter Creek, Jackson Co., where he remained till 1878, when he assumed his present charge, succeeding the Rev. Father Brady; Father Gaffney is an earnest laborer in the cause of temperance, and has estab- lished a temperance society in connection with his church in Hampshire Township ; one already existed in Washington Township when he assumed his present duties.
ANTON HANSMAN, farmer, Sec. 7; P. O. De Witt; Mr. Hansman was born in Baden, Germany, in 1835; he came to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1855; he removed to Illinois in the fall of 1856; he bought part of his present farm in the fall of 1859, and settled thereon in 1862. He married Margaret Sophy, a native of Can- ada ; have five children-Mary, John, Charles, Albert and Caroline. Owns 400 acres.
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FRANCIS HOGARTY, farmer, Sec. 24; P. O. De Witt ; born in Ohio in 1833; his parents, John and Lucy Hogarty, removed to Davenport in 1844; his father died in February, 1864: his mother resides in Davenport. He married, in 1855, Margaret McGarry, daughter of Enos McGarry. Mr. Hogarty lived in Scott Co. one year after his marriage, and came to Clinton Co. in 1857 ; he purchased a farm in Sec. 34, Washington Township, which he sold in 1866, and settled in Center Town- ship, where he lived six years ; he purchased his present farm in 1865, which is the farm formerly owned by his father-in-law, Mr. Enos McGarry. He has six children- Elizabeth, Francis, Minnie, James, Annie and Jarvis R. Mr. Hogarty has 200 acres of land.
PATRICK LAWLER, farmer, Sec. 2; P. O. Charlotte ; born in Queen's County, Ireland, March 16, 1808; he emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1846; came to Clinton Co. in 1849; he lived in De Witt Township two years, then purchased present farm. He married Elizabeth Reed, a native of Ireland ; she died in June, 1862 ; they had ten children-Ann, Catherine, Fanton, Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, Theresa, Simon I'., William and Edward ; Mr. Lawler's present wife was Miss Margaret Lawler, a native of Ireland. He has nearly 300 acres of land ; is engaged in general farming and stock raising.
JOHN J. McDONNELL, farmer, Sec. 26; P. O. De Witt ; Mr. Me- Donnell was born in New York July 4, 1816. His parents moved to West Virginia, thence to Pennsylvania, then to Ohio, and to Fowa in 1854, and settled in Davenport. His father died in Davenport about 1856. Mr. McDonnell came to Clinton Co. in 1858, and settled on Sec. 23, Washington Township. He purchased his present farm in the fall of 1866. He married Catharine McGarry, a native of Ireland; have four children-Patrick, William. James and Hugh. John, the oldest son, enlisted, in 1861, in the 26th I. V. ; was mortally wounded at the battle of Arkansas Post. Mr. McDon- nell has 160 acres of land; his son Patrick owns 200 acres of land in See. 26; James has 160 acres in Sec. 23.
JOHN McELHATTON, farmer, See. 2; P. O. Charlotte. Mr. Me- Elhatton was born in Ireland in 1834 ; his parents, John and Margaret MeElhatton, emigrated to Ohio when he was an infant. They came to Clinton Co. about 1859 ; his father had charge of the Clinton Co. Poor Farm for three years ; his parents after- ward settled in De Witt Township; they are now deceased. Mr. McElhatton married Margaret Clarey, a native of Ireland; they have one child-Elizabeth F .; also an adopted son. Mr. M. has 86 acres of land ; settled on his present farm in 1861.
JOHN J. McGARRY, farmer, Sec. 35; P. O. De Witt; born in Clark Co., Ohio, in 1837 ; his parents, Enos and Elizabeth McGarry, came to Scott Co., in 1854, to Clinton Co. in 1856 ; his father purchased and improved the farm now owned by his son J. J., where the family all resided till 1863; he purchased the farm of his father in 1866; his father died in 1875, aged 75 years; his mother resides with her son James, in Iowa Co. Mr. J. J. McGarry married Mary G. Lawler, daughter of Patrick Lawler, of Washington Township; has five children-William A., Elizabeth, Mary M., Francis and John J. Mr. McGarry has 300 acres, in a fine state of culti- vation. He has held various township offices ; his father was Justice of the Peace of Washington Township for several years.
CHRISTOPHER McGINN, farmer, Sec. 5 ; P. O. Charlotte; Mr. McGinn was born in Canada, in 1829. He married Ellen Hanrahan, a native of Can- ada. He came to Clinton Co. in the spring of 1853, and entered 80 acres of his present farm ; has seven children-Mary A., William, Ellen, Christopher, James, Margaret and Jane. Mr. McGinn's parents settled in Washington Township two years later than he did; they are now deceased ; they had eight children when they came to Clinton Co., seven still living. Mr. McGinn has 220 acres of land; is engaged principally in stock-raising.
THOMAS O'TOOLE, farmer, Sec. 4; P. O. Charlotte; was born in County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1829; his parents, Lawrence and Catherine O'Toole, emi- at ed to Canada in 1830. He married Sarah McAllister, a native of Ireland ; they
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have had seven children, six of whom are living-Margaret, Mary, Lawrence, Thomas, John and James ; the other died in infancy. Mr. O'Toole came to Clinton Co. and set- tled on his present farm in Washington Township, in 1851. His homestead farm con- tains 280 acres ; he also owns a farm of 140 acres in Waterford Township ; he is one of the successful farmers of Washington Township; is engaged extensively in stock- raising ; makes a specialty of short-horns ; has a fine herd of twenty of that excellent breed of cattle.
MIRS. ELLEN ROSSITER, formerly Miss Ellen Bryant, resides on Sec. 3; P. O. Charlotte ; Mrs. Rossiter was born in Bath, England, in 1825. Married in 1848, James Rossiter, who was born in England, in 1812. They emigrated to New York in 1849; thence to Scranton, Penn. ; they came to Clinton Co. in May, 1854, and settled on the farm now owned by. Mrs. Rossiter. Her husband died Oct. 22, 1872. Mrs. Rossiter has had eight children, six are living-Charlotte M., wife of John Spur- rell, resides in Sac Co., Iowa ; Martha E., John R., Simon C., William J. and Ben- jamin-F .; has lost two children-Lydia A. and an infant. Mrs. Rossiter and two of her children are members of the M. E. Church. Mr. Rossiter was a member of this church for forty years.
JOSEPH WIESE, farmer, Sec. 13; P. O. Charlotte ; born in Holstein, Germany, in 1830; he came to America in 1856; he resided in Davenport one year ; then purchased and settled on present farm. He married Lena Wiese, also a native of Holstein. They have eight children-Dora, Emma, Mena, William, Caroline, Joseph H., Theresa and Clara. Mr. Weise has 280 acres of land ; is engaged in general farm- ing.
HIRAM M. WHITE, farmer, Sec. 23; P. O. De Witt; born in Martins- burg, Berkeley Co., Va., in 1797. His parents removed to Champaign Co., Ohio, in 1806. Mr. White was a soldier in the second war with England, enlisting at the breaking out of the war in 1812, when he was but 15 years of age; he was a member of the 4th U. S. Volunteers. He was in Gen. Hull's army when that officer surren- dered his army and the territory of Michigan to the British ; participated in several battles of that war ; was wounded at Black Rock ; was taken prisoner three times dur- ing the war ; he returned to Ohio in 1818. He cast his first vote for President Mon- roe. Was a Postmaster during the administration of J. Q. Adams, and also during that of President Polk. He married, in 1819, Elizabeth Williams, of Ohio; had nine children. He married, in 1850, Miss Mary A. Redford, a native of Ohio; they also had nine children ; seven are living. He came to Clinton Co., and settled in De Witt in 1850, where he was engaged in the mercantile business for five years. He was Post- master at De Witt during the last part of Filmore's administration. He located in Washington on his present farm in 1855.
ERRATA.
On page 378, the following mistakes were made in compiling the list of county officials : Under the head "County Officers," the County Superintend- ent should read : Samuel S. Burdette was appointed to fill vacancy ; resigned, and entered the army. Isaac Baldwin was elected to the office in 1860 and 1861. Richard J. Crouch was elected for the terms 1862-69.
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