JAMES DEVINE

DEVINE, MCFEELY

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 5/24/2009 at 08:34:32

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

JAMES DEVINE, farmer and tin-plate worker, S. 20; P. O. Unionville; born in County Kerry in 1829; emigrated to America with his parents in 1836, who first settled in Framingham, Mass. His father first worked in the woolen mills at Saxonville; they both died in that state, his father at 60 and his mother at 70 years of age. At the age of 17, he went to learn the trade of tinsmith, at Groton, Mass., that being the home of Gov. Boutwell. To learn his trade, he served three years; then went to Cambridge, Mass., and worked at journey work, afterward at Boston. At the age of 21, he married Miss Hannah McFeely; she was born in Donegal, Ireland, in 1829; she with her mother emigrated to this country when about 4 or 5 years of age, her father having come a few years prvious; had charge of a shipping office at Brooklyn, N.Y.; died there in 1835. They settled at Lowell, Mass., where Mr. and Mrs. Devine were married in 1850. They have four children - William F., Eusebius N., Annie A., and Adelaide. Independent in politics; Mr. and Mrs. Devine are members of the Catholic Church.