Stephen Fitzgerald

FITZGERALD, DAVIS, LLOYD, WAGONSELLER, ASHLAN

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 20:03:32

Stephen Fitzgerald resides on section 11. His father, Michael Fitzgerald, was born in Ireland, and came to the United States when twenty years of age, settling in Ontario county, New York. He afterwards removed to Greene county, Wisconsin, being one of the early settlers of that county. In 1867, he came to Butler county, and bought a farm of Mr. Davis on section 11 in Dayton township. In 1874 he sold his farm and moved to Waverly.
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Mr. Stephen Fitzgerald purchased his place in 1872, of A. Lloyd, who bought of J. J. Wagonseller. The parents of Mr. Fitzgerald had ten children, three sons and seven daughters. Stephen is the only one living in this county. He was born in Canandaigua, Ontario county, New York, in 1846. He married Elizabeth Ashlan, daughter of Lewis and Margaret Ashlan, who settled in McGregor from the State of New York, about 1855, and are now living in Clarksville. Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald have three children – Ellen, Lillie M. and Nina.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 584-585