MEEHAN, John - 1914

MEEHAN, NORTON, MCCLINTOCK, HUBERT

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HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

JOHN MEEHAN.

John Meehan, one of the prosperous agriculturists and leading citizens of Marcus township, is the owner of a highly improved farm of three hundred and sixty acres on sections 25 and 26. His birth occurred in Mechanicsville, Cedar county, Iowa, on the i7th of January, 1864, his parents being William and Mary (Norton) Meehan, natives, respectively, of Tipperary and Dublin, Ireland. In 1845 they crossed the Atlantic to the United States, locating in Boston, Massachusetts, where they made their home for six or eight years. William Meehan was a railroad contractor and his duties in that connection took him all over the country for several years. In 1855 he located at Mechanicsville, Iowa, and there spent the remainder of his life, passing away in June, 1903. His wife was called to her final rest in March, 1912.

John Meehan acquired his education in the public schools of Mechanicsville and after putting aside his textbooks worked as a farm hand until he had attained his majority. In 1885 he removed to OBrien county, Iowa, and there cultivated rented land until 1890, when he came to Cherokee county. Here he bought a tract of one hundred and sixty acres on section 26, Marcus township, and began the improvement of the property, while subsequently he purchased two hundred acres of land on section 25, so that his holdings now embrace three hundred and sixty acres. The place is highly improved in every particular and in its operation he has won a most gratifying and well merited measure of success.

On November 23, 1904, Mr. Meehan was united in marriage to Miss Margaret McClintock, a daughter of James and Alary (Hubert) McClintock. A sketch of her father appears on another page of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Meehan have six children, namely: Mary L., who is seven years old; William Mark, a little lad of six; James, Francis and Mabel, who are five, three and two years of age, respectively; and Bernice, who is in the first year. Mr. Meehan gives his political allegiance to the democracy and is a devout communicant of the Holy Name Catholic church of Marcus, Iowa. He has won a gratifying degree of material success and a high place in the respect and esteem of all who know him, and he deserves great credit for what he has accomplished, for all that he today possesses has been acquired through his own careful management and well directed labors.