BURKE, William M.

BURKE, CASEY

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Date: 10/3/2001 at 17:06:46

Biographical Sketches Of Washington Twp. beginning on pg 814
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)

WILLIAM M. BURKE, farmer, Sec. 27; P.O. De Witt; born in County Longford, Ireland, in May, 1816. He came to New York about 1839; went to Danville, Penn.; in 1846, he went to Louisiana; stayed about one year; then followed steamboating on the Mississippi till 1850. He entered his present farm in 1851; he then returned to St. Louis, where he lived about three years; then returned to his farm, which he has since occupied. He married Bridget Casey, a native of Ireland, then of St. Louis; they have ten children -- James, Mary, William, Peter, Margaret, Kate, Francis P., John J., Agnes and Michael A.; lost two children in infancy. Mr. Burke has 160 acres of land.