FLANNERY, Bernard

FLANNERY, TRIMBULL

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Date: 10/3/2001 at 17:21:00

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

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.