HARRINGTON, Matthew A.

HARRINGTON, WALROD, MILLER, BOWEN

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Date: 10/16/2001 at 21:08:25

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ORANGE TWP. (Pgs 758-764)
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)

MATTHEW A. HARRINGTON, farmer, Sec. 32; P.O. Orange; Mr. Harrington was born in Otsego Co., N. Y., in 1809; his father died when Matthew was but 2 years of age; two years later, his mother removed to Fayetteville, Onondaga Co.; he came in possession of the farm which his father owned in Otsego Co.; this farm he sold in 1832; he then purchased a farm in Erie Co.. N. Y., where he lived till 1836; then went to Erie, Penn., and purchased a "tavern," which he owned about one year; he came to Clinton Co. in May, 1837, and purchased a claim at what is now Walton Station, which he exchanged for his present farm; his wife was Miss Elizabeth Walrod, of De Witt Township; they have eight children —Richard, Mrs. Margaret Miller, Levi, Mrs. Mary Bowen, Hannah, Melinda, Anna and Luella; have lost two children—their eldest, Orris, and their sixth, Sarah. Mr. Harrington has been a resident of Orange Township forty-two years.