MCCARTY, Daniel
MCCARTY, BANKS
Posted By: Administrator
Date: 10/17/2001 at 13:41:37
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF OLIVE TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)DANIEL McCARTY, farmer; P. 0. Grand Mound; son of Charles and Mary McCarty; was born Oct. 4, 1814, in Tompkins Co., N. Y.; in the fall of 1837, emigrated to Kane Co., N. V.; in 1854, came to Iowa and entered a part of his present farm,
and, in I865, moved on with his family; he now owns 720 acres of land, valued at $30 per acre; he also owns 320 acres in Hancock Co. He married Elosia Banks, of Aurora, Ill., in October, 1844; she was born in Chenango Co., N. V., in 1819; have lost three children—an infant and Florence and Arthur B.; have an adopted son—William W. Members of the M. E. Church; Republican.
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