Haney, James

HANEY, FORSYTH, SIDLE

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Date: 1/25/2003 at 09:36:06

Source: "The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated" published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

JAMES HANEY.

This well-known citizen of Bloomfield township, who is successfully engaged in farming and stock raising on section thirty-three, is a native of this county, born March 12, 1866. His parents, William and Sarah (Forsyth) Haney, were born, reared and married in Shelby county, Ohio, where they made their home until coming to Iowa, in the spring of 1865. The father following farming and was also engaged in breeding, buying, selling and feeding cattle. On reaching this county, he purchased a farm of eighty acres, in Bloomfield township, but sold that place two years later, and bought over one hundred acres of land north of Maquoketa, in Jackson county, on which he lived one year. On disposing of that farm he rented a place two and a half miles north of Elwood, and worked by the month for Kinzie Elwood buying cattle and hogs one year. In 1870 he returned to Bloomfield township, this county, and bought one hundred and seven acres of land on section thirty-three, and continued to successfully operate it until 1893, when he retired from active labor and removed to Welton, Iowa, where he owns a good home. As a Democrat, he has taken an active interest in political affairs, and has been called upon to fill a number of local offices, including those of township trustee and president of the school board. His wife died on the 31st of July, 1896, and was buried in Welton cemetery.

James Haney received his early education in the district schools of Bloomfield township, which he attended until seventeen years of age, and later took a course in a business college at Davenport. On the 16th of March, 1892, in Bloomfield township, he was united in marriage with Miss Maria Sidle, who was also born in this county, December 21, 1873, and is a daughter of John Sidle, whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. By this union were born six children, as follows: Tamar, who was born January 26, 1893, and died January 14, 1898; Nellie, born January 24, 1894; James, born October 31, 1895; a son, who was born November 3, 1896, and died March 8, 1897; Agnes, born September 16, 1899; and a child, unnamed, born January 8, 1901.

After his marriage Mr. Haney rented his father’s farm, and has since successfully engaged in its cultivation. He also raises, buys and sells, cattle, horses and hogs, and finds that business quite profitable. In his political affiliations he is a Democrat, and he always takes an active and commendable interest in public affairs.