A. F. Kearney

KEARNEY

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 8/4/2009 at 00:39:16

Maquoketa Excelsior, Maquoketa, Iowa, October 20, 1896.
A. F. Kearney-

The Dubuque Herald has the following to say of Supt. Kearney:
A. F. Kearney, Superintendent of Schools of Jackson County, was born in 1866 in Dubuque County, the son of A. J. Kearney, one of the early settlers of Cascade Township. He grew to manhood on the farm, attended Lenox College at Hopkinton, Iowa, but owing to delicate health went to the mountains of Virginia in 1885. Being greatly benefited by the change of climate, engaged in business in Virginia and returned to Iowa in 1892, engaging in school work. Professor Kearney located at LaMotte, Jackson County, in the Spring of 1894, read law while teaching, and was admitted to the practice of law by the Supreme Court of Iowa in May, 1895. He was selected as the candidate of the Democratic Party for the office of Superintendent of Schools of Jackson County and elected to that office in November, 1895.