Meneray, R. C.

MENERAY

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 4/4/2008 at 22:32:37

R. C. Meneray

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.89, Crescent Twp.)
R. C. Meneray, nursery, Crescent City, was born in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, July 6, 1855, son of William Meneray, who was born in Canada in 1822, and married Sophia A. Packard, who was born in Ohio October 1, 1828; he died March 10, 1880. To the parents eleven children were born, ten are now living, of whom R. C. Meneray is the fifth. At the age of three years he, with his father, came to Crescent City, Iowa, where the latter bought an interest in the Crescent Saw-Mill, and continued in that business until 1864, when he commenced fruit-growing and a nursery, which he continued until his death, when the business fell into the hands of our subject, who has since supplied the trade in his line of business, having now a nursery of forty acres, in which 3,000 trees are bearing at the present time. In politics, Mr. Meneray is a Republican, having been elected to fill township offices on that ticket in a township that is three-quarters Democratic. He is also a Good Templar.