Lane, Patrick

LANE

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/23/2008 at 13:32:07

Patrick Lane

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.215, Pleasant Twp.)
Patrick Lane, farmer, P. O. Shelby, Shelby County, was born in County Limerick, Ireland, son of John and Honora (McCarty) Lane, natives of County Kerry, Ireland. John Lane was born in 1799, was a farmer by occupation and died in County Limerick, Ireland, in 1850. His wife died in New York City. They had two sons and two daughters, and of this family one son is deceased. Mr. Lane was educated in Ireland, and began life as a farmer, which occupation he followed in his native country. In 1847, he came to the United States, came to Clinton County in 1849, and the following year went to Tennessee, where he worked in the tunnel at Tunnel Hill, and while working there saved the life of a fellow-workman - an act which he considers the best of his life. Returning to Iowa in 1851, he bought 320 acres of land in Clinton County, at $1.25 per acre, sold one-half of the land for $6.15 per acre, invested the proceeds in stock, and succeeded well in all his undertakings. He was a foreman on the North-Western Railway for some time. In 1874, he came to Pleasant Township where, in January 1872, he had bought of J. P. Casady and Mr. Haas, of Council Bluffs, 640 acres of wild land at $6.50 cash per acre. He at the same time owned 200 acres in Clinton County, one of the best farms in that county, which he sold in May, 1874, for $9,500 cash, then moved to his section in this township. In 1874, he bought 830 acres of wild land at $9.50 cash per acre; in 1881, bought 80 acres of wild land adjoining the home farm at $16 cash per acre, and he now owns 1,550 acres o land, all clear of incumbrance, one of the finest stock or grain farms in the county. The Big Silver Creek runs through the farm, one-half of which is valley. The farm is located four and a half miles west of Avoca, and two and three-fourths south of Shelby. Mr. Lane carries on general farming, and frequently goes to Chicago to buy cattle. At Lyons, Clinton Co., Iowa, November 14, 1853, he married Mary Shannon, born in County Clare, Ireland, in March, 1832, daughter of Michael and Mary (Neylon) Shannon, natives of County Clare, Ireland, he born in 1796, she in 1806. By this union they have been blessed with the following children: James, Patrick Henry, Mary, Margueretta, Katy and John (deceased). In politics, Mr. Lane is a Democrat, but conservative in his views.