McVey, Cyrus P.

MCVEY, WARD, FALKINGBURG, MCQUEEN, BRENIMAN, SALTER, GYER, HARPER, DAVIS

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Date: 12/3/2012 at 11:29:38

1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

DEEP RIVER TOWNSHIP

Page 735-6

MCVEY, CYRUS P.--Section 15, P.O. Deep River. His great-great-grandfather (James) was born in County Kirk, Ireland, and his great-grandfather (James) was born in the same county, and came to America when a boy, and married and settled in Virginia, where he farmed until he died, in his seventy-seventh year. His grandfather was born in Virginia, in 1794; was a physician and Christian preacher; married early in life and moved to Bourbon county, Kentucky. Here his father, James O., was born March 30, 1816; moved with his father to Springfield, Ohio; married, March 29, 1838, Miss Hannah Ward, of Urbana, Ohio, who was born December 23, 1821. The subject of this sketch was born in Champaign county, Ohio, September 19, 1840. His brothers and sisters were born as follows: Eliza J. (born May 27, 1839; married in March, 1858, to Job Falkingburg), James O., Jr. (born March 26, 1842; married February 16, 1870, Miss Katie C. McQueen), Edward A. (born January 9, 1844; married February 7, 1866, Miss Margaret Breniman), William A. (born July 16, 1846; married July 3, 1871, Miss Carrie Salter), John W. (born April 4, 1848; married July 3, 1870, Miss Emma Gyer), Mary A. (born November 17, 1850; married January 1869, to J.T. Harper), Sarah (born February 15, 1862; married December 22, 1870, to Andrew Davis), Alfred and Abner--twins--(born February 17, 1855; died in infancy), George B. (born September 11, 1857) and Arthur W. (born April 6, 1859). Cyrus moved with his father into Indiana, Delaware county, when one year old, and to this State in the fall of 1853. He was raised and educated in this county. He learned the trades of house carpenter and stationary engineer. In 1867 he went to Wisconsin, where he engaged in log-rafting on the Chippewa River one summer, and then went to Clay county, Nebraska, where he worked on the B.&M.R.R. Here his brother, Edward, who was with him, took up a homestead, and Cyrus returned to this county. In the spring of 1873 he took a trip to California, where he worked at carpentering in winter, and milling during the summer, in Butte county, and returend home in the summer of 1874, where he has plied his trade as carpenter ever since. Mr. M. owns forty-three acres of excellent land, and is free from debt.