McElroy, Matthew B.

MCELROY

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 15:42:34

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.686

McELROY, MATTHEW B., farmer, East Washington Township, Sec. 5; P. O. Indianola; is a native of the State of Ohio; born in the year 1834, and was raised there till he came to Marion county, this State, where he lived for three years, and came to this county in October, 1857, and has lived here since, except one summer that he spent in California and Oregon, in 1873; he was married in Marion county, this State, in 1855, to Miss Mary J. Smith, a native of the State of Indiana; they have a family of two children living: Luetta and Frank R., and three deceased; Anson J., Charles L. and John W.; he owns an improved farm of 100 acres; he was raised on a farm, but when seventeen years of age he served an apprenticeship at carpentering, and followed it up to 1876, at the same time managing his farm.