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Thomas D. McCarney
Thomas
D. McCarney, a prominent real-estate dealer of Churdan,
is also serving at present as mayor of the town. He is a son of Patrick
and Bridget (Hageny) McCarney, the former a native of Ireland. In 1877
the parents removed from Will county, Illinois, and took up their abode
on one hundred and sixty acres of wild land in Highland township,
Greene county. Patrick McCarney at once began its improvement and
brought the tract under a high state of cultivation, carrying on
agricultural pursuits here until his death
in 1879.
Thomas D. McCarney accompanied his parents on their removal to Greene
county and acquired his education in the schools of Churdan. He
remained under the parental roof until eighteen years of age and then
entered upon the insurance business. He was afterward a guard at Fort
Madison state penitentiary for four years, but in 1893 returned to
Churdan and opened a real-estate oflice. He has since built up a large
and profitable business, his extensive knowledge of realty values
enabling him to make judicious purchases as
well as advantageous sales.
Mr. McCarney was joined in wedlock in Carroll, Iowa, in the year‘ 1898,
to Miss Rhoda E. Roberts, a native of Greene county and a daughter of
Frank Roberts, an early settler of this locality. Unto our subject and
his wife have been born four children, as follows: Thomas D., George.
Garfield, Jerrell D. and Benjamin Franklin,
In his political views Mr. McCarney is an active member of the
republican party, having served as justice of the peace for nine years.
At the present time he is serving as mayor of Churdan, his
administration being characterized by all that tends toward reform and
material development. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons, the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias and he is a
worthy exemplar of the teachings of these different organizations. Both
he and his wife are highly esteemed in the community in which they
reside, their sterling traits of character having won for them the
unqualified confidence and respect of all with whom they have come in
contact.
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