Crees, Michael

CREES, NOE

Posted By: Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer
Date: 6/29/2019 at 11:47:14

Biography ~ Michael Crees
1835 ~ 1926

Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), pp.: 684-85:

"MICHAEL CREES, an active and enterprising citizen of Decatur County, and a successful agriculturist of Grand River, living on section 12, was born October 11, 1835, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the eldest child of Joseph and Catherine Ann Crees. He spent his youth in helping his father clear and cultivate the farm, receiving his education in the common schools of his neighborhood. When he was ten years of age his parents came to Iowa, and settled in Jefferson County, remaining there until 1854, when they removed with their family to Decatur County, where our subject has since made his home. He helped his father improve the wild land on Grand River bottoms until the Crees farm was numbered among the best in Decatur County. July 3, 1871, he was married to Miss Margaret A. Noe, who was born in Monroe County, Iowa, in 1851, a daughter of Andrew and Mary Jane Noe. Mr. Crees located on his present farm in 1871, where he has a comfortable brick residence, a commodious barn and out-buildings for his stock, and 180 acres of land under a high state of cultivation, and is engaged in general farming and stockraising. He has a fine orchard on his land, and a beautiful grove of shade and ornamental trees surrounding his residence, and the entire farm shows the good management of its owner. Politically Mr. Crees is a Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. Crees are worthy and active members of the Methodist Episcopal church. They are the parents of six children -- Willie W., Mary J., Catherine Ann, Joseph A., Maggie Estella and Clyde Alonzo."

(Submitted to the Decatur County GenWeb site by Christy Jay, email: Jaygenie@aol.com)