Linnan, John 1865-1960 & Kate Fittzpatrick Family

LINNAN, LINNANE, FITZPATRICK, COOLEY, CULLIGAN

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 9/2/2024 at 07:01:57

Linnan, John 1865-1960 & Kate Fitzpatrick Family

This story was taken from pages 420-422 of the Maurice Centennial Book (1891-1991). The story was transcribed for this BIOS by Beth De Leeuw of the Greater Sioux County Genealogical Society. Some research notes were added were add by Wilma J. Vande Berg Submitter took liberty of adding numbering to the paragraphs of the children within the story that was in the book.

John G. Linnan was born near Littleport, Clayton County, Iowa, on June 15, 1865, to Patrick and Johanna Cooley Linnan. When he was eight years old, the family moved from Littleport to their homestead located about one mile west of the present town of Maurice. Patrick had gone there the previous year and had selected and filed Claim for it. As the railroad in those days came only as far as Algona, Iowa, the family had to come the rest of the way by wagon. However, John rode horseback as he had to help drive their livestock – a distance of about 135 miles.

John married Kate Fitzpatrick on June 22, 1892, at St. Mary’s Church in Maurice. They lived on the family farm until they retired from active farming in 1924, at which time they moved to 314 Third Street in Maurice.

Kate was born to Luke and Margaret Culligan Fitzpatrick on August 2, 1869, on a farm near Colesburg, Delaware County, Iowa, which is about 25 miles from Littleport, Iowa, where John was born. However, the families had not met until they came to Sioux County.

Before her marriage, Kate attended Northern Illinois College at Dixon, Illinois, and taught in rural schools in Sioux County. Kate died on August 14, 1944, and John died on October 17, 1960, at the age of 95.

John and Kate’s children were: Thomas, Luke, Mary, John, Joseph Clement, Margaret, Charles, Joan, Eleanor and Sarah.

1. Thomas who was born December 19, 1893, attended the Maurice Public Schools. He was the only one in his high school graduating class. After his graduation from St. Thomas Military College in St. Paul, Minnesota, he helped farm the family farm until the day World War I was declared. He enlisted and served in the army until the war was over. Then he returned to farming. He married Ruth Hilbelink and they had one child, Mary Clare Linnan Knudsen, who lives with her husband Jerry in Humboldt, Iowa. They have four children. Tom died on July 1, 1943, and Ruth in 1962.

2. Luke E. Linnan was born April 8, 1895. After attending Maurice Public Schools and St. Thomas Military College, he started studying for his law degree at Iowa University. However, when World War I was declared, he like Tom, enlisted – he chose the air force instead of the army. When the war was over, he returned to Iowa University to complete his law studies. After he received his law degree, he joined the Mc-Mahon and Sullivan law firm in Algona, and practiced law there until death on September 17, 1975, with the exception of the time when he served as a judge in the Iowa Supreme Court. He married Nell Wassenburg and they had two adopted children: Brian of Omaha, and Bernadine Linnan Elbert of Algona.

3. Mary Linnan Doherty, John and Kate’s first daughter, was born August 18, 1896. She attended Maurice Public Schools and graduated from St. Mary’s High School, Alton, Iowa. She taught in the rural schools around Maurice, until her marriage to William D. Doherty. After living on a farm near Rock Valley, Iowa, for a short time, they moved to a farm one mile west and one-fourth of a mile south of Maurice. They had four children: Maureen, Kenneth, Florence and William (Billy). Unfortunately, Maureen and Kenneth were both victims of cancer and they died the same day October 23, 1984. Florence who received her four-year degree in nursing, died on November 24, 1973. Her daughter, Stacey, lives in California, where she practices oral therapy. William Doherty and his family now live in Kansas.

4. John Gerald Linnan Jr. died in infancy.

5. Joseph Clement attended a rural school, Maurice Public Schools, Trinity College in Sioux City, and Iowa State College. He married Isabella Dalton. They had four children: John Clement, a retired government worker; Mary Rachel (Molly Rae) Anderson, who lives in Colorado; Thomas L. who lives in Thermopolis, Wyoming; and Terrance who teaches at Colorado Springs, Colorado.

6. Margaret attended Maurice Public Schools, a rural school, St. Mary’s High School at Alton, Iowa, Iowa State Teachers College, and Colorado University. She taught at Hillsboro, Iowa, and Webster City, Iowa, before going to Denver, Colorado, where she taught at Barnes Commercial School while she worked on an advanced degree at Denver University. She then went to Pullman, Washington, where she was on the faculty of Washington State University for over 30 years. Since her retirement she has lived in the family home in Maurice.

7. Charles Linnan was born September 23, 1903. When he was eleven years old, he injured his leg and knee in a sledding accident and died on Christmas Day, 1914 – no penicillin in those days.

8. Joan Linnan was born on March 28, 1906. She attended a rural school, Maurice Public Schools, St. Mary’s High School, Alton, Iowa, and Iowa State Teachers College. She taught in rural schools and lived with her parents in Maurice. She died May 20, 1978.

9. Eleanor Linnan Fox also received her education in a rural school, Maurice Public Schools, St. Mary’s High School, Alton, Iowa, Iowa State Teachers College and Wyoming University. She taught at Martinsdale, Iowa, Cody and Cheyenne, Wyoming. She married Leo W. Fox, who died in 1987. Since his death, she has continued to live their Palm Springs, California, home.

10. Sarah Linnan was born March 10, 1910, but lived only to April 9, 1910.

FITZPATRICK FAMILY LINEAGE
As mentioned before, Kate Fitzpatrick Linnan’s parents, Luke and Margaret Culligan Fitzpatrick, moved from near Colesburg, Iowa, Delaware County, to Sioux County. They came in 1880, to their homestead one mile west and about ⅛ of a mile north of Maurice, which is across the road from the Linnan homestead. Luke died in 1907, and Margaret in 1920, at the age of 92. Their children were: Edward, who married Mary Deegan. They had three children: Joseph, who worked for Mike King who was in the grain business in Iowa, and the Dakotas. Later Joe worked for the Union Oil Company in the state of Washington. Edward, who had a plumbing business in LeMars, and later moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, where his sons still own and operate his business. Maude Fitzpatrick Buckley, who married Ben Buckley of Maurice. They lived in LeMars, and she taught school and later had an abstract business. They had one daughter, Mrs. John (Rosaire) Parrotti, of Kansas.

Mary Fitzpatrick Doherty married Dan Doherty. They lived on their farm northeast of Maurice, until they retired and lived in Maurice. Mary died May 14, 1950, and Dan on December 2, 1959, at the age of 99. They had four children: Frances, Murat, Loretta and Winifred. Frances married LeRoy Deegan. She died February 7, 1974, and LeRoy in 1980. They had two children: James, who has retired from government service and lives in Washington, DC, and Delores Deega Pytco who lives in Danville, Pennsylvania. She and her husband Bill have two children: Billy and Mary. Dan and Mary’s son Murat married Hazel Olson. They lived on the Dan Doherty farm until they retired from farming and moved to Alton, Iowa. Murat died June 22, 1975. Hazel now lives in Omaha. They had two sons: Dan who is in the air force and John who lives in California. Dan and Mary’s second daughter, Loretta (Mrs. Emmett Hensing) died in 1967. Dan and Mary’s third daughter, Winifred Doherty Coleman, went to Clare, Iowa, to teach when she finished at Iowa State Teachers College. There she met and married James M. Coleman. They made their home on a farm near Clare, where Winifred continues to live since James’ death. They had five children: Mary Clare, James, John, Orville and Ida.

Kate Fitzpatrick Linnan – data given above.

Margaret Fitzpatrick Vlotho married Fred Vlotho, they lived in Ireton, where he had a general store and she had a millinery shop which they operated until they retired and moved to Pasadena, California.

Luke J. Fitzpatrick lived on the family farm with his mother. After she died in 1920, he moved to Maurice, Iowa, where he lived until his death in 1932. He never married.

Francis Fitzpatrick, who also never married spent most of his time when he was not working on the family farm in the western part of the United States. He died in 1953.

John Fitzpatrick died in 1889, when he was 22 years old during the typhoid epidemic around Maurice.

(end of family story in the Maurice book)

RESEARCH Notes: Added by Wilma J. Vande Berg taken from a family report on ancestry.com public member trees which were submitted by other than this submitter.

John G. Linnan born 15 Jun 1865 Littleport, Clayton, Iowa died 17 Oct 1960 Le Mars, Plymouth, IA. His parents were Patrick John Linnane 1823-1884 and Johanna Cooley 1832-1877. He married Katharine Fitzpatrick 22 Jun 1892 Sioux County IA.

Katharine Fitzpatrick born 2 Aug 1869 Colesburg, Delaware, IA died 14 Aug 1944 LeMars IA. Her parents were Luke Fitzpatrick 1829-1907 and Margaret Culligan 1830-1920 . John and Katharine had the following children.

CHILDREN’s families are described in detail in the above narrative from the story in the Maurice Book. Basic vitals data listed below on each child as found on ancestry.com , and Find a Grave and obits from local archives.

1. Thomas Frances Linnan born 10 Dec 1893 Maurice IA died 1 Jul 1943 Lemars, buried Maurice IA . See his obit on this web page Linnan, Thomas 1893-1943. wife Ruth Hilbelink, daughter Marie Claire.

2. Luke Elroy Linnan born 9 Apr 1895 Maurice IA died 17 Sep 1975 Algona IA. Wife Nell Wassenburg 1906-1990. They had two adopted children.

3. Mary Linnan born 18 Aug 1896 IA died 6 Jan 1942 Le mars, IA . Husband William Doherty See #3 in above narration.

4. John Gerald Linnan born 1897 and died 1897 Sioux County IA. See obit story on this web page.

5. Joseph Clement Linnan born 24 Feb 1900 died 25 Nov 1968 San Fernando, Los Angeles, CA buried Maurice IA . Wife Isabel Elen Dalton 1905-2017 Children listed, John Clement Linnan 1928-2017, Molly Rae Linnan 1930-1994 and one other not given.

6. Margaret Ann Linnan born 5 Apr 1901 Sherman Tsp, Sioux Co. IA died 12 Aug 2002 Maurice IA

7. Charles Bernard Linnan born 1903 died 1914 buried St. Mary’s Maurice IA. See his obit on this web page.

8. Johanna ‘Joan” Rose Linnan born 28 Mar 1906 died May 1973 buried St. Mary’s Maurice IA See her obit on this web page Linnan, Joan R. Miss 1906-1978.

9. Eleanor Elizabeth Linnan born 21 Jun 1907 Sherman, Sioux County, IA died 17 May 2003 Palm Springs CA buried Sioux City IA. Married Leo Wilfred Fox 1908-1987.

OBITUARY OF JOHN LINNAN 1865-1960
JOHN LINNAN
MAURICE, Ia., --- Special: John Linnan, 95, retired farmer, died Monday at a LeMars, Ia., hospital after a long illness.
Mr. Linnan was born in Little Port, Ia., June 15, 1865. He moved to Sioux County as a boy, and farmed in the county until 40 years ago when he retired and moved to Maurice.
He married Kate Fitzpatrick at Maurice June 22, 1892. Mrs. Linnan died in 1944.
Survivors are two sons, Luke Linnan of Algona, Ia., and Joseph C. Linnan of Compton, Cal.; three daughters, Miss Margaret Linnan, of Pullman, Wash., Mrs. Leo Fox of Palm Springs, Cal., and Miss Joan Linnan of Maurice; and 11 grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Maurice, with burial in St. Mary’s Cemetery.
The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Wiltgen-Luedtke funeral home in LeMars.
~Source: Alton Democrat of Oct 20, 1960

OBITUARY OF KATE LINNAN 1869-1944
From the Alton Democrat of Aug 1, 1944
Mrs. John Linnan,
Early Maurice Resident, Passes
Mrs. John Linnan, nee Fitzpatrick, early Maurice resident, passed on at the Le Mars hospital Monday, August 14, following an operation.
Mrs. Linnan was born at Colesburg, Iowa, Aug. 2, 1869, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Luke Fitzpatrick, and came to the Maurice community 61 years ago with her pioneer parents.
She is survived by her husband, two sons, Luke of Algona, and J. C. in Alaska; 3 daughters:
Margaret of Pullman, Wash.; Joan of Maurice; Mrs. L. W. Fox (Eleanor), Cheyenne, Wyo; two sisters: Mrs. D. J. Doherty, Maurice; Mrs. M. D. Huse, Pasadena, Calif.; one brother, Frank Fitzpatrick of San Francisco; and by 9 grandchildren. Three sons and two daughters, Thomas, Charles, , John, Sarah who died in infancy, and Mrs. Wm.. Doherty preceded their mother in death.
Funeral services for this splendid mother will be held this Thursday morning at. St. Mary's church, Maurice, Rev. Gretemann of Manson officiating. St. Mary's choir of Alton and Miss Kurtenacker, organist, will "furnish music. "

Father of John Linnan
OBITUARY-DEATH of Patrick Linnan died 1884 Sioux County IA.
The Alton Review of March 28, 1884 recorded the death of Mr. Patrick Linnan. The spelling of the name was Lenone in the paper, however, it was determined by the submitted that the actual spelling should have been Linnan. Also found that the 1870 spelling of the name in the Federal Census of Cox Creek, Clayton Co. Iowa was Lemmon.
Article in the Alton Review - Died, last Tuesday evening, Mr. Patrick Lenone, of Maurice, Iowa, aged about 60 years. Mr. Lenone was one of the early settlers of Sioux County, having lived on the same farm for 12 years or more. He was honest and industrious, and was respected by all his neighbors. The remains were buried in the Catholic cemetery at LeMars yesterday.
(Submitter also found the family in the 1880 Sioux county Census - family listed -- Patrick age 65 farmer, born in Ireland, his wife Johanna (from 1870 census) was deceased then. Children all born in Iowa were: Elisa 18, Mary Ann 16, John 14, Catharine 13, Thomas 10, Johanna 8 and Sarah Bridget 4.

Father of Kate Fitzpatrick Mrs. John Linnan 1829-1907
OBITUARY of Luke Fitzpatrick 1829-1907
Alton Democrat of Mar 9, 1907
Luke Fitzpatrick died at his home a mile and a half northwest of Maurice Wednesday at ten o'clock at the age of seventy eight years. His death was due to the infirmities of old age. Deceased was born in Ireland and came to America when a young man. He located in Delaware county Iowa where he was married and raised a family of seven children. One son died fifteen years ago. Six children survive to share the grief of(with) their aged mother. The children are Ed of Lind Washington, Mrs. Dan Doherty of Maurice, Mrs. John Linnan of Maurice, Mrs. Fred Vlotho of Ireton, Luke and Frank at home. The Fitzpatrick family came to Sioux county in 1881 and located on the farm where the death occurred. Deceased was a good citizen and shrewd manager and was possessed of an estate consisting of about 800 acres of Sioux county laud and other holdings here and in Washington state. He was a consistent member of the catholic church. His funeral was held this Friday at ten o'clock from St. Mary's church at Maurice—Father McNally officiating. (According to an ancestry.com record his wife was Margaret Culligan 1832 County Clair Ireland died March 28, 1920 Maurice IA. Luke's parents were Edward Fitzpatrick and Catherine Finlay )

Mother of Kate (Mrs. John Linnan)
OBITUARY of Margaret Fitzpatrick (Mrs. Luke) 1830-1920 Source: Le Mars Semi-weekly Sentinel (3-30-1920) Birth: 1830 Death: March 22, 1920 DEATH OF OLD RESIDENT Mrs. Margaret Culligan Fitzpatrick passed away at her home northeast of Maurice Monday morning at 4 o'clock. Mrs. Fitzpatrick was one of the early settlers, coming to Sioux County in 1883. She was born in Ireland in 1830 and came to this country when sixteen years of age. She spent her girlhood days at Dubuque, Iowa. After her marriage to Luke Fitzpatrick, she resided on a farm near Colesburg, Iowa. All of her children were at her bedside at the time of her death except Edward of Flores Island B C. The funeral was held at St Mary's Catholic Church at Maurice Wednesday March 24. The Mass was celebrated by Reverend Father Thoennissen of Struble. She leaves to mourn her loss six children. Edward Fitzpatrick of Flores Island BC; Frank Fitzpatrick of Vallejo, California; Mrs. Fred Vlotho of Ireton, Iowa; Mrs. D.J. Doherty, Mrs. John Linnan and Luke Fitzpatrick of Maurice and one sister, Mrs. Mary Flynn of Maurice and one brother John Culligan of Sioux City, Iowa.

Picture/s of John Linnan (younger & older) from page 420 of the Maurice book.

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