M. F. DESMOND
M. F. Desmond settled in the spring of 1878, on th east half of the northwest quarter of section 35. He purchased this farm of John B. Strator, who made the improvements upon it. Mr. Desmond was born in McHenry county, Illinois, in 1846. He was there reared to the occupation of farming. He removed to Rock Island county with his father, Cornelius Desmond, about 1862. The latter, in the fall of the following year, returned to McHenry county where he resided until his decease in 1869. M.F. Desmond went to Chicago in 1873 and for three years was a member of the police force of that city. He then came to Cass county. Mr. Desmond was married to Mary Calahan, daughter of Bartholomew Calahan. John Desmond, a brother of M.F. Desmond, resides in Pymosa township, where he owns a farm of eighty acres.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 574.
