DAVID McFADDEN was of Scotch-Irish ancestry and moved to Marne from Anita, Iowa about the year 1900. He married Mary Crumley and the couple had six children - Austin, Oscar, Fred, Elizabeth, Grace and Clara. David McFadden bought and sold cattle around Marne. Soon after their arrival here, Fred and Audubon McFadden operated a meat market for a number of years where the United Benefit Society is now located. After 1912, Austin operated a farm in the southwest quarter of Section 15 of Brighton Township and his brother Oscar had another farm in the southeast quarter of the same section.

Transcribed from "The First Century, A History of Marne, Iowa 1875 - 1975", published in 1975, Marne, Iowa: The Marne Centennial Historical Committee, pg. 34. Transcribed (2015) by Cheryl Siebrass and contributed September, 2019.

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