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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Bio of Frank J McDermott
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 19:33:39 -0600


Surnames: McDermott, Welsh, Webber

Wolfe's History of Clinton County, Iowa; Vol 2; B.F. Bowen & Co;
Indianapolis, Indiana: 1911

Though a young man, Frank J McDermott has shown what earnestness of purpose
can accomplish in connection with agricultural interests, and if he
continues to use good judgment and energy that have characterized his past
he will be abundantly rewarded by future years.

Mr. McDermott was born in Lincoln township, Clinton county, Iowa, on
February 18, 1881. He is the son of Henry and Mary (Welsh) McDermott, he
born in Ireland and the mother in St. Louis, Missouri. The father emigrated
to America in about 1850 and located in Hampshire township, Clinton county,
Iowa, where he took up a farm of about one hundred and sixty acres, which he
improved and on which he placed an excellent group of buildings. He cleared
the land, beginning life here in true pioneer fashion. Selling out there, he
moved to Lincoln township, where he bought a farm of three hundred and
twenty acres and there he became one of the leading agriculturists and was a
man of influence, living there until his death, in 1904, at the advanced age
of eighty-eight years. He was not a public man, preferring to live a quiet
and retired life. His widow is still living. They were the parents of four
children, and by a former marriage Mr. McDermott was the father of four
children; all are living.

Frank J McDermott, of this review, was educated in the common schools and he
was reared on the home farm where he began working in the fields, when but a
lad and he has made agriculture his chief life work and now operates half of
the home place, his brother, Paul, operating the other half. He has been
very successful and is a general farmer and stock raiser and is succeeding
admirably well. In politics he is a Democrat, and he belongs to the Catholic
church at Lyons.

On September 8, 1907, Mr. McDermott was married to Anna Webber, a native of
Clinton, Iowa, where she was reared and educated and where her family is
highly respected. To this union one child has been born, Marian.
Fraternally, Mr. McDermott is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America,
while, politically, he is a Democrat.


Cathy Joynt Labath
The Irish in Iowa
http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/


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