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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] A couple of McCartan Bios
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:57:25 -0500


McCartan, Brush, Baldwin, McNamara, O'Donnell, Lilly, Haggerty, Sauter,
Collins

The Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa...by Robert E. Flickinger.
Fonda: G. Sanborn, 1904.


McCartan Bernard (b. Oct 31, 1826), who died in Cedar township Oct. 2,
1887, in his 61st year, was a native of Down county, Ireland, the son of
Bernard and Ann (Brush) McCartan. In 1845 with his parents he came to
America and found employment in the lead mines at Dubuque where he married
Mary, daughter of Roger and Margaret (Baldwin) McNamara. He then located on
a farm in that vicinity, in 1869 moved to Webster county and in 1871 to the
sw1/4 sec. 3, Cedar township. He was the first to occupy this farm and
improved it finely. The first house built in 1881, 14x18 feet, in 1876
became an attachment to a large and comfortable one. A fine grove of forest
and fruit trees was planted, and by subsequent purchases the original farm
was increased, previous to his death in 1887, to 540 acres and since that
date to 930 acres, all of which are occupied by the younger members of his
family.
He was president of the second board of trustees of Cedar township in
1872, president of the school board in 1873 and treasurer of the school
funds in 1874. He was a member of the board of county supervisors three
years, 1874-76, when the county seat was at Old Rolfe.
He was a good farmer, a man of noble principles and exerted a strong
influence in establishing and sustaining Catholic worship in the vicinity of
Fonda. In the pioneer days he was recognized as a wise and prudent leader in
politics and religion. In matters of charity, he was always ready to respond
to the call of the needy, who never left his door without assistance. His
wife, a woman of more than average intelligence and loved by all who knew
her, died June 11, 1898.
He was the father of thirteen children, ten of whom survived him: 1- Thomas
F., county auditor seven years, 1886-92, 2- Susan E., on May 19, 1895
married Ed. O'Donnell, Fonda;3- Mary E., Oct. 5, 1897, married John Lilly,
owner and occupant of a farm of 80 acres on sec. 21, Dover township; 4- John
J., born July 7, 1873, in April 1892 married Katie L. Haggerty and lived
four years in Dover township, then engaged in the abstract business for the
bank of Pocahontas in '97-98, and since as manager of the Shull Bros. lumber
yard, Fonda; he has three children, Austin R, Mary F, and Regina; he was
secretary of the Cedar township school board two years, '88-89 and assessor
in Dover township 1894-95; 5- Arthur A., born Oct. 3, 1865, is manager of
the home farm; 6- Bernard E., born Nov. 25, 1867, has taught school four
years and is now at Davenport; 7- Joseph H. at home; 8- Maggie T. on August
28, 1899 married Anton J. Sauter, a carpenter and resides at Fonda; 9- Katie
and Roger, also at home.


McCartan Thomas F. (b. Oct. 19, 1854) is a native of Dubuque county and
came with his parents to Cedar township in 1871. He was clerk of Cedar
township in 1878 and secretary of the school board in 1883. He served as
Auditor of Pocahontas county seven years, 1886-92, the law of 1890 changing
the election of county officers to alternate years having added one year to
his third term. He has been a resident of Pocahontas since 1886; and as a
stockholder and cashier of the Bank of Pocahontas has been engaged in the
banking and real estate business since 1893.
On May 17, 1886 he married Ella, a daughter of Roger and Margaret
Collins, formerly of Lizard township, and has a family of six children,
Clement B., Tessie, Theo F., Myrtle, Monica and Arthur Thomas.



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


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