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From: "Mary Kay" <>
Subject: Re: [IA-IRISH] From New York to Iowa..?
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:11:03 -0500
References: <20020909180621.22079.qmail@web12303.mail.yahoo.com>


I believe many came through waterways---via the Erie Canal, then by
steamboat across Lake Erie, up to Lake Huron, then around the lower
peninsula of Michigan following Lake Michigan to Milwaukee or Chicago. From
there they could buy a horse and wagon to get to Iowa. They could have come
from the East by railroad at that time, but it was a more expensive option.

Mary Kay
----- Original Message -----
From: "kay mcconkey" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 1:06 PM
Subject: [IA-IRISH] From New York to Iowa..?


> Hi Cathy,
>
> When My Great Great Grandmother came into the United States
> from Ireland...Which was the most common way and the states that
> they would have come through..?
>
> She had said in an newspaper article that they came into New
> York City in 1853....We know that they were in Davenport,
> Iowa--Scott County in 1861...
>
> Did the Irish Immigrates follow a certain trail to Iowa..?
>
> Thank You......Kay
>
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