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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Bio of Matthew Flood
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 10:01:07 -0500


Surnames: Flood, Furlong, Cusic, Diskin.

History of Counties of Woodbury and Plymouth, Iowa; Will L. Clark, et al.;
Chicago: A. Warner & Co., 1890-91

Matthew Flood, farmer and stock dealer, Battle Creek, was born in County
Wexford, Ireland, in 1846, and received his entire schooling in Ireland. He
came to America in 1868, and located at Springfield, Illinois, and was
naturalized in 1878. After remaining in Illinois eight years, he came to
Dallas county, Iowa, and in 1883 to Woodbury county, always engaged as a
farmer. His parents, Matthew and Kate (Furlong) Flood, were Irish, and are
both deceased. In 1871 the subject of this sketch married Bridget Diskin,
whose parents, Michael and Mary (Cusic) Diskin, are both dead. He has five
children: Mary Ellen, Katie, Maggie, Mattie and John. All are members of the
Catholic church. Mr. Flood is a member of the Farmers' Alliance. He has a
farm of 320 acres, all under cultivation, on which he raises mostly corn. At
the present time (1890) he has 100 head of cattle and 200 head of hogs.


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


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