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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Bio of Charles Burns
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 10:56:30 -0500

Surnames: Burns, O'Neal, Toole

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

Charles Burns, farmer, P.O. Le Mars, was born in Connarragh, county Wicklow,
Ireland, May 29, 1832, a son of Harry and Ann (O'Neal) Burns. His
grandfather was Thomas Burns, also of County Wicklow. In 1841 he immigrated
with his parents to Canada, shortly after to Ohio, and later to
Pennsylvania, where his father died. Of eleven children, Charles was the
eldest. He received a very limited education, never attending school in this
country. He has been engaged quite extensively in railroad building; helped
lay the tracks from Pittsburgh to Steubenville; was section foreman for two
years, and traveled as such, south, building levees and ditching. He was
afterward employed as a farm laborer in Illinois. In 1867 he took up a
homestead in section thirty-two, America township, where he now lives. He
has added 100 acres to his domain and follows general farming. Mr. Burns was
married in 1865 to Ann Toole, a native of the same place as himself. Their
first born child, Maggie, died at the age of twenty-one, and the fifth,
Mary, when two years old; the living are William, Lizzie, James, Charles and
Mary. Mr. Burns is a member of St. James Roman Catholic church, Le Mars, and
has always been a democrat.


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

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