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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Bio of William H. Blaney
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:58:07 -0600

Surnames: Blaney, Crook, Bogart, Noggle

History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa 1882... Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co.,
1883

William H. Blaney, farmer, P.O. Griswold, Cass Co., Iowa, was born in
New York City February 17, 1835, son of John and Roshanna (Crook) Blaney, he
born in Ireland and she in England, died on Long Island in 1865. They had
two children, both still living. Subject received a common school education;
commenced life as a carriage and wagon maker, and married about 1853, in New
Jersey, Catharine Noggle, born in New York September 3, 1816, daughter of
William and Leah (Bogart) Noggle, both born in New York, and both died
there. Subject has held several township offices; worked for the United
States government from 1861 to August 1863, repairing wagons at Ft. Monroe;
also in South Carolina in 1864, and Nashville through the fall of 1864 and
1865. In 1865 he went to Pennsylvania; worked in the oil regions until the
winter of 1868, when he went to Illinois, staying one month; thence to this
county, in company with John Noggle; thence to Wyoming Territory, where he
worked on the U.P.R.R. in the repair shops for one year. Returning to this
county, in 1869, he bought forty acres of land at $5.50 per acre, and now
owns eighty acres, valued at $35 per acre. There is a fine young orchard,
all kinds of small fruits and a fine grove on the place. Mr. and Mrs. Blaney
have two children-George W. And Rosa-both born in New York City. Subject is
a republican.

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

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