Source: Leading Events in Johnson County, Iowa History
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What the record says
Born County Galway, Ireland.
Emigrated via Killarney port ~1852, settling first at Sheffield, La Salle County, Illinois.
Railroad laborer, later section foreman for Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific.
Farmed 160 acres in Johnson County.
Died Oxford, Iowa, April 9, 1880.
According to Leading Events in Johnson County, Iowa History, Buried Mt. Calvary cemetery (one of the first interred there).
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