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Hamilton County >> 1889 Index Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Hamilton and Wright Counties, Iowa. Hamilton County A - Z A. L. McCARTHY is one of the well known citizens of Blairsburg Township. He was born in Otsego County, New York, March 2, 1836, a son of Patrick and Catherine McCarthy, natives also of the Empire State. They had a family of eleven children, six of whom are living--Hiram, Nelson, A. L., James, Mrs Hattie Holmes, and Mrs Julia Lawrence. The mother died when her children were small, and the father moved to Winneshiek County, Iowa, where he died and where all but two of his children, __Nelson, of Michigan, and A. L.__ still live. Three sons, William, Nelson, and James were soldiers in the war of the Rebellion, and the former gave his life for his country. A. L. McCarthy lived in his native State until eighteen years of age, and then went to Illinois and lived in Marshall and LaSalle counties until 1871, when he came to Iowa and bought eighty acres of land in Hamilton County, which he has improved and added to until he now has a good farm of 240 acres. Mr McCarthy was married in Marshall County, Illinois to Mary Mason, a native of Hamilton County, Ohio, daughter of Abram and Elsie (Moore) Mason. They have a family of five children -- Mrs. Elsie Fowler, at home, her husband having charge of the farm; Charles E., a telegraph operator of St Paul, Minnesota; Mrs Ella Wells, of Calhoun County, Iowa, where her husband owns a finely improved farm of 240 acres; Everett and Bertha. The politics of Mr. McCarthy is a Republican. He has served his township as road supervisor. He is a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church. Bio submitted by Beverly O'Toole
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