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DELAWARE AND BUCHANAN COUNTIES.

JOHN SEERY, one of the prominent and   successful   young   farmers   of Delaware   county,  was   born   near Cascade, Iowa, June 1, 1852.    His father, John Seery, is a native of Ireland, but immigrated to the United States in 1840.     He was  engaged  as clerk in a wholesale house in New Orleans for nine years.    He came up the Mississippi river as far as Dubuque  in 1851 and bought land near Cascade in Jones county.    He met with great success and is now an ex­tensive farmer and stock-raiser.

The boyhood days of John Seery, the subject of this notice, were passed on his

father's farm in Dubuque county. He attended the common district school and also St. John's College at Prairie da Chein, Wis.

Mr. Seery married, February 19, 1879, the lady of his choice being Miss Kate Skahill She was born in Jones county, Iowa, and is a daughter of Patrick and Mary (Murry) Skahill, both of whom were natives of Ireland. Her parents died when she was quite young.

The union of Mr. and Mrs. Seery has resulted in the birth of five children, viz.— Henry F., born December 26, 1879; Ida May, born September 4, 1881; Katie, born May 8, 1883; Albert, born October 8, 1885, deceased, and Jane F., born August 16, 1889.

Mr. Seery is a stanch democrat of the Jacksonian type and a strong supporter of his party. He and his estimable wife are zealous members of the Catholic church and liberal contributors to every worthy cause.

He owns a fine farm of two hundred and eighty acres, highly improved and all under cultivation. He has an elegant residence, surrounded with all necessary out-buildings.

Mr. Seery is a wide-awake progressive farmer and one of the representative citizens of South Fork township, and has always taken an active interest in all public improvements. He has been successful lii life, a result due to his own exertions, aided and encouraged by his devoted wife. He stands deservedly high in the estimation of the entire community, as a citizen, business man and neighbor, and is looked upon as one of the most substantial and reliable residents whose character is above reproach.

 

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