- MARTIN McNEIL, the manager of the McNEIL estate in Section
25, Clinton township, Rock
- County, is a man of much character and energy. He is not
afraid of hard work, and is a student of modern and progressive
farming, joining thrift and industry, in his personal career,
and is getting ahead in the world.
- Mr. McNEIL was born in Beloit, Rock county, July 15, 1861,
and obtained his education in the
- district schools of the town of Clinton. When he became
a young man he worked on the farm for his father, and in 1885
and 1886 was a train hand on the Burlington & Missouri River
railroad in Nebraska. In 1887 he returned home, and since that
time has had charge of the paternal homestead, managing his father's
property in a most satisfactory manner. He is capable and pushing,
knows his business, and is popular among the neighboring farmers.
He is well read, and takes much intelligent interest in public
affairs. He is a strong Democrat, and religiously a member of
the Catholic Church.
- Martin McNEIL, the father of the gentleman whose name introduces
this article, was born in
- Ireland Nov. 11, 1817, and came to this country in 1842,
settling first in Providence, R.I., and going from there to California
in 1850. He spent two successful years in the gold mines, and
then returned to Providence. In 1857 Mr. McNEIL came to Wisconsin,
and bought the present McNEIL estate, paying for it in gold.
Here he resided until his death, June 20, 1890. In November,
1857, he was married to Miss Eliza LANNON, a daughter of Michael
and Winifred (McINTYRE) LANNON, of Providence, R.I., who came
to Wisconsin in 1862, and remained here thirteen years. They
then returned to Providence, where they died in 1880. Mrs. McNEIL
is still living, at the age of sixty-one, with a daughter who
is teaching school in Sharon, Wis. She is the mother of eleven
children, Martin, John, Hugh, Charles, George, Mary, Ellen, Margaret,
Agnes, Winifred and Frances. Hugh died at the age of sixteen.
Ellen married Arthur FRIEDENDAHL, of Clinton, and has five children,
Martin, Guy, Howard, Myrtle and Marie.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, p. 590.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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