Kilkenny, Michael

KILKENNY

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 9/25/2019 at 13:24:16

Michael Kilkenny

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.78, Boomer Twp.)
Farmer, P. O. Honey Creek, was born in Galway, Ireland, about 1827; came to America 1853. In 1855. he came to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and ran a dairy for Presley Sanders, brother of ex-Gov. Sanders, of Nebraska; was at Mt. Pleasant for about five years, and then to Glenwood, Mills County, working for Tootle, Green & Co., in a store. Came to Council Bluffs after about five years spent in Glenwood, and was in the dairy business for some time, and then went to plastering for John Hammer. March, 1867, he came to Broomer Township, and went to farming and has been engaged in that business ever since. He traded for fifty acres of land before coming here, but now his farm consists of 250 acres. His farming is general, but mostly stock-raising. He was married in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, to Miss Nora Lines. They have six children, four boys and two daughters. He is Democratic in politics, and is a Catholic.