Blaney, William H.

BLANEY

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Date: 9/25/2019 at 20:41:38

William H. Blaney

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.99, Grove Twp.)
Farmer, P. O. Griswold, Cass Co., Iowa, was born in New York City February 17, 1835, son of John and Roshanna (Crook) Blaney, he born in Ireland and she in England, died on Long Island in 1865. They had two children, both still living. Subject received a common school education ; commenced life as a carriage and wagon maker, and married about 1853, in New Jersey, Catharine Noggle, born in New York September 3, 1816, daughter of William and Leah (Bogart) Noggle, both born in New York, and both died there. Subject has held several township offices; worked for the United States Government from 1861 to August, 1863, repairing wagons at Ft. Monroe; also in South Carolina in 1864. and Nashville through the fall of 1864 and 1865. In 1865, he went to Pennsylvania; worked in the oil regions until the winter of 1868, when he went to Illinois, staying one month; thence to this county, in company with John Noggle; thence to Wyoming Territory, where he worked on the U. P. R. R. in the repair shops for one year. Returning to this county, in 1869, he bought forty acres of land at $5.50 per acre, and now owns eighty acres, valued at $35 per acre. There is a fine young orchard, all kinds of small fruits and a fine grove on the place. Mr. and Mrs. Blaney have two children - George W. and Rosa - both born in New York City. Subject is a Republican.