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Tama County >> 1883 Index

History of Tama County, Iowa
Springfield, Ill., Union Publishing Company, 1883.

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Unless otherwise noted, bios were submitted by Dick Barton.

JOHN DOYLE was born in county Wexford, Ireland, in October, 1834.  During 1853 he came to America, and first settled in Jo Daviess county, Illinois, where  he soon engaged in farming.  In 1865 he removed to Scott county, Iowa, and at the end of three years, came to Tama county, settling on section 28, Columbia township, where he now lives on a fine farm of 200 acres. Mr. Doyle was married in 1861, to Miss Ellen Enright, a native of Ireland, and born in 1839.  They have ten children living - Annie, born July 31, 1862;  Michael, born February 14, 1864;  Maggie, born August 7, 1865;  John, born February 3, 1867;  Maurice, born March 31, 1869;  Peter, born August 28, 1871;  Dennis, born October 5, 1873;  Martin, born November, 19, 1875;  Mary, born October 28, 1877;  Stephen E., born May 22, 1881.