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Dickson Beatty
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JOHN DRISCOLL, an influential citizen, prosperous general agriculturist, successful stock-raiser and well known breeder of line Hereford cattle has for over a quarter of a century been a continuous resident of his finely cultivated homestead, pleasantly located upon section 31, Prairie Creek Township, Dubuque County, Iowa. Mr. Driscoll is a native of New York City, and was born in 1840. His father, Dennis Driscoll, was a farmer of County Cork, Ireland, and having wedded Miss Margaret Crowley, also a native of County Cork, emigrated with his wife to America soon after their marriage. Safely landing in New York City, Dennis Driscoll after a brief time spent in the metropolis of the Empire State went to New Orleans, where he worked for five years, occupied mostly in loading vessels. In 1846 he came with his family by the Mississippi River to Dubuque and located in Jackson County, buying land at the Government price of $1.25 per acre. He was one of the earliest settlers of the county, and found a plentiful supply of wild game and venison for the use of the table. The humble log house completed, the family entered into the rude experiences of the dwellers on the frontiers of civilization.

Dennis Driscoll was an ambitious and energetic man and toiled unweariedly in the improvement of the four hundred acres which he had purchased. He broke the land with ox-teams, and was at times obliged to go with the same slow conveyance to far off Dubuque and Belleville for certain necessaries of daily use. The father of our subject has followed the pursuit of agriculture all his life, and is now living in Jackson County with a son. His remembrances of early days are entertaining and find many a delighted listener. He was well acquainted with the leading chief of the Indians, who frequently made him social and friendly visits and who were for some time his nearest neighbors. A strong and unusually healthy man, vigorous in mind and body, he has never used medicine except when he had a severe attack of yellow fever. His wife, a most excellent woman, passed away in 1880. She was a devout member of the Catholic Church and became the mother of nine children, of whom six are yet living. Father Driscoll is now four-score years, and only when he and his wife were both stricken in New Orleans with the terrible scourge, yellow fever, has he ever been ill. Like his wife he is a Catholic and a most excellent man, and has made his way in the world by his own self-reliant industry.Our subject was the eldest of the brothers and sisters and has, since he came to Iowa with his parents at six years of age, been a constant resident of the state. Walking three miles each way through the storms of winter he gained an education in the primitive schools of the neighborhood, and as soon as he was old enough assisted upon his father's farm. Having attained to manhood he located in 1867 upon his present homestead of two hundred and forty acres, which with the exception of about twenty-five acres was all wild prairie land, but which in these past years Mr. Driscoll has cleared of underbrush and highly improved.

Our subject was married in 1867 to Ellen DeLong, of County Cork, Ireland, and a daughter of Jeremiah and Ellen (Donovan) DeLong, both natives of the Emerald Isle. Emigrating to America in 1854, they made their home with their family in Iowa, where the mother died in 1885, the father surviving until 1889. Mr. and Mrs. Driscoll have been blessed by the birth of nine children: Dennis S., Jeremiah M., William F., Catherine Josephine, John P., Hannah T., Ella T., deceased, Daniel J. and Margaret. The surviving sons and daughters trained up into habits of thrifty industry and well educated in the home schools, will in the coming years undoubtedly all occupy positions of usefulness and worthily conduct themselves in their career in life. Our subject and his estimable wife and family are in religious affiliation Catholics and aid in the good works and enterprises of that denomination.

Mr. Driscoll has been prospered and aside from his valuable homestead owns forty acres of excellent land in Jones County, and also has sixty-four acres in Jackson County. He is at present largely interested in the dairy business and raises and has on hand some of the finest Hereford cattle in Iowa. He is also a breeder of Norman horses, has handled very fine animals, and stables a number of thoroughbreds. Beginning without much capital, our subject has thus achieved most substantial financial results. Politically he is a sturdy Democrat and has held with efficient ability various offices of trust. Since 1888 he has been a School Director, earnestly aiding in the upward progress of educational advancement. In 1890 Mr. Driscoll was elected Trustee of Prairie Creek Township, and has for some time been Administrator of Estates. An able and intelligent citizen, faithfully doing the official work entrusted to his care and in all matters upright and true, our subject has won the esteem and high regard of the entire community of his township and Dubuque County.