Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Hurley, John 1825 - 
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JOHN HURLEY, one of the pioneers of Meeker county, and one of its representative
men, is a resident of Ellsworth township, and is engaged in carrying on his farm on
section 8. He came here in 1858, and took up his claim where he now lives, and there
remained until the Indian troubles of 1862. During those fearful, tragic days he
left here and-went to Fremont and Clearwater, and from thence hack to Kingston, and
from there, finally, to what is now Darwin, where he remained some two years. He
then returned to his farm, where he has ever since made his home. His original claim
consisted of some 160 acres, but he now has nearly double that number of acres, and
his farm is brought, to a high state of cultivation.

   Mr. Hurley is a native of that “bright gem of the sea,” Ireland, born in County
Cork in the year 1825, and is the son of Dennis and Mary (Driscoll) Hurley, both of
whom were, also, natives of the Emerald Isle. Dennis Hurley died in his native land
in 1847, and his widow came .to the United States in 1864 or 1865, and after a stay
in New York and Pittsburg, came to Minneapolis, and from thence to this county,
where she died September 29, 1872. They were the parents of seven children, one of
whom died in infancy.

   Mr. Hurley, of whom we write, was united in marriage in February, 1854, with Miss
Ellen White, who was born in Ireland in May, 1819, and who came to America with her
parents in 1844, and settled in Pittsburg, Pa. She died in March, 1887, having been
the mother of four children— Mary, Ellen, Ann and John. Mary died in Pennsylvania in
1857, at the age of two years; John died October 15, 1887, of typhoid fever, the
others are at home with their father.

   In his political views Mr. Hurley is entirely independent of party lines, and
non-partisan in the discharge of his elective franchise. He has held the office of
director of his school district, and takes great interest in all educational work.
As a progressive, enterprising man he is the peer of any in the town.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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