Bio of HANEY, Jonas (b.1828), Mower Co., MN

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I have a book about the early settlers of Mower County alas it is missing 

its cover and the first four pages so I can not identify who printed it 

or when. This file is a list of the townships and individuals identified 

in the book.



JONAS HANEY, one of the pioneers of Lansing, was born on a farm in New 

Jersey in 1828.  He was one of nine children and obtained a good business 

education by attending the district school winters.  From the age of ten 

to twenty young Haney followed canalling on the Delaware and Hudson rivers 

during the season.  The first seven years he drove a team on the tow path 

and the last three years had charge of the canal boar.  He then went to 

southern Kentucky and learned the carpenter trade of an uncle, and two 

years later returned to Port Jervis to work at his trade. Here he married 

Miss Sophia Miller in 1853.  In '56, {1856} with his wife and child he 

emigrated to Minnesota, spending the first summer building in Winona, and 

then coming to Lansing.  Heaving received a letter of introduction to 

Lewis and Yates he came to Austin to see them.  During his first night 

here occurred the first murder in the country, occasioned by the opening 

of a new saloon.  The murdered man was Leverich, the owner.  During the 

winter of '57 {1857} provisions were very scarce and for days at a time 

some families lived on turnips alone.  Mr. Haney worked at his trade in 

connection with opening up his farm.  Politically he is a man of influence 

and has held numerous town offices.  During the early days that the county 

board consisted of the chairman of the board from each town.  Mr. Haney 

represented Lansing.  This was in '59-60 {1859-1860}, when the 

dissappearance {sic}of the treasurer's books occurred.  In the fall of 

'88 he came to Austin to live and entered the farm machinery business and 

built him a house in Morgan's addition.   He has since brought out his 

partners, Gilbertson & Edgerton and remains the sole proprietor of the 

old stand.

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