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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  JOHN B. FEENEY, Little Rock township farmer, has resided on the farm where he

now lives for twenty-eight years. He is a native of Kings county, Ireland, and

the son of Keran Feeney and Dora (Scully) Feeney, both of whom are dead.



  When he was five years old he came with his parents to America and located in

New York city, which was his home for thirty-five years. After growing to

manhood he became a sailor and for many years was engaged in the coast trade.

Ten years of his life were spent as a canal man, operating on the Delaware &

Hudson canal.



  In the spring of 1880 Mr. Feeney decided to go west and make himself and

family a home there. He started for Douglas county, Minn., but when he arrived

in St. Paul he met Bishop Ireland, who induced him to come to the Nobles county

country, in which he was then interested, and Mr. Feeney did so. It was in the

month of March that he first set foot on the soil of Nobles county. He at once

bought a timber claim right to the north half of the southeast quarter of

section 18, Little Rock township, his present home, later changed it to a

homestead filing, and proved up on the property. Two years later he purchased

the northeast quarter of section 27, in the same township. Although he had had

no previous experience in farming, Mr. Feeney set to work to improve the place

and has been engaged in farming ever since. He is a member of the Catholic

church of Adrian.



  Mr. Feeney was married in New York city to Annie Cummings, a native of that

city. To them were born the following children: K. J., of Little Rock township;

Annie Gertrude (Mrs. John O'Hearn), of Seattle, Wash.; Mary Agnes and Elizabeth

V., who reside at home.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908





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