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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  MARTIN M. McCANN has farmed eighteen years in Leota township. He is one of the

large land owners of western Nobles county, owning 900 acres of land in Leota,

Lismore and Larkin townships.



  Martin McCann was born in Crawford county, Wis., March 12, 1857. He is the son

of James and Mary McCann, natives of Ireland. The former was born in Dublin and

came to the United States when about twenty-five years of age. He served in a

Wisconsin regiment during the war of the rebellion and is now living in Prairie

du Chien, Wis., at the age of 80 years. His wife is also living and is 72 years

of age.



  Until he was nineteen years of age Martin lived on the home farm in Crawford

county, Wis. He then went to Clayton county, Iowa, where he worked out three

years. The next three years were spent in Sioux and Lyon counties, Iowa,

teaching school during the winter months and working at other occupations during

the summers. During the time he was residing in Iowa, Mr. McCann took a

homestead and tree claim in Hutchinson county, S. D., and in 1882 he moved onto

the claim and there engaged in farming until 1891. During the time he lived

there he taught several terms of school.



  In the spring of 1892 Mr. McCann moved to Nobles county and located in Leota

township, on section 27, where he now resides. He had purchased the half section

there in 1891, the land then being wild prairie. He has made many improvements

on the place, and has one of the fine farm homes of Leota township. He now rents

a part of his farms and intends soon to reside in Lismore, where he has recently

erected a fine home and where he owns eighteen and one-fourth acres.



  Mr. McCann was married at Sheldon, Iowa, Nov. 12, 1882, to Annie L. Buckley,

born in Iowa county, Wis., Nov. 12, 1865. She is the daughter of Philip and Mary

Buckley, both deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. McCann have been born the following

named children, of whom all except the two first named reside at home: Philip

J., of Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, born Aug. 15, 1883; Eva (Mrs. Thomas

King), of Moosejaw, born Aug. 30, 1885; Rosa, born Feb. 1, 1887; James, born

March 10, 1889; Anna L., born Sept. 19, 1891; Lucy Agnes, born Jan. 26, 1894;

Leo Alfred, born Jan. 2, 1896; Esther, born March 15, 1898; William Martin, born

Oct. 6, 1901; Francis Raymond, born May 15, 1904; Lawrence Paul, born Feb. 3,

1908. The family are members of the Catholic church of Lismore.



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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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