Bio of McNallan, Walter (b.1842) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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McNallan, Walter, is one of the prosperous farmers of Highland township.
He was born in County Sligo, Ireland, November 1, 1842. His parents,
Thomas and Mary (Judge) McNallan, are also inhabitants of Highland. They
came to Beaver Meadow, Pennsylvania, when the subject of this sketch was
about four years old, and remained in the coal regions of the Keystone
State, where his father and himself and brother continued to labor in the
mines until the spring of 1857, when the family went to Michigan, and
resided for several months in the vicinity of Grand Rapids. The next
removal was to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which place they left in the spring
of 1858, and came to Highland August 25, 1862. Walter, then in his
twentieth year, enlisted in the 10th Minn., served three years, and was
honorably discharged August 25, 1865. Soon after the close of his
soldier's life Mr. McNallan purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land
in Highland, and his father deeded him eighty acres more, and by purchase
since he has added ninety acres more; all on sections 3 and 10. In the
summer of 1881 he erected a pretentious brick residence on his farm, at a
cost of thirty-five hundred dollars, by far the finest house in the
township. His matrimonial life dates from August 7, 1867, when he espoused
Ellen Kinsella, daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Delany) Kinsella, an
Irish lassie, then in her twentieth year. The fruits of this union are:
Catherine, born November 20, 1868; Thomas, born August, 1870; James, born
August 6, 1879; Daniel, born September 10, 1874; Mathew, born January 16,
1876; Mary born April 26, 1879; John, born March 14, 1881; Ellen, born
April 14, 1883. Mr. McNallan is a well-informed and liberal-minded man, a
member of the Highland Catholic church, and the Father Matthew Total
Abstinence Society of Highland. He has held a place in the board of
supervisors for three years, and was township treasurer for six years. His
political faith is democratic. He receives four dollars a month pension
for a wound to the right thigh.
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1920.
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnwabbio/wab3.htm
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of the bios on her pages.

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