Bio of Philley, David L. (b.1823) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Philley, David L., farmer and real-estate dealer, is a grandson of
Remembrance Philley, who served through the revolution under Washington,
and son of Isaac and Eliza Philley, of New York birth. The family name is
of Irish origin, but the mother of Remembrance was Scotch. David Philley
was born September 8, 1823 in McDonough, Chenango county, New York. He was
reared on a farm and received a meager common-school education. At
twenty-one he began to teach and educate himself. He taught eighteen
winters in all. He engaged there, as here, buying and improving farms and
then selling them. He was married March 5, 1849, to Clarissa L. Eaton, who
was born in Willet, Cortland county; her father, John Eaton, was born in
Utica. In 1856 Mr. Philley visited Mazeppa on a prospecting tour, and
bought two hundred and forty acres of land. Some years later he took up
permanent residence in this county, living some years on a farm in
Chester. In the fall of 1874 he moved to Lake City. During the next season
he built his present fine residence in Mazeppa, and occupied it as soon as
completed. He is now the possessor of twenty-one hundred acres, of which
thirteen hundred are in Lac Qui Parle county. Mr. Philley is a member of
Mazeppa lodge, I.O.G.T., and is a Freethinker. His five children reside as
follows: Melinda (Mrs. A. D. Stowell), Chester; Isaac L., Lake Benton;
John E., Chester; Murray, near elder brother; Viola (Mrs. Ed. Noonan),
here.
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1920.
Check out Barbara's site for more great information on this book:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnwabbio/wab3.htm
There are also some pictures and information from descendents for some 
of the bios on her pages.

Philley, David L. (page 753), who came at an early day to Wabasha County,
and after an interval of some years, made a permanent settlement, was born
in McDonough, Chenango County, N. Y., September 8, 1823, son of Isaac and
Eliza Philley. His grandfather, Remembrance Philley, served through the
Revolutionary War under Washington. The family name is of Irish origin,
but the mother of Remembrance was scotch. David L. Philley was reared on a
farm and received a meager common school education. At the age of 21 he
began to teach and educate himself, teaching eight winters in all. He also
bought farms and sold them after making improvements. He was married March
5, 1849, to Clarissa L. Eaton, who was born in Willet, Cortland County, N.
Y. and whose father, John Eaton, was born in Utica. In 1857 Mr. Philley
came to Wabasha County, Minn., on a prospecting tour, and bought 240 acres
of land in Chester Township, subsequently returning East. In 1868 he came
back to Chester Township, subsequently returning East. In 1868 he came
back to Minnesota, bringing with him his family, and they settled on his
land in Chester Township, which he improved, carrying on agriculture there
until 1875, when he moved to Lake City. About a year later he came to
Mazeppa, where he built a good residence, and engaged in the buying and
selling of land, an occupation in which he continued until his death on
March 28, 1903. He had been a widower for over ten years, his wife having
passed away December 23, 1893. Of their six children, five are now living:
Melinda, a widow residing in Mazeppa, her husband, Albert Stowell having
died in 1905; Isaac L., a hardware merchant in Lewisburg, Minn.; John E.,
of Mazeppa; Murray, who lives in Canada; and Viola, who married Edward
Noonan of Portland, Ore. The one deceased is Sherman. Mr. Philley was at
one time, in the early eighties, the owner of 2,100 acres of land, of
which 1,300 acres were in Lac Qui Parle County. He was a member of Mazeppa
Lodge, I. O. G. T.