PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO - BIO:  Foley, Samuel M. (1885)

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Bio:  Foley - Portage County, Ohio, from
"History of Portage County, Ohio" 
published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885

Copyright © 1999 by  Betty Ralph. This copy contributed for use in 
the USGenWeb Archives.  bralph@hiwaay.net

SAMUEL M. FOLEY, farmer, P.O. Edinburgh, was born in Philadelphia, Penn.,
December 5, 1830, son of John and Matilda Foley, former born in Wurtemberg,
Germany, immigrating to Philadelphia when ten years of age, latter born in
Delaware.  They were married in Philadelphia and there lived for a great
many years.  In 1833 they moved to Edinburg Township, this county, and
remained until their death, the father dying July 31, 1869, the mother in
April, 1870.  April 15, 1850, Samuel M. Foley, then twenty  years of age,
left Edinburg for California, and returned March 24, 1855, and April 15,
1856, he went to Iowa by land with a wagon and span of four-year-old colts,
returning following December to Edinburg, this county, where he has remained
ever since.  Our subject was married, April 18, 1861, to Naomi Haines, born
in Ohio March 27, 1838, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Haines, both of
whom died in Mahoning County, Ohio, and to this union have been born five
children:  Thomas R., Ellen G., Mary J., Hattie E. and Ida M.  Thomas R.
went to Tower City, Dak., March 27, 1882, and died at Fargo, Dak., February
7, 1885.  Our subject, who has engaged in farming most of his life, owns
ninety-three acres of good farm land, where he and his family reside.