Clay County, SD Biographies.....Carey, Dennis 1833 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

DENNIS CAREY, well - known among the prominent and progressive agriculturists of
Fairview township, Clay county, is a native of county Limerick, Ireland, born in
November, 1833. When he was thirteen years of age his parents emigrated from the
downtrodden country of their nativity to America, and after landing in New York city
located in Hartford, Conn., to which place our subject accompanied them. A year
later he went to Rutland county, Vt., where he found employment about twelve months
on different railroads, then he spent two years in Rensselaer county, N. Y., and
finally started from the Empire state west.
He first stopped in Illinois, where he secured employment on the railroads, then
went to Harrison county, Iowa, and in February, 1868, he came to Clay county, Dak.
Ter., and took up a claim of 160 acres in section 1, Fairview township, Clay county,
the same whereon he now lives. This property he settled on the spring of the same
year, and started in on his career as a farmer. He has prospered, as those who
combine industry with sound judgment should, and has added to his estate another 160
acres, making 320 acres in all. Such buildings as are found on a well-regulated farm
are to be seen on his property, including a comfortable dwelling in which he is
passing the evening of his life with those of his children who still remain at
home.

Mr. Carey was married in Sterling, Whiteside Co., Ill., in 1866, to Miss Hannora
McMann, and this union was blessed to them by the birth of eight children, viz.:
Margaret, Ellen, Patrick, Catherine, James, Dennis, Mary Ann and Joseph. Mrs. Carey
passed away in Fairview township, September 23, 1886, after twenty years of happy
married life. She was, indeed, a true helpmate, a fond mother, and her death was a
severe blow to her husband and the children who were thus left motherless.


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