Turner County, SD Biographies.....McAlear, Patrick 1822 - 
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Author: Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (1897)

PATRICK McALEAR, one of the old settlers residing in section 23, Germantown
township, and engaged in the pursuit of agriculture, came to Turner county in
1878. South Dakota was then a territory, and he entered 160 acres of land as a
homestead and began to break up and improve his land. He still resides on this
original farm and has made many improvements in the shape of good buildings,
fences and trees, which he planted, and now has a fine piece of property.

    Mr. McAlear is a native of Fermanagh county, Ireland, and was born in 1822.
His boyhood was spent in the land of his birth, where he resided until he
reached the mature age of twenty-two years, and then emigrated to America. His
first location was in Zanesville, Ohio, and from there he removed to Brown
county, Wis., where he purchased a farm of forty acres, which he conducted until
he came to Turner county, as stated above. He was married in Ripon, Wis., to
Miss Mary Murry, a native of Ireland, and they are the parents of two children,
a son and daughter, viz., John and Maggie A., both of whom reside at home. Mrs.
McAlear died in 1872 and was buried in the Catholic cemetery in Brown county,
Wisconsin.

    Mr. McAlear is a Democrat and his son John affiliates with the Populist
party. The family are devout members of the Catholic church.


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Extracted from:

MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF 
Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties,
SOUTH DAKOTA.

Containing Biographical Sketches of Hundreds of Prominent Old Settlers and
Representative Citizens, with a Review of their Life Work; their Identity with
the Growth and Development of these Counties; Reminiscences of Personal History
and Pioneer Life; and other Interesting and Valuable Matter which should be
Preserved in History.

ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO.
GEO. A. OGLE & CO.
Publishers, Engravers and Book Manufacturers.
1897.


Biography is the only true history.—EMERSON.

A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
generations.—MACAULAY.


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