Turner County, SD Biographies.....McAlear, Patrick 1822 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

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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