Biography: Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin: Mathew McEvoy

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Mathew McEvoy, farmer, Sec. 5; P.O. Campbellsport; born in Queens Co.,
Ireland, in 1817; came to America in 1840, locating in Dutchess Co., N.Y.,
where he married in 1844, Miss Catherine Welch; they came to Ashford in
November, 1849, and bought forty acres of heavily timbered land of which
five had been cleared; up to this time all travel had been over a track
from the openings to Crouchville, and the road past the McEvoy farm was not
opened for two years; the family lived for a time in a rude shanty; then
bought more land on which was a better habitation, but this was burned with
nearly their all- a hard blow- but the battle was begun again; at Mayville,
sixteen miles distant, was the nearest mill, and goods were all brought
from Fond du Lac; as the family were poor they underwent many privations,
and result is Mr. McEvoy's good farm of 150 acres, several roomy barns,
with a large and tasteful farmhouse, which was built to replace the
pioneer's log house- a good showing for a man who began with forty acres of
woods, and a few dollars; Mr. and Mrs. McEvoy have three children- James,
Mary A., Richard H.  James is a carpenter in Northern Wisconsin; Mary is
married and a resident of Chilton; Richard, who is on the homestead, was
married Nov. 28, 1877, to Miss Ann Mulvey, of Byron; they have one son,
Mathew F.  In politics, they are Democrats; in religion, Roman Catholics

Transcribed from The History of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin Chicago :
Western Historical Company, 1880 pg. 969