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| Katherine |
Born December 17, 1859 Delaware County, Iowa Death 1945 Meade, Kansas |
Married Bernard Sebastian McMeel (b. March 31, 1856-1920) Children:
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| NOTES: Katherine McElmeel taught school in her home neighborhood (Delhi, Delaware County, Iowa) prior to her marriage to Bernard McMeel. Bernard was the son of Patrick McMeel. Both Bernard and his father were blacksmiths. Katheirne and Bernard lived in Manchester, Iowa for a year or two until "they packed their possessions into a wagon, bundled up their infant son and left Iowa." [NOTE: This would have been between 1881 when their first son was born and 1884 when they would have had two sons. And since the child was described as an infant, the year is likely to have been 1881 or early in 1882.] They traveled to southwestern Kansas and settled in Meade, Kansas. Here Bernard plyed his blacksmith trade for many years. He later became a merchant selling clothing, gent's furnishings and shoes. According to Katherine and Bernard's granddaughter, Genevieve McMeel Schwarz [Not the daughter listed above but a granddaughter.], "Katherine McElmeel McMeel was a true Irish matriarch. She ruled her seven children until her death. [NOTE: the family had eight children but the oldest died at the age of six years; so Kate "raised" seven children.] Every summer (of Genevieve's childhood) we had to drive to Meade, Kansas, because she demanded that all her children come to see her. It was a long hot trip." Genevieve continued, "She was a truly beautiful woman -- with long white hair (prematurely) and the round Irish face and a smile that was unbelievable. She did her hair in a bun. My grandfather McMeel died very young and she (Katherine) raised seven beautiful people." Actually according to the records we can uncover, Bernard died in 1920 at the age of 64; and that would have meant that their children were actually grown by the time Bernard died. Their oldest living child, Leo Patrick, was born in 1884 and would have been 36 at the time of his father's death and their youngest child, Nora who was born in 1899, would have been 21 at the time of her father's death. Perhaps Genevieve meant to say that Bernard and Katherine raised seven beautiful children and her grandfather died very young (at age 64). |
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Biographical Record of Clinton County, Iowa - page 267-68 CHICAGO: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901 |
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| Bernard Sebastian (B.S.)
McMeel was one of eight children born to Patrick McElmeel and Eliza Ann
Carr. The following article is about Bernard's brother, a
resident of Delmar, Iowa DR. E. C. McMEEL. Close application and unceasing labor are the stepping stones to success in a professional career, and one of the truest examples of energy and perseverance is to be found in Dr. E. C. McMeel, who ranks as a leading physician and surgeon of Delmar, Iowa, having established a large practice in that city and in the surrounding country. He is a native of Delaware county, Iowa, his birth having occurred September 26, 1858. His parents, P. McMeel and Eliza Ann Carr, were both natives of Ireland, but crossed the briny deep to New York, where they remained for two years, the father working at his trade of blacksmith. In 1853 they removed to Delaware county, Iowa, and there he pursued his trade. He afterward bought a farm and lived on this until the death of his wife, which occurred September 9, 1888. She was buried at Delhi, Iowa. The father now resides with his son, Dr. E. C. McMeel. Our subject was one of a family of eight children, namely: J. H., a druggist, in Lost Nation, Iowa, who married Alary Ales, and by whom he has three children; B. S., a clothing merchant in Mead, Kansas, who was married to Kate McElmeel, and resides there with his wife and six children ; Dr. E, C. ; Thomas H., who married Sue Smith, by whom he had three children, resides in Coggon, Iowa; Patrick Henry, who died in infancy; Annie E., who resides in Lost Nation; John J., a railroad engineer, at Port Arthur, Texas. He hauled the relief train to the Galveston sufferers at the time of the flood; Dr. M. F., a resident of Lost Nation, who married Margaret McFadden, by whom he had four children, one of whom is living. Dr. E. C. McMeel received his early education in the district schools of Delaware county, remaining there until 1876, when he attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Keokuk, Iowa. In 1879 ne attended the Rush [Medical College, and March 2, 1880, graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at Keokuk, Iowa. He then embarked upon his professional career, going to Britt, Iowa, where he practiced medicine nine months, and from thence he removed to Kinross, remaining there two years. Seeking a larger field for his work, he located in Des Moines, Iowa, and for three years successfully engaged in the practice of medicine, after which he went to southwestern Kansas for three years, and finally locate:! permanently in Delmar, Iowa. He has been eminently successful in his profession, and now has one of the most extensive practices in the country. He is an ambitious and faithful worker, being deeply interested in public affairs and everything that affords a solution to that mystery which we call life. The cause of education has ever found in him a friend, and he now acts on the school board of Delmar. He is a member of the Iowa Association of Railroad Surgeons, holding the office of treasurer of that organization ; is also a member of the Clinton County- Medical Society; of the Iowa Medical Society. He also holds the position of surgeon for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. He belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America; to the Modern Brotherhood of America, and to Lodge No. 88, Knights of Pythias. He belongs to the Catholic church of Delmar, Iowa. In politics Dr. McMeel is a stalwart Democrat, and was elected alternate delegate to the Democratic state convention of the second congressional district. On August 26, ,1886, at Dodge City, Kansas, Dr. E. C. McMeel was united in marriage to Miss Fannie S. King, who was born in Des Moines, July 4, 1858, and was the daughter of Scott and Garrity ( Scott) King. The mother now resides in Des Moines, the father having been killed in the war of the Rebellion. Dr. and Mrs. McMeel are the parents of two children, and are well-known in Delmar, enjoying the confidence and respect of all with whom they are associated. |
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