The full biographical sketch as printed, transcribed from the public-domain book. Spelling and wording are the original author’s; a few scanning errors may remain.
WILLIAM BROTHERS.
Many are the natives of tlie green land of Ireland who have come to America and carved for themselves a niclic in the great western re- public and have found the position and the opportunities for accumulat- ing property which would never have been afforded them in the old countrv, and in this number we must reckon one of the old citizens of Mdun^e count}-, who has been a resident of the county for over half a century and well deserves mention among the prominent men of the county.
Michael Brothers, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Tipperary county, Ireland, and his w-ife, Mary Bn,-an, was of the same county. They lived and died in the land of their birth and be- came the parents of seven children, five sons and two daughters: Cath- erine, John, Micliael, Daniel, Patrick, WilHam and Mary.
William Brothers was born over tln-ee-quarters of a century ago, about the year 1825, in county Tipperary, and spent the early years of his life in his native land. \Mien about twenty-six years old he emigrated
to America, and coming west to Iowa bought eiglity acres of improxed land in ]\Ii)nroe county. A few years later he was married and then removed t() Keokuk, Iowa, where for about three years he worked at blacksmithing, and then came to Monroe count)- and located on the farm where he now li\-es. He owns about two hundred and forty acres of land, all under a good state of improxement, and Mr. Brothers has the name of being one of the successful farmers of the county.
In 1857 j\Ir. Brothers was united in marriage to ]\Iiss Catherine Conroy. who was born in Queens county. Ireland, and was the daughter of James Conroy. who died soon after his arrival at St. Louis, Mis- souri; she spent her childhood in Ireland and came to this country with her parents. There were eight children born to Mr. and ]\Irs. Brothers, three .sons and five daughters: Mike and James, twins: Mary. Cath- erine. Annie. Elizabeth. Julia and John. Mr. Brothers has been promi- nent in the local affairs of the township: he has been township trustee and a member of the school board for several terms; in politics he adheres to the Democratic part}-. He is now about seventy-seven years old and his estimable wife is eighty-two, Iroth having passed the allotted span of life. They are zealous members of the St. Patrick's church at Georgetown and they gaxe liberallx- of their means and influence to build it.
Source: Biographical and genealogical history of Appanoose and Monroe counties, Iowa. See the original pages at the Internet Archive.
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