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From Past and present of Allamakee county, Iowa. A record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement (1913)
WILLIAM HART.
The pioneer history of Allamakee county would be incomplete were there failure to make prominent reference to William Hart, who for fifty-six years resided within its borders, taking up his residence in Paint Creek township in 1852. He was then a young man, ambitious and energetic, looking forward to what the future might hold in store for him as a reward for his industry and determination. A few years after his arrival here he married and established a home and throughout his remaining days continued a resident of this section of the state.
Mr. Hart was a native of Ireland, his birth having occurred in County Galway. In the year 1849 'ic crossed the Atlantic to the new world and after three years spent elsewhere made his way to Allamakee county in 1852, taking up his above in Cherry Mount settlement in Paint Creek township. He found here a district largely wild and undeveloped. Much of the land was still in possession of the government and was covered with the native prairie grasses, started with a million wild flowers in the month of June and in mid-winter covered with one unbroken dazzling sheet of snow. Mr. Hart at once took up the arduous labor of developing new land and from that time forward was closely associated with agricultural interests in this county.
It was on the ist of November, 1855, that William Hart was united in marriage to Miss Alicia Conway, who was also a native of Ireland, having been born in County Roscommon. She left the Emerald isle for the purpose of making her home with a brother who was then living in Paint Creek township, Allamakee county. She continued with him until her marriage and then went to her husband's home in the Cherry Mount settlement, where their remaining days were passed. They began with their domestic life in one of the primitive old-time log cabins, which stands as a venerable relic upon the farm which is now the property of their son Hon. William S. Hart. Year by year the father carefully tilled the fields and cultivated his crops and success rewarded him as time passed on.
Mr. and Mrs. Hart became the parents of a large family but lost two daughters, Sarah J. and Nellie, in early womanhood. Their surviving children are:
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