- JOHN MERITY, one of the substantial citizens and property owners of Grand Chute township, who is devoting his attention to the cultivation of a magnificent farm of 173 acres, where he also is extensively engaged in stock raising, was born in Center township, Outagamie county, Wisconsin, May 31, 1861, and is a son of Owen and Mary (McDonald) Merity, natives of County Cavan, Ireland, where the father was born June 1, 1819, and the mother about 1834. The father came from Ireland in 1850, and landed at New York, from whence he went three months later to New Haven, Connecticut, where he was married, and in 1857 went to West Peoria, Illinois. After spending a short period there he came to Outagamie county, Wisconsin, and located in Center township, purchasing eighty acres of farming land, which he operated until 1866. He then came to Grand Chute township, where he purchased a farm of 215 acres in Section No. 1, and here continued to engage in general farming until his death, which occurred April 1, 1910, his wife's death occurred December 4, 1902. Mr. Merity was one of the prominent citizens of his day. He and his wife had the following children: Mary, widow of John Crowe, a retired citizen of Appleton; Peter, who is retired and lives in Appleton; John; Frances, who married Herman Bauer, retired and living in Appleton; Ellen, the wife of T. H. Warren, a grocer of Appleton; Margaret, the wife of Nicholas Paltzer, a farmer of Grand Chute township; Julia, who is single and resides on the old homestead; Katherine, who is deceased; and one child, which died in infancy .
John Merity attended school in District No. 6, Grand Chute township, and his farming operations have been confined to the property which he now occupies. With his brother he conducted the farm until the death of his father, after which he bought the interests of the other heirs, and he now has 173 acres under cultivation, having disposed of forty acres. He engages in general farming and stockraising, and now has sixty-five head of cattle, which he is fattening for the market. In addition Mr. Merity is the owner of a fine sixteen-acre fruit farm in the state of Washington. Mr. Merity is a Democrat in politics and has served as township clerk and assessor, refusing other offices because his manifold duties on the farm would not permit of his giving them sufficient attention. Like his father he has been a total abstainer all of his life. His religious connection is with the Roman Catholic Church, and he holds membership in the Knights of Columbus.
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- MERITY FUNERAL Funeral services for John Merity, 789 N. Appleton street, who died Saturday evening, were conducted at St. Mary church by the Rev. W. H. Grace this morning. Burial was in St Mary cemetery. The only immediate survivors are two sisters. Mrs. Frances Bauer, Appleton, and Miss Julia Merity, Oshkosh.
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1861 - 1940 (78 years)
Has 2 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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