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Fred D. Connelly Mr.
Fred D. Connelly was born in Clear Creek Township, Jasper County, Iowa, on
November 21, 1876, and here he grew to manhood and received his education in the
common schools; however, being the son of a pioneer, he did not receive such educational
advantages as one might wish, there being only limited opportunities of
attending school in the days when he was a boy, though he has since made up for
this lack by wide miscellaneous home reading.
So he grew
up inured to the privations of life in an early settlement, and the rigid
discipline he received then has doubtless done him a world of good in subsequent
life. Mr. Connelly is the son of H. C. and Mary C. (Kline) Connelly, the father born in Fulton County, Illinois, and the mother near Hagerstown, Maryland. The former spent his early boyhood in his native State, moving to Marshall County, Iowa, when he was about fifteen years old, thence to Jasper County where he established a good home and spent the balance of his life, dying in Independence Township on October 24, 1902. The mother moved with her parents to Iowa when a small girl and grew up in Clear Creek Township, where they settled. Her death occurred in Independence Township, Jasper County, on January 24, 1904. H. C. Connelly was an honored veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted from Marshall County in the Union army in Company K, Twenty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, in August 1862, and he served faithfully until the close of the war, receiving an honorable discharge. Eleven children were born to
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Connelly, all born in Clear Creek Township; they were named
as follows: Cynthia, the eldest, died in infancy; Charles H., who lives on a
farm in Independence Township; Mary 1. Perin,
of Independence Township; W. W. lives in Des Moines; Hattie A. Logan, of Col
fax, Iowa; Fred D., of this review; Cyrus A., of Des Moines; Rollie A., of
Independence Township; Jessie B. died when four years of age; Curtis M. of
Independence Township; James died in infancy. Fred D. Connelly
assisted with the general work on the home farm when a boy, and he -has made
farming his life work, now owning twenty acres in Independence Township on which
he makes a good living. Mr. Connelly was married on
November l, 1902, to Carrie Perin, who was born in Independence Township, Jasper
County, Iowa, December 24, 1882. She here grew to womanhood and received her
education in the common school. She
is the daughter of Henry I. and Almira (Porter) Perin, the father born in
Indiana and the mother in Scott County, Iowa.
They are residing at Baxter, Jasper County, and are mentioned elsewhere
in this work. There were five children in the Perin family, all living. To Mr. and Mrs.
Connelly one daughter has been born, Leora Irene, whose birth occurred on
January 6, 1905. She is attending
the rural schools of her neighborhood, and is a bright and winsome little
lassie, the light of the pleasant home of the Connellys and a favorite with all
who knew her. Politically, Mr. Connelly is a Republican, but
he has never taken a very active interest in public affairs. He is a member of the Baxter camp of the Modem
Woodmen of America. Mr. Connelly takes a great delight in his home, and while he
believes in having the necessities and some of the luxuries of life he does not
believe in making dollars the sole aim of life, there being much that is higher. The Past and Present of Jasper County,
Gen. James B. Weaver, Editor-In-Chief, 1912 B.F. Bowen Co., Indianapolis, IN, p.
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