>From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) JOHN DOLAN, farmer and stock-raiser; resides in Sec. 12; P.O. Charlotte; born in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1816. He married Catharine Murphy, native of same county; he came to the United States in 1848; he lived one and a half years in Rutland Co., Vt.; then removed to Livingston Co., N. Y., where he lived about three years; he then went to Illinois; remained one year, and came to Clinton Co. in 1854; purchased part of his present farm in 1855; has eleven children -- Martin, Thomas, Kate, Mary F., Ann I., Sarah E., Michael, Eliza, Theresa, James and Eva Alicelis; has lost three sons and two daughters. Mr. Dolan owns about seven hundred acres of land; he is one of the most successful farmers of Clinton Co.; he came to the county twenty-five years ago, a poor man; has now several fine farms, well stocked and improved. Cathy Joynt Labath The Irish in Iowa http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/