This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Scanlan Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1983 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 1046. TOWN OF WOODMAN MARY SCANLAN, farming, Sec. 28; P. O. Woodman; a daughter of Denis and Catherine Scanlan, of Ireland; came to America at the age of 12 years, locating in Canada for two years; then in New York for four years; then in Indiana, near Bedford, for five or six years; then in Crawford Co., Wis., for one year; thence going to Grant Co., where she has lived since. Was married in 1846, to John Scanlan, a native of Ireland; has five children - Ellen, William, Mary, Sarah, John; has 440 acres of land, and is a member of the Catholic Church. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]