This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hurley, Bettz, Herbert, Budd, Dixon, Fanning, Carroll Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/1129 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881", p. 891. LANCASTER J. M. HURLEY, wagon-maker, in the employ of Charles Bettz, for whom he commenced work in February, 1876; he learned the trade with J. C. Herbert and D. H. Budd, of Lancaster, with whom he worked three and a half years. He commenced business for himself Aug. 15, 1874, and remained in business until December, 1876, under the firm name of J. Dixon & Co.; they did a prosperous business of about $4,000 per annum. Mr. Hurley is a native of Ireland, born April 26, 1845, a son of Thomas and Catharine Fanning Hurley; he came to the United States an infant, in 1846, with his parents. They lived in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, finally settling in Galena, Ill., where his father died in September, 1854, and his mother is now living in Nebraska. He was married Dec. 24, 1865, to Miss Margaret A. Carroll, a native of Ireland. [I am not related to this family. I am posting this as a service and hope it helps!]