Lawrence McNamara, father of Henry L. McNamara, died.

The evidence

• “McNamara, one of the representative business men of Janesville, was born in W^illiamstown, Mass., on March 15, 1851, and is the son of Lawrence and Harriet (Hickox) McNamara, both natives of Massachusetts. The father died on June 30, 1858, and was survived by his wife, who is still (1908) living, at the age of seventy-eight years. After completing his studies, which included a common school course in the district schools and a graduating course in Graylock Institute, of Massachusetts, Henry L. removed to the state of Iowa in 1869 and engaged in farming until 1871, when he engaged in the real estate business in Chicago, which he followed for some three years.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34b-biographical-2.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 379 / book p. 873

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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