TIMOTHY CRANNEY, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. De Witt; born in Queen's County, 
Ireland, in 1826; he came to America in the fall of 1852; lived in Kentucky one 
and a half years; came to Clinton Co. in 1854; bought the farm he now owns in 
1860; his wife was Mrs. Mary Reed, formerly Mary Flannery; has three children -- 
James, John and Charles; Mrs. Cranney has three children by former marriage -- 
Catharine, Thomas and William.  Mr. Cranney's farm contains 160 acres.


BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF WASHINGTON TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)