John McLaren Henery

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James married Marion McLaren. Marion (daughter of Peter McLaren, Sr. and Elizabeth Walker) was born about 1864; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 39256458
• _UID: AA877D3E92A34745A9614B5FD2986C568D5B
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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Peter McLaren, Sr. entered the United States at Port Huron, Michigan in March of 1884. From there he proceeded to the Dakota Territories with his wife and three children. He was forty five years old and his wife Elizabeth was forty three. In the Dakotas he would establish the Vienna Homestead.

?b?The Vienna Homestead?/b?
The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed any person twenty one years of age and a citizen of the U.S., or who had filed a declaration of intention to become such, to file a claim on 160 acres of land in certain specified areas. By 1885 Peter had filed for a quarter section (160 acres) of land in the Dakota Territories, about a mile southwest of what would become the town of Vienna.

Peter was among the first settlers in this area and since he was accompanied by his wife and three children they obviously had the resources to survive until their land could be converted into a productive farm. Peter's younger brother, James, had inherited their father's farm in Lanark and may have provided financial support. We will never know. When the family arrived in the Dakota Territories, Peter Jr., the oldest boy, was eighteen years old. His brother, John Walker, was sixteen. Daughter Marion, the oldest child, was twenty. She did not marry until she was twenty four.

In 1887 fortune smiled, as the Duluth, Watertown and Pacific Railroad Company started to build a rail bed through the territory. The track would bisect their township from the southwest to the northeast, passing within a half mile of their farm. It was the railroad that created the town of Vienna, designated as one of its stops. In those days, the economic significance of having a rail station close to your farm can not be overstated.

In November 1889 the Dakota Territories became North and South Dakota and Peter Sr.'s family started to grow.

Once established and farming the land, Peter Sr.'s family began to experience the highs and lows typical of the times. The McLarens would spend more than three decades in and around Vienna. Here is a Family Timeline.
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A Family Timeline?/b?
1889 - Daughter Marion ("Minnie") marries the local blacksmith, thirty year old James Sproat Henery. She soon delivers the first of eight children, only five of whom survive - not unusual numbers in that period of time.

1896 - Peter Jr. marries Mary Celia ("Minnie") Dixon, daughter of one of the original settlers. He is thirty, she is twenty four. They will have five children.

1897 - John Walker, Peter Sr.'s youngest son, died suddenly, at age twenty nine. John was a medical student in Minneapolis and the family legend was "a wrestling accident."

1898 - Peter Sr. is elected chairman of the Township Officers. Vienna is part of Pleasant Township, the total population of which is less than 500.

1899 - Peter Jr. and Mary Celia obtain 160 acres of land adjacent to Peter Sr.'s original farm.

1900 - Federal Census shows Peter Sr. and Peter Jr. farming their respective lands.

1905 - South Dakota Census shows Peter Sr. on his original farm. Peter Jr. has moved his family (now with three daughters) to the Dixon lands, just east of Vienna. He is still listed as "farmer" and is probably living in the house where my father will be born. He is next door to his father-in-law, Robert Arthur Dixon, and two brothers-in-law.

1908 - Elizabeth (Walker) McLaren, Peter Sr.'s wife, dies.

1910 - Federal Census shows Peter Sr., now widowed, living in Vienna with his granddaughter Pearl Irene Henery and a great grandson. Peter Jr. is still on the Dixon land and is now a "rural mail" delivery man for the U.S. Postal Service.

1913 - Peter Sr. dies. He is buried next to his wife and son in the Dixon Cemetery, at the northeast corner of the Dixon lands.

1917 - Peter Jr.'s father-in-law, Robert Arthur Dixon, dies.

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Buried:
PETER
McLAREN
June 9, 1839
Dec. 19, 1913
In my fathers house are many mansions. [?i?John 14:2?/i?]

Peter married Elizabeth Walker about 1863. Elizabeth was born on 31 May 1841 in Owen Sound, Grey County, Ontario, Canada; died on 22 Jun 1908 in Vienna, Clark County, South Dakota, United States; was buried in Dixon New Hope Cemetery, Vienna, Hamlin County, South Dakota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 39256612
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Elizabeth McLaren
born May 31, 1941
died June 22, 1908
"She hath done what she could"
Note: The encomium, or formal expression of praise, "she hath done what she could," is from Mark 14.8 and was bestowed upon a female disciple of the Savior for a special act of love and devotion.

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 46921154
• _UID: 7A2A92CC07264DE7AAD35D879590175F5FFC
• Location-Witness: 1821, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Lanark, Concession 4 Lot 2E
• Immigration: 1821, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; on Earl of Buckinghamshire
• Census: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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John McLaren, son of Peter McLaren and Janet Headrick, was born October 8, 1808 in Breadalbane, Perthshire, Scotland. In 1820 he emigrated with his parents to Lanark, Ontario, Canada. John's father died in 1827 and he became the man of the household. His mother died in 1836 and he married Marion McIlquham about 1838, continuing to run the family farm. John and Marion had ten children, one dying as an infant. Their oldest son, Peter, emigrated to the Dakota Territories with his wife and family and their second son, James, became the third generation on the farm after John's death.

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Immigration:
To Canada from Scotland on ship Earl of Buckinghamshire in 1821 and located on West Lot 1, Con 4, Lanark Township, Village of Lanark (Paisley Townhead Emigration Society) ( Ref: The Lanark Society settlers by Carol Bennet and The Lanark Society settlers Ships' Lists of the Glasgow Emigration Society 1821, by Gerald J. Neville)
Earl of Buckinghamshire left Greenock, Scotland 29 Apr 1821 with 607 passengers, arrived Quebec 15 Jun 1821, aboard: MCLAREN, John; age 45, female 43, sons 23, 22, dau 6, 2.

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John McLaren, son of Peter McLaren and Janet Headrick, was born October 8, 1808 in Breadalbane, Perthshire, Scotland. In 1820 he emigrated with his parents to Lanark, Ontario, Canada. John's father died in 1827 and he became the man of the household. His mother died in 1836 and he married Marion McIlquham about 1838, continuing to run the family farm. John and Marion had ten children, one dying as an infant. Their oldest son, Peter, emigrated to the Dakota Territories with his wife and family and their second son, James, became the third generation on the farm after John's death.

John married Marion McIlquham about 1938. Marion (daughter of McIlquham, daughter of James W. McIlquham and Janet "Jane" Jarvie) was born on 31 Jul 1816 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 15 Dec 1865 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 46921084
• _UID: 7A6E3E22EE1F442B94848D848D4C8F085D34
• Census-Wife of Head: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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Marion McIlquham, daughter of James McIlquham and Janet Jarvie, was born July 31, 1816 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1821 she emigrated with her family to Lanark, Ontario, Canada. She married John McLaren circa 1938 and they raised nine children (one child died in infancy) on John's family farm in Lanark.

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Role: Wife of Head


Died:
Marion McIlquham, daughter of James McIlquham and Janet Jarvie, was born July 31, 1816 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1821 she emigrated with her family to Lanark, Ontario, Canada. She married John McLaren circa 1938 and they raised nine children (one child died in infancy) on John's family farm in Lanark.