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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 579]

    FRANCIS H. MOLYNEUX, contractor and builder, Cherokee, Iowa, was
    born in the State of Pennsylvania, Sullivan County, August 1, 1852,
    and is the oldest son living of a family of five children.  His
    father, HENRY MOLYNEUX, was a native of Pennsylvania, and a mill-
    wright and miller by trade; in later years he turned his attention
    to agricultural pursuits, and is still living on a farm in Pilot
    Township, Cherokee County.  He married ELLEN WARBURTON, a native
    of England, and a daughter of JOHN WARBURTON.  FRANCIS H. passed
    his youth in his native county, receiving a common-school education.
    He remained under the parental roof until he was twenty-one years
    of age, following the occupation of farming.  In 1867 the family
    removed to Cherokee County, and it was not until he had reached man's
    estate that he began to learn the carpenter's trade.  He worked at
    the business in Wisconsin, and after his return to Cherokee County
    was engaged in erecting buildings in the country.  He has pushed
    his way slowly but surely to the top, and to-day stands second to
    no builder in the county.  His reputation for careful, honest work,
    has been justly earned, and the confidence reposed in him is shown
    by the class of work which he is constantly engaged in.  Mr. MOLYNEAUX
    was united in marriage in 1880 to Miss S. A. KETURAH VAN HORN, a
    daughter of JOHN H. and SARAH A. B. VAN HORN, natives of Canada.  Mrs.
    MOLYNEUX was also born in Canada.  After his marriage Mr. MOLYNEUX
    settled in Cherokee, where he has since lived.  He owns a comfortable
    residence built after a modern style of architecture, and a good farm
    of eighty acres in Silver Township, fairly well improved.  Politically
    he adheres to the principles of the Republican party.  Two children
    have been born to Mr. and Mrs. MOLYNEUX: BERTHA GERTRUDE and FRANCIS
    HARRISON.

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