History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 752-753, Kerton Township
Michael Dowling, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 5; P. O.,
Marbletown. Mr. D. is a native of Ireland, where he was born about the
year 1846. His father, M. Dowling, was a farmer in Ireland and there
married Bridget Corcoran. Of this marriage there were born 7 children,
Michael the youngest. At the age of 13 he crossed the ocean for the New
World. After the usual voyage he landed in New York, from where he went
to Louisville, Ky., then came to Mason Co., Ill., and finally settled
in Isabel tp., Fulton Co., where he worked several years by the month.
In 1874 he was married to Miss Mary A., daughter of Wm. Carney, a
native of Ireland, who settled in Fulton Co. in an early day. They have
2 children.
