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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Co.,
Springfield, Ill: 1884


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        JOHN M. LAING, a native of Michigan, was born on the 8th of Feb-
     ruary, 1842, and was there educated. In 1864 he started for Illinois,
     and located in McDonough county, where he entered land, and there
     remained until 1872, when he came to his present farm in Cass county.
     He built a frame house which was destroyed by a cyclone, and soon
     after built his present house.  He has planted many shade and orna-
     mental trees in his groves, and has three hundred and twenty acres of
     good improved land.  He was married in 1865 to EMMA LINDSEY, and by
     whom he has had seven children — GEORGE, DORA E., NETTIE M., ORLANDO
     J., DAY, AARON F. and CHESTER A.   Mr. LAING is class leader in the
     Methodist Episcopal church, and is one of the prominent members.

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