CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



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Thomas McCabe Farmstead, Elmwood Township 



one of the most prosperous farmers 

 of that section of the county. He came 

 in 1880, and purchased what is still 

 the home farm three years later. Mr. 

 McCabe is a believer in diversified 

 farming and keeps his land under a 

 high state of cultivation. He raises 

 grade shorthorns and turns off a num- 

 ber of head of fat stock each year. 

 Every fall his potato cellar is filled 

 and he markets several carloads of 

 Early Ohios in the early spring. Mr. 

 McCabe 's fine home is a model of 

 comfort and convenience. The bath 

 and bed rooms have runninsr water 



throughout supplied from a 190-barrel 

 cistern by means of a pressure tank. 

 The house, barns and yard are lighted 

 by electricity furnished by a 65-light 

 storage battery plant. Mr. McCabe is 

 interested in both the banks of his 

 neighborhood, being a stockholder in 

 both the Baker and Sabin banks. 



When Gustave 0. Lee came to Clay 

 County from Houston County with his 

 parents in 1871 he was only six years 

 old. Two years later his father, Ole 

 G. Lee, died leaving his widow and 

 son his 190-acre farm in sections 7 and 



"Lee Farm" — Home of Gustav 0. Lee, Moland Township 



