Austin Adams Healy

Photographer: Healy Studio
West Side Square
Milan, Mo

Muscatine (IA) Weekly Journal - 18 Feb 1876

Austin Adams Healy
(1851 -1928)

Some personal information included to show location and date

1851
Cedar, IA, state records, Austin Adams Healy is born to Abiel Lyon Healy and Sara Mary Adams
1870 Jun 27
Wilton, IA, US census, A A Healy as farm labor; age 19
1872
Muscatine, IA, state records, A A Healy and Sarah Isabelle Wallace are married
1874
Blairstown, IA, state records, daughter Ethel Adams Healy is born
1876
Wilton, IA, state records, son Austin Leo Healy is born
1878 Feb 18
Muscatine (IA) Weekly, news item says Austin Healy has opened a photograph gallery in the Wise building

1878
Afton, IA, state records, son Royal Wallace Healy is born in Afton. IA
1880 Jun 15
Afton, IA, US census, A A Healy as artist
1881
Afton, IA, state records, daughter Edna Evangeline Healy is born
1884
Afton, IA, state records, daughter Daisy Healy is born
1885
Afton, IA, state census, Austin A Healy as artist
1887 Dec 27
Afton, IA, state records, daughter Caroline Belle Healy is born
1890 Apr 21
Afton, IA, state records, daughter Mary Laura Healy is born
1894 Oct 30
Lorimer, IA, FindAGrave website, wife Sarah Isabelle Wallace dies

1895
Lorimer, IA, state census Austin A Healy, no occupation given
1900 Jun 14
Milan City, MO, US census, Austin A Healy as photographer
1904 Aug 17
See AA Healy Obit, A A Healy and Lou Lantry Lawrence are married
1910
Benton, MO, US census, Austin A Healy as Jeweler; wife Lou Lawrence runs Photo Gallery
1920 Jan 22
Benton, MO, US census, Arthur Healy as photographer
1928 Aug 05
Browning (MO) Leader obit) A A Healy dies at age 77; Findagrave website, says Iowa Cemetery Rec.) Death in Lorimor, Union, IA

This cabinet card, then came from a short period around 1900.

Here are two photographs of Austin A. Healy found on a genealogical web site; the above with his wife and four daughters.

Milan (MO) Republican - 22 Nov 1928

photographer: Healy
Afton, IA
example from pin

photographer: The Elite Studio
H H Blaksley and E R Healy
St. Helena, CA
example from auction site

photographer: A A Healy
Milan, MO
example from auction site

Two other cabeinet card era photographers have been found but no connection to Austin Adams Healy has been made.

E R Healy of Hanford and LeMoore CA
Henry C Healy of Waterloo City, IN

photographer: E R Healy
Hanford and Lemoore, CA
example from auction site

photographer: E R Healy
Hanford, CA
example from Petaluma Pioneer

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