WILLIAM A. MclNTYRE

MCINTYRE

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/20/2020 at 18:56:32

WILLIAM A. MclNTYRE, another one of the prominent citizens of Washington township, Adams county, Iowa, was born in Cayuga county, New York, February 1, 1838. His parents, Peleg and Elizabeth A. (Mason) McIntyre, were both natives of the Empire State. His father was a farmer all his life. In 1842 he came West and settled in Carroll county, Illinois, where he entered 240 acres of land until 1871. That year he moved his family to Cass county, Iowa, and took up his abode three miles north of Atlantic, where he owned an eighty-acre farm. He subsequently moved to Audubon county, this State. At the latter place he owned a farm of 120 acres, and there he lived until his death, which occurred January 28. 1874, at the age of sixty-nine years. His wife is still living, and is an honored resident, well and favorably known in Adams county. She is a member of the United Brethren Church, as also was Mr. McIntyre. The latter was well informed on general topics, was a great Bible student, and in him was found the purest type of Christian life. To this worthy couple nine children were born, William A. being the fourth and one
of the five who are now living. Like his father, William A. McIntyre, has been engaged in farming all his life. At the age of twenty-one he began farming for himself in Jo Daviess county, Illinois. He came to Iowa in 1871 and settled in Cass county. There he owned a small farm ten miles west of Atlantic. This he sold and in 1876 bought the eighty-eight acres in section 19, Washington township, Adams county, where he now resides. His farm is well improved and highly cultivated.

Mr. McIntyre was married December 30, 1860, to Miss Louisa J. Fast, of Carroll county, Illinois. Her father died May 22, 1888, at the age of sixty-nine years. The mother is still living at this writing, aged seventy-three. Mr. and Mrs. McIntyre have had six children, namely: Mary J. married George Windsor, and has three children:— Clarence E., Bertha M. and William E.; John P., a promising youth and the hope of his fond parents, died at the age of sixteen years; Harriet E., wife of John West, has two children, Edna L. and Effie M.; Samuel
E., Jessie F., and Alvin E.
Both Mr. McIntyre and his wife are members of the United Brethren Church. He has held various church offices, and is a prominent factor in such enterprises as promote the best interests of his community.