Frank R. McLaughlin

MCLAUGHLIN, COVIL, EVANS

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1889 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF
SHELBY AND AUDUBON COUNTIES, IOWA
W. S. DUNBAR & CO., PUBLISHERS
113 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO

page 815

FRANK R. McLAUGHLIN, of Lincoln
Township, is one of the successful farm-
ers of Audubon County. He was born
in Licking County, Ohio, August 27, 1853.
His father, Charles McLaughlin, a descend-
ant of a Scotch family, was born and reared
in the State of Ohio, and followed the occu-
pation of a farmer the greater part of his life.
Rachel A. (Covil) McLaughlin, the mother
of Frank R., was a daughter of Joseph Covil,
Esq. Charles McLaughlin and wife had born
to them eight children, five of whom are
living. The mother is deceased, but the father
still survives. When Frank R. was about eight
years of age his parents removed to Marshall
County, Illinois. There he grew to manhood,
receiving the advantages of a common-school
education and a good training in agricultural
pursuits. At the age of twenty years he be-
gan working on a farm by the month, follow-
ing this for three years. Being convinced
that he could make money more rapidly by
farming on his own account, he rented land
in Livingston County, Illinois, and the first
year suffered the disaster of being drowned
out. He then returned to Marshall County,
and worked on a farm one year. He then
bought land in Marshall County, which he
cultivated five years. At the end of this time
he sold out and entered a farming-implement
store, where he clerked until 1885. Collect-
ing his effects, he removed to Audubon
County, Iowa, and located on his present
farm, which he bought after renting it for
four years. The place was then known as
the Whipple farm. It contains 240 acres,
and is well stocked and well improved. Mr.
McLaughlin was married in 1885 to Miss
Cora Evans, of Knox County, Illinois, a
daughter of Oliver Evans, who died when she
was six years of age, near Oskaloosa, Ma-
haska County, Iowa, in 1868. They are the
parents of two children -- Charles E. and Frank
Ray. Mr. McLaughlin is a member of Utopia
Lodge, No. 161, I. O. O. F., at Gray.