Robert McDonald

MCDONALD, HAYNES, HARTLEY

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 3/24/2002 at 23:16:22

Robert McDonald was born in Tyrone county, Ireland, July 7, 1833. Here he received a good common school education. In 1850 he came to America, located in New York State, and engaged in milling business at Rochester. In 1854 he came west and located near Monmouth, Warren county, Illinois. In 1856 he moved to Camden Mills (now Milan), Rock Island county, Illinois, where he engaged in milling business until 1861, when he bought the property known as Jack’s Mills, near Oquawka, Henderson county, Illinois. Since 1861, R. McDonald has owned and operated six flouring mills in the States of Iowa and Illinois, his last purchase being the Rockland Mills, located at Shell Rock, Butler county, Iowa, which he owned and operated from 1873 until 1879, when he sold to Haynes Brothers of Wisconsin, the present proprietors. R. McDonald was married June 6, 1857, to Mary E. Hartley, of Rock Island, Illinois.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 727