NORTH, J. M. C.

NORTH, CLARK, MCCULLOUGH, JOHNSON, CHAPMAN

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/18/2003 at 15:15:50

SOURCE: "Biographical history of Crawford, Ida and Sac Counties, Iowa" Lewis Pub. Co., Chicago, 1893

J. M. C. NORTH, one of the prominent and enterprising citizens of Crawford county, was
born in Yorkshire, England, April 29, 1859, a son of Thomas North, a native of the same
place. He was married in that country to Anna Elizabeth Clark, also a native of Yorkshire.
Our subject was a lad of ten years when the family, consisting of parents and eight
children, came to the United States, locating in Clinton county, Iowa, where the mother
afterward died. She left eight children, as follows: Thomas H., of Denison township;
Frances E. McCullough, of township, section 27; William, of Antelope county, Nebraska;
James M. C., our subject; G. F., of section 84, Milford township; Anna E., wife of Oscar
Johnson of Pierce county, Nebraska; Herbert H., of section 35, this township. The father
and children remained in Clinton county until 1876, when they came to this county and
made one of the largest and most valuable farms in the locality. The father now resides at
Plainview, Pierce county, Nebraska, aged sixty-nine years. He has been a farmer all his
life; is a Republican in his political views, and religiously was reared in the Church of
England.

J. M. C., our subject, remained at the home farm until 1884, when he came to his
present place. He now owns 240 acres of rich and valuable land, has a good house, 14x22
feet, with an addition, 14x20 feet, one and half stories high. He has a beautiful grove and
orchard, a barn 24x32 feet, and all other conveniences necessary for a well-regulated farm.
He was married February 4, 1883, to Miss Celinda E. Chapman, a woman of intelligence
and education, and a daughter of Tracy Chapman, of this county. Mr. and Mrs. North
have two children: Frank Leslie and Celinda Frances.