MCLAUGHLIN, Wm. J.

MCLAUGHLIN, MCDONALD

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Date: 10/17/2001 at 13:42:34

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF OLIVE TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879)

WM. J. McLAUGHLIN, farmer, Sec. 19; P. 0. Calamus; owns 460 acres of' land, valued at $25 per acre; son of John and Nancy McLaughlin; born in February, 1823, in Donegal, Ireland; in November, 1848, he shipped from Londonderry,
Ireland, via Glasgow to the United States; reached . Philadelphia, Penn., in January, 1849, and, soon after, went to New Castle, Del., and, in the fall of 1849, came to Crawford Co., Penn., where be remained till the spring of 1852;
came to Rock Island, Ill., and thence to Peoria, and, in 1856, came into Spring Rock Township, this county, and next to Henry Co., Ill.; in June, 1861, came on to his present farm. Married Rose McDonald Feb. 24, 1861; she was born in
County Mayo, Ireland, in 1829; have two adopted children—Francis Herrington and William J. Shaver, Republican.