McLAUGHLIN, Alanson

MCLAUGHLIN, BATES

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 09:16:04

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

ALANSON McLAUGHLIN, carpenter and farmer; P.O. De Witt; born in Mercer Co., Penn., in 1830. Married, January, 1856, Nancy Bates, a native of Crawford Co., Penn.; born in 1835. They came to De Witt in the spring of 1856, where Mr. McLaughlin worked at his trade until August, 1862, when he enlisted in Co. H, 26th I. V. I.; served till close of war; was in all the battles in which his regiment took part; was wounded at Arkansas Post. At the close of the war, he returned to De Witt, and resumed his trade, which he continued till 1873, when he exchanged his property in De Witt for the farm he now owns. Has six children-Eugene F. Laura E., Carrie J., Wandy L., Claude and Maud (twins). His parents, Henry and Laura McLaughlin, came to De Witt in the spring of 1870. His father died in July, 1872; his mother resides with her son.