John Sheppard McCaughan

MCCAUGHAN, PITZER

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/11/2004 at 07:40:10

John S. McCaughan, Winterset, attorney; is the eldest son of the Rev. C. T. and Elizabeth McCaughan, and was born in Shelby county, Ohio, in 1843; he received his education at the public schools and Urbana Academy, but he has supplemented this by continued study, being a close student; he enlisted in the army during the late war, and was quartermaster in the Third U.S. colored troops, which was the first regiment in the field; he laid out camp William Penn, at Philadelphia; after his return from the army he came to Winterset in 1865, and entered the law office of Leonard & Mott, and commenced reading law, and was admitted to the bar in 1868; he is at present associated with A. R. Dabney in the practice of his profession, under the firm
name of McCaughan & Dabney; he married Miss Meckie Pitzer in 1868; she was born in Jefferson county, Iowa; their family consists of four children: Charles A.; Nellie D.; Frank L. and Clara.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 544