McConaughey, John

MCCONAUGHEY

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 8/21/2008 at 13:47:43

John McConaughey

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.122, James Twp.)
John McConaughey, farmer, P. O. Oakland, was born in Marion county, this State, April 13, 1854, son of James and Mary Ann (Wiers) McConaughey, he born in Guernsey County, Ohio, and she a native of Pennsylvania. The parents are farmers, and are now living in Marion County, this State. They had eight children - three sons and five daughters, of whom the sons and three daughters are now living. Our subject received his education in his native county. He was married, February 28, 1877, to Miss Frances E. Myers. They have two children - Dorothea May, born November 8, 1877; and Clyde Losen, born in 1881. Our subject came to James Township in 1877, and rented land for three years, after which he purchased eighty acres of prairie land at $10 per acre. He has since made some good improvements on this place, and engages in general farming. he is a member of the Christian Church, and in politics is a Republican.