McConnaughey, D. S.

MCCONNAUGHEY

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Date: 9/4/2008 at 13:55:18

D. S. McConnaughey

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.137, Knox Twp.)
D. S. McConnaughey, M. D., Avoca, born in Lawrence County, Penn., July 8, 1837, came to Avoca April 4, 1882, from Washington County, this State, having arrived in Denmark, Lee County, this State, in 1852, and living there two years before he went to Washington County. He attended the Denmark Academy for two years, the Washington College several yeasr; enlisted, in 1861, in Company H, Eleventh Iowa Infantry; discharged in 1862, at Fulton, Mo.; returned home and commenced the study of medicine; re-enlisted, in the summer of 1862, in the Thirtieth Iowa Infantry; remained with the regiment one year; discharged in 1863, at Vicksburg; returned to Washington, this State; resumed the study of medicine, attening a course of lectures at Rush Medical College in the winter of 1865-66; graduated in 1866-67, at Keokuk, this State; began the practice of medicine near the present town of Riverside, this State; mvoed, in 1869, to Marshall, Henry County, this State; remained there seven years, returning to Riverside, remaining there five years, when he removed to Avoca, where he has a large and constantly growing practice. Subject was married, October 31, 1867 to Miss Josie Terry, daughter of J. L. L. Terry, of Washington, this State. They had two children - Zetta, born in 1869, lived nine years and died at Riverside; and Harry D. Subject is a Republican and a Freemason.