McCandless, Philip S. (1844-1932)

MCCANDLESS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 10/23/2008 at 14:01:06

Philip Sydney McCandless
(December 15, 1844 - March 26, 1932)

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.217, Pleasant Twp.)
Philip Sydney McCandless, farmer, P. O. Shelby, was born in Washington county, Penn., December 15, 1844, son of Alexander and Wanzy (Scott) McCandless, he a miller and farmer, born in Pennsylvania in 1813, died in Douglas County, Kan., March, 1882; she, born in Washington County, Penn., in 1812, died there in 1850. They had seven children, four boys and three girls. Subject received his education in Henry County, Ill., commenced life as a farmer, and married, in Rock Island County, Ill., February 12, 1879, Nellie J. Morgan, born August 30, 1857, in Shropshire, England, daughter of Thomas and Emma (Timmis) Morgan, both born in Shropshire, England, in 1827. Mr. and Mrs. McCandless have one child - Guy Sydney, born May 7, 1881. Subject is a Presbyterian, a Democrat, a member of the A. H. T. S; been School Director, Justice of the Peace, and enlisted March 18, 1865, in Company E., Eighteenth Illinois Infantry (Capt. Brewer), and got an honorable discharge in February, 1866. He went to Illinois in 1854, living there until he was twenty-five years old, when he came to Pleasant Township in 1869, buying 160 acres at $8.50 per acre, went back to Illinois, the next year, came back to this township again and broke eighty acres of land, when he went back again on July 1, but returned in the spring of 1871, and improved the farm; there is an orchard and fine grove on the place. He went to Colorado in 1877 with the intention of mining, but returned the same year. He does general farming and has a good farm.