MacConnell, Samuel P. (1861-1906)

MACCONNELL

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Date: 9/23/2019 at 17:47:04

Samuel P. MacConnell
Apr 5, 1861 - Feb 4, 1906

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, p.381)
Chicago Lumber Company, 716 Main Street, Council Bluffs; M.T. Green, Chicago and S.P. MacConnell, Council Bluffs, proprietors; stock between $ 60,000 and $75,00. Yard No. 2 is at the corner of Twenty-sixth and Broad streets. They deal in lumber and all kinds of building material. Mr. MacConnell was born in Ormond, Canada, April 5, 1861, the son of James and Elizabeth ( McCORMICK) MacCONNELL, of Scotch and Irish ancestry; father is deceased and mother resides still in Canada. Our subject was reared at his native place to the age of fifteen years, when he went to the western part of Missouri. In 1880 he went to Chicago, where he was engaged by the Chicago Lumber Company until 1885, when he came to Council Bluffs and purchased an interest in the establishment already described. This was established in 1877. Mr. MacConnell is one of the most energetic young business men of the city. This branch of business is under his sole supervision. He fills contracts and delivers material at all points. The wholesale lumber is principally oak and other hard woods, for bridges and timbers. He has large mills in Arkansas, on the Iron Mountain Railroad. For his wife he married Miss Ella C. CLAPP, of Chicago.