McDonald, Joseph

MCDONALD, PAINTER, FOULKE

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 12/19/2012 at 09:31:32

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

McDONALD, JOSEPH - Bear Creek Twp. - pg 840. Farmer and stock-raiser, section 1, P.O. Brooklyn. Was born in Henry county, Indiana, June 12, 1824. His parents brought him to Indiana county, Pennsylvania, when a mere infant. There his father died in 1827. He soon returned to Henry county, Indiana, with his mother, and was bound out when about five years of age to a farmer. He remained in Indiana until the spring of 1856, when he moved to his present location where he owns a farm of 122 acres, and has succeeded in converting the then wild prairie into a productive farm. He experienced many privations here in an early day which are attendant upon the early settlement of a country. He was twice married; first, to Miss Lydia M. Painter, in December, 1846. She was a native of Virginia. She died in 1861, leaving a family of five children: Mary Jane, Catharine, Martha Ann, Nancy Ellen and Manda A. They lost one. He was again married November 2, 1862, to Miss Elizabeth C. Foulke, a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. From this union they have two children living: John Embury and Maggie L.