McArthur, John

MCARTHUR, SLOAN, DIXON, BARLOW

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/12/2013 at 08:23:34

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

McARTHUR, JOHN—Jefferson Twp—pg 968-9. Farmer, section 24, P.O. Belle Plaine, Benton county. Was born in 1825, in Rensselaer county, New York, where he lived till 1830 when he went to Delaware Co., New York, and, after attending school for some time, learned the carpenter’s trade, and worked at the same till 1866. Then he moved to Grant county Wisconsin, and engaged in farming till 1869 when he came to Iowa, and settled on his present farm of 140 acres of well-improved land with residence surrounded by fruit and evergreen trees. Mr. McArthur has been twice married; first, in February, 1853, in Delaware county, New York, to Miss Jane Sloan, native of the same place. Mr. McArthur buried his young wife, in April, 1854, after a short illness; she was a patient and loving wife, and a kind friend and neighbor, and was mourned by a large circle of friends; she left an infant daughter, Elizabeth Jane (now the wife of Thomas Dixon, of this township). Mr. McArthur, for his second wife, in 1863, married Mrs. Mary B. Barlow, a resident and native of Delaware county, New York, who had a son by former marriage. They buried this son recently.