Malcolm, D

MALCOLM, BURT

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/12/2013 at 08:25:32

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

MALCOLM, D.—Jefferson Twp—pg 969. Farmer, section 14, P.O. Belle Plaine. Was born January 3, 1822, in Scotland, where he lived till 1850 when he came to Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, and there engaged in the manufacture of lumber; then worked in the pineries two years; also on the Mississippi River for two years, and in 1855 engaged in tilling the soil in Wisconsin till 1868 when he bought and located where he now lives and owns 240 acres of well-improved land, also 10 acres of timber land in Benton county. He was married, in December, (1862 ??), in Wisconsin, Miss Martha J. Burt, a resident of the same State and native of Ohio (aged 29 years). They have two children buried in Wisconsin and two in this county, and have three living: Jane (aged fifteen years), William (aged thirteen years) and Thomas Charles (aged five years).