McIntosh, John S.

MCINTOSH

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Date: 6/29/2021 at 13:48:02

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.987

JOHN S. McINTOSH
John S. McIntosh, who carries on farming on section 23, Squaw Township, was born in Taylor County, West Virginia, March 23, 1862, a son of A. B. McIntosh, whose sketch appears on another page of this volume. When two years of age he was brought by his parents to Iowa and spent the days of his boyhood in Squaw Township, acquiring his education in the district school. When twenty-two years of age he began farming on his own account on a tract of eighty acres which was given him by his father and to which lie has since added until he now owns one hundred and twenty acres of rich and productive land on section 23, Squaw Township, the fields annually re­turning golden harvests in. return for the care and labor which he bestows upon them. He has placed all of the improvements on the property, includ­ing a comfortable and commodious residence, barns and cribs.
On the 15th of March, 1888, Mr. McIntosh was united in marriage to Miss Louisa Virginia Carson, a native of Virginia and a daughter of Payton and Elizabeth E. (Ervin) Carson. She accompanied her parents to Iowa when thirteen years of age, the family home being established in Squaw Town­ship. The father is deceased and the mother is now the wife of Edward Jones, of New Virginia. Unto Mr. and Mrs. McIntosh have been born six children, one of whom died in infancy. The others are Elias Absalom, George Franklin, Lottie Dell, Lena Bell and Lela Grace, all at home.
In his political views Mr. McIntosh is a stalwart Republican but has never sought or desired office as a reward for party fealty. Both heand his wife are devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Medora, and are well known and highly respected throughout the community as people of genuine personal worth and sterling traits of character.