McCartney, Andrew

MCCARTNEY

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 15:24:44

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.630

McCARTNEY, ANDREW, Rev., Pastor U. P.[United Presbyterian] Church; White Breast Township, P. O. Lacona; he was born Aug. 15, 1823, in county Antrim, Ireland; his parents emigrated to the United States in 1836, and located at Newbery, N.Y.; they moved to Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1841; he was educated at Antrim College and New Athens College, where he graduated in 1852; he graduated at the Xenia Theological Seminary in 1857, and began the ministry in Ohio as a probationer, one year; in 1859 he began the regular ministry at Dalton, Ohio; he has been doing missionary work most of the time since, through Ohio, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska; preached in Indianola five years; and five years at Lacona, and located at Lacona again as Pastor of the U. P. Church January, 1879; in 1875 he went to Europe and visited most of the places of interest, as also Jerusalem and the Holy Land.