Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 951
JAMES MCCOID

James MCCOID, proprietor of Rock Bottom Roller Mills at Logan, located at Jeddo in 1856, when he bought the general store of Thorpe & Kirby, and operated the same for four years, when he sold out and moved to a piece of land on section 23, of Jefferson Township, where he remained until 1868, when he purchased Henry Reel's flouring mill at Logan. In the autumn of 1889, Mr. MCCOID built his present roller mill, which has a sixty-barrel capacity per day.

He was born in Blue Tock Township, Muskingum County, Ohio, in July, 1828, and is the son of Nathaniel and Mary (SARCHETT) MCCOID. The father was a native of Ireland, but came to this country when he was two years old. Our subject's mother was born on the Isle of Guernsey, France, and died in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, as did her husband.

James started in life for himself, when eighteen years of age, by working on a farm at $6.50 per month in Indiana. He was married in August, 1861, to Emeline STRIKER, a native of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. MCCOID are the parents of twelve children, ten of whom are living � Mary, Geneva M., Allie, Effie, Berta, James V., Thomas, Lee, Winnie and Harry.

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