Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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ADDISON L. MCINTOSH

Addison L. MCINTOSH, a farmer of St. John's Township, came to Harrison County with his parents in 1856. He was born in Putnam county, Indiana, December 25, 1840, and can trace his ancestry back to George McIntosh, a native of Kentucky, who move to the Hoosier State at an early dya, where his father, Moses B. MCINTOSH, went with the grandfather; they both working in a mill. Our subject's father married Elizabeth MARKSBURY, of Kentucky, the daughter of Richard and Margaret (HOFFMAN) MARKSBURY, and continued to operate a flour mill for many years in Indiana. In 1856, old and came to Iowa, at which time our subject was but fifteen years of age.

He attended the common schools of Indiana, but upon coming to his country no school privileges were to be had at that early day. In the winter of 1856-57 -- the winter of deep snow -- the family lived on the present site of Missouri Valley, and when the snow storm first came up, the cattle stampeded to the Missouri River and they did not find them for weeks. In the spring when the snow melted and the floods came, everything on the flats was submerged.

In 1869 Mr. MCINTOSH purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land west of town on section 9, to which he has added until he now (1891) has five hundred and forty-three acres, two hundred and sixty being under cultivation. In 1882, he moved from his farm west of Missouri Valley, to his present residence on section 34. He has a fine lake on his farm covering twenty-five acres.

September 28, 1868 he was united in marriage in Missouri Valley, to Miss Maragaret SNYDER, who was the daighter of Lewis S. and Mary (ZYSING) SNYDER, of Pennsylvania, who came to Harrison County in 1860. This union resulted in five children, all of whom are living at this time -- Minnie, born May 13, 1869; Oscar, born January 13, 1871; Jennie, January 30, 1873; Frank, April 8, 1876; and Ida, January 11, 1879.

In August 1862, our subject enlisted at Council Buffs, in Company A, Twenty-ninth Iowa Infantry, and was assigned to the Army of the West. His first battle was that of Helena, Arkansas, after which he participated in the engagements at Little Rock, Mobile and Spanish Fort, from which point they were sent by water to the mouth of the Rio Grande river in Texas. He was mustered out of service in August 1865, at New Orleans. After his return from the service he came home and at once went to making hay, where Missouri Valley now stands, remaining at home working the farm until he went to his own place.

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