Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 654
JAMES MCCOID

This gentleman will be recalled as the genial proprietor of the Rock Bottom Flouring Mills, at Logan, Iowa. He was born in Muskingham county, Ohio, in 1828. His father was a native of Ireland and his mother of the Isle of Guernsey, near France. James started out in life on his own account when eighteen years old by working on a farm in Indiana, at six dollars and fifty cents the month. He was married in 1861 to Emeline STRIKER, a native of Ohio, and to this union were born ten children, Mary, Geneva M., Allie, Effie, Berta, James V., Thomas, Lee, Winnie and Harry. Hundreds of persons who had grists ground at his mills at Logan will recall James MCCOID as a man of ability and integrity of character.

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