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Below is a family biography included in History of Warren County, Iowa published by Union Historical Company in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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McCARTNEY, REV. ANDREW, Pastor U. P. Church; 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.
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