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Below is a family biography included in The History of Crawford County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1888.  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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David McIntosh, farmer and proprietor of the old Britton Mill, is a son of Alexander and Jennette (Kennedy) Mclntosh, natives of Dundee, Scotland, where the mother died. In 1850 the father and his only living child came to America. He lived in Massachusetts a short time and then went to Fond du Lac County, Wis., where he died. In early life he was a baker and flax dresser, but after locating in Wisconsin engaged in farming until his death, which occurred in 1853. David was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1840, and having lived with his relatives in Massachusetts until 1854, he, too, went to Wisconsin. In I860 he went to Colorado and engaged in mining, and the following year enlisted in the Colorado Home Guards, and served six months. In 1862 he entered the Second Colorado Cavalry, and served his country three years and two months. Upon his discharge he went to Wisconsin, and in 1866 married Ellen Jameson, a native of Maine. Then he went to Kansas where Mrs. Mclntosh died, in 1870, leaving one child, Alice E. In 1885 Mr. Mclntosh married Rachel Fleming, and in 1884 moved to Crawford County, Mo. He owns ninety acres of land beside the mill. In politics a Republican, he is also a member of the I. O. O. F., and having learned the carpenter's trade in Wisconsin has devoted considerable attention to that work.

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This family biography is one of 117 biographies included in The History of Crawford County, Missouri published in 1888.  For the complete description, click here: Crawford County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps

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