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JOHN McINTOSH, retired, Wilkinsburg, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, July 29, 1822. His parents, James and Nancy McIntosh, natives of the highlands of Scotland, came to this country and dwelt on a farm in Ohio, where our subject received a common-school education. He left home when twenty years old, and was employed at carpenter-work for several years, but up till lately, for twenty-eight years, has been superintending coal-mines, the last fifteen at Turtle Creek, for the New York & Cleveland Gas Coal company, and prior to that for eleven years on the Monongahela river. When Mr. McIntosh took charge of these mines there were sixteen saloons in the immediate vicinity of the works, but he soon rooted them out, and now there are none in Patton township. For two years his life was threatened, but he pursued his duty without fear, and has since had the gratification of receiving the thanks of men who then imagined that he was encroaching on their liberties. The company now employs three hundred men who are noted among miners for their sobriety, and largely own their homes; the latter fact is mostly due to the kindly interest and encouragement, of their superintendent. In 1859 Mr. McIntosh was united in marriage to Elizabeth R, daughter of John and Eliza (Rankin) Barkley, of Irish descent. She was born in Indiana county. Pa., and is the mother of the following-named children: Norman C. (at Turtle Creek), Laura V. (wife of William Montgomery, a druggist in Leechburg, Pa.), Alice B. and Harry W. (at home). Politically Mr. McIntosh is a strong prohibitionist; he and Mrs. McIntosh are among the active workers of the M. E. Church.