The following updates/corrections to the biography of John A. McIntosh as published by W. S. Dunbar & Co. in 1889 have been contributed by McIntosh family researcher Robert Anglin. Robert's updates/corrections are shown below in red:
JOHN A. McINTOSH, a native of Logan, County, Kentucky, was born April 14, 1806, and is the son of Cornelius and Sarah A (Montgomery) McIntosh, natives of North and South Carolina. Until he attained his seventeenth year he resided in his native county. He then emigrated to southern Illinois, and thence went to Tennessee, remaining there three years, in Gibson County, where he met and associated with Davy Crockett. There, in 1826, he was married to Mrs. Susan Boren, a native of Robinson County, Tennessee. After sixteen years she died (May 14 1842 in Nauvoo, Illinois), leaving three children, two of whom still survive - James B (1817-1902) and Alabama B Boren (1822-1904). August 4th 1842 Mr. McIntosh was married to Miss Nancy (Anglin) McIntosh, who was born in West Tennessee. She died in 1848 (March 11, 1848 2am), leaving two children, one of whom survives - Sarah Elizabeth. In 1852 Mr. McIntosh married his third wife, Miss Malinda Hunt, who was born in Kentucky, March 8, 1830. By this marriage ten children were born--John, William (deceased), Jennie, David, Douglas, Virginia (deceased), Emma (deceased), Fannie, Minnie, Maggie. Mr. Mcintosh was reared to farm life, and educated in the common schools. When about fifteen years old he joined the Primitive Baptist church, and when he had reached his thirty-second year he united with the Church of the Latter Day Saints, being baptized, confirmed and ordained. He immediately entered the ministry, and has since devoted his time and attention to this work. He has traveled through Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Nebraska in the interests of the church, and his earnest and zealous labors have been crowned with success.
He came to Shelby County in 1857 and located in Grove Township, on seventy acres of land; there he made his home and reared his family. He organized the society of the Reorganized Latter Day Saints in Grove Township in 1859 with a small membership, but the church now numbers over 200 members. [End of updates/corrections to bio as published in 1889]
NOTE: Robert indicates most of the above updates are based on the John Anglin McIntosh 1839 Bible, which was recently contributed to the Shelby County Museum in Harlan, Iowa.
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