JOHN A. McINTOSH

JOHN A. McINTOSH, a native of Logan, now Todd, County, Kentucky, was born April 14, 1806, and is the son of Cornelius and Sarah (Montgomery) McIntosh, natives of North 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 Miss Susan Boran, a native of Robinson County, Tennessee. After six years she died, leaving three children, one of whom still survives - Cornelius G. About the year 1840 Mr. McIntosh was married to Miss Nancy McIntosh, who was born in West Tennessee. She died in 1846, leaving two children, one of whom survives - Malinda. 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 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 Latter Day Saints in Grove Township in 1859 with a small membership, but the church now numbers over 200 members. He has organized several churches in this country, having done more in that direction than any other minister now in the society. Mr. McIntosh has done much to elevate the morals of the community in which he lives, and is a man who is honored and beloved by people far and near; everybody has a kind word for "Uncle John," as he is familiarly called. He has figured very prominently in the political history of the county, having held the offices of county supervisor and justice of the peace for eight or ten years; he also served on the school board, and has filled other minor offices. He has always been a staunch Democrat.

Source: 1889 Biographical History of Shelby County, Iowa, pp. 307-308. Transcribed by Marthann Kohl-Fuhs.

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