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Biographical sketch of ANGUS McINTYRE from the book entitled, "Biographical Memoirs of Saint Clair County, Michigan," published in 1903 by B. F. Bowen Publishers in Indiana.
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This bio spans two (2) pages: 256-257
ANGUS McINTYRE
A representative agriculturist of Burtchville township, St. Clair county, Michigan, is Angus McIntyre, who was born in Argyleshire, Scotland, September 13, 1849. He is a son of Donald and Jessie (McNaughton) McIntyre, who in 1852 came to the United States and for some time resided in the state of New York, whence the family went to Wisconsin, where the father farmed for two years and then came to St. Clair, Michigan, where he worked in a mill about one year. He then came to Grant township and purchased eighty acres of forest land, to which he later added another tract of eighty acres, nearly all of which Mr. McIntyre cleared up and improved. Donald McIntyre was a Republican in politics, but never sought an office of any kind, being contented to pass his life in industrious care of his farming interests and the increase of his worldly possessions for the benefit of his progeny; yet he was a sincere Christian and broad-minded gentleman, and he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives in Grant township and here died at forty-seven and sixty-seven years of age respectively. The children born to them were eight in number and were named as follows: Angus, whose name stands at the head of this biographical record; Daniel, who is farming the old homestead in Grant township; John, who is engaged in railroad work at West Superior, Wisconsin; Mary, who makes her home with her brother Daniel; James, who is the editor of the Hibbing (Minnesota) Tribune; Duncan, who was a farmer, but who died in 1887; David, who is a machinist in the state of Washington, and Gilbert, who is a mechanic in a factory at South Port Huron, Michigan.
Angus McIntyre received a good common school education, but lived with his maternal grandfather, Angus McNaughton, until 1853, when the McNaughton family moved to Clyde township, where the grandfather, who was a Baptist clergyman as well as a farmer, purchased a large farm. Angus, however, grea to manhood in Grant township and there married, December 25, 1879, Miss Martha Dooley, a daughter of Michael and Margaret (Maskell) Dooley. Michael Dooly (sic) was born in Nova Scotia, of Scotch-Irish parentage, and Margaret Maskell was born in Chatham, Canada, and was of English extraction. Michael Dooley came to Grant township, St. Clair county, when twenty-seven years old, bought and cleared up a tract of wild land, converting it into a good farm, on which he lived until he retired on a competency to Yale, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying in November, 1897; his widow now resides in Melvin. To Angus and Martha (Dooley) McIntyre have been born seven children, named as follows: Catherine Helen, James D., Margaret Jane, Duncan Robert, John Frederick, Angus A., and Isabella, Margaret Jane now being a student in the Port Huron high school.
When Angus McIntyre took possession of the first eighty acres of his present farm in Burtchville township, in 1876, it was a wilderness, but he was courageous as well as muscular, and diligently set himself to work to clear off a space sufficiently large on which to erect a cabin and to cultivate a little grain, and eventually developed a farm that will rival any other of its dimensions in the township. Mr. McIntyre, besides conducting general farming, makes a specialty of fruit growing and besides his fine orchard has about twenty acres devoted to small fruits and berries, for which he finds ready market in Port Huron. He also raises considerable live stock, and owns another tract of eighty acres in Grant township which is devoted to about the same class of production.
Mr. McIntyre is a stanch Republican, is extremely popular with his party, has served sixteen years continuously as justice of the peace and now holds the responsible position of treasurer of Burtchville township. He and family attend the Baptist church, live strictly up to its teachings, and are among the most respected residents of Burtchville township and vicinage. Mr. McNaughton owes his present high standing in the community, as well as all he possesses, entirely to his integrity, fair dealing, industry and judicious economy, and cannot be too highly commended for his persistent efforts to succeed.
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PLEASE NOTE: I do not have any personal interest in researching the McINTYRE surname or the St. Clair county, Michigan location. I am merely posting a select number of the biographical sketches found in the above-referenced book *upon specific written request* as a service to the genealogical community. Therefore, please do not contact me with regard to research interests in the above. Thank you.
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