Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Matthew N. Donaldson

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Matthew N. Donaldson, liveryman, of Siloam Springs, Ark., was born in 
East Tennessee, March 13, 1844, and was reared in Illinois, whither 
his parents had moved in 1857. He attended the common country schools, 
and in August, 1865, united his fortunes with those of Eliza Marlowe, 
who was born and reared in Illinois, her birth occurring in 1849. Six 
children blessed their union: Missouri C. (wife of R. L. Allen), 
Martha L. (wife of Wilson Weaver), Alexander B. (deceased), Mary K., 
Minnie C. and Eliza Myrtle. After his marriage Mr. Donaldson moved to 
what is now known as Cherokee County, Kas., and, with the exception of 
two years spent in Missouri, resided here until 1880, at which time 
he came to Siloam Springs, and at the end of two years went into the 
livery business. He has an excellent stable in a good location, and 
well supplied with horses and carriages. He is prospering financially, 
and besides this property is the owner of the Mount Olive House, a 
boardinghouse, which is located just above Twin Springs. He is a 
Democrat, and has been a member of the I. O. O. F. since 1865, having 
filled all the important offices connected with the lodge. He is also 
a member of the K. of H. His parents. Lorenzo Dow and Margaret A. 
(Newman) Donaldson, were born in Tennessee in 1806 and 1811, 
respectively. The father was reared on a farm sixteen miles from 
Knoxville, and was a farmer and stock dealer the greater portion of 
his life. After residing in Indiana a few years he returned to 
Tennessee, and in 1857 located in Washington County, Ill., and in 
1866 went to Cherokee County, Kas., and there died October 25, 1886. 
He was a cousin of Andrew Jackson's wife, and a son of William 
Donaldson, who was an Irishman, and a graduate of a college in 
Northern Ireland. He immigrated to America before the War of 1812, and 
assisted in that struggle, being with Gen. Jackson at New Orleans. Our 
subject's mother died on the 8th of January, 1887. She and husband 
were the parents of eleven children: Catherine (killed by a cyclone in 
Southern Illinois in 1860). William, David (deceased), Jesse D., 
Elizabeth (wife of George W. Mathews), Lorenzo L., Matthew N., Martha 
Jane (deceased), Margaret Ann (wife of James Brown), Eliza (wife of 
Philip Kellerman), and Sophronia N. (deceased).