Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....McBride, N. June 13, 1824 - 
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Author: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", 1882

N. McBRIDE, insurance and surveying, money loaner, etc., Morris, was born in 
Florance, Pennsylvania, June 13, 1824; son of James McBRIDE, a native of 
Pennsylvania, born July 20, 1790; the latter was a farmer by occupation and 
died in 1857. His wife, Jane (WICK) McBRIDE, was born in New Jersey in June, 
1800, and died in 1859. The parents raised six children, three sons, of whom 
our subject is the oldest, and three daughters, one of whom is now dead. The 
subject of this sketch was educated at Mercer, Penn., at Mercer College, and 
began life as a surveyor, also engaged in engineering and general speculating 
business. He came to Illinois in 1855, and settled in Morris; has been in the 
insurance business twenty-seven years, Police Magistrate twenty years, and was 
County Surveyor ten years. In January, 1881, our subject purchased, in company 
with several prominent men of Chicago, Morris and other places, what is known 
as the Keystone Mine, style of the firm being "Keystone Consolidated Mining 
Co." This mine is located in Summit County, Colo., and promises to be very 
rich. Mr. McBRIDE was first married in Ohio, to Lydia DAVIDSON, April 29, 
1846; she died in 1876 in Morris. His second marriage was May 2, 1877, to A. 
F. ENGLISH, of Chicago, daughter of Jacob ENGLISH, of Lycoming County, Penn. 
Our subject had by his first wife five children, four of whom are now living, 
three sons - J. W., T. C. and N. E., the last two live in Chicago, and the 
first in Colorado, and one daughter, Maggie, wife of H. A. CAGWIN, of Gardner, 
this county. Mr. McBRIDE owns a residence in West Side Morris. He has been a 
pension and claim attorney, and has given to ex-soldiers $4,000 or $5,000, in 
reduction of fees. He is a candidate for County Judge and a Republican.

[Source: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 
Historical Publishers, Lake Side Building, 1882]

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