Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....McCloud, Jonathan R 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

McCLOUD, Jonathan R. – It is no slight task to improve land which has never 
been under cultivation and yet the majority of the older agriculturalists have 
developed magnificent farms from raw land. One of the men who has a property 
of which he may well feel proud, as it is practically the work of his own 
hands, is Jonathan R . McCloud of Aux Sable Township, born in Clinton County, 
N. Y., June 6, 1835, a son of John and Polina (Rlckerson) McCloud. .John 
McCloud was born in Vermont, and his wife in Clinton County, N. Y. In 1837 
they came westward with a horse team to Plattville, Ill., to join Mrs. 
McCloud’s parents, Jonathan and Esther Rickerson, who had previously come to 
Illinois. John McCloud entered government land in Kendall County, but a few 
years later moved to Livingston County, Ill., where he again entered land, and 
both he and his wife died upon it. They had eight children: Jonathan R.; 
Julia, who is Mrs. David Tabler of Aux Sable Township; Platt, who is of Will 
County, Ill.; Simeon, who is of Livingston County; James, who died in 
California; Jemima, twin of James, is deceased; John, who is of Southern 
Illinois; and Martin, living on the old homestead. 

When he was twenty-five years old, Jonathan R. McCloud came to Grundy County 
and bought fifty-seven acres of unimproved land in Aux Sable Township. He 
immediately began developing it, erecting all the buildings and putting in 
many desirable improvements until now it is very valuable. He has always 
carried on grain farming. In February, 1887, Mr. McCloud was married to 
Margaret Kerr, born in Scotland. They have no children. Politically Mr. 
McCloud is a Republican. He is a man of action rather than words and stands 
well in his neighborhood where he has spent so large a part of his life.

pages 865-866

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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