Greene-Marion County IN Archives Biographies.....McIntosh, Jacob P. 1841 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   HON. JACOB P. McINTOSH, a native of Marion County, Ind., was born November
17, 1835, and is the fourth in a family of ten children, of whom William J. and
Sarah (Negley) McIntosh were the parents. He became a resident of Greene County
when two years of age by the removal of the family, and has ever since been a
resident of Greene County. He was raised on the farm of his father, and owing to
Mr. McIntosh's limited means, secured but a common education. In 1857, he was
married to Miss Nancy Kelley, and since his graduation from the Eclectic Medical
College at Cincinnati, in 1868, has pursued his chosen profession. Although a
man of no great pretensions, yet Dr. McIntosh is gifted with an unusual degree
of practical wisdom, which ranks him among the prominent men of Indiana. He
began his career in the world with but little education, and no means by which
he could obtain one. By close application he in after years secured a thorough
knowledge of all the lower branches, together with some of the sciences, and by
industry has obtained a goodly share of this world's goods. Besides the practice
of medicine, he has been engaged in mercantile pursuits in various parts of the
county, and in 1877 published his work entitled "Information for the People." In
politics, he has ever been a firm and outspoken Democrat, always contributing
largely to the success of his party in the county. He was a member of the
Democratic State Conventions of 1876 and 1880, and in 1874 and 1878 was the
nominee of his county for State Representative, and was defeated each time. In
1880, he was elected Joint Representative from Greene, Knox and Sullivan
Counties, and through the acceptable manner by which he served in this office,
he was elected State Senator from this Senatorial district. Dr. McIntosh has
proven a wise and acceptable legislator, and is the author of several popular
laws. He is now a resident of Beech Creek Township, where he is the owner of
valuable property. Himself and wife are parents of six children: Martin F., Mary
K. (Mrs. J. L. Wood), Nathaniel and three that died in infancy.

Additional Comments:
Beech Creek Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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