Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....McDougal, William S. 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

[photo] Christian Church Pawnee Rock

WILLIAM S. M'DOUGAL

WILLIAM S. M'DOUGAL, was born in Wood County, West Virginia, September 5, 1844,
and came to Pawnee County when he was thirty-three years of age. He located a
homestead in section 18-22-14, which is on the line dividing Pawnee and Stafford
counties. He farmed this land for eight years and then came to Barton county and
located at Pawnee Rock. He was in the livery business in Pawnee Rock for sixteen
years. He sold out and retired about twelve years ago. Since that time he has
looked after his farming interests, owning 400 acres of land in Pawnee and
Barton counties. He was married in 1872 in West Virginia to Miss Maggie Uhl and
they are the parents of three children as follows: Romey, 42 years of age, is
engaged in the hack line business in Great Bend; Dora, 32 years of age, is now
Mrs. Henry T. Ratcliff of Hutchinson and Goldie, 22 years of age, resides at
home. Mr. McDougal is one of those men who made up the pioneers of this section
of Kansas as he came here at a time when the Indians and buffalo were still
disputing the advance of the white man and ho has seen this section grow from an
almost barren waste to its present high state of cultivation. Mr. McDougal has
always been identified with the progressive element in this part of the state
and is one of the best known men in Barton County where he has lived for
twenty-seven years. All of his farming land is being worked by renters and in
addition to these holdings he has a fine ten room residence in a most desirable
location in Pawnee Rock. He is one of the boosters of the town who never tires
of speaking a good word for Pawnee Rock and Barton County. He has served the
town as councilman and always taken an active part in all public matters and is
an enterprising and progressive citizen. Mr. McDougal is one of the men who came
to this section at a time when it required nerve to stay and battle it out with
the many adverse conditions with which the old timers had to contend. He did so
however and his success is due to good management and an unfailing faith in the
future of this section and could see this county where it is today, one of the
best in the State of Kansas.

[photo] Going and Coming of Autos, Pawnee Rock, May 24, 1912


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