Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Shepherd, David 1844 - 
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DAVID SHEPHERD, an active, prominent and enterprising farmer, residing on section
29, Greenleaf township, was born in Scotland on the 2d of April, 1844. He can trace
his genealogy back through four generations, William Shepherd being the name of his
great-great-great-grand father, then James in the next degree. His grandfather,
Wiliam Shepherd, was born in Scotland about the year 1756. His father was born in
the same country, and still lives there, being now about seventy-one years of age.
He (David’s father) was married in 1840 to Margaret Ayer, and they were the parents
of two children—David, our subject, and James, who is now living in New Zealand.

   David Shepherd, of whom we write, left his native land in 1809 and settled in
Canada, where he remained about one year, and then removed to St. Paul, Minn. After
three months’ residence there he went to Hastings and remained a like period, then
went to Minneapolis. Here he left his family and went to Colorado and Nevada, and
after a sojourn in that region of some fourteen months returned to Minneapolis. On
the 27th of April, 1879, he arrived in Meeker county, Minn., and purchased of Anna
McGrow a farm on section 29, Greenleaf township, where he has since lived. He now
has a valuable farm, which consists of about 300 acres of land, his buildings being
located on the line between sections 29 and 32. It is a most desirable place,
containing some forty acres of timber, and he has it well stocked. He devotes his
time to diversified farming and stock-raising, and well deserves the standing which
he maintains of being one of the most solid and influential farmers in the township.
In political matters Mr. Shepherd is a republican, and has taken an active interest
in affairs of that nature, having held various local offices which his
fellow-citizens have desired him to fill. He is the present chairman of the township
supervisors, and the fact that he is the present treasurer of school district No. 34
is evidence of the well-known fact that he takes a commendable interest in
educational matters.

   On the 5th of June, 1869, Mr. Shepherd was married to Elizabeth Thompson, who was
a native of Scotland. Their union has been blessed with the following children, all
of whom are still living: D. K., born January 7, 1872; Christina A., born April 28,
1874; and Maggie S., born March 31, 1879.



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Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888

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