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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  WIRTER R. D. McCHORD. Among the pioneer settlers of central Nobles county none

is better known than the subject of this biography, who homesteaded in Dewald

township in 1872 and who has ever since made his home there.



  Mr. McChord was born in Preble county, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1848, the son of R. W.

and Sarah (Wolf) McChord. Both parents were natives of Ohio and both died in

Iowa, the father in 1873 and the mother on April 3, 1886. From Preble county,

Ohio, the family moved to Lee county, Iowa, in 1856, and there our subject grew

to manhood, working on his father's farm.



  In 1872 he came to the new Nobles county country and homesteaded 86 acres in

the southwest quarter of section 18, Dewald township, upon which place he has

ever since resided. Settlers were few and far between at the time, and in Dewald

there were not to exceed ten settlers. He erected a "shack" and began farming,

experiencing many of the hardships incident to pioneer life.



  On November 7, 1876,—the date of the election of President R. B. Hayes—Mr.

Mc-Chord was married in Dewald township to Miss Maggie Churchill, daughter of J.

B. and Margaret (Getman) Churchill. J. B. Churchill was one of the first

settlers of Dewald, taking his claim on section 20 in March, 1872. At the time

his house was the only one on the line between Worthington and Luverne. He

removed from the county in 1878 and went to California, buying property in Los

Angeles and Ontario. He died at Santa Monica, Cal., Jan. 16, 1899, at the age of

eighty years. Mrs. Churchill was a native of New York state and died there in

1865. Mrs. McChord was born in New York Aug. 14, 1860, and came to Nobles county

with her father when a child twelve years old. To Mr. and Mrs. McChord have been

born two children: Mary Olive (Mrs. R. F. Kerr), of Dewald, born Sept. 15, 1877;

Bertha Elizabeth (Mrs. R. C. Thom), of Olney, born Sept. 11, 1883. Mr. McChord

is a member of the M. W. A. lodge and Mrs. McChord belongs to the Rushmore

Methodist church.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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