Bio of McALPINE, James (b.1842), Wright Co., MN

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517   HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY



James McAlpine, farmer and stock raiser, Maple Lake township, was born in 

Ireland, in 1842, son of Patrick and Bridget (McKeown) McAlpine. The family 

started for America in 1843. The father and two children died on shipboard. 

The mother with John (now deceased), Michael (now of Iowa) and James, 

continued the trip and settled in Canada. For her second husband the mother 

married Michael Donohue, and this union has been blessed with five children: 

Thomas (deceased); Michael, of Canada; Bridget, wife of William Kennedy, of 

Canada; Maria (deceased), and Annie, the wife of Patrick Evans, of Canada. 

James McAlpine remained with his mother in Canada until twenty years old. 

He devoted his youth to farming, logging and river driving. It was in 1865 

that he came to Wright county, and located in section 34, Maple Lake township, 

where he secured eighty acres. He now owns 114 acres of good land and carries 

on general farming. Mr. McAlpine was married, September 29, 1874, to Mary 

McDonald, a native of the Province of Ontario, 



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Canada, daughter of John and Mary (Nicholson) McDonald. The father died 

in Canada, and the mother came to Wright county in 1897 and died two 

years later. In the McDonald family there were nine children: Patrick, of 

Stuart, Minn.; James (deceased); John, of Grand Rapids, Minn.; Thomas 

(deceased); Peter, of Hibbing, Minn.; Margaret, the wife of William 

Carral, of Hibbing, Minn.; Bridget, the wife of Thomas Mooney; and Julia, 

the wife of John Doran, of Grand Rapids, Minn. The oldest in the family 

is Mary, the wife of James McAlpine. Mr. and Mrs. McAlpine have had ten 

children: James (deceased); John (deceased); Michael, at home; Mary, of 

Grand Rapids, Minn.; Nellie, a teacher; Alfred, chief of the fire 

department at Chisholm, Minn.; Blanche, a teacher; Margaret and Lillian, 

at home; and Cora, who is attending the St. Cloud State Normal School.