Bio of McCARDELL, William (b.1846), Wright Co., MN
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314            HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY
 
William McCardell, for over thirty years a resident of Wright county, now 
deceased, was born in what is now Pleasants county, West Virginia, January 
11, 1846. When the people of western Virginia failed to follow that state 
into the Confederacy, and a new state, called West Virginia, was organized,
 Mr. McCardell joined the home guards and was commissioned second lieutenant 
in one of the companies of the Ninth Regiment, Second Brigade, First 
Division, West Virginia militia. In 1881, being then a young man of thirty-
five, he brought his family to Wright county. He took up his residence in 
Montrose Village, and there lived until 1904, when he moved to Dickinson, 
Minn., and engaged in the general merchandise business until 1913, when he 
returned to Montrose. His life was an active and useful one, and his death, 
April 1, 1914, was sincerely mourned. Mr. McCardell was a sincere Christian, 
a whole-souled, honorable man who gave out brightness and good fellowship 
and brightened all the lives with which he came in contact. He was a noble 
husband, a kind father and a good neighbor. Mr. MoCardell was married in 
1874, at Shiloh, W. Va., to Emma J. Core. This union was blessed with three 
children, Cynthia, Effie and Josie. Cynthia is the wife of Robert Pryor, 
of Redwood Falls, Minn. Josie is the wife of Paul Liederbach, of Buffalo, 
Minn. Effie is dead.