Biographical Sketch of John R. McDermott - Andrew County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888

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John R. McDermott, a leading citizen of Andrew County, MO., and 
proprietor of the Savannah Marble Works, was born in Frederick City,
MD., March 4, 1841.  He is the son of John and Mary (McGee) McDermott.
His father was born in Moville, County Donegal, Ireland, in 1791, and
immigrated to America in 1819.  Landing in New York, he soon afterward
made an extensive southern tour to Cuba and South America.  Upon his
return he settled in Frederick, MD., and engaged in the marble business,
being for a time proprietor of the well-known Maryland and Virginia
Marble Works.  He was known as a thorough mathematician and good 
scholar.  He died June 20, 1878.  His mother was born in North Ireland,
and was the daughter of John McGee.  She died in Baltimore in 1879.  
John R. was reared in Frederick City, MD., and received a good educa-
tion at St. Johns College in that city.  He removed to Baltimore in
1863, and engaged in the marble business.  Here his health failed him,
and for several years he was an invalid.  Upon recovering his health
in 1869 he went to Boston, Mass., and from that city to Adrian, Mich.
He next removed to Indiana, where he spent different periods of time
in various cities, and in 1872 came to Missouri, and engaged in his
present business at Savannah, Andrew County.  He has one of the 
largest marble trades in Northwest Missouri.  He is a pleasant and
affable gentleman, social and accommodating, and is full of enterprise
and public spirit.