Biographical Sketch of John McCabe, Greene County, Missouri,
Jackson Township

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Mr. McCabe was born in Lycomic county, Pennsylvania, January 10, 1834,
and is the son of John and Rosa McCabe.  He went to Philadelphia in 
1843, and was educated in the parochial schools of that city.  He serv-
ed an apprenticeship at engineering at Jamacia, Long Island, and on the
P. W. & B. railroad.  He was employed for some time upon Eastern roads
in construction of tracks.  Upon the breaking out of the late war he
enlisted in a volunteer company of independent rangers on the 22nd of
April, 1861.  He served three months upon the body guard of General
Patterson, and was in the battle of Falling Waters.  He then enlisted
in Company C, 23rd Penn. Regiment, as corporal, and participated in the
battles of Yorktown, Williamsburgh, Fair Oaks, and the seven days figh-
ting in front of Richmond, where he was slightly wounded.  He was in 
all the great battles while Grant was commander-in-chief, and was cap-
tured at Cold Harbor, and kept prisoner for four months, when he was
released.  He then joined Company G, 7th regiment, Hancock's corps. Mr.
McCabe received medals for gallant conduct at the battle of Malvern
Hill and the storming of Maries' Heights.  In 1866 he came to St. Louis
and engaged in the construction of street railroad tracks for some time
and then on the construction of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad as far
as Strafford.  He was married November 2nd, 1866, to Mrs. Sarah Lane,
widow of Lieut. William Lane, who was wounded at the battle of Spring-
field, and died ten days afterward.  Mrs. Lane was the daughter of 
Joseph and Tabitha Rudd.  She gave thirty-one acres to the railroad for
the town site of Strafford.  She now owns two hundred and sixty-five
acres in Jackson township.  Mr. McCabe owns twelve acres in section 2,
township 29, range 20.

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