BIO: David McINTOSH, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 557 & 558.
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  DAVID McINTOSH, who for forty years has been in the employ of the DuBois 
Lumber Company, at DuBois, Pa., and enjoys the distinction of being the oldest 
man in point of service, on the company's payroll, is a well known and highly 
respected resident of this borough.  He was born on his father's farm in Nova 
Scotia, August 10, 1843, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Kennedy) McIntosh.
  John McIntosh was born in Scotland, the second of a large family of children 
born to William and Catherine (Murdock) McIntosh.  He was eleven years old when 
he accompanied his parents from Scotland to Nova Scotia.  In his native land, 
William McIntosh had been a road builder.  He acquired large tracts of virgin 
land in Nova Scotia and became a man of independent means and owned enough land 
to enable him to leave each of his children a farm.  Both he and wife lived into 
advanced age, her death occurring when she was eighty years old and his, in 
1878, when he was over ninety years.  John McIntosh gave his father assistance 
in youth and later became a prosperous farmer and lumberman and accumulated a 
modest fortune in selling lumber for ship building.  He married Elizabeth 
Kennedy, who was born in Scotland and had accompanied her parents to Canada in 
childhood.  They both lived to be about eighty years of age, spending it in 
peace and good will to each other and to the community in which they were 
respected and appreciated.  They were the parents of eleven children, namely:  
William; Agnes, who is the widow of George Brymer; David; James; Mary, deceased, 
who was the wife of Isaac McClain; John; Peter and Eliza, both of whom are 
deceased; Jessie, who follows the profession of a trained nurse, residing at 
Boston, Mass.; and Robert and Clarence.
  David McIntosh grew to manhood in his native land.  He attended school during 
the winter seasons, from early boyhood until he reached maturity, his summers 
being spent in helping his father and working in the woods at lumbering.  Mr. 
McIntosh was twenty-six years of age when he decided to come to America and as 
he had so much knowledge of lumbering he naturally sought to establish himself 
in a lumber region, and thus came to DuBois, Pa.  Here he entered the employ of 
John DuBois, on April 5, 1870, and thus became identified with the concern with 
which he has been continuously connected ever since.  His first work was 
teaming, later he was sent by Mr. DuBois to Anderson Creek, where he remained 
two years working in the saw-mill.  In 1874 he came back to DuBois and was 
placed in charge of the woods department of the business.  Mr. McIntosh has been 
a witness of the development of DuBois from the forest into its present borough 
conditions.  Forty years ago its site was all woods and one of the first duties 
to which he was assigned was the cutting down of trees along the newly built 
railroad to keep them from falling and obstructing the tracks.  Many acres of 
now highly cultivated land in the vicinity of DuBois, was cleared by McIntosh, 
in those early days.  His business interests have, as mentioned above, always 
been with the same firm and in the course of years he has accumulated valuable 
real estate, mainly situated in the Third ward, DuBois.  His comfortable 
residence is situated at No. 106 Second avenue.
  Mr. McIntosh was married in October, 1875, to Miss Rosa M. McGee, a daughter 
of William McGee, who was an old settler of Beech Woods.  They have four 
children, namely:  Elizabeth, who is the wife of W. C. Cooper, of Brewster, O.; 
Robert, a resident of DuBois, who married Rosa Johnston, and they have four 
children - Helen, Alice, David and Warren; Warren, who is in business at DuBois, 
married Blanche Thompson; and John, who resides at home.  Mr. McIntosh, with a 
true Scotchman's respect for learning, gave his children every educational 
advantage in his power, their opportunities being far better than his own were, 
in the little log schoolhouse in far off Nova Scotia.  Mr. McIntosh and family 
are members of the Presbyterian church.  He has been an active citizen in the 
building up and governing of DuBois and for three years was a valuable and 
judicious member of the borough council.  In his political views he is a 
Republican.