JAMES MCDONALD - Biography

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This biography appears on page 672 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

JAMES MCDONALD, farmer, Sec. 19; P. O. Rochester; born in County Antrim,
Ireland, June 24, 1791. He came to New Jersey in 1840; same year to
Dover, and took up 320 acres of Government land in Sections 19, 20. He
built the house and barns he occupies, and also the house his son
William occupies, which he gave to him, with 160 acres in Sec. 19. He
gave 120 acres to his other son, James, and retains forty acres, with
residence, for himself and wife. He married, in County Antrim, Ireland,
Belle Grimm, who died in Ireland; married again, in Ireland, Mary Grimm,
September, 1836. He is now nearly 88 years of age.