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Duncan A McGregor

Birth	:	1 Sep 1867 Jefferson Township, Butler County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	1932
Burial	:	Riverside Cemetery, Shell Rock, Butler County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.7126600, -92.5874500
Plot	:	23-KAT
Description	:	1865 Census Butler County, Iowa McGregor Duncan 59 M M Scotland McGregor Jannet 58 F M Scotland McGregor Duncan A 27 M S Butler Co Ia D. A. McGregor follows farming on section 2, Jefferson township. It was... Read More	1865 Census Butler County, Iowa McGregor Duncan 59 M M Scotland McGregor Jannet 58 F M Scotland McGregor Duncan A 27 M S Butler Co Ia D. A. McGregor follows farming on section 2, Jefferson township. It was upon this place that his birth occurred, September 1, 1867, his parents being Duncan and Janette (Stewart) McGregor, both of whom were natives of Perthshire, Scotland. The former was a son of James and Christiana (McCowan) McGregor. The grandmother died in her native land but the grandfather came to America and passed away at the home of a daughter in March, 1865, at the age of sixty-three years. He had four children by his first marriage and two by his second, namely: James, a venerable citizen of Butler county; John, who died in Kentucky, Peter, who died in Australia; Duncan; a daughter who died in childhood: and Christina, who became the wife of the Noble Thompson and passed away in this county. Duncan McGregor was born in Perthshire, Scotland, September, 1836, and remained in his native country through the period of his minority but in 1857 crossed the Atlantic and made his way to Ohio, where he joined his brother, James. There they worked in a sawmill and on a farm. Duncan McGregor afterward worked in Butler county for two years for his brother, receiving payment in a tract of land of eighty acres. After seven years in the United States, he went to New York to meet his intended bride and had to wait for an entire month before the sailing vessel on which she had taken passage arrived. At length, however, the voyage was ended and the young couple met and came on to Dubuque, Iowa, where they were married. This was in 1864. They began their domestic life on the eighty-acre tract of land previously mentioned and as his financial resources increased he kept adding to his holdings until he had three hundred and twenty acres on sections 2 and 3, Jefferson township. This farm he still owns and was actively engaged in agricultural pursuits until his wife's death, on the 1st of January, 1906, since which tie he has spent the winter months in San Diego, California. He has led the life of an industrious, energetic, hard-working man and well deserves the rest which has come to him. He has ever been a great reader and has kept informed concerning the leading questions, interests and issues of the day. He has always voted with the Republican party, and his religious faith is that of the Presbyterian church. Unto him and his wife were born seven children, of whom five died in 1880 of Diphtheria; Margaret at the age of sixteen; Janette at the age of eleven; Jermima, John, and Charles. The second of the family, James McGregor, is now living in Oskaloosa, Iowa, while D. A. McGregor, the third of the family yet makes his home here. They were to have a fine dairy of forty cows to milk in order to keep all the children busy and were to ship butter to Boston, this being one of the first dairy enterprises of Butler county, but the children became ill at the time of a diphtheria epidemic and on after another passed away until five graves had been made side by side in the family burial lot. D. A. McGregor has always resided upon the old homestead farm, save for one year which he spent upon a farm of one hundred and sixty acres on section 11, Jefferson township, which he owned. He has chased cattle over the prairies when there were no fences here. Looking back to that period it seems that the work of development and improvement had scarcely been begun then, so many have been the changes which have since occurred. Mr. McGregor has improved the farm according to modern methods and he has made a specialty of bee culture, keeping about one hundred colonies. He is the only farmer of his locality who is engaged in feeding cattle. He buys and feeds cattle on quite an extensive scale, and the business adds materially to his income. In, 1901, Mr. McGregor was married to Miss Marion Lindsay, who was born in Scotland, June 1, 1866, and in in 1878 went to Burlington, Iowa, with her parents. After residing there for about twenty years she was married. She is the daughter of William and Agnes (Brown) Lindsay. The father died in Burlington in 1903, when seventy-four years of age, and the mother passed away at the home of Mr. And Mrs. McGregor in April, 1910, at the age of seventy-four years. Mrs. McGregor is a graduate of the high school of Burlington, Iowa, and the city training school for teachers. She secured a state teacher's certificate and for twelve years was a successful teacher in the Burlington city schools. Mr. McGregor attended the Breckenridge Institute in Decorah, Iowa, and both are greatly interested in education, it being their purpose to provide their children with excellent advantages in that direction. They have three sons: Duncan, William Lindsay and John Stewart. The name of McGregor has long figured in connection with the history of northern Iowa. The mother of our subject spent many lonely days here when her husband was gone to Cedar Falls, the nearest trading point and the railroad terminal. Settlements were few in those days. It was only here and there that one would come upon a pioneer home as he rode over the almost trackless prairie, but the fertility of the soil naturally won the attention of the progressive men, who were willing to brave the privations and hardships of pioneer life in order to enjoy the advantages that could be secured in this rich prairie county. Duncan McGregor was of this class and the work which he instituted has been taken up and carried forward by his son D.A. McGregor, who is today one of the leading and representative farmers of Jefferson township

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Family Members:

Parent

Duncan McGregor

(1836 - 1919)

Janet Stewart McGregor

(1837 - 1906)

Spouse

Marion Lindsay McGregor

(1866 - 1951)

Siblings

(1863 - 1880)

(1865 - 1937)

(1869 - 1880)

(1872 - 1880)

(1873 - 1880)

(1878 - 1880)

Children

William Lindsay McGregor

(1905 - 1985)

John Stewart McGregor

(1907 - 1953)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Riverside Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.7126600, -92.5874500

2. Lowell Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.7578011, -92.6346970

3. West Point Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.7740100, -92.6132900

7. Spring Lake Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.7742004, -92.5147018

8. Old Town Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.7158012, -92.4721985

10. Finchford Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.7275009, -92.4563980

12. Peace United Church of Christ Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.7192630, -92.4543880

13. Saint Pauls Lutheran Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.7188988, -92.4539032

14. Saint Josephs Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.7200012, -92.4539032

15. Lynwood Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.7832985, -92.6810989

16. Coster Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.6749600, -92.7122700

17. Andrews Cemetery
Waverly, Bremer County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7771988, -92.4772034

18. Newell Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.6333008, -92.4903030

19. Oakland Cemetery
Janesville, Bremer County, USA
Coordinate: 42.6558930, -92.4559700

20. Town Line Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.7443650, -92.4353380

21. Pleasant Valley Cemetery
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Coordinate: 42.8332000, -92.6148000

22. Gerholdt Cemetery
Black Hawk County, USA
Coordinate: 42.6009010, -92.5190130

23. New Albion Cemetery
Butler County, USA
Coordinate: 42.6427994, -92.7416992

24. Rude Cemetery
New Hartford, Butler County, USA
Coordinate: 42.5788080, -92.5647070