Dr. Jacob P. McINTOSH died Saturday a. m. at his suburban home near Worthington. He was seventy-five years old. He was born in Marion county Nov. 17, 1835, and came to Greene county with his parents when two years of age. For several years he was located at Newark, where he raised a large family. Later he retired from active practice and resided in Worthington. Dr. McINTOSH served in the Indiana House of Representatives in 1880 and in the Senate in 1882. He leaves a wife and several children and considerable wealth. Last Wednesday Dr. and Mrs. McINTOSH returned home from Los Angeles, Cal., where they spent the winter, and upon his arrival at home he was thought to be in his usual health. The funeral occurred Sunday afternoon.

Jacob P. McINTOSH was twice married, first in 1857 to Nancy KELLEY, who died March 20, 1872. She was the mother of six children, three of whom survive, namely, M. F. McINTOSH, Worthington; Mrs. Mary H. PECK, Vincent, Tex., and N. G. McINTOSH, Midland. The deceased was married the second time on June 26, 1873 to Nancy Ann CRAWFORD, who survives. To this union ten children are living, namely:

Mrs. Daisy HUDSON, Calvertsville; Mrs. Nora PADDOCK, Grant's Pass, Oregon; Wm B. McINTOSH, Farmer; Mrs. Bessie GALLOP, Indianapolis; George McINTOSH, Montana, Dan McINTOSH, Worthington; Mrs. Laliah JESSUP, Ft. Wayne; Miss Maud McINTOSH, Lyman McINTOSH and Moore McINTOSH, of Worthington.

The deceased practiced medicine for over twenty years and in later years devoted his time to farming.

He was long an active Democrat, serving his party as a justice of the peace and also as a representative and a senator in the Indiana legislature.

He was a good citizen and was universally respected by his neighbors and acquaintances.

The funeral was held at Worthington last Sunday, conducted by the I. O. O. F. order, of which he was a member

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HON. JABOB P. MCINTOSH

a native of Marion County, Ind., was born November 17, 1835, and is the fourth in a family of ten children, of whom William J. and Sarah (Negley) McIntosh were the parents. He became a resident of Greene County when two years of age by the removal of the family, and has ever since been a resident of Greene County. He was raised on the farm of his father, and owing to Mr. McIntish's limited means, secured but a common education. In 1857, he was married to Miss Nancy Kelley, and since his graduation from the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati, in 1868, has pursued his chosen profession. Although a man of no great pretensions, yet Dr. McIntosh is gifted with an unusual degree of practical wisdom, which ranks him among the prominent men of Indiana. He began his career in the world with but little education, and no means by which he could obtain one. By close application he in after years secured a thorough knowledge of all the lower branches, together with some of the sciences, and by industry has obtained a goodly share of this world's goods. Besides the practice of medicine, he has been engaged in mercantile pursuits in various parts of the county, and in 1877 published his work entitled "Information for the People." In politics he has ever been a firm and outspoken Democrat, always contributing largely to the success of his party in the county. He was a member of the Democratic State Conventions of 1876 and 1880, and in 1874 and 1878 was the nominee of his county for State Representative, and was defeated each time. In 1880, he was elected Joint Representative from Greene, Knox and Sullivan Counties, and through the acceptable manner by which he served in this office, he was elected State Senator from this Senatorial district. Dr. McIntosh has proven a wise and acceptable legislator, and is the author of several popular laws. He is now a resident of Beech Creek Township, where he is the owner of valuable property. Himself and wife are parents of six children: Martin F., Mary K. (Mrs. J. L. Wood), Nathaniel and three that died in infancy.

Beech Creek TWP.

Source: History of Greene and Sullivan Counties, state of Indiana: from the earliest time to the present, together with interesting biographical sketches, reminiscences, notes, etc. Chicago: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1884 824 pgs. 396 page .

HON. JACOB P. McINTOSH. The subject of this biographical review, a representative of one of the early pioneer families of Greene county, was born in Marion county, Indiana, November 17, 1835, and he is a son of William J. and Sarah (Negley) Mclntosh. (The sketch of his father appears more fully on another page of this work.)

Jacob Mclntosh became a resident of Greene county at the age of two years, when he was brought here by the removal of his parents from Marion county. Being reared on a farm, his early life was devoted to agricultural pursuits and in attending the pioneer schools of his day. Like other youths of the early times, his educational opportunities were limited, principally to the most elementary branches of learning, and this at considerable sacrifice. His means being limited, he was unable to avail himself of the advantages of higher education until later in life, though he was always a student, and read everything calculated to broaden the sphere of his intellect.

He has been twice married, first in 1857 to Nancy Kelley, who died March 20, 1872. She was the mother of six children, three of whom survive; three died in infancy or early childhood. The living members of this family are Martin F., Mary Hannah and Nathaniel Greene. Mr. Mclntosh was married the second time on the 26th day of June, 1873. His present wife was Nancy Ann Crawford, daughter of William B. and Elizabeth (Brooks) Crawford, natives of Ohio. Her father was a soldier during the Civil war and served as a member of Company I of the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Indiana Infantry, Volunteers. He died in 1900. His widow is a resident of Greene county.

There are ten living children of this union, of whom Daisy, wife of Walter G. Hudson, a printer at Bloomfield, is the eldest. Miss Nora is a popular and successful teacher, having been engaged in that laudable work for a number of years. William resides upon and operates the parental farm near Worthington. He is married and has one child. Bessie M. is the wife of S. O. Gallup, of Indianapolis. O. G. is at home. Daniel C. is a graduate of the Worthington high school and is also a graduate in pharmacy. He is a student in third year's work in the State University. Lalla R. and Frances Maude, both graduates of the Worthington high school, are still under the parental roof, though the last named is now a student at the State Normal School. Lyman T. and Moore C. complete the family circle. They are students in the Worthington high school.

The two sons and daughter mentioned as the issue of the subject's first marriage are prominent in business and social -relations, the sons being merchants and the daughter, now Mrs. A. J. Peck, resides in Topeka, Kansas. Early in life the subject of this sketch chose the medical profession as his life work, and after attending the Eclectic College of Medicine at Cincinnati he began, practice, and continued that profession for about twenty years, then for ten years only part of the time in connection with superintending his large and varied farming interests throughout his active business years. He owned and operated a farm of six hundred and twenty-five acres, upon which his family lived until 1900, and gave special prominence to the growing and marketing of domestic stock. Since the date above written he has retired to a less pretentious farm of fifty-nine acres adjoining Worthington, but has relaxed none of his interest in general farming and stock growing.

Dr. Mclntosh recites with much interest and

enthusiasm' the story of pioneer life in the wilderness of Greene county when he was a boy. He says that his mother, whose memory he reveres, was, in combination with all womanly virtues of her day, an expert at the wheel and loom, and that for many years she spun the flax and wool- yarn, and wove the cloth with which to clothe the family, taking the former from the matured stalk and the latter from the sheep's back. Nothing was then known of the wonderful machinery which has revolutionized manufacturing in all lines of human industry. The application of steam power was then in the experimental stage, while electricity as a motive power was then not dreamed of by the most advanced scientists. 

The ancestral history of Dr. Mclntosh is traceable in this section of Indiana, and mostly in Greene county, to the year 1821, when the founders of the family came from Kentucky. But as this feature of the family life is brought out more fully in the sketch of his father, William Jefferson Mclntosh, the interested reader is referred to that article for further information. Dr. J. P. Mclntosh has been pre-eminently a busy and useful man. His life has been spent in an effort to render good to his fellow men, and in whatever sphere his labors were directed, he has discharged his duties conscientiously and well. He has been an ardent supporter of the principles of Democracy, and has been zealous in the furtherance of party interests, whether as a standard- bearer seeking support for political honors or as a private citizen seeking the general welfare of his chosen party. In political affairs he has always been prominent and influential. In 1874 and again in 1876 he was the nominee of his party for legislative honors, going down with the defeat of his party. In 1880, however, he was more successful and was elected as joint representative from the counties of Greene, Knox and Sullivan. His administration of the affairs pertaining to this exalted position no doubt led to his selection as state senator in 1882 for Daviess and Greene counties, though Greene county was then considered almost hopelessly Republican. But the personal popularity and careful, systematic work of Dr. Mclntosh carried it for the Democratic candidate by the narrow margin of eleven votes, and for the district one hundred and seventy-one. While in the legislature Mr. Mclntosh was the author of a number of wholesome and popular laws which remain on the statute books as a monument to his memory, and as a convincing proof of his sterling good judgment. In the affairs of private life the doctor has been successful beyond the average attainments of men. He was a partner in a profitable mercantile business for many years, and his professional life was proverbially a success, especially in the correct diagnosis and treatment of disease. He was a justice of the peace for four years, and has always taken an active interest in local affairs of whatever nature. He is an affable and agreeable gentleman, universally esteemed, and favorably known to almost every family in Greene county. The record of such a life is a stimulus to the rising generation, whose desires and ambitions are largely influenced by the achievements of others.

Biographical Memoirs of Greene County, Ind By B.F. Bowen & Co, B. F. Bowen & Co

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• Census: 1850 - Highland, Greene, Indiana, USA
• Census: 1900 - Highland Township, Greene, Indiana, USA
• Residence: ED 27 Highland Township, Greene, Indiana, United States - 1900
• Census: 1910 - Jefferson, Greene, Indiana, USA
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Dr. Jacob P. McINTOSH died Saturday a. m. at his suburban home near Worthington. He was seventy-five years old. He was born in Marion county Nov. 17, 1835, and came to Greene county with his parents when two years of age. For several years he was located at Newark, where he raised a large family. Later he retired from active practice and resided in Worthington. Dr. McINTOSH served in the Indiana House of Representatives in 1880 and in the Senate in 1882. He leaves a wife and several children and considerable wealth. Last Wednesday Dr. and Mrs. McINTOSH returned home from Los Angeles, Cal., where they spent the winter, and upon his arrival at home he was thought to be in his usual health. The funeral occurred Sunday afternoon.

Jacob P. McINTOSH was twice married, first in 1857 to Nancy KELLEY, who died March 20, 1872. She was the mother of six children, three of whom survive, namely, M. F. McINTOSH, Worthington; Mrs. Mary H. PECK, Vincent, Tex., and N. G. McINTOSH, Midland. The deceased was married the second time on June 26, 1873 to Nancy Ann CRAWFORD, who survives. To this union ten children are living, namely:

Mrs. Daisy HUDSON, Calvertsville; Mrs. Nora PADDOCK, Grant's Pass, Oregon; Wm B. McINTOSH, Farmer; Mrs. Bessie GALLOP, Indianapolis; George McINTOSH, Montana, Dan McINTOSH, Worthington; Mrs. Laliah JESSUP, Ft. Wayne; Miss Maud McINTOSH, Lyman McINTOSH and Moore McINTOSH, of Worthington.

The deceased practiced medicine for over twenty years and in later years devoted his time to farming.

He was long an active Democrat, serving his party as a justice of the peace and also as a representative and a senator in the Indiana legislature.

He was a good citizen and was universally respected by his neighbors and acquaintances.

The funeral was held at Worthington last Sunday, conducted by the I. O. O. F. order, of which he was a member.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Apr 3 2020, 3:08:24 UTC