Mc Nair, John ( Col)
Death
1852-10-14
(aged 57 years)
Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Cause of Death
Apoplexy
Birth
1795-01-02
Gravestone
Location
SC.28.1
Transcription
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Biography
Wisconsin Tribune 10/21/1852 The death of Col. John McNair, who was the Whig candidate for County Treasurer, left a vacancy for that office on the Ticket.
History of Iowa County 1881 p658: Of those who certainly came in previous to 1832, who have not been named, and who subsequently remained, we are enabled to mention J. H. Gentry, R. H. Kirkpatrick, Abner Nichols, the noted boniface; William Sublitt, R. S. Black, Levi Sterling, A. W. Comfort, John McNair, Dr. Ed McSherry, Ben Salter, John Milton, M. G. Fitch, H. R. Hunter, Edward James, Lord Blaney (the poet), William S. Hamilton, Thomas McKnight, R. W. Gray, S. B. Thrasher, Mark and Stephen Terrill.
Obituary
Died in this village, on Thursday morning, the 14th inst, of apoplexy, Col. John McNair, in the 58th year of his age.
Col McNair was a native of Fayette county, Kentucky and immigrated to the Lead mines in 1827, and has been for upwards of 24 years a citizen of Mineral Point and its vicinity. He served as an officer in the 17th Regiment of U. S. Infantry in the war of 1812, also as a volunteer under Gen. Henry Dodge in the Black Hawk War in 1832, and was severely wounded at the battle of the Wisconsin, for which he drew a pension from the Government. At the time of his death he was Treasurer of this county, and was nominated but a few days before his death, for re-election.
He was a man of kind and humane feelings, ever ready to search out, and contribute to the wants of the poor. Always faithful in the discharge of every duty both public and private, he had endeared himself to all who knew him, and his loss will long be felt and mourned by a large portion of our community. Wisconsin Tribune Oct 21, 1852