History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
649.

JOHN McDONALD was born in Ireland in 1833.  He came to America in 1866, 
landing in New York.  He remained there two weeks and then went to 
Chicago, where he lived four years.  In 1870 he moved to Virginia and 
remained there two years, when he went to Warrick County, Ind.  In 1879 
he came to Kentucky and lived in Butler County till 1881, when he came 
to Daviess County.  He has leased the mines three miles east of 
Owensboro for five years and is now engaged in mining.  They take out 
about 300 bushels of coal per day.  May 4, 1870, Mr. McDonald married 
Sarah Ann Benson, a native of Butler County, Ky., born in 1848.  They 
have five children--Thomas, Daniel, Nancy, Calvin and Diller.

McDonald Benson
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Ireland NY IL VA Warrick-IN Butler-KY

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