From History of Grant County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 966.

S. C. McDONALD, of the firm of Swingle & McDonald, dealers in hoop-poles, shaved hoops and box-straps, Muscoda; was born in New York in 1831; came to Wisconsin in 1855, and located in Grant Co.; built fifteen miles of the railroad west of Muscoda in 1856 and 1857. Has held office of Chairman of the town for three terms; Justice of the Peace at present, and Town Clerk one year; had charge of railroad, buying wood and ties, up to the time it changed hands. He was married in 1854, to Miss Elizabeth Hopkinson, a native of New York, by whom he has two sons, one in the St. Paul railroad office at St. Paul, Minn., and the other is attending school at Madison. He is a prominent member of the A., F. & A. M., an active business man, and has always been identified with matters pertaining to the welfare of the place. The firm ship five million hoops and poles per year, mostly to the Minneapolis mills. It is one of the main industries of the place.

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