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From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 887
JOHN McBRIDE, a retired farmer residing in Platteville, Grant county, was born in Elk Grove, Lafayette county, Wis., April 13, 1837. His parents, John and Rosa (McCARTIN) McBRIDE, were natives of Ireland, who in 1820 settled on wild land in Lafayette county, where the father cleared up a large farm on which he and wife passed the remainder of their lives, both dying in the faith of the Primitive Methodist church. In politics the father was a stanch Republican. Of their children, ten in number, seven died young; of those who lived to mature years, Mary, now deceased, was married to William ROBINSON, of Grant county, where several of her children still live; Robert, also deceased, retired from his farm in Lafayette county, and died in Platteville in 1890, leaving a widow and four children; John, whose name opens this sketch.
John McBRIDE was educated in the district schools of his native village and at the Platteville Academy. He grew to manhood on the home farm, and in October, 1865, married Miss Mary E., daughter of Lorenzo and Roxie (McCUMBER) McNETT, of Elk Grove, Lafayette county. Mr. and Mrs. McNETT were born in New York State, and came to Wisconsin in 1835, settled on a farm and reared four children, two of whom are still living, Mrs. E. B. BARNES, in Platteville, and Mrs. John McBRIDE, the latter of whom was graduated from the high school of Hazel Green and was for some time a very successful school teacher.
After marriage Mr. and Mrs. McBRIDE lived on the McBRIDE homestead until 1894, when they came to Platteville, where Mr. McBRIDE erected a fine dwelling, but still owns the old farm in Lafayette county. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. McBRIDE have been born three children, viz.: (1) W. L., born in 1866, in Lafayette county, was educated in the State Normal school of Platteville; in 1894, he married Miss Lucy CHURCHILL, of Platteville, a cultured lady who had been a school teacher for several years. One daughter, Helen, blessed this union. The family reside on their own property on Pine street, adjoining that of the father, John McBRIDE. (2) Rosanna M., daughter of John McBRIDE, was born in Lafayette county in November, 1868, and was a student in the State Normal school until her marriage in 1889 to Elmer E. HERRON, the present deputy sheriff of Le Mars, Plymouth county, Iowa, where they reside and have a family of four children, viz.: Clay, Lloyd, Lenna, and John. (3) Elsie A., born in Lafayette county in September, 1883, is a well-advanced student in the State Normal school of Platteville. Mr. McBRIDE and family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics he is a Republican. While a resident of Lafayette county he served as treasurer of his township, as chairman of the town board, and also filled several other local offices with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of the public. A descendant of one of the old pioneer families of the State, he enjoys the respect of all the inhabitants of Platteville and Grant county, and he and his wife are still fondly cherished in the memory of their old friends in Lafayette county.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck