John S. McDonald

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1808-01-22

Death Date

1877-06-11

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"John S. McDonald" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00002779, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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New Albany, Indiana, banker. Pennsylvania native. Married to Nancy McDonald. Father of Nathaniel McDonald, Morris McDonald, Sarah H. McDonald, Alice McDonald, Sophia McDonald, John S. McDonald, Jr., and Carrie A. McDonald. President of the Bank of the State of Indiana branch in New Albany from 1860 to 1864. Member of the Lincoln Campaign Club in New Albany in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Floyd County, New Albany, p. 333B-334B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Floyd County, New Albany, p. 167-168. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Floyd County, New Albany, 2nd Ward, p. 40. J. Smith Homans Jr., The Merchants and Bankers Almanac for 1863 (New York: Office of the Banker’s Magazine, 1863), 20. The Merchants' Bankers' Almanac for 1864 (New York: J. Smith Homans, Jr., Office of the Bankers' Magazine, 1864), 18. Pamela R. Peters, The Underground Railroad in Floyd County, Indiana (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2001), 182. Find A Grave, "John S. McDonald (1808-1877)," Memorial #90344724, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90344724/john-s.-mcdonald (accessed March 20, 2018).

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