Mineral County
Hon. Angus McLeod
Biography
(Transcribed by Andaleen Whitney)
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Nevada Genealogy Trails Mineral County Hon. Angus McLeod Biography (Transcribed by Andaleen Whitney) |
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HON. ANGUS McLEOD, a representative Nevada pioneer of 1857, is one of the oldest in the state, and he settled in his present locality in Mason valley in 1862. He was born in Arkansas in 1836, and on the paternal side is of Scotch ancestry, while on the maternal side he comes of Dutch stock as well as English. His father was reared in North Carolina, later removed to Tennessee, where he married Ann Sawyer, a native of Tennessee. He served a year in the United States regulars, assisting in moving Indians out of the territory, and was one of the pioneer settlers of Arkansas, where he died in 1848, aged forty-eight years. Mis wife survived him only a few years and died aged fifty-six years. Eight children were born to them, of whom Angus McLeod is the only survivor. Mr. McLeod was reared to manhood in Arkansas on his father's farm. In 1857 he crossed the plains to California and made his first stop in Mariposa county, where he engaged in mining. That winter he went on to Calaveras county, where he worked two seasons on a farm, and then came to the territory of Nevada and took a drove of cattle back to California. In the fall of 1859 he removed to Carson valley, Nevada, and for seven months was employed in freighting from Sacramento and Folsom, Carson, Virginia City and Washoe valley, being paid from four and a quarter to eight cents per round. Owning several teams and being largely patronized, he made money, and he finally settled in Carson City and clerked for Moses Job until the following spring. This time he owned four big teams and freighted across the mountains until 1861, and in 1862 he located on his present farm, on which he "squatted." He located three quarter-sections and now has nine hundred and twenty acres, all of which he as redeemed from the wilderness. In 1863 he hired men and took his teams to Aurora and engaged in hauling lumber from the sawmills to the new town of Aurora, but by the following season he returned to his ranch and devoted himself to improving his property. He has been engaged in stock-raising for a number of years. All his life he has been a Democrat, was county treasurer of Esmeralda county two terms, and also served as county commissioner, and in 1870 was elected to the Nevada assembly. In 1877 he married Mary E. Ellis, a native of Missouri, and they have had nine children, all living, namely; Charles Alexander, with his father; Henry S., at Sodaville, in the employ of the firm of Lothrop, Davis, and Company, dealers in general merchandise; Mary C., who married Bert Hillygus, of Mason valley; Angus, Jr.; Neil; Mason Ellis; Belle; William; and Daniel. Mr. McLeod is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of long standing and has passed all its chairs. He is widely and favorably known as an enterprising stockman and loyal and public-spirited citizen.
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