Goodspeed's Biographies Goodspeed's History of Greene County -- 1887

J. W. McDannald

J. W. McDannald, of the firm of McDannald & Weems, at Mohawk Postoffice, was born in 1842, in Greene County, where he has since resided. He was captured in 1861, while crossing the mountains to Kentucky to join the Federal Army, put in prison on James Island, South Carolina, and kept two years, after which he went to New York, and from there to Kentucky, and from there to Indiana, where he worked as a hired hand on a farm. He hired shortly afterward to the Government as a teamster, at which he continued until the war closed. He then engaged in farming for himself, and in 1882 he built and equipped a flouring mill in partnership with Joseph Lane, style of firm name being McDannald & Lane. Mr. Lane retired from the firm in 1886. Mr. G. J. Weems was taken into the firm in 1884, the style of firm being McDannald, Lane & Weems, and upon Mr. Lane's retiring in 1886, the style of firm name became McDannald & Weems. The capacity of the mill is fifty barrels per day, and the mill is generally run day and night, so great is the demand for their flour.

Mr. McDannald was married in 1867 to Miss Louisa Wisecarver, a daughter of Samuel Wisecarver, a native of Greene County, Tenn. Five children blessed their union: Corrie, James A., Samuel, Ernest and Emma. Mrs. McDannald is a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and Mr. McDannald is a Republican in politics, and he is an I.0.0.F.

He is the third of six children of James and Leah (Cobble) McDannald, natives of Jefferson and Greene Counties, respectively. Mr. McDannald died in 1855, aged forty-three years. Mrs. McDannald is still living, and she is seventy-two years old. Mr. McDannald was Scotch, and Mrs. McDannald was of Dutch descent.

James McDannald was a son of Alexander and Hannah McDannald, natives of Jefferson County, Tenn. J. M. McDannald began life for himself a poor man, and most of what he is now worth is the result of his own good management. Besides his splendid mill property he owns 200 acres of fine bottom land.

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