Barton County, Missouri Biographies-James McGRATH

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages 919, 920

James McGrath was born in Beaver County, Penn., in 1819, and since 1881
has been a resident of Barton County, Mo.  He first moved from his 
native State to Illinois in 1834, and was there married to Miss Jane 
Haas, who was born in Kindgom of Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1830.  To them 
were born eight sons and two daughters: Thomas G., John A., Samuel F.,
James W., Mary C., Charles H., William H., Phoeby A., Jessie G., and
Birdy S. McGrath.  Mr. and Mrs. McGrath own 320 acres of land in Hickory
County, Mo., and eighty acres of land in Barton County, Mo., on which
they reside.  He is a Republican in his political views.  His father, 
Samuel McGrath, was born in Newtown Steward, Tyrone County, Ireland, in
1788, and came to America in 1806, settling first in Philadelphia, and
going thence to Harrisburg, where he worked at his trade as a shoe and
boot maker, and later to Pittsburg, where he went into the sheep business,
He served in the War of 1812, and was in the famous battle of Bunker 
Hill, and died at the age of ninety-six being active and energetic up to
the last.  His father, James by name, lived and died in Ireland, being a 
merchant on a small scale, in Newtown Stewart.  Jane (Denning) McGrath,
the mother of our subject, is of Scotch descent, her ancestors having
moved from their native land to Ireland.  One brother settled in the hills,
and the other one in glens, and the latter had the word Glen prefixed to 
his name, making it Glendenning.  Mr. James McGrath is a descendant of 
the fifth generation of the brother who settled in the hills.

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