History of Wausau, (Marathon County) Wisconsin United States of America

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Walter Duncan McIndoe Biography

Walter Duncan McIndoe, representative, was born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, March 30, 1819; son of Hugh and Catharine (McCrae) McIndoe. He attended school in Dumbartonshire until 1836, when he removed to New York, where He was a bookkeeper until 1840. He followed the same pursuit in Virginia and Charleston, S.C., 1840-42, and in St. Louis, Mo., 1842-45. He was married, Feb. 20, 1845, to Catherine H. Taylor, of Florisant, Mo. In the fall of 1845 he removed to Wausau, Marathon county, Wis., where he engaged in lumbering. He represented his district in the state legislature in 1850 and 1854-55, and was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Wisconsin in 1857. He was elected a Republican representative to the 37th congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Luther Hanchett in December, 1862, and was re-elected to the 38th and 39th congresses, serving from Jan. 26, 1863, till March 3, 1867. He was chairman of the committee on Revolutionary pensions in the 39th congress. He was a presidential elector on the Fr?mont and Dayton ticket in 1856; the Lincoln and Hamlin ticket in 1860, and the Grant and Colfax ticket in 1872, and a delegate to the Philadelphia "Loyalists' convention" of 1866. He died at Wausau, Wis., Aug. 22, 1872.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor