-3-
McTAGGART LINEAGE
There were four children in the McTaggart family, Neil, Daniel, Elizabeth and Isabelle , who lived in Scotland.
Daniel McTaggart came to U. S. first when a Mr. Rankin who had come over from Scotland sent for men to work on Schulkill Canal. He later came to Springfield and bought some land south of Springfield. He married Margaret, daughter of Mr. Rankin. They had no children. He built a stone house which is still standing. Uncle Daniel died at the old home and Aunt Margaret lived there until her death a few years later.
Isabelle and Elizabeth never married. They lived in Rothesay.
Neil McTaggart married Margaret Montgomery, and lived in Rothesay, where three sons, Alexander, Duncan and Robert were born. Later they moved to Culevin farm where resided until coming to U. S. Duncan was first one of this family to come to U. S. He came to Daniel McTaggart's near Springfield, Illinois.
In 1854 Mr. and Mrs. Neil McTaggart, two sons Robert and Alexander came to U. S. An extract from Sangamon County History: Neil L. McTaggart was born November 26, 1861 near Pawnee, Illinois. He attended school at Beaver Dam until after his father's death, when the family moved to Springfield, Illinois. Then he attended schools in Springfield, Illinois.
Later, the family moving to the farm, he helped on the farm, and for a number of years taught school in Montgomery County. In 1885 he married Katherine L. Hoppin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Hoppin of White Oak, Illinois, who came to Illinois from New York, with his father and brothers in 1844, driving 365 head of sheep all the way with only the loss of three sheep. After his marriage he moved to the farm where Grandpa McTaggart had lived which was now a part of the home farm. Later he moved to Divernon where he engaged in the mercantile business which he followed for a number of years. There were five children. Louise, wife of Carl Hoy, who with one daughter Katherine, live in Chicago.
Irving McTaggart married Sadie White of New Berlin, Illinois. He was in the first lot of boys sent to Camp Taylor for training in the World War. He served over seas and returned safely home at close of war. They have two little girls, Mary Dee and Betty Lou. Before going to camp be was bookkeeper at the mine at Divernon. Since that time he has held similar offices in Chicago and is now in Akron, Ohio.
Gertrude McTaggart who is at home with her mother in Divernon.
Marjorie McTaggart who is now the wife of Connely Foster, taught school for some time. During the World War she was in the Civil Service work in Washington, D. C., where she met Mr. Foster and later was married there. Later they moved to Maine and lived at Cleveland, Ohio. They have two children Neil and Dorothy. Mr. Foster died in July 1926.
Dorothy who as the other children had graduated from the Divernion Township High School, had attended Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, one year, when she became sick of infantile paralysis and died in a short time, July 1921
Turn To Page
-3-