Biography of David McNabb, pages 577 / 578.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

David McNabb is a native of Center County, Pa., born Dec. 9, 1819, a son of 
John and Mary (Young) McNabb, natives of Pennsylvania, the former of Scotch 
and the latter of English and Swiss descent.  When he was thirteen years of 
age his parents moved to Ashland County, Ohio, where he was reared, receiving 
a common school education.  In 1843 he came to De Kalb County, Ind., and 
entered eighty acres of wild land in Fairfield Township, on section 35, 
where he built a cabin and commenced to improve his land, he lived on this 
farm twenty years, and in 1863 sold it and bought the one where he now lives, 
on section 32.  His farm contains 120 acres of choice land, all under cultivation.  
Mr. McNabb was married Oct. 18, 1842, to Sophie Dunfee, a daughter of James and 
Sophie (Hazlett) Dunfee, who moved to Adams County, Pa., to Ohio in 1833.  Mr. 
and Mrs. McNabb have had eight children, seven of whom are living---James, 
George, John, Francelia, Warren, Martha and Frank.  Ella is deceased.  Mr. 
McNabb is a self-made man, having no means when he started in life for 
himself, but by his own industry and good management, assisted by a most 
estimable wife, he has accumulated a good property.  In politics he 
affiliates with the Democratic party.

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