McINTYRE, Robert - Major - Putnam

Major Robert McIntyre was a native of Chester county, Pennsylvania, emigrated to Indiana, and was the first who settled in the territory. As a testimony of his high moral worth, unbending integrity, and strong mind, he was selected by his fellow citizens of Washington county, Indiana, as a delegate to form the state constitution. He removed to Fountain county in 1835, and was subsequently elected and reelected to the state legislature. Up to the time of his death, he carried a bullet, and bore the marks of a wound received while contending with the enemy as a major in the Indian battle, upon the sanguinary field of Tippecanoe. He died at the residence of William Harris, near Keosauqua, Iowa Territory, on October 17, 1848, at the age of eighty years.