son of Malcolm and Jeannette (Renwick)McMurchy
MALCOLM McMURCHY, the present supervisor of South Grove township, is a fairly well known citizen of the county and is a practical farmer, one who has made a success of his chosen vocation. He was born in Kane county, Illinois, November 3, 1850, and is the son of Malcolm and Jeannette (Renwick) McMurchy, both of whom were natives of Scotland and who were the parents of six children, as follows: Daniel, Walter, John, Malcolm, Mary and Agnes.
Malcolm McMurchy, Sr. was reared in his native land and there learned the carpenter's trade, an "occupation which he followed exclusively while yet residing in his native land. In an early day he crossed the ocean to Canada, and in 1845 came to Kane county and there worked at his trade. On the 29th of March, 1842. he married Jeannette Renwick, a daughter of Walter Renwick, both of whom were natives of Scotland. William Renwick. the paternal great-grandfather of our subject, was a native of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and was also a farmer by occupation He emigrated to America with his family, and in De Kalb county, Illinois, engaged in farming, a vocation at which he continued until his death at the age of eighty years. Malcolm McMurchy, Sr., came to De Kalb county in 1850, and located on his farm where our subject now resides in 1863, and there died, February 14, 1865, at the age of sixty years.
The subject of this sketch grew to man- hood on his father's farm and has made farming his life work. He received a common- school education and by reading and observation has since become a well-informed man. He has a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, the old McMurchy homestead, which he has well improved and kept under the highest state of cultivation. He is quite prominent in his township and for three terms served as road commissioner, and in the spring of 1898 was elected supervisor of his township. In politics he is a thorough Republican and has voted with that party since attaining his majority. Fraternally he is a Mason, holding membership with the lodge at Creston.
