Died in this village, on Thursday morning, the 14th inst, of apoplexy, Col. John McNair, in the 58th year of his age. Col McNair was a native of Fayette county, Kentucky and immigrated to the Lead mines in 1827, and has been for upwards of 24 years a citizen of Mineral Point and its vicinity. He served as an officer in the 17th Regiment of U. S. Infantry in the war of 1812, also as a volunteer under Gen. Henry Dodge in the Black Hawk War in 1832, and was severely wounded at the battle of the Wisconsin, for which he drew a pension from the Government. At the time of his death he was Treasurer of this county, and was nominated but a few days before his death, for re-election. He was a man of kind and humane feelings, ever ready to search out, and contribute to the wants of the poor. Always faithful in the discharge of every duty both public and private, he had endeared himself to all who knew him, and his loss will long be felt and mourned by a large portion of our community. Wisconsin Tribune Oct 21, 1852