Earl Howard McIntyre

        Born June 25, 1895, Earl Howard McIntyre was the third of five brothers, son of Ella Ann (Adams) and Amon McIntyre. Though both the Adams and McIntyre families had lived in Iowa for decades, in 1900, the McIntyre family, along with grandparents, John R. and Elmyra Fry McIntyre, moved to California.  On June 8th of that year, the Federal Census from Woodbine, Iowa listed Ella Ann and the boys with Earl's age as five years.  On June 19th, the entire family was in Santa Clara County, California and Earl was only four.

       According to the census, Amon was an "orchardist," which by definition meant that he was in charge of an orchard. In the 1890s, the French Prune had been introduced in the area of Gilroy township, California, and farming switched from grain and hay fields to rows of fruit trees.

Earl is on the left

 

        As of yet, I haven't discovered why the McIntyres left California, but by 1910, they were back in Iowa.  Some sources say that Grandmother Elmyra died in 1905 in  Kings County, California, yet her grave is near Woodbine, Iowa.  She could have been brought back to Iowa after her death.  I, frankly, don't know. Were they in Santa Clara County at the time of the San Francisco Great Earthquake? That would have been ample reason to return to the place where the "rolling hills" were the result of topography rather than seismic activity!

     Nevertheless, in 1910, the McIntyre Pharmacy stood on the main street in Moorhead, Iowa, and Amon, Ella Ann and their sons were members of the Woodbine, Iowa RLDS Church.