Bio: McDonald, Ranald D. (1881) 
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Surnames: McDonald

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 563

RANALD D. MCDONALD, Wausau, was born in the Highlands of Scotland, Jan. 3, 1849, and came to America with his parents, Duncan and Mary McDonald, who settled near Cornwall, Province of Ontario, when he was about five years old. Mr. McDonald lived in Canada until 1863, when he came to Wausau, Wis., and engaged in lumbering. He was pilot on the river, worked in the woods, lumbering for himself until 1876. In April, 1877, he went to the Pacific coast; after spending about six months there he returned to Wausau. March 10, 1879, he commenced the liquor business, and in 1880 resumed lumbering on his own account, and cuts about 1,700,000 feet of logs annually.