Rev. McCARTNEY, an Irishman, organized the United Presbyterian Church of Lacona in 1865 and was pastor until 1873. (Source: United Presbyterian Church Of Indianola, written by Emma SCHOOLEY, Rev M. Todd McDONALD, Mrs. Ethel Lindsay HUNT, and Kenneth E. SMITH, is copied from The History of Warren County, Iowa, compiled by the Warren County Genealogical Society, Curtis Media Corp., Dallas, Texas, 1987, p.408-409) and (Chronology of the early settlers of White Breast Township and Lacona compiled by Edith HEEMSTRA and John FORD sometime around 1980.)