McDannold was born in
Mount Sterling,
Brown County, Illinois on August 29, 1851. McDannold attended public schools and a private school in
Quincy, Illinois and graduated from the
law department of the
University of Iowa at
Iowa City in June 1874. He was
admitted to the
bar of Illinois in September 1874 and commenced practice in
Mount Sterling. McDannold was appointed master in chancery for Brown County in October 1885. He was elected county judge of Brown County in 1886, and re-elected in November 1890; he served until October 2, 1892, when he resigned, having been nominated for the U.S. Congress. McDannold was elected as a
Democrat to the
Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895). He lost renomination in 1894. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1895 and resumed the practice of law. He died in Chicago on February 3, 1904. He was interred in City Cemetery,
Mount Sterling, Illinois. ==References==