BIOGRAPHIES
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NORMAN L. MACLACHLAN Source:
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WILLIAM MADSUSE Source:
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CHARLES MALLEN Source:
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JEROME M. MARTIN. Among the busiest, most energetic and
enterprising men of McComb, is the subject of this review, the senior member of
the hardware firm of Martin & Weinland. He was born at Commercial Point,
Pickaway County, Ohio, in 1854, and when only a year and a half old was deprived by
death of his mother, and at the age of six years was left an orphan by his
father’s death.
Mr. Martin remained in the place of
his nativity until twenty-one years of age and during that time acquired a good
common-school education, well fitting him for the practical and responsible
duties of life. In the winter months
he attended schools and in the summer seasons worked on a farm, thus providing
for his own support from an early age.
In the year 1875, with the capital which he had acquired through his own
exertions, he embarked in the grocery business at Napoleon,
Ohio, but after a year spent at that place he
sold his store and removed to Decatur, Illinois, where he opened a
restaurant. He conducted the new
enterprise for a year and then returned to Napoleon, where he followed the trade
of carpentering, which he learned there, also executing contracts for work of
that nature. He remained in Napoleon
until 1888, when he came to McComb and established his hardware store, having
one of the largest and best stocked stores in this line of commercial activity
in northern Ohio. The firm carries an extensive stock
in order to meet the constantly growing demands of its trade, and the business
is continually increasing, both in volume and importance.
In 1877, in
Napoleon, Mr. Martin was united in
marriage to Miss Clara J. Weaver, and
they now have a pleasant home and many friends in McComb.
Mr. Martin is a democrat in his
political views and has taken an active part in political affairs, serving as a
member of the city council of Napoleon.
He was also chief of the fire department, acting in that capacity for a
number of years in a most capable manner.
For six years, from 1893 until 1899, he served as treasurer of McComb,
and from the latter date until the present time he has been the treasurer of
Pleasant township, Hancock county.
In 1888 he was a member of the city council here, and is an officer whose
political record is above reproach, for he is true to every trust reposed in him
and is loyal and patriotic in the discharge of his duties. Fraternally he is connected with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is an exemplary representative of the
organization. His attention,
however, is closely give to his business interests, which are now of an
extensive character, and in the control of which he is meeting with very
desirable success.
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CHARLES W. MASCHO
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ALBERT C. MATTHIAS
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MOSES McANELLY
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GEORGE McARTHUR
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WILLIAM H. McELWAINE
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MARTIN P. McGEE
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JOSEPH R. McLEOD
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LEMUEL McMANNESS
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JEFFERSON C. McRILL
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MRS. HARRIET H. MEASEL
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JOHN H. MELLOTT
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ARNOLD F. MERRIAM was the
second lawyer to locate in Findlay. He was born in
Brandon, Vermont, December 17, 1811, and was there educated and
began the study of law. In early manhood he removed to
Zanesville, Ohio, where he completed his law studies and was
admitted to practice. He soon afterward started for Vinton
county, where he intended to locate, but during his journey met
Wilson Vance, who induced him to change his mind and come
to Findlay. He arrived here in the spring of 1835, and
entered into partnership with Edson Goit. In June,
1836, he was appointed prosecuting attorney, which office he
filled till April, 1837, when he resigned. On the 27th of
May, 1837, he married Miss Sarah A. Baldwin, sister of
Dr. William Baldwin, who bore him one son and two daughters.
In January, 1838, Mr. Merriam started the Hancock
Republican, the first Whig paper published in the county,
which he published about a year. He then removed to
Mansfield, Ohio, sold the press and subsequently went to
Kentucky, where he died in July, 1844. His widow returned
with her family to Findlay, and afterward married Judge
Robert Strother. The lady is now living here, the
venerable Mrs. S. A. Strother, whom everybody loves and
reveres. Though Mr. Merriam followed his
profession about four years in this county, he left Findlay at
such an early date that little is remembered of him by the older
citizens still living.
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W. M. METZLER
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HARVEY C. MILEY
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ALEXANDER MILLER
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FRANCIS M. MILLER
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LEVI MILLER
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WILLIAM B. MILLER. Industry is a leading characteristic
of the German people, and this fact probably accounts in a measures at least for
the unrelenting activity that has marked the life of
William B. Miller and those who went before him.
Hard work and rigid economy made of the father a comparatively wealthy man, and
despite the heavy expense of raising a large family,
Martin Miller was able to give his
son William eighty acres as a start
in business.
Christopher Miller came to this
country from Germany
in 1805, settling in Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania.
Martin, the son, was but eight
years old when he landed, remained there until 1816, when at the age of nineteen
he moved to Fairfield
county, this state. Here his son William was born, Feb. 11, 1825,
and here the family resided until the death of the parents,
Martin dying in 1877, and his wife, who was Catherine Baker, in 1884. She was a native of Sunberry, Pennsylvania,
and was seven years younger than her husband, having been born in 1804. They were members of the Reformed
church and Mr. Miller was a
Republican in politics. They had
seventeen children; thirteen grew to maturity, seven are still living, and of
this number two reside in this county.
At the age of
twenty-two, in 1847, William Miller
removed to Hancock county, and three years later added by purchase one hundred
acres to the eighty he had received as a gift from his father. Some of this land was not in the best
state of cultivation and Mr. Miller
set about at once to improve it. He
subsequently sold twenty acres to a neighbor.
On Mar. 24, 1845,
he was united in marriage to Miss Jane,
daughter of William and Susan S. Martin. She bore him thirteen children, of
whom eight are living. She was a
native of Ohio, born in Fairfield
county June 18, 1823, and is now deceased.
For his second wife he married
Mrs. Helen E. Flack.
Mr. Miller
lives very near the southeastern limits of
Findlay, on one hundred and sixty acres of valuable
farming land, and is very intimately associated with the political and religious
life of the town. He is one of the
strong men in the Republican party, has held the office of township treasurer
and has also been one of the trustees of
Marion
township. He was justice of the
peace for some time and in 1879 was nominated by his party as member of the
state legislature. It was in the
same year that Governor Foster was
defeated by a vote of three hundred and ninety-seven, and
Mr. Miller was beaten by a majority of two hundred and ninety-five votes. A comparison of these numbers will
indicate the degree of Mr. Miller’s
popularity. As superintendent of the
Sunday-school and class leader of the United
Brethren church,
Mr. Miller has put a personality into
his work, the influence of which is very wide-reaching in its effects.
Mr. Miller and his family belong to this church and in Findlay he is counted as one of this county’s most
popular, progressive and representative men.
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PARLEE MITCHELL
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THOMAS M. MITCHELL
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DR. WILLIAM R. MOFFETT.
This an age of progress, and America is the exponent of the
spirit of the age. Perhaps no greater advancement has been
made along professional lines than in dentistry. New
methods have been introduced, and the profession has largely
attained perfection. Fully in touch with the advancement
which has been made, Dr. William R. Moffett stands as a
leading representative of the dental fraternity in Hancock
county, residing and doing business in Arcadia, the town of his
birth. Dr. Moffett here first saw the light on Jan.
3, 1871. He is the son of William and Sarah (Chambers)
Moffett, both of whom are natives of the Emerald Isle.
The father was born in County Down, July 1, 1837. The
parents are married in their native isle and emigrated to this
country to 1866, remaining a short time in Philadelphia, after
which they removed to Arcadia, where Mr. Moffett engaged
in the mercantile business for a short period. He then
entered the drug business, which he successfully carried on for
a period of twenty years. He was a man of superior
intelligence and education, and made a marked impression on
those with whom he came in touch. He was a ready writer of
both prose and poetry, and an interesting and fluent speaker.
He served Arcadia in the capacity of postmaster for a number of
years, and served the township in holding with credit some of
its offices. In religious faith he was a strict
Presbyterian, in which organization he was an elder. His
death occurred Jul. 2, 1899, an event which spread gloom over
the entire community, for it was the loss of a good citizen.
The wife still survives, and of five children, namely: George
H., William R., David E., Mary and Margaret B.
The mother of Dr. Moffett was a sister of Dr. John
Chambers, deceased, a noted clergyman of Indianapolis,
Indiana. He was also a professor in the Indiana Medical
College and a surgeon of note. The Chambers family
were of Scotch-English descent.
Dr. Moffett passed the days of his boyhood and
youth in the village of his birth, where he received an
excellent education, graduating with honor from the high school.
In 1893 he was given a license as a practicing dentist, and
immediately opened an office at Ottawa, Ohio, where his work
proved so satisfactory that his patronage became very extensive.
He remained at Ottawa until 1900, at which time he returned to
his native place, where he is now practicing. Dr.
Moffett uses the very latest methods of dentistry in his
office, and his work is done to the entire satisfaction of his
numerous and still growing patronage. In connection with
his dental practice Mr. Moffett also dips somewhat into
agriculture, having purchased a farm of seventy acres near
Arcadia. In 1891 Dr. Moffett was united in marriage
to Miss Nora Moffitt. Miss Moffitt was the daughter
of John J. and Edith Moffitt, and was born in Blanchard
township, Feb. 17, 1873. To this felicitous marriage there
have been born two lovely daughters, Jessie Aldine, born
Jan. 27, 1893, and Edith Pauline, born Jun. 2, 1895.
Dr. and Mrs. Moffett are popular members of
society in Hancock county, where their circle of friends is
extensive, and the regard in which they are held in uniform.
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JOHN MONTGOMERY
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JOHN T. MONTGOMERY
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WILLIAM MONTGOMERY
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JOHN M. MOORHEAD
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NELSON MORRISON
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PHILEMON B. MORRISON
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ROBERT B. MOTHERWELL
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EDWIN R. MOYER
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M. M. MOYER.
Edwin R. Moyer, the son of poor
Pennsylvania
parents, was inured to hardships in youth, and as he grew up learned the trade
of shoemaking, which he pursued some years as a means of livelihood. After his marriage to
Lucinda Grinawalt he obtained possession of a small piece of land, whose cultivation, in
connection with his work on the beach, enabled him with difficulty to support
his growing family. Thinking to
better his fortunes by a movement to the west, he came about 1866 to Hancock
county, where he bought eighty acres of land in Union township. This place, however, being found
unsuitable on account of size and other reasons, he disposed of it to buy a
tract double its size, on which he established his family as comfortably as
possible. From that time on he
abandoned his shoemaker’s tools, and by devoting his whole attention to the farm
obtained a success beyond his most sanguine expectations. In fact the quondam shoemaker proved
to be an excellent agriculturist and soon became noted for the abundance as well
as quality of his crops, while his stock was among the finest and fattest in the
land. As
Edwin’s circumstances improved his family kept pace with the increased income, and in time
Mr. and Mrs. Moyer found their
household enlivened by the presence of twelve lusty children. The boys as they grew up all proved
to be sober and industrious, and were of great assistance to their father in
carrying on his farming operations.
In time they all married and without exception have done well, being found in
honorable positions in the various walks of life and respected as useful
citizens. The father, after doing
his full duty during a long and blameless life, passed away in 1888, and four
years later his good wife, Lucinda,
was laid by his side in the family burying ground.
M. M. Moyer, one of the sons of this
worthy couple, was born in Lehigh county,
Pennsylvania, in July, 1862, and hence
was only about four years old when his parents settled in Hancock county. He had no aspirations aside from
farming, and having learned the details of this business under his father’s
tutelage adopted it as his regular calling as soon as he approached manhood. When his mother died, in 1890, he
bought the interest of the other heirs in half of the homestead, and now owns
eighty acres of his father’s original purchase.
This tract he has been cultivating for twelve years with such skill and
industry as to be ranked as one of the most promising of the younger generation
of farmers, while his genial character and kind disposition have gained him the
good will of all his neighbors. He
attends closely to business, manages his farm with judgment and his operations
have yielded him a steady and increasing income.
In the same year that he effected the purchase of his place he led to the
altar Miss Alice, the accomplished
daughter of Dr. F. C. Steingraver,
and this union, which proved in every way happy and congenial, resulted in the
birth of three bright children, whose names are
Frederick E., Helen M. and
Myron D.
Mr. and Mrs. Moyer are members of the Methodist Protestant church, in
which he holds the position of trustee and steward. The success of
Mr. Moyer, taken in connection with
the standing obtained by his numerous brothers and sisters, shows that the
emigration of the Pennsylvania shoemaker made a valuable addition to the stanch
citizenship of Hancock county.
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URIAH B. MOYER
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