DR. C. H. NEAL, a prominent physician of Cardington, Ohio, forms the subject of this article.  Dr. Neal dates his birth in Mount Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, July 10, 1854.  His father, Dr. Daniel B. Neal, was born in Oldtown, Maine, where he spent the first thirty years of his age.  He then came to Ohio and settled in Knox county, from whence he subsequently removed to Mount Gilead, where he carried on the business of gunsmith for many years.  During the latter part of his life he was a practicing physician.  He died in Joplin, Missouri, at an advanced age.  The Neals are of Irish origin.  Dr. Daniel B. Neal married Miss Mary Bingham, a native of New York State, who came with her parents to Mount Gilead, Ohio, when she was seven years of age, where she was reared and educated and where she still resides.  She is of English and German descent.  They had a family of five children, namely: Johnson B., deceased: Edgar E., an editor of Cardington; Dr. Charles H., whose name appears at the head of this sketch; Clinton C., and Inez R.
     Dr. C. H. Neal was reared and educated in his native town.  For ten years he was engaged as a printer, four years of which time were spent at Cleveland, to which place he went in 1877.  He began the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. W. J. Scott and Dr. J. H. Lee, of Cleveland, and attended lectures at the medical college of that city.  For one year he was in the Charitable Hospital, and he also spent one year at the Lying-in Hospital in Cleveland.  In 1885 he came to Cardington and entered upon the active practice of his profession, and here his efforts have been attended with success, now having a large and lucrative practice.
     Dr. Neal was married April 11, 1889, to Elma Sharp, a native of Morrow county, and a daughter of Addison Sharp, who was reared in this county and who is a representative of one of the early pioneer families of Morrow county.  They have one child, Carl.
     Dr. Neal is a member of the Cuyahoga County Medical Association and of the Mystic Circle of Cardington.  His political views are in harmony with the principles advocated by the Republican party, and to this party he gives his support.  At this writing he is a member of the Board of Health.  Both as a physician and citizen, he stands high in the estimation of the people of Cardington.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, p. 247
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EDGAR E. NEAL, editor and proprietor of the Morrow County Independent Cardington, Ohio, is a son of one of the early settlers of this State.
     Mr. Neal’s grandfather Neal came from the Emerald Isle to this country at an early day and settled in Maine, where he married a native of England.  Their son, Daniel B., the father of Edgar E., was born in Maine, February 15, 1815.  He came West to Ohio and here, in 1849, married Mary L. Bingham, a native of New York State, born March 1, 1830, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Hagar) Bingham.  Her parents moved to this State in 1836 and settled one mile north of Mount Gilead, where they passed the rest of their lives and died, he being eighty-six at the time of death and she seventy-three.  Four of their children are now living, viz.: Mrs. Freeman Tabor, of Kendallville, Indiana; D. C. Bingham, of Gilead township, this county; Mrs. C. W. Carpenter, of Gilead township; and Mrs. Neal, of Mount Gilead.  After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Neal settled on a farm in Canaan township, this county, and two years later removed to Mount Gilead, where he carried on the business of gunsmith for a number of years.  He was a veteran of the Mexican war, and in politics was a Republican.  He died in the West, in 1878.  Of their five children, we record that Johnson B. married Libbie Smith, née Work, and was in partnership with our subject until December 7, 1892, when he died, leaving a widow and child, Harold; Edgar E. was the second born; Dr. C. H. is given personal mention elsewhere in this work; C. C., of Cardington, married Sadie Campbell and has two children, Edna L. and Howard Kent; and Inez, who resides with mother at Mount Gilead.
     Edgar E. Neal was born April 23, 1852, at Mount Gilead, and was reared and educated here, being a graduate of the high school with the class of 1869.  He served an apprenticeship in the printing business at Mount Gilead, and afterward worked for six years in various places, principally Cleveland, St. Louis and Kansas City.  Then for three years he had charge of his mother’s farm.  In 1882 he came to Cardington and took control of the Independent, which he is still conducting successfully, his home, however, being at Mount Gilead.
     Mr. Neal was married December 24, 1889, to Mrs. Emma (Bunker) Doty, a native of Cardington township, Morrow county, born August 17, 1853, and educated at Cardington and Ada.  For some years she was a popular and successful teacher.  She has two children, both by her first marriage, namely: Frances and Harley Doty.  She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while he is a Universalist.  Fraternally he is connected with the Masonic order at Cardington and the I. O. O. F. and Knights of Pythias at Mount Gilead.  In politics, he has been a Republican all his life, and he has always taken an active interest in political affairs, this year, 1894, serving as Secretary of the Republican County Convention.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 243-244
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ABRAHAM B. NEWSON, a farmer residing three miles north of Edison, Gilead township, Morrow county, Ohio, was born on his father’s farm adjoining Mount Gilead, Ohio, February 16, 1832, being the eighth of twelve children born to Abraham and Lucy (Friend) Newson.  He was reared at the old home, which his father located near Mount Gilead in the year 1825, at that time in the dense forest, being a very thickly timbered country, receiving his education in the old round school-house at Mount Gilead, and the adjoining district schools.  He remained at the home of his father until twenty-five years of age.  In February, 1857, he was united in marriage with Miss Phebe Ann Hull, who was born near Chesterville, Morrow county, Ohio, in the year 1833.  She was the daughter of Mahlon Hull, and a sister of Benjamin Hull, whose sketch appears in this work.  After his marriage, Mr. Newson lived on the farm of Benjamin Hull, near Edison, four years, and in 1861 removed to the farm which he now owns, situated three miles north of Edison, on what is called the Boundary road.  In 1883 he built a residence, which he and his family very much enjoy.
     Mr. and Mrs. Newson have had four children, namely: Georgianna Marie, now Mrs. W. F. Blayney, who has one daughter, Jessie; Charles William, who died when three and a half years of age; Laura Alice, wife of William Brockelsby, to whom four children have been born, ––Robert Abraham, Anna Mary, Maggie Ellen, and William Faris; and Elery A., now in his twentieth year and living at home.  Mr. Newson and wife are very fortunate in having all their children living near them, which is a great pleasure to them and makes them think this life almost too short.
     In religion they are followers of Christ, members of the Boundary Methodist Episcopal Church, situated near their home, in which they take great interest.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 164-165
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JOHN NEWSON, who is one of the prominent pioneer residents and representative agriculturists of Gilead township, Morrow county, has lived on the farmstead which he now occupies since he was a boy of five years, and he has witnessed and assisted in its development from a sylvan wild to its present condition of high cultivation, has replaced the rude forest lodge by a modern and attractive residence, and has attained to marked success in a material way as the result of his own efforts.  Such a life history is one which offers the most perfect justification for a work of this nature.
     Our subject is a native of Washington county, Maryland, where he was born on the 2d day of March, 1820, the son of Abraham Newson, whose place of nativity was the same county, where he grew to man’s estate, coming to Morrow (then Marion) county, Ohio, in the year 1825, when this section was yet, for the most part given over to the virgin forests and the dominion of the Indians and the wild animals.
     Abraham Newson located on the farm where his son, our subject, now lives, taking up his abode in a tent until he could complete his log cabin.  He secured this tract of wild land from the Government, this tract being 160 acres, and the place has ever since remained in the possession of the family.  He afterward purchased 640 acres of school land, and at the time of his death had 1,000 acres.  He was a Democrat of the Jeffersonian type, and religiously was a zealous adherent of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He was a man of gigantic physical proportions, having weighed 448 pounds.  His father, John Newson, was of Irish descent.
     The maiden name of our subject’s mother was Lucy Friend, and she was born in Maryland, where she was reared.  She died in the seventy-first year of her age.  Her father, Jacob Friend, was of English extraction.
     Abraham and Lucy Newson became the parents of twelve children, two of whom died in childhood, the others living to attain mature years, and seven of the number are living at the present time.  Our subject was the second son, and was five years of age when his parents removed from their old home in the East and took up their abode in the Buckeye State.  He grew up on the old homestead and received his educational discipline in the old log school-houses of the period, ––the same having quaint and meagre equipments and accessories, the seats being rude slab benches, and heat being provided by means of a huge fire in the center of the room.
     John Newson remained on his father’s farm until January, 1847, when was consummated his marriage to Ruth Blakeley, a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, where she was born April 14, 1822, the daughter of John Blakeley, who was also a native of the same county in the Old Dominion State, as was also his father, William Blakeley, who was of Irish descent.  John Blakeley came to Belmont county, Ohio, and there lived for eleven years, after which he came to Morrow county, where he passed the residue of his life, passing away in his eighty-third year.  His wife, née Jane Talbert, was born in Virginia, the daughter of Thomas Talbert, who was likewise born in that State.  She died in her forty-second year.  Mrs. Newson was the eldest of a family of eight children, comprising seven daughters and one son.  She was but four years of age when her parents came to Ohio, and was fourteen when they took up their abode in Morrow county.
     After his marriage our subject located on a part of the paternal homestead and gave himself assiduously to its improvement and cultivation.  At that time the nearest point at which groceries could be secured was eighteen miles distant, and for dry-goods they were compelled to go to Mansfield, ––a distance of twenty-three miles.  All kinds of wild animals native to this section were still abundant, and it was impossible for the settlers to raise sheep, on account of the depredations of the wolves.
     Mr. Newson’s residence farm is distinctively one of the finest in this section of the State, comprising 214 acres.  In addition to this place he has another farm of sixty acres, in Congress township.  He devotes his attention to general farming and to stock raising, and has ever been progressive and discriminating in his methods, avoiding old ruts and set habits and bringing to bear a mental function and business judgment in the operation of his fine farms.
     Other interests of financial order are held by our subject: he is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Mt. Gilead, and in the Buckeye Milling Company, of the same place.  He has accumulated a fine property as the result of his own well-directed efforts, and is honored as one of the successful men of the county and as one whose character is above reproach.  In politics Mr. Newson is a stanch supporter of the Democratic party.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 148-150
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