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E. C. MANNING Source: History of Clermont and Brown
Counties, Ohio - Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ.
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ALBERT McADAMS. In popular usage
for a hundred and twenty years in Ohio, the name of
McAdams has been associated with the strong and
lasting characteristics of the family and held to be an
example of Irish origin. But to one who has
studied the story nothing is more certain than that this
usage has taken a special incident for a general
condition. Because of political changes, some
localities have large influence in determining the
origin of families. In no place where English is
spoken is this significance more positive than in the
north of Ireland.
Because of their sympathy with the French in the long
struggle for English supremacy, military necessity
decreed the extirpation of the Irish from their
strategic-advantage in north
Ireland. The desolated land was thus opened for a
migration from Scotland devoted to the Presbyterian
Faith which insured no amalgamation with the people
banished southward. When those strangers in
Ireland began to seek homes in America, they were called
Scotch-Irish, which then explained their relations to
other emigrants. After while the sharp lines
of that distinction wore away, and not a few deemed
themselves Irish, when, except for short residence in
the transition, they were pure Scotch. Few people
of equal number have had
more influence in shaping America; and along the line of
migration few places have been more significant of their
struggle than the extreme northeastern county of
Ireland, named Antrim, where John McAdams
was born, May 9, 1737, and the near-by scenes of the
famous siege of Londonderry, where his wife, Ann,
was born, in 1750.
Ephraim, the eldest of the ten children of
John and Ann
McAdams, was born May 25, 1767. The other
children, with
date of birth, were: John, Mar. 28, 1769;
James, May 7,
1771; Katharine, Sept. 7, 1773; Hamilton,
Sept. 20,
1777; William, Sept. 17, 1779; Armstrong,
Feb. 23,
1786; Suter, Sept. 11, 1790; Thomas, Nov.
20, 1793.
How many of these were born in Ireland is not known, but
the
family came to Northumberland county, Pennsylvania,
where Ephraim, on Dec. 17, 1793, married Charity M. Birt, and
in 1794 moved to Columbia, Ohio. He was a tailor by
trade.
On Dec. 15, 1796, he bought the first lots sold in Williamsburg, as told on Page 206 of our History; but he
did
not bring his family here until 1800. The children of
Ephraim and Charity, with date of birth, were:
Nancy, Oct. 30,
1794; Samuel, July 6, 1797; Hannah, Feb. 7, 1799;
Ephraim, Oct. 13, 1800; Hamilton, Feb. 19, 1802;
Julia A., Dec. 2, 1803; John A. and James,
Nov.
14, 1805; Catharine, Apr. 11, 1808; Delilah, Feb. 15,
1810. After that, Charity died.
Ephraim then married Catharine Hartman,
who was born Sept. 27, 1785. Catharine was
one of the eight children of Christopher and Mary
Hutchinson Hartman. Christopher Hartman
was born in 1750, in Swintzburg, Hesse Cassel, Germany,
whence he was brought in 1753 by his father,
Christopher Hartman, Sr., with three older brothers,
to Philadelphia. Christopher, Jr., served
in Smallwood’s regiment in the Revolution. His
wife, Mary, to whom he was married in 1776, was
born Mar. 24, 1755, in Mercer county, New Jersey.
In September, 1795, they moved to Lexington, Ky., and in
November, 1801, to Williamsburg. In 1802 he
settled on five hundred
acres in what is Jackson township. where he died, Mar.
16, 1833, and Mary, his wife, Aug. 6, 1839.
Christopher Hartman was granted a pension
on May 14, 1833, for service in the Revolution in the
New Jersey militia. The children of Ephraim and
Catharine Hartman McAdams, with date of birth, were:
Mary Ann, June 8, 1812; Thomas, June 6,
1813; William, Jan. 5, 1815; Andrew J.,
Oct. 14, 1816; Isaac Newton, Mar. 14,
1818; Joseph Warren, Aug. 27, 1819.
After that Catharine died, and Ephraim
married Martha Boyd, with whom he had
Manorah, born July 21, 1821; Harvey, Jan. 24,
1826, and Riley, Mar. 19, 1828. Of these,
eighteen lived to have familis, of which some
became numerous and some are extinct.
The pioneer Ephraim McAdams has frequent
mention in the early annals of Clermont. On May
26. 1801, he was foreman of, the second grand jury of
Old Clermont, in the time of the Territory. On
Dec. 28, 1803, he was one of the first grand jury
convened by the State. In June, 1804, he was a
member of the next grand jury, of which Col.
Robert Higgins was foreman; and, for the May
term in 1806, he served on the grand jury of which
Gen. William Lytle was foreman. In reading
those old grand jury lists one finds that much care
was used in selecting the worthiest for what they deemed
an important duty. In 1808 he and his wife,
Charity, were in the little band that organized the
Presbyterian church in Williamsburg that met for
twenty-two years in the stone courthouse under Rev.
R. B. Dobbins. He took the first three degrees
of Masonry in Clermont Social Lodge on Feb. 9 to Mar.
22, 1816; whereupon he was soon asked by the
Presbyterian church, of which he was an elder, which
would he serve, the church or the lodge? It could
not be both. On Nov. 1, 1816, the lodge ordered
the purchase of material for a coat for Rev.
Dobbins, which was accepted, and probably fashioned
by McAdams, the tailor, who remained a firm
Presbyterian and a zealous Mason to his death, May 11,
1842.
Nine of his name followed him into the same lodge.
Meanwhile, William, a son of Benjamin and
Eleanor Smith, was born, Jan. 3, 1772, and married
Lucretia. a daughter of William and Elizabeth
Johnson, who was born Dec. 5, 1773. William
and Lucretia Johnson Smith had thirteen children,
named and born as follows: Eleanor, Nov.
28, 1795; Ephraim, Sept. 2, 1797; Elizabeth,
Mar. 28, 1799; Delilah, Feb. 2, 1801; Benjamin
Thomas, Nov. 12, 1802; Deidaemia, Apr. 2,
1804; Hannah, May 11, 1806; William Taylor,
Aug. 17, 1808. The family moved, in 1809, from
Monmouth county, New Jersey, and settled on the Xenia
road, about three miles north of Williamsburg, in what
is now Jackson township, where the children born were
Mahala, Mar. 4, 1810; Johnson, Oct. 4, 1811;
Sarah, Dec. 5, 1813; Nancy Clark, Sept.
20, 1817, and Alonzo, Aug. 20, 1819.
In 1812 John and Anna Lambkins White came from
New York and settled near William Smith with a
family, of whom several were born in Ohio, to the number
of eleven, named, Ansol, Lyman, Anna, Harriet, John,
Sarah, Melinda, Amanda, Lucinda, Bartlett C. and
Clarissa. Of these Ephraim Smith and Amanda
White were married. She, Amanda, was
born May 9 1803, and lived until Apr. 12, 1881, but
Ephraim died May 13, 1854. Their home is the
last farm to the north in Williamsburg township on the
Xenia road, and their children, as born and named, were:
Lavanchia, Dec. 23, 1822; Evaline, Aug.
20, 1824; Amariah, Jan. 10, 1826; Bolivar,
Jan. 27, 1828; Sarah Ann, Dec. 20, 1830;
Bartlett, Nov. 2, 1832; John Harvey, Aug. 5,
1834; Eratus C., Nov. 5, 1836; Mary Ellen,
Nov. 23, 1841; and Melvina, Sept. 20, 1845.
All the people so far mentioned in this sketch are dead
except Erastus C., who, though severely wounded
at the battle of Corinth, Oct. 4, 1862, while a soldier
in Company K, of the Twenty-seventh Ohio, is a wealthy
farmer in Jewel county, Kansas; and Melvina, who
is in Williamsburg as the widow of Francis Hutchinson,
a veteran of Company B, of the Fifth Ohio cavalry.
The posterity of these families is literally scattered
from ocean to ocean.
Isaac Newton McAdams, of the Hartman line, was
married May 5, 1843, to Lavanchia Smith.
Their children were: Harvey. born Jan. 4, 1847;
Albert, born Apr. 4, 1849; Amanda, Sept.
7, 1853, and died Sept. 30, 1853; Riley, Dec. 14,
1854, and Ephraim, Mar. 6, 1858.
I. N. McAdams was one among the first from
Clermont to cross the “Plains” to California in search
of gold. The trip occupied six months with the ox
trains, which so cooled his "gold fever” that he soon
returned and worked at his trade as a cooper. On
Sept. 30, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, of the
Fifty-ninth Ohio, from which he was discharged on Aug.
18, 1862, on a surgeon’s certificate of disability.
After that he went again to the Western gold fields,
taking his son. Harvey, who has remained
there. About 1867 he returned to Williamsburg,
where his wife died Dec. 30, 1880, and where he died
Sept. 28, 1891, having been an enthusiastic Mason over
forty years.
Albert, second son of I. N. and Lavanchia
Smith McAdams, learned the carpenter’s trade, but
fortunately, on Nov. 20, 1877, ventured into the
carriage trade as a traveling sales
man for the once noted Davis, Gould & Co., of
Cincinnati, with whom he continued thirteen years, or
during the life of their business. In their employ
he went to every important place in the United States,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from northern to
southern extremes. That business is still
continued on broad lines and with a success that has
made him the owner of several fine homes in choice
places. Quite in accordance with his grandfather
and father’s teaching, he became a Mason, Apr, 15, 1870,
when just twenty-one years and one day old.
On Aug. 12, 1885, he was married to Mary Gray Jones
at Hillsboro, Ohio, where she had been raised and
educated. But she was born in 1852 at Norfolk,
Va., where her mother, whose maiden name was Mary Ann
Gray, was born, in 1824. Her father, Loren
Jones, was born in New York, in 1818, and died there, in
1905. Mrs. Mary Ann Jones had two brothers
in Norfolk who were each lost at sea with the ships they
owned. but she died Aug. 9, 1889, in Williamsburg.
The only child of Albert and Mary Gray McAdams
was born Feb. 20, 1894, in Williamsburg, and named
Joseph Loren, who is now a student in St. Xavier’s
College. Joseph’s mother died Jan. 15,
1905, in Norwood, where the family had moved five years
before. On Nov. 28, 1906, Albert McAdams
married Katherine Friend O’Connor, one of the
eight children of John and Margaret Dunn O’Connor,
of Portsmouth, Ohio. They have a pleasant home on
Clarion avenue in Cincinnati. Of the the children
of I. N. and Lavanchia McAdams, Ephraim is
not married; Riley married Ella
McKibben and has Harry and Lavanchia;
and Harvey, living in Nevada, has one daughter,
Augusta.
Source: History of Clermont and
Brown Counties, Ohio - Vol. II - by Byron Williams -
Publ. 1913 - Page 406 |
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ANDREW MCGREW.
A name that was to be familiar in northern Clermont and
about Cincinnati was brought from the city of Baltimore
in September, 1806, to the vicinity of Milford by
Andrew McGrew. He had served in the Revolution
according to one account, he had married Hannah Rust,
and they had a family of seven sons and two daughters.
He also had some means for that time, for he bought a
large tract of land, stretching toward Newberry, from
the house by Matson's Hill, looking upon what is
East Milford, but then was McCormick's, the
birthplace of Methodistic faith north of the Ohio.
He had means to keep one of the early stores. The
name soon appeared in the early records. On May
14, 1807, Philip Gatch, M. G., meaning minister
of the gospel, married Jonathan McGrew to Ruth
Crawford. At the term of the common pleas
court, beginning Feb. 21, 1809, the first held in the
new stone court house in Williamsburg, Andrew McGrew
appeared as one of the grand jurors. Other members
of that grand jury were, Capt. Daniel Feagans,
the pioneer of the vicinity now called Georgetown;
Lieut. Cornelius McCollum, from the John Collins
"Jersey Settlement" by the mouth of Clover;
Jasper Shotwell, promoted to be an ensign
when his captain, Jacob Boerstler, was
killed at the battle of Browns town, in the War of 1812;
Henry Zumatt, soon to be a colonel in the
War of 1812; Houton Clarke, the tavern
keeper from Bethel, and the father of Congressman R.
W. Clarke: Jacob Ulrey, the mighty
hunter from Ulrey’s Run; Isaac Higbee,
who came with Rev. John Collins, when he preached
the first Methodist sermon in Cincinnati; and Capt.
Andrew Harry, from Maryland, who was making hats in
Williamsburg. Several wolf scalps were presented
at that term for the bounty money paid. Authority
to solemnize marriage was conferred for the first time
on the wonderfully eloquent Rev. George C. Light,
for whom his nephew. Judge George L. Swing,
was named. As a thousand times longer has been
required to find than to read the items, we hope that
some will appreciate the associations of the pioneer
McGrew, who was also a Methodist, and no doubt rode
to court over the Round Bottom and Deerfield road with
his neighbors and brothers in the church, Judge
Philip Gatch and Judge Ambrose
Ransom, who sat on the judicial bench at that court.
Two years later, Andrew “Megrue,” who had
made a good impression, was certified for a commission
as a justice of the peace for old Clermont from Miami
township, which, though on the side of the big county,
was getting her share. At the June term of the
court in 1812, Andrew “Megrue” made
application to alter the road from Milford passing
through Ransom’s, and the road leading from Harner’s Run
to Stonelick, near Captain Slone’s.
He was perparing the ways and straightening the
paths through the large tract that was to be partitioned
among his children. The children had most of their
schooling in Maryland, but a school house on Harner’s
Run is mentioned in a
road description in 1809, on the same line that “Megrue”
wanted to change in 1812. The spelling of the name
also changed then, and some have never got right since.
Yet, the name does not easily take a French style, and
no art can change the fine Scotch-Irish cast of the
people who should be proud to keep the Gaelic form.
Jonathan, married in 1807, was one of Andrew’s
seven sons,
but William, the eldest, waited longer and then
married Rachel, a daughter of Ebenezer
Newton, who had come from Cape May to Milford about
the same time. Newton had taught along the
Ohio river and then in the South, where he gained strong
views of slavery. He was the author of a work on
simplified spelling, that met the usual fate of such
effort.
The third brother among the six sons and one daughter
of William and Rachel McGrew, was born on a farm
near Mt. Repose, Mar. 3, 1817, and named Andrew
after his pioneer grandfather. Soon after, his
father kept a store at Newberry, but later moved to Mill
creek valley and farmed on what is now a part of Spring
Grove cemetery. He learned his trade as an
apprentice with Cassett, the edge tool maker on Main
street. With fine intelligence and characteristic
determination he mastered the machinery and learned the
engineering of the establishment. At one time and
another he installed machinery on Sugar plantations, and
was an engineer on the river. In this way he had a
large chance to ponder the force of a never forgotten
remark heard in boyhood and made to his father,
William, by his grandfather, teacher Ebenezer
Newton: “Slavery is a National evil and will bring a
National curse. It may not come in my day or
your day, but I should not be surprised if these
children lived to see it." Andrew McGrew
lived to see it, and was only surprised that it did not
come sooner—so heinous was slavery in his sight.
He left the river to take the management of John
Kugler’s extensive enterprise at "Tippecanoe." which
was the facetious name given during and after the “Log
Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign" for General
Harrison in 1840. The name was suggested by
the local preponderance of such sentiment, before
experiment had proved the stability of an earthbed, the
Little Miami railway track was a structure of long
sleepers and cross ties, and more sills and ties, until
a sill held a flat strap of iron that was nailed down,
and sometimes curled up at the ends into and through the
floor of the cars above with injury to freight and
terror to passengers. And, all the while, the wood
work below rotted in wet, or caught fire in dry weather.
In the lack of better ways, millions of feet of the
finest oak were required in the square, which John
Kugler contracted largely to furnish.
Before the invention of little saw mills that can be
taken to the logs. Kugler built a huge
steam saw mill, where Glancy’s Run is crossed by
the Deerfield or Lebanon road, a half-mile north of
Williams' Corners. Even the ashes are effaced.
But among the multitude of choppers.
loggers and mill men, with scores of yokes and teams to
haul the logs and deliver the timber, when roads had to
be made, the young, large, strong, McGrew went as
Kugler’s factotum of mechanical and executive
detail. Kugler was the successor of
Samuel Perin as the commercial master, each
in his turn, of his region and time. Their
endorsement stands as a prime certificate of the ability
and worth of their assistants. The business at
Tippecanoe developed the quality of leadership that
marked Andrew McGrew for attention and
respect wherever he mingled.
A youthful mind cannot at once grasp the progress
spanned by his activities. While an
apprentice he helped to make the iron work that joined
the wooden tubes for the early water works of
Cincinnati, and the iron mountains for the cannon
sent by that city to aid the independence of Texas.
But he lived to the end of full sympathy with true
improvement. He lived for awhile at Westboro, and
at Columbus, always busy, energetic and useful.
In 1869 he returned to Milford, and in 1873 bought the
fine residence of the late Gen. Thomas Gatch,
that is still the family home. While withdrawn
from the excessive activity of youth, he continued a
care for the common good. He helped organize the
first building association in Milford. He was many
terms a member of the council. He was thoroughly
interested in education and served twelve years in the
board of education, and generally as the president. In
that time he was earnest in starting and promoting the
Milford High School. He was a member of the Odd
Fellows. He served almost continuously during his
last residence as president of the official board of the
Milford Methodist church, and shared in all the
activities of that, the oldest of all the Methodist
churches north and west of the Ohio river. He was
twice married. He died Jan. 24, 1899. The
children of Andrew and Sarah Bailey
McGrew are Clyde Bailey McGrew,
living at Milford, and his three sisters, Mary,
Anna and Lilla, living with their mother
in the family home at Milford. The writer of this
sketch knowing him well admired the excellence and
dignity of his worth and esteemed him one of the truest
of friends.
Source: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio
- Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 244 |
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WM. E. McKEEVER Source: History of Clermont and
Brown Counties, Ohio - Vol. II - by Byron Williams -
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CHARLES P. McKEVER Source: History of Clermont and
Brown Counties, Ohio - Vol. II - by Byron Williams -
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JAS. E. McKEVER Source: History of Clermont and
Brown Counties, Ohio - Vol. II - by Byron Williams -
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J. W. McKIBBEN Source: History of Clermont and
Brown Counties, Ohio - Vol. II - by Byron Williams -
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JAS. W. McMURCHY Source: History of Clermont and
Brown Counties, Ohio - Vol. II - by Byron Williams -
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FRANCIS A. McNEILL Source: History of Clermont and
Brown Counties, Ohio - Vol. II - by Byron Williams -
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MILLARD F. McNUTT Source: History of Clermont and
Brown Counties, Ohio - Vol. II - by Byron Williams -
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JOHN MEEK Source: History of Clermont and Brown
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ANTHONY MELDAHL Source: History of Clermont and
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WILLIAM H. MILLER
owns one of the most up-to-date farms in Clermont
county, which consists of two hundre4d and thirty-two
acres of productive land on the Brantam turnpike.
Mr. Miller has employed the most progressive and
still practical methods, for the operating of his farm
with fine success. He was among the first in the
county to build a silo and his good substantial
buildings are indicative of a keen business mind, as
well as a justifiable pride in his possessions. He
was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, near Mt. Washington,
July 9, 1855, his parents being William L. and
Elizabeth (De Bolt) Miller, who were married Jan.
27, 1851.
William L. Miller was born May2, 1827, and died
May 15, 1896. He was a son of David M. Miller,
who was a son of Ichabod Miller. Ichabod Miller,
from Pennsylvania, was a notable surveyor, much employed
on the eastern side of Hamilton county, where he located
many roads still existing. He married a daughter
of Capt. Aaron Mercer, a relative
of Gen. Hugh Mercer, who was killed
at the Battle of Princeton. Captain
Mercer came from Virginia, and reached Columbia just
as the troops returned from the scenes of General
Harmar's defeats. Captain Mercer and
Capt. Ignatius Ross met James Newell going
with corn to Covalt's Mill, at Round Bottom, just before
the latter was killed by Indians, in September, 1791.
Notwithstanding the great danger of the times,
Captain Mercer and Miller in 1792 went three
miles up on the eastern side of the Little Miami from
Gerard's Station, and there, where fine springs gushed
from the gravel bank, they built a palisade or block
house, and laid out a town that was called Mercersburg,
until changed some eight years later to Newtown.
Another daughter of Captain Mercer married
Thomas Brown, Jr., a store keeper, who was a son of
Thomas Brown, Sr., who laid out Brownsville, on
the site of the historic old Fort Red Stone, on the
Monogahela.
William L. was well educated and taught in the
schools of Hamilton county, Ohio, for a number of years.
He was also a surveyor and in 1863 bought two hundred
and eighty-five acres of land in Williamsburg township
from Gen. David Bone. Mr. William L.
Miller followed farming until within a few years of
his death, when he purchased a handsome residence in
Williamsburg, but returned to the farm before his death.
He was a Democrat and was for years a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He had
membership in the Williamsburg Methodist Episcopal
Church, to which he gave largely of his means.
Elizabeth (De Bolt) Miller was born in May,
1831, at Newtown, Ohio, and died Dec. 15, 1902.
She was a daughter of Michael and Martha De Bolt,
of near Newtown, where they were successful farmers.
In early life Mrs. Miller joined the Baptist
church, of which her mother was a member, but later
joined the Methodist church at Williamsburg.
William H. Miller is the eldest of six children:
Mrs. Eva Moore, of Williamsburg.
Frank M., deceased.
Rev. Idelbert B., of New York State, is in the
Methodist ministry.
Mattie M., deceased.
Since the age of eight years Clermont county has been
the home of William H. Miller, and here he
received his education in the common schools. He
chose the occupation of farming, which he has followed
continuously, with the exception of six years, when he
was engaged in the insurance business.
On Dec. 25, 1878, at Afton, Ohio, he married Miss
Deborah Lukemire, who was born in Clermont county,
her parents, William and Hannah Lukemire,
being early resident farmers of this section of the
county. To the union of Mr. and
Mrs. Miller has been born one son:
William L., who was born Nov. 23, 1879, and is
now engaged in mining at Cripple Creek, Colo. He
married Irene Burke, of near Bethel, Ohio, and
they have two children: Marie Grace, born
Aug. 27, 1904, and George William, born Sept. 20,
1905.
In politics, Mr. Miller is always a Democrat,
and served as infirmary director for some six years.
He was also a member of the county fair board. In
fraternal circles, he is a member of the Knights of
Pythias. His farming interests indicate the
diligence and judgment which he was employed in the
management of his affairs. He is well known as a
reliable business man, who is public-spirited in
citizenship and loyal in friendship.
Source: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio
- Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 234 |
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H. U. MOORE[ PORTRAIT ]
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HIRAM
U. MOORE, of Batavia, is a descendant of the
fifth generation from Andrew Moore, who on Aug.
3, 1723, landed at New Castle, Del., the first of his
family to migrate to America. Andrew was
born in June, 1688, in County Antrim, Ireland, the son
of James and grandson of John Moore who
emigrated from near Glasgow, Scotland, to Ireland, in
1612.
The father of H. U. Moore, James Canby Moore,
was born Apr. 19, 1793, in Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, and was the son of Dr. James and Ann
(Starr) Moore. Dr. James was the son of
Andrew, the original immigrant to America. and
Margaret (Miller) Moore.
On Jan. 3, 1820, James Canby Moore was
married at St. Clairsville, Ohio, to Lucinda,
daughter of John and Nancy (Nuswanger) Hines of
that place. He had removed with his parents to
Belmont County, Ohio, of which county he was surveyor
twenty-two years. In 1840 he moved to Clermont
county, Ohio, of which county he was surveyor nine
years. He owned one of the finest farms in
Clermont and for twenty years he was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. He was an active
member of the Brotherhood of Free Masons. After a
life of service as an able officer, devoted husband, and
kind father, a man highly respected and honored by those
who knew him, he died Oct. 4, 1866.
Lucinda Hines was born Sept. 28, 1800, in
Wellsburg, Va., and died at the advanced age of
ninety-four years. She was a woman of rare traits
of character and for over thirty years was an active
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Her
parents were farmers, residents of Belmont county, Ohio.
James C. and wife were the parents of twelve
children of which H. U. is the only one living.
The names of their children follow:
Jane Ann died at seventeen, from an accident.
John, a physician, who practice at Moscow, and
died from cholera in 1848, at the age of forty years.
James E., for years a merchant at Moscow, but
later a farmer in Franklin township, who died at the age
of eighty-four.
Dr. A. C., who practiced many years in Clermont
county, later going to Wyoming, Hamilton County, where
he died at the age of eighty-four years.
Lysander R., a farmer of Clermont county, died
at seventy-four years of age.
The next three children died from scarlet fever while
still quite young.
Benjamin H., who was a blacksmith in Hamilton
county, Ohio, died at the age of sixty from typhoid
fever.
Lucinda C., married Louis Nash, a farmer,
who resided near Amelia. She died at the age of
seventy-two years.
Hiram Ulysses, our subject, aged seventy-four
years, a resident of Batavia.
Dr. Eugene L., who practice at Amelia, Ohio, and
died at the age of sixty-five. His daughter, the
late Mrs. Nellie Burrelle, was a brilliant
literary woman, being on the staff of the "New York
World," later president of the Clipping Bureau of New
York, author of the famous Dewey Album. She died
in December, 1911.
Jane Ann Josephine, married Lafayette Nash,
and died at sixty-five years of age.
Mr. H. U. Moore was born Mar. 22, 1838, at St.
Clairsville, Ohio. When four years of age he, with
his parents, removed to Monroe township, Clermont
county, Ohio. When eighteen years of age he
started to learn the carriage maker's trade. After
three years he located at Cincinnati, and spent five
years as a journeyman. In 1866 he moved to Batavia
and went into partnership with W. B. C. Stirling
in carriage manufacturing and the undertaking business.
Later they added fifteen to twenty men. The
partnership existed for thirty-eight years.
Oct. 5, 1870, our subject was married to Eliza C.,
daughter of William H. and Nancy (Pompelly) Banister.
She was born Feb. 21, 1849. Her parents were
early pioneers of Clermont County, coming from Maine.
Her father was a fine musician and teacher of music.
Mrs. Moore died Aug. 7, 1911.
Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Moore:
Dr. H. Stirling Moore, a dentist with offices in
Batavia, Ohio, was married to Miss Stella Moorman,
of Washington Court House, Ohio, and has one son,
William S., aged eleven years.
Nancy L., wife of William E. Smith,
district manager agent of the Northern Pacific railroad,
who is located at Indianapolis. They have an
infant daughter, Lida Moore.
Carrie Dorsey, wife of Fayette C. Dorsey,
residing at Louisville, Ky., where Mr. Dorsey is
with the Southern National Bank. Of their three
children two sons are still living - Hiram Stirling,
aged six years, and Fayette C., aged two.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore were both members of the
Presbyterian church. Politically, he is a
Democrat. For the past twenty-five years he has
been a member of the Masonic order, and has filled the
various offices of that organization.
On the 2nd day of February, 1907, Mr. W. R. C.
Stirling died, since which time, and up to the date
of his death, on Feb. 11, 1913, Mr. H. U. Moore
carried on the undertaking business in Batavia, and his
establishment was known as one of the very best in
Southern Ohio. Mr. Moore has ministered in
times of trouble to practically every hoe in a radius of
several miles around Batavia, and was universally
beloved by the people. He has been succeeded in
his business by his son, H. Stirling Moore, an
experienced undertaker.
Source: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio
- Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page
400 |
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ERASTUS S.
MOORHEAD
Source: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio
- Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 240 |
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INCREASE SUMNER MORSE
ource: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio -
Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 411 |
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W. E. MOTSINGER
ource: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio -
Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 646 |
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J. V. MOTT, M. D.
ource: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio -
Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 681 |
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GEO. W. MOYER
ource: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio -
Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 370 |
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T. J. MOYER
ource: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio -
Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 705 |
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DANIEL W. MURPHY
ource: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio -
Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 636 |
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CHAS. H. MURRAY
ource: History of Clermont and Brown Counties, Ohio -
Vol. II - by Byron Williams - Publ. 1913 - Page 443 |
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SUMNER B. MYERS Source: History of Clermont and
Brown Counties, Ohio - Vol. II - by Byron Williams -
Publ. 1913 - Page 309 |
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