BIOGRAPHIES
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History of Clinton County, Ohio
Its People, Industries and Institutions
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Albert J. Brown, A.M.
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With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families
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Indianapolis, Indiana
1915
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CLINTON MADDEN
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Moses G. Madden
Rachel Madden
Solomon Madden |
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Howard McCune |
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Mr. & Mrs.
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CLARENCE H. McKAY. Another of the grandsons of the well-known
pioneer family of McKay in this county is Clarence H. McKay,
of Chester township, the son of Jonathan McKay, and a keen
ambitious and intelligent young farmer and stockman. He is the
owner of two hundred and eighty-eight acres of land, and is also an
extensive dealer in hogs and cattle, which he buys and sells.
Clarence H. McKay was born on the farm
where he now lives in Chester township this county, on January 2, 1874,
a son of Jonathan and Elizabeth J. (Medsker) McKay. Jonathan
McKay was born on Aug. 3, 1834, in Chester township, this county,
and was reared on a farm. He received a good, common school
education and on June 18, 1862, at the age of twenty-eight, was married
to Elizabeth J. Medsker who was born on Aug. 30, 1838, a daughter
of Michael and Sarah (Graham) Medsker. Michael Medsker was
born in January, 1812, near Hillsboro, Highland county, Ohio, and was
reared on a farm. On May 14, 1833, he married Sarah Graham,
who was born on Mar. 18, 1811, and to this union nine children were
born. The mother of these children died in October, 1862, and in
May, 1865. Mr. Medsker married Elizabeth Zink.
Jonathan McKay and wife were the parents of five children, two of
whom died early in life, the children who survive being Francis M.,
who married Lucy McClintock; Luella, the wife of Walter
Lackey, and Clarence H., the immediate subject of this
review. Jonathan McKay owned two hundred and twenty acres
of land two miles east of New Burlington, where he was a prosperous
farmer and a well-known and influential citizen of his community.
He served as a steward in the Methodist church for many years, and
politically, was identified with the party.
The founder of the McKay family in America was
Andrew McKay, a native of Scotland, and a member of the Society
of Friends, who, some time prior to 1766, married Jane Ridgeway,
settled in Frederick county, Virginia. They were the parents of
five children, Moses, Enos, Jacob, Margaret and Patience.
Moses McKay was born on Sept. 17, 1766, and in 1793 married
Abigail Shinn, who was born on May 3, 1776, in Stafford county,
Virginia, the daughter of George and Rachel Shinn, and to this
union were born thirteen children: Rachel, born on Jan. 19,
1794; Robert, Dec. 17, 1795; Sarah, Nov. 11, 1797;
George, Mar. 11, 1800; Francis, Jan. 19, 1802; Margaret,
Jan. 16, 1804; Jonas, Sept. 9, 1806; Virginia, Aug. 22,
1808; Maria, May 23, 1811; Jonas T. May 10, 1813; Levi
Feb. 29, 1816; Jacob F., June 3, 1819, and Mary E., Jul.
27, 1822. Moses McKay and family emigrated by way of
Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, to Lebanon, Ohio, about 1814, and later
settled near Waynesville, in what is now known as Massey township,
Warren county, Ohio. Moses McKay died on Jan. 28, 1828, his
widow surviving him but six months, her death occurring in Jul., 1828.
Their son, Francis, the fifth child in the family, was educated
in the pioneer schools, and on Oct. 7, 1830, married Mary Collett,
who was born on Nov. 7, 1808, the daughter of Moses and
Rebecca Collett. They were the parents of eleven children.
Francis McKay was a man well known in the community where he
lived, and was greatly missed when he died, Mar. 26, 1871, not only by
the loved ones of his own family, but by the poor and needy, to whom he
had been a very great benefactor.
Clarence H. McKay, the grandson of Francis
and Mary (Collett) McKay, received his education in the common
schools of Chester township. At the age of sixteen years he
started life on his own responsibility, on the farm which he now owns, a
farm comprising two hundred and eighty-eight acres, where Mr. McKay
carries on general farming and stock raising, and is accounted one of
the most enterprising and thrifty young farmers of Clinton county.
In 1914 he remodeled his house and now has a splendid country home,
equipped with all modern conveniences.
On June 3, 1896, Clarence H. McKay was married
to Flora Beam, the daughter of Daniel and Susan Beam, and
to this union have been born four children, Albert, Eva, Ada and
Mary E.
Mr. and Mrs. McKay are prominent members of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and he is both recording steward of the
congregation and superintendent of the Sunday school. Mr. McKay
votes the republican ticket, and fraternally, is identified with the
Free and Accepted Masons.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
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EDWIN F. McKAY.
Three grandsons of Francis and Mary (Collett) McKay are
represented in this volume. They are Welden N., Clarence H.
and Edwin F., the subject of this sketch. The family has
been a prominent one in Clinton county history and was established here
by the father of Francis McKay, Moses McKay, who was the
son of Andrew, who in turn, was the son of Robert.
The representatives of the present generation of the family in Clinton
county are not only successful men in the various vocations to which
they have turned their attention, but they are among the leading
citizens of this county.
Edwin F. McKay was born on Mar. 7, 1873, on the
farm where he now lives in Chester township, the son of Moses C. and
Sarah (Bales) McKay, the former of whom was born on the old McKay
homestead in Chester township, Sept. 10, 1832, and the latter was the
daughter of Silas and Elizabeth (Smith) Bales. Sarah Bales
had been previously married to a Mr. Marshall She was the
second wife of Moses C. McKay. He was educated in the
common schools of Chester township and, by occupation, was a farmer and
surveyor. He owned about two hundred and forty acres of land at
the time of his death. On Oct. 3, 1855, Moses C. McKay
married Matilda Ferguson, the daughter of Edward and Ann
Ferguson, who was born on Aug. 26, 1838. To this union there
were born three children: Emma, who married
Charles Jessup; Anna, who is the wife of Mansfield
Swindler; and Charles A., who married Susan Mallow.
Mrs. Matilda McKay died on Apr. 27, 1865, and after her death,
Mr. McKay married Sarah Bales, Apr. 4, 1867. To this
marriage there were born two children: William S.,
deceased, who married Mary Williamson; and Edwin F., the
subject of this sketch. Moses McKay was one of the trustees
of the Methodist church, and as a Republican he was elected trustee of
Chester township. He also served as land assessor in 1890, and as
jus8tice of the peace for several terms.
The remote ancestry of the McKay family goes
back to Andrew McKay, a native of Scotland and a son of Robert
McKay. Andrew McKay, some time prior to 17966, had
married Jane Ridgeway and settled in Frederick county, Virginia.
They had five children: Moses, Enos, Jacob, Margaret and
Patience. Of these children, Moses was born on
Sept. 17, 1766, and at the age of twenty-seven, in 1796, married,
according to the discipline of the Society of Friends, Abigal Shinn
a daughter of George and Rachel (Wright) Shinn, who was born on
May 3, 1776, in Stafford county, Virginia. They had thirteen
children, as follow: Rachel, born on Jan. 19, 1794;
Robert, Dec. 17, 1795; Sarah, Nov. 11, 1797; George,
Mar. 11, 1800; Francis, Jan. 9, 1802; Margaret Jan. 16,
1804; Jonas, Sep. 9, 1806; Virginia, Aug. 22, 1808;
Maria, May 23, 1811; Jonas T., May 10, 1813; Levi D.,
Feb. 29, 1816; Jacob F., Jun. 3, 1819, and Mary E., Jul.
27, 1822. About 1814 Moses McKay and his wife and children
emigrated from Virginia, via Pittsburgh and thence by flatboat to
Cincinnati, and from there to Lebanon, Ohio, after stopping a short
time, they left for Waynesville, purchasing a large tract of land east
of the Little Miami river and a short distance west of Caesars creek in
what is now known as Massie township, Warren county.
It was Francis McKay, the fifth child born to
Moses and Jane (Ridgeway) McKay, who is the grandfather of
Clarence H., Welden N. and Edwin F. McKay, of Chester
township. Francis McKay was born in Jan., 1802, in
Frederick county, Virginia, and was married on Oct. 7, 1830 to Mary
Collett, the daughter of Moses and Rebecca Collett, who was
born on Nov. 7, 1808. They had eleven children, seven of whom
lived to minority. In the spring of 1832, Francis McKay
settled in the northern portion of what is now Chester township, Clinton
county. He had inherited several hundred acres of land, which was
partially cleared, from his father, who died on Jan. 28, 1828. He
had also inherited land at the death of his mother, who died in July,
1828. He was a man of very industrious habits, of sterling
integrity and unblemished character. He passed away on Mar. 26,
1871. At the time of his death it was said of him: "In his
death, Clinton county lost one of her most worthy and respected
citizens. Not only is his presence missed by the loved ones of his
own family, who mourn his loss, but by the poor and needy to whom he
ever extended a helping hand."
Edwin F. McKay began his education in the
schools of Chester township and later, for two years, was a student at
the National Normal University, at Lebanon. After finishing his
education, he began farming in Chester township and now owns two hundred
and eighteen acres, on which he carries on general farming and stock
raising. In 1906 Mr. McKay built a barn and the following
year a house, where he now lives.
On Nov. 25, 1896, Edwin F. McKay was
married to Allie Oglesbee, who was born on May 8, 1872,
the daughter of Solomon and Sabina (Middleton) Oglesbee.
They are the parents of two children: Cleo, who was born on Apr.
26, 1909; and Edna, April 28, 1904, and died on May 16, 1906, at
the age of two years.
Mr. and Mrs. McKay are members of the
Methodist church. He is a Republican and is a member of the
Knights of the Maccabees. Edwin F. McKay is a young,
intelligent and prosperous farmer, popular in the community where he
lives and honored and respected, not only for what he himself has done,
but for what the many worthy members of his family have accomplished in
this county.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
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HOWARD F. McKAY is a
prosperous and well-known young farmer and teacher of Liberty township,
Clinton county, Ohio. By birth and by marriage, he is connected
with several of the very oldest families of this county and, being a
young man of far more than ordinary ability, he is expected to take his
place as a leader in this community.
Howard F. McKay was born on Jan. 15, 1891, in
Liberty township, this county, the son of Jacob B. and Priscilla
(Haines) McKay, the former of whom was born on Mar. 14, 1859, in
Liberty township, and the latter on July 13, 1860, the daughter of
Eber and Mary (Mendenhall) Haines. Eber Haines was a
well-known minister in the Friends church for a long period, a former by
occupation and was born in Greene County, Ohio.
The paternal grandparents of Howard F. McKay
were William Franklin and Elizabeth (Peterson) McKay The
former was born on Jan. 12, 1833, in Chester township and in 1856 was
married to Elizabeth Peterson. They located in Liberty
township and became the owners of three hundred and fifty acres of land
and a desirable country home. They were the parents of six
children, Azel P. (deceased), Jacob B., George E., Ulysses G.,
Arthur F. and Beatrice A. The paternal
great-grandparents of Mr. McKay were George Wesley and Mary (Fergueson)
McKay, natives of Virginia, who moved to Ohio after their marriage.
George Wesley McKay died in 1850, and his widow in 1878.
All of their ten children grew to maturity. George Wesley McKay,
who was born in 1800, was the son of Moses McKay who was born in
Virginia about 1776. He remained in Virginia until about 1818,
when he and his wife and eleven children came to Ohio, leaving one son
in Virginia. They settled in Warren county, where he became a land
owner and remained until his death, about seven years after locating.
His wife died about the same time. George Wesley McKay and
wife had eight children, of whom two, George and Lucinda, are
living, the deceased children being Tilman, Samuel, William Franklin,
Alfred, Mary Massie and Jane.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob B. McKay, the parents of
Howard F., are at present living in Wilmington, at 502 North Walnut
street. Mrs. Jacob B. McKay is a member of the Friends
church. The family owns land in Union township and also property in
Wilmington. Jacob B. McKay was formerly a member of the
board of education in Liberty township. He moved to Wilmington in
December, 1909. To him and his wife have been born four children,
E. Harold and Howard F. (twins), Mary Elba and
Maynard J. E. Harold McKay married Ila Haworth and
lives in the Dover neighborhood of Union township.
Howard F. McKay was born and reared on the farm
and was educated in the common schools of Clinton county and at the Port
William high school. After graduating from the Port William high
school he entered Wilmington College, from which he was graduated in
1910, and having won a scholarship there he attended Haverford College
during 1910 and was graduated from this latter institution in 1911.
On Jan. 24, 1914, Mr. McKay was united in marriage to Edith
Starbuck, who was born in Union township, this County, on Nov.
22, 1890, the daughter of William A. and Mary Anna (Bailey) Starbuck,
and who was graduated from Wilmington College with the class of 1911.
William A. Starbuck is a farmer of Union township and a member of
the Friends church. He is prominent in the Friends yearly meeting
and in the Sunday school, of which he is superintendent. For some
time he has been an officer and director of the Clinton Mutual Insurance
Company. For several years he served as assessor of Union
township.
On Aug. 26, 1915, a son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Howard McKay, and was named Robert Franklin McKay.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. McKay are members of the
Friends church and they take a great interest in church work.
Mr. McKay was formerly in charge of the teachers; training class in
the Chester Sunday school and is now (1915) superintendent. He is
also master of the Mt. Pleasant Grange in Liberty township. Mr.
McKay and his twin brother E. Harold McKay, have a farm of
eighty one acres in Liberty township, which years at Bradford, Ohio, and
the last two years at the Mt. Pleasant school.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
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Robert F. McKay
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Mr. & Mrs.
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TILGHMAN McKAY.
The life history of the late Tilghman McKay, one of the
well-known and highly-esteemed citizens of Clinton county, who passed
away several years ago, shows what industry, good habits and stanch
citizenship will accomplish in life. His life record was one
replete with duty well done and conscientiously performed.
Descended from one of the pioneer families of this section, in a quiet
way he had much to do with the progress and prosperity of Clinton county
during his day and generation. He was a man whose interests were
ever centered in his family and his home and his church.
The late Tilghman McKay was born on Nov. 7,
1830, in Chester township, Clinton county, Ohio, the son of George
Washington and Mary M. (Ferguson) McKay. The mother of
Mary M. Ferguson was a popular young man in the old colonial days
of Virginia.
The McKay family in America was established by
three brothers, who immigrated from Scotland and settled in the
Shenandoah valley of Virginia, where they remained for several years.
It is known that they came to America about 1690, but it is not known
whether they brought their wives with them or not. One of the
brothers moved to North Carolina about 1700 and a little later another
moved to Pennsylvania. Little is known as either. The
remaining brother was the ancestor of Moses McKay, the
grandfather of Tilghman the subject of this sketch.
Andrew McKay, the father of Moses, and the great-grandfather
of Tilghman, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, in 1728, and
in 1755 was married to Jane Ridgeway, of New Jersey. They
were members of the Society of Friends and were the parents of five
children, Jacob, Moses, Enos, Patience and Margaret, all
of whom reared large families. Andrew McKay died in 1804.
His widow later came to Ohio with the Whitaker family and made
her home in Waynesville. She later married Joel Cloud in
1806 and died within a year, at the age of seventy-five.
Moses McKay, the next member of the family in
line of descent, was born on Sept. 7, 1766, in Virginia, and was married
on Mar. 3, 1793, to Mrs. Abigail Shinn, in Frederick county,
Virginia. He lived in Virginia until Mar., 1818, at which time the
family moved to Warren county, Ohio, where they lived the remainder of
their lives. Of their thirteen children, one who was born in 1806,
died in 1810. The remainder grew to maturity and reared large
families. The names of the children were: Rachel, Robert,
Sarah, George, Frances, Margaret, Virginia, Mariah, Jonas, Levi D.,
Jacob T. and Mary E. So numerous had the McKay
family become by the time of the third generation, that the
grandchildren of Moses and Abigail McKay, numbered
ninety-seven and the great-grandchildren one hundred and seventy-nine.
George McKay, the son of Moses and Abigail
(Shinn) McKay, married Mary M. Ferguson and to them were born
ten children, Moses, born on Nov. 6, 1823, married Rachel
Faulkner; Samuel, May 8, 1825, married Angeline Moore; Mildred,
July 2, 1827; Jane, Apr. 7, 1829, married Levi Shambaugh;
Tilghman Nov. 7, 1830, is the subject of this sketch; Frank,
Jan. 12, 1833, married Elizabeth Peterson; Alfred, Jun. 29, 1835,
married Louisa Miars; Mary M., Sept. 27, 1837, married Joshua
Oglesbee, Lucinda E., Sept. 7, 1840; and George Washington,
Apr. 29, 1844, married Emma Daniels. George Washington
McKay and his family were among the very earliest settlers in
Chester township, Clinton county, Ohio. Of their ten children,
only three, Jane, Lucinda and George W., are now living.
Educated in the common schools of Ohio principally, the
late Tilghman McKay, who was the fifth child in his parents'
family, was married in 1853 to Sarah Jane Medsker, who was born
at Hillsboro, Ohio, June 7, 1830. They were the parents of eight
children, Mary M., who was born on Oct. 9, 1854, and who was the
wife of Lewis A. Smith, died on Aug. 2, 1908; Oliver Elton
Aug. 12, 1856, died on Mar. 25, 1864; Sarah Alice, May 21, 1858,
married Zimri Haines; Ella Florence, June 8, 1861,
married Henry Pidgeon; Lucy L., Apr. 9, 1864; Jennie E.,
Jan. 6, 1867; Adelia C., Jun. 1, 1869, married Horace Ellis;
Daisy D., Sept. 26, 1873, married Charles W. Babb.
The McKay family are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church. The late Tilghman McKay was
quite active in church work during his life and was a member of the
church at Lumberton, in Liberty township. Tilghman McKay
owned a farm of two hundred and forty-nine acres in Liberty township,
which comprises a beautiful country home. His widow is now living
on the farm with the unmarried children. One of the daughters,
Jennie, who lives at home, is an artist of no small ability.
She has done considerable landscape work and has also painted a splendid
likeness of her father.
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WELDEN N. McKAY
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John B. McKenzie, M. D. |
JOHN B. McKENZIE, M. D.
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Stanley T. McKenzie
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HORACE
G. McMILLAN. The McMillan family in Clinton
county is descended from William and Deborah McMillan, residents
of York county, Pennsylvania, whose descendants immigrated to the state
of Ohio at an early day in the settlement of this section of the state.
William McMillan was a native of Scotland and his wife of Wales,
and they were parents of eight children, of whom David, the
fifth, married Hannah Huzzey. He settled on a farm later
owned by his son, Thomas McMillan, comprising two hundred and
fifty acres, situated in Chester township, this county.
Jonathan McMillan, Sr., a brother of David, made a trip to
Ohio about 1805, but later returned and brought back with him to Clinton
county his parents, William and Deborah McMillan. David
McMillan was born on Mar. 2, 1772, in Pennsylvania. By his
marriage to Hannah Huzzey, there were ten children, five
born in Pennsylvania and five in Ohio, of whom Thomas and
Jonathan were the last two pass away. After coming to Clinton
county, in 1805, with his family David McMillan settled on
Turkey Run creek, in what is now known as Chester township. He
erected a log cabin and, endowed with considerable mechanical skill,
made all sorts of farm implements and furniture for his own use.
He was a member of the Society of Friends and died in December, 1844,
his widow surviving him but two years, her death occurring on Sept. 18,
1846. David and Hannah (Huzzey) McMillan were the parents
of Thomas McMillan, who was the father of Horace G.,
the subject of this sketch.
The entire life of Thomas McMillan was spent on
the farm. He owned about two hundred and fifty acres and was a
general farmer and stock raiser. He was one of the organizers of
the Clinton County Bank at Wilmington and, from the time of the
organization of that bank until his death, was a director of the
institution. Thomas McMillan married Elizabeth N. Adsit,
a native of Union township, this county, to which union there were born
six children, namely: Isabel, who died in infancy; Mary Ann
(deceased), who married Henry Spray; Deborah T.
(deceased), who married John Hawkins; Eliza Jane (deceased), who
became the wife of Daniel McKay; Horace G., the subject of
this sketch, and Palmer, who died at the age of seventeen.
Upon the death of his first wife, Thomas McMillan married Mrs.
Nancy McMillan, widow of Isaac McMillan and daughter of
Seth and Sarah Ann (Moore) Linton to which second marriage there was
born one child, Thomas Henry who is referred to elsewhere in this
volume. Thomas McMillan was a Republican in politics and a
member of the Society of Friends.
Horace G. McMillan was born on Dec. 25, 1853, on
the old McMillan farm in Chester township, his father, Thomas
McMillan, having been born on the same farm. About 1885 he
purchased one hundred and nineteen and three fourths acres and built a
house on the farm. Subsequently he made additional purchases,
increasing the farm to two hundred and thirty-three acres. Mr.
McMillan succeeded his father as a director in the Clinton County
Bank at Wilmington and now holds that position.
On Sept. 11, 1884, Horace G. McMillan was
married to Alice M. Peterson, daughter of Jacob S. and
Catherine (Ellis) Peterson, to which union have been born three
children, Esper J., Thomas W. and Carl P., all of whom are
still at home.
Jacob S. Peterson was a native of Clinton
county, his father, Jacob Peterson, Sr., having been an early
settler in this county. He remained at home during his minority,
during which period he attended the log school house of the township.
He later supplemented his elementary education by extensive reading and
also cultivated a talent for music. In which art he became quite
proficient. Following his early religious training, Mr.
Peterson united with the German Reformed church at Xenia, still
later with the Reformed organization at Caesar's Creek, and
subsequently, in 1874, with the Mount Pisgah congregation. On Nov.
23 1848, Jacob S. Peterson was united in marriage to Sarah
Catherine Ellis, a native of Greene county, Ohio, granddaughter of
Abraham Ellis one of the earliest settlers of that section of the
state. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson began housekeeping on a
portion of the former's father's farm, where they lived for ten years,
at the end of which time Mr. Peterson purchased adjoining land
comprising two hundred acres. To Mr. and Mrs. Peterson were
born the following children: Emma Clare, born on Dec. 22,
1849, who married James W. Middleton; Ida Irene, July 23, 1852,
who married George A. McKay; Orville Ellis, Nov. 21, 1854,
who married Luella B. Oglesbee after whose death he married
Evelyn Green; Alice Maria, Aug. 16, 1860, who married Horace G.
McMillan; Jacob Elmer, Sept. 20, 1862, who married
Viola Farquhar, and Eva Grace, Feb. 4, 1869,
who married Frank S. Colvin.
The McMillan family are members of the
Friends church and for a number of years Horace G. McMillan has
been an officer in the church. In politics, Mr. McMillan
has always been identified with the Republican party.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
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THOMAS
HENRY McMILLAN. Thomas Henry McMillan, who owns a
farm of two hundred and fifty acres in Chester township, this county, is
descended from two of the very oldest families in this county. His
father, Thomas McMillan, was the grandson of William and
Deborah McMillan, who immigrated from York county, Pennsylvania, to
Clinton county, some time after 1805, and his mother was the daughter of
Seth and Sarah Ann (Moore) Linton. Thomas Henry
McMillan is the only son born to his father's second
marriage.
Born on Jan. 5, 1884. Thomas Henry McMillan, an
enterprising citizen of Chester township, has been a farmer all his
life. He received his education in the common schools of Chester
township and later attended Wilmington College for about four years.
After finishing his college education, he began farming on the old home
place and has made an exceptional success in his chosen vocation.
He is intelligent, widely informed and popular and enjoys the confidence
and respect of that entire neighborhood.
Mr. McMillan's father, Thomas McMillan,
the son of David and Hannah (Huzzey) McMillan, was first married
to Elizabeth N. Adsit who bore him six children: Isabel,
Mary Ann, Debber T., Eliza Jane, Horace G.
and Palmer, of whom Horace G. is the only present
survivor. Following the death of the mother of the above children,
Thomas McMillan married, secondly, Mrs. Nancy (Linton)
McMillan, widow of Isaac McMillan, and daughter of
Seth and Sarah Ann (Moore) Linton, to which union there was born one
child, a son, Thomas H., subject of this biographical sketch.
Thomas McMillan's family were members of the Friends church, and
he voted the Republican ticket. David and Hannah (Huzzey)
McMillan were the parents of ten children, five of whom were born in
Pennsylvania and five in Ohio. David McMillan immigrated to
Clinton county in 1805 and settled on Turkey Run creek, where he
purchased three hundred acres of land. He was a member of the
Society of Friends. He departed this life on Dec. 20, 1844, his
widow living less than two years thereafter, her death occurring on
Sept. 18, 1846. David McMillan's parents, William and
Deborah McMillan, who came to this county from York county,
Pennsylvania, were natives of Scotland and Wales, respectively.
They were the parents of eight children.
On Oct. 26, 1904, Thomas Henry McMillan was
married to Mary Probasco, the daughter of C. A. and Anna
Probasco, to which union there has been no issue. Mr. and
Mrs. McMillan are members of the Friends church and devoted to all
good works in their neighborhood. Mr. McMillan votes the
Republican ticket and is a man of considerable influence in the general
affairs of the community.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
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WALTER
T. McMILLAN. Walter T. McMillan is widely known as a
successful farmer in Union township, Clinton county, Ohio, where his
well-directed efforts in the practical affairs of life, his capable
business management and sound judgment have won for him a competence in
farm property and a comfortable status in the business affairs of this
county. He owns the old Seth Linton farm of
two hundred and thirty-three acres, which be purchased in 1896.
His life fully demonstrates what may be accomplished by a man of energy
and ambition who is not afraid to work and who is possessed of a
capacity for perseverance. In all of the relations of life he has
commanded the confidence and respect of his associates and friends, and
has ably carried forward the work of his illustrious ancestors who were
pioneers In this community.
Walter T. McMillan was born near Gurneyville, Chester
township, Clinton county, Ohio, Nov. 22, 1865, and is the son of
Isaac and Nancy (Linton) McMillan, the former was born in Chester
township in 1836, and died in 1874. The latter was born on the
farm where her son, Walter T., now lives, Mar. 1, 1840, and died
on Mar. 12, 1911. Isaac McMillan was the son of
David and Sarah (Carpenter) McMillan, the former of whom was born in
Chester township, Clinton county, the son of David and Hannah
(Hussey) McMillan. Sarah Carpenter was a native
of New York state who came to Clinton county. Ohio, with her parents
when three years old. David McMillan, Sr.,
who was born on Mar. 2, 1772, in Pennsylvania, was the son of William
and Deborah McMillan. They were residents of York county.
Pennsylvania, after coming to this country, the former having been born
in Scotland and the latter in Wales. They had eight children:
Thomas, William, Henry, Samuel, David
and Jonathan (twins), Mary and Lydia.
Jonathan married Anne Hussey; David married
Hannah Hussey; Mary married Joseph Baxter;
Lydia married William Jay. After coming to
Ohio David and Hannah (Hussey) McMillan
settled where Thomas McMillan later owned a farm.
They had ten children, five of whom were born in Pennsylvania, and live
in Ohio. After locating in Clinton county in 1804, David and
Hannah (Hussey) McMillan obtained a land grant signed by
President George Washington, purchasing the land for a dollar and a
quarter an acre. They were members of the Society of Friends.
David, Jr., and Sarah (Carpenter) McMillan had two
children. Isaac and Judiah, the latter of whom was
the first cashier of the Clinton County National Bank, and who died in
California.
Isaac McMillan grew up on the farm near
Gurneyville and operated this farm for his father until 1866, when he
opened a hardware store and also began packing pork. He assisted
in the establishment of the Clinton County National Bank. He was a
Republican in politics and as a member of the Friends church served as
clerk of the Center monthly meeting for many years. For some time
he was the proprietor of a dry-goods store. He died while still a
young man of lung trouble. His wife was the daughter of Seth and
Sarah Anne Linton. The genealogy and family history of the
Linton family are presented in more complete form in the
sketch of Fred Weldon Linton, contained elsewhere in this volume.
After the death of Isaac McMillan, his widow,
the mother of Walter T. McMillan, married an uncle of her first
husband, Thomas McMillan. They lived in Chester township
near the Chester church. By Nancy (Linton) McMillan's first
marriage there were six children, namely: David R., born on Mar.
3, 1861, died at the age of three years; Seth L., Feb. 15, 1863,
an attorney at Columbus, Ohio; Walter T., Nov. 22, 1865;
Clifton, Dec. 21, 1867, died at the age of two years; Carrie E.,
Nov. 3, 1869, died at the age of two years; and Maria E., Oct. 4,
1874, died at the age of six months. Thomas and Nancy (Linton)
McMillan were the parents of one son, Thomas Henry, who lives
on the old McMillan homestead in Chester township.
Mrs. Nancy (Linton) McMillan spent her later
years among her children and died at the home of her son, Walter T.
Walter T. McMillan obtained the rudiment of an
education in the public schools of Chester township, and later became a
student at Wilmington College. He was nine years old at the
time of his father's death, in 1874, and after his death lived with his
grandfather, Seth Linton, until thirteen years of age.
After this he worked for his stepfather, Thomas McMillan
until his death, when in partnership with his mother he purchased the
old Seth Linton farm in Union township, where he
now lives. Mr. McMillan has since remodeled the
house and buildings and greatly improved the farm.
On Dec. 24, 1894, Mr. McMillan was
married to Martha Blanch Kirk, a native of Adams county, Ohio,
the daughter of Albert DeWitt and Phoebe D. (Mclntyre) Kirk.
The father of Mrs. McMillan is a resident of Winchester, Ohio,
where he is a merchant tailor. His wife is deceased. To
Mr. and Mrs. Walter T. McMillan have been born six children;
Florence Nancy, born on Nov. 22, 1865, is a graduate of
Wilmington College; Damaris, Jan. 22, 1898, is a student in the
Wilmington high school; Isaac DeWitt, Sept. 7, 1899; Leontine,
died at the age of one year; Kirk, Jan. 1, 1917; and Harriet,
Dec. 15, 1912.
Mr. and Mrs. McMillan are members of the Center
meeting of the Society of Friends. Mr. McMillan Is
an ardent Republican.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F. Bowen &
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HENRY B. MIARS.
There is no positive rule for achieving success and yet in the life of
the successful man there are always lessons which may well be followed.
The man who succeeds is the man who can see and make use of the
opportunities which fall in his way. Henry B. Miars, a
prominent citizen of Wilmington, this county, and a representative in
this section for the International Harvester Company, is a man who has
risen steadily, by careful and honest application, to the business
responsibilities imposed upon him. His qualities of
discrimination, his sound judgment and his executive ability have
contributed largely to his material success. He is the scion of an
old family and was born in the old stone house erected by his
grandfather, David Miars, who settled in the county one year
after it was organized.
Henry B. Miars was born in Union township, this
county, Nov. 9, 1868, son of Isaiah F. and Matilda (Babb) Miars,
the former of whom was born in the same house as his son, Henry B.,
Aug. 6, 1833, and who died on Jan. 6, 1911. The mother was born in
Union township, this county, on Feb. 23, 1837, and is still living with
her children.
Isaiah F. Miars was the son of David and
Sarah (Stout) Miars, the former of whom was born in Virginia in
1795, the son of Martin Miars, who settled in Clinton county,
Ohio, in 1811, and who purchased a large tract of land at a dollar and a
quarter an acre. David and Sarah Miars were the parents of
ten children, all of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. He and
his wife lived on a farm of one hundred and thirty acres, which was a
part of his father's homestead and included the dwelling.
Subsequently, Isaiah F. Miars came into possession of this farm
and now Henry B. Miars, the subject of this sketch, owns it.
In fact, it has never been out of the family since it was covered with
virgin forest and to this day stands the old stone house which the
grandfather, David Miars, built over one hundred years ago.
It is still in a good state of preservation and still used. The
stone walls are two feet thick and the window casements are equally as
deep. It is a two-story house and was regarded as a local wonder
when first built, at that time having been considered the acme of
luxury. In the days when this old house was built the builders
there-about did not use derricks and it was necessary to build a track
and begin scaffolding one hundred feet from the building in order to get
the stone up to the second story, the stones being hauled on a wooden
track in a wheelbarrow.
David Miars became a well-to-do farmer and held
four different farms. He was a Republican in politics and had a
blacksmith shop on his farm in which he made most of his money. He
died at the age of eighty-three years. His wife, who before her
marriage was Sarah Stout, was burned to death. While
sitting in front of an open fireplace, here clothes caught fire and she
lived only a few hours, dying in great agony. She was a splendid
Christian woman and highly respected in this community. For
several generations, the Miars family have been members of the
Friends church.
Matilda Babb, the mother of Henry B. Miars,
is the daughter of Henry and Ann (Woodruff) Babb, who were early
settlers in Union township and who lived in the same neighborhood as the
Miars family. They also were stanch Quakers. Henry
Babb was twice married, the first time to Matilda Woodruff,
upon whose death he married her sister, Ann, who bore him ten
children. There were three children by the first wife.
Henry Babb died during the Civil War.
Isaiah F. Miars grew up on the farm which his
grandfather, Martin Miars, had entered and was one of the younger
children of a large family. He was married on Oct. 25, 1855, to
Matilda Babb. Although he was a cripple and owned a farm, he
spent most of his time in managing his stone quarry on Todd's Fork,
which he worked extensively. Isaiah F. and Matilda Miars
were the parents of six children of whom Henry B. is the
youngest, the others being, Luella, who married Frank Hazard,
a hardware salesman of Wilmington; Elva, who married Orlando
Walker who lives on a farm near Wilmington; Anna B., who
married O. C. Babb, a carpenter, of Xenia, Ohio; Mary, who
married Arthur Harold, of Indianapolis, and who is quite a noted
preacher in the Friends church, and Corwin, who died at the age
of twenty-six.
Henry B. Miars grew up on the farm and attended
the country schools of Clinton county and subsequently Wilmington
College. After leaving college, he worked four years as a clerk in
David Peeble's hardware store at Wilmington and for a time was a
traveling salesman for the Bailey Auger Bit Company, of
Lancaster, Ohio. In 1892 Mr. Miars became a salesman for
the International Harvester Company and is still thus engaged in the
service of that firm. At first he was merely a local salesman, but
he quickly became an expert and now has full charge of five counties in
Ohio, with headquarters at Wilmington, and is the manager, not only of
sales, but of deliveries and collections. Since 1906 he and his
family have resided on Lincoln street in Wilmington.
On Mar. 26, 1891, Henry B. Miars was married to
Elva Jay, who was born at New Burlington, this county, the
daughter of James and Elida Jay, well-known farmers, now living
at Martinsville in this county. To Mr. and Mrs. Miars one
son has been born. Ralph J., born on May 15, 1892, who is a
draughtsman employed in the office of the Champion Bridge Works Company
at Wilmington. He is a graduate of the Wilmington high school and
of Wilmington College.
Mr. and Mrs Miars and son are members of the
Friends church, all three holding birthright membership in that church.
It is needless to say that Mr. Miars is a highly respected
citizen, well known, not only in Clinton county, but in surrounding
counties, where he is frequently called on account of his business
connections.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
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ISAAC C. MILLER, a
well-to-do farmer of Jefferson township who was born in Clinton county,
on June 27, 1878, is the son of C. C. and Electra E. (Kibby) Miller,
and a brother of Ephraim Kibby Miller, whose biographical sketch
is contained elsewhere in this volume.
Mr. Miller's father was born near New Vienna,
this county, on Mar. 26, 1837, and his mother was born near Clarksville,
in Clinton County. The father farmed all his life in Clinton
county with the exception of a short period in which he was engaged in
school teaching as a young man. He owned a farm in Washington
township, but the last thirty years of his life were spent in Jefferson
township. He was a soldier in the Civil War, and after the war was
a member of General Sherman Post No. 360, Grand Army of the
Republic. To C. C. and Electra E. (Kibby) Miller were born
ten children, E. T., L. N., P. V., Malcolm, Cora, Nine, Grace, E. K.,
Bertha and Isaac C.
Mr. Miller's paternal grandparents were Isaac
and Margaret) Hildebrant) Miller, the former of whom was born on
July 30, 1812, near Farmers Station, and the latter.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
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J. WILLARD MOCK is a
successful photographer and artist, who has enjoyed a wonderful and
diversified experience in photographic and art work, has worked in many
parts of the country and today has a first class studio in Wilmington
and a large and flourishing patronage in that city and throughout the
county, which demands the help of an assistant.
Mr. Mock was born on October 15, 1854, near
Jamestown, Ohio, where he was reared, and is the son of John
and Mary (Pearson) Mock, the former of whom was a native of Fayette
county, and both of whom were natives of the old Buckeye state.
John Mock was a successful farmer and large landowner, possessing
two hundred and fifty acres of land. He died on the farm, in 1899,
at the age of seventy years. During his life, he had been a devout
member of the Baptist church and a deacon in the church for twenty years
or more in Fayette county. In early life, he had voted the
Democratic ticket, but later became a Prohibitionist. John Mock
was of a family of seven children, consisting of four daughters and
three sons. He was married to Mary Pearson in Fayette
county, and they owned the first cookstove in their section of the
country. They had personally made all of the furniture used in
their house, and had a comfortable home during their entire life.
Mrs. John Mock died in 1906, at the age of seventy-eight years,
at the home of a daughter in Jamestown, Ohio. She and her husband
had seven children.
Of the seven children born to John and Mary
(Pearson) Mock, O. Martin Luther lives in Enid, Oklahoma.
After serving four years in the Civil War, he re-enlisted and served
until finally mustered out. For many years he was a pension
attorney and real estate dealer in Guthrie, Oklahoma. He is
married and has three children. Alfred Pearson, the second
born, died in middle life, while attending the World's Fair at Chicago.
Lavenia Katherine is a widow of Arthur Boteler, and lives
at Jamestown. J. Willard was the fourth born.
Frank died in middle life. Charles Edgar died in
young manhood, shortly after his marriage, Lona married
Willis McDorman, and lives at Jamestown. They have two
children.
J. Willard Mock received a common school
education, and supplemented this by a course in the Art School at
Cincinnati, finishing the course under James Jessup, a noted
English artist and photographic educator. Mr. Mock also
worked under Joseph Appleton in Dayton, Ohio, and, at the age of
twenty years, took up art work for himself. After graduating, he
worked for various photographers in Ohio, and, in 1883, opened a gallery
at Washington C. H., where he remained one year. After selling out
there, he moved to Lima, Ohio, where he was in business for seven years.
He then sold out at Lima and traveled as an expert demonstrator for a
photographic plate company for three years, and then settled in Marion,
Indiana, where his establishment burned. He then became head
operator for James F. Ryder, of Cleveland, and held that position
for three years. He then returned to Jamestown, Ohio, and engaged
in business there, so that he might be near his parents in their
declining years. After being at Jamestown for fourteen years,
Mr. Mock moved to Wilmington and opened his present establishment
after his parents had died. He has been very successful and
employs one assistant at the present time.
On Dec. 28, 1876, J. Willard Mock was married to
Ida Frances Horney in Fayette county, Ohio. She is the
daughter of William J. and Sallie Ann (McMillan) Horney,
and was born in Fayette county, Mar. 3, 1860. To Mr. and Mrs.
Mock three children have been born Lorena, who died at birth;
Wenona Ruth, who is the wife of E. I. Bennett, of Dayton;
and Russell Eugene, who is living at home with his parents.
The entire history of the Mock family does
not disclose that any member has ever been addicted to the
use of intoxicating liquors, nor can anything be sold detrimental to the
character of any one who bears the Mock name.
Mr. Mock is independent in his political views.
Political parties have no charm or fascination for him, and he chooses
then men for whom he votes, without regard to their party affiliations.
He is a devout member of the Baptist church, and is a leader of the
choir. Mr. Mock is also a student of music. While
living in Jamestown, he served as treasurer and clerk for the school
board for some time.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
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RUTHERFORD B. MONFORT
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
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BURGESS J.
MOON. Among the successful teachers of Clinton county,
Ohio, is Burgess J. Moon, who was born on the farm where he now
lives in Clark township, Aug. 21, 1878, the son of David S. and Ruth
(Rhonemus) Moon. The father was born at Farmers Station but
was brought to the farm, where his son Burgess J. now lives, in
infancy. Mr. Moon's mother was born near Westboro in
Jefferson township.
The paternal grandparents of Burgess J. Moon
were Simeon and Priscilla (Sewell) Moon, the former of whom was
born on the farm where his grandson now lives and who lived and died on
this farm. Simeon Moon was born on February 23, 1820, and
was married on Mar. 24, 1842, to Priscilla Sewell. Five
children were born to this marriage: Samuel M., who was
born on Feb. 3, 1843; David S., May 28, 1845; Jefferson,
Nov. 3, 1848; and Franklin, May 1, 1851.
The parents of Simeon Moon were Samuel and
Martha (Routh) Moon, the former of whom was born on Apr. 17, 1781,
and the latter born on Mar. 5, 1781. They were married in
Tennessee, Nov. 5, 1801, and in 1808 came to Clark township.
Samuel Moon died on Mar. 25, 1846, at the age of sixty-five and his
wife on Feb. 19, 1852, in her seventy-first year.
Ruth Rhonemus, the mother of Burgess J. Moon,
who was married to David S. Moon, Sept. 2, 1877, was born in
Jefferson township, Mar. 21, 1850. She was the daughter of
Jacob and Mary (Thornhill) Rhonemus, the former of whom was born
about one mile southwest of Cuba, on a farm now owned by the widow of
William Riley Brown, and the latter of
whom was born about two miles west of Martinsville on the farm where
Roy Hunter now lives. Mary Thornhill was the daughter
of Barnett and Ruth (Jones) Thornhill, natives of Knox
county, Tennessee, who settled near Martinsville. They were among
the pioneer farmers of Clinton county. Jacob Rhonemus and
his wife spent most of their married life on one hundred and forty acres
of land, three and one-half miles east of Westboro. He was a
soldier in the Civil War and served in the Eighty-second Regiment, Ohio
Volunteer Infantry. Jacob Rhonemus was the son of
Jacob, Sr., was a soldier in the War of 1812 and a farmer by
occupation. He died at the age of forty-five years, after immigrating to
Clinton county.
David S. Moon was educated in the public
schools, familiarly known as "Greasy Creek". He lived and died on
the farm which his son and sister now own. Six years, however,
were spent in Westboro. Burgess J. is one of two children
born to his parents, the other being Delilah, who was born near
Westboro, Dec. 31, 1886.
Burgess J. Moon was educated in the New Vienna
high school and at Miami University. From 1902 until 1908, he
taught in Clark township and in 1913-1914, he taught in the Washington
township schools at Morrisville. Aside from his experience in the
schoolroom, he is a farmer and specializes in breeding hogs.
Mr. Moon is a member of the Free and Accepted
Masons and the Eastern Star. Formerly, he was a member of the
Knights of Pythias. At the present time he is a clerk of the
Farmers Station special school board.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
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DARIUS
HOFFMAN MOON. Ohio has been particularly fortunate in the
character of her citizenship. In every county, there have been
conspicuous men who by force of personality have naturally risen to
leadership in vocational and professional life. A business man of
superior ability, a man of prominence in military affairs, and a citizen
of integrity and honor, Darius H. Moon has made an impression on
the life of this state of which he is a distinguished son. He is a
native of Martinsville, Clinton county, Ohio, having been born there on
September 5, 1837, the son of Henry H. and Mary (Paxton) Moon,
the former of whom was born in Tennessee on July 14, 1808, and the
latter of whom was born in Champaign county, Ohio, on Feb. 27, 1816.
The paternal grandparents, William and Mary (Hudson)
Moon, traversed the wilderness on their way from Tennessee to their
new home in this county during its early days, and lived here the
remainder of their lives. The maternal grandparents, Dr. Reuben
and Mary (Hoffman) Paxton, were natives of Virginia, but came from
Champaign county, Ohio, to Greenfield, where after useful careers they
died.
Henry H. and Mary (Paxton) Moon were well-known
in their community. Henry H. Moon, who was a farmer, died
in 1881, three years after the death of his wife, who passed away on
July 3, 1879. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and a Republican. Their family was large, according to present-day
standards, consisting of eleven children, as follows: Reuben P.,
deceased; Jeptha Davis, deceased; Sylvester B., M. D., of
Wilmington, eighty years of age; Darius Hoffman, the subject of
this sketch; Francis Marion; Milton W.; Lydia M.; William,
deceased; Lawson P., and two who died in infancy.
Darius Moon spent all of his early life on his
father's farm, this comprising a period of twenty years, during which
time he learned the carpenter's trade. When war was declared, he
was among the brave youth who enlisted, being enrolled in Company B, the
One Hundred and Tenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served
for two years and seven months. He was of the famous Sixth Corps
of the Army of the Potomac, being first and second lieutenant of his
company. He was in the battles of Winchester, the first and second
Wilderness campaigns, and Cedar Creek, and was wounded at
Manassas Junction, Maryland. During his long period of military
service, Mr. Moon was popular both with officers and men.
At the close of the war, Mr. Moon purchased a
drug store, and engaged in this business for the following thirty-four
years, being successful enough to retire about thirteen years ago.
Mr. Moon owns the valuable property on the corner of Broadway and
Main Streets besides other houses and lots.
Darius H. Moon was married to Osee Frances
Strawn, who was born on Aug. 24, 1845, in Lebanon, Warren County,
Ohio, the daughter of Thomas S. and Margaret (Williams) Strawn,
pioneers of Warren county. Mrs. Moon's grandfather, Enos
Williams, has the distinction of having been the first teacher in
the township in which Lebanon is situated, having also held the position
of county auditor, as well as other public offices in the county.
The father of Mrs. Moon was a Republican, and formerly a Whig.
He died in 1886, his wife living three years longer, and passing away at
the age of seventy-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Moon are the
parents of an only son, Alden M., who is a druggist of San
Antonio, Texas. His wife was Pearl Scott, a daughter of
David Scott, an attorney of Blanchester. Alden M. Moon
and wife have one son, Marvin Scott.
Mr. Moon has been for many yeas, a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and has been a Mason for fifty years.
He is a man of estimable character, a citizen whom his city is proud to
honor, a business man of strict adherence to principle, and a friend
deserving of friendship.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
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LINDLEY MURRAY MOON.
After an honorable, faithful and efficient service of twenty-eight years
as a member of the able teaching corps of the Clinton county public
schools, Lindley Murray Moon retired from that form of service
and engaged in farming, since 1905 having devoted his attention
to agriculture in Washington township, where he has a well-kept farm of
more than two hundred acres, upon which he is living in comfort, enjoying
the confidence and respect of the whole countryside. The same
diligent attention to the duties in hand which made Mr. Moon's
service as a teacher so successful has been given to the operation of
his farm and during the ten years he has followed this vocation he has
prospered, being now numbered among the substantial residents of that
section of the county. He has been honored by his neighbors and in
now serving his second term as township trustee, having been for three
years president of the township school board.
Lindley Murray Moon was born on a farm east of
Martinsville, in Clark township, Clinton county, Ohio, on March 21,
1857, son of Pleasant and Hulday (Pike) Moon, the former of whom
was born in this county on May 20, 1819, and the latter of whom was born
in Highland county, this state, on June 16, 1817, daughter of William
and Lucy (Butler) Pike, pioneers of that county.
Pleasant Moon was born in Clark township, this
county, son of Joseph and Rachel (Hockett) Moon, members of the
celebrated Moon colony that came from Sevier county, Tennessee,
and settled in Clark township in the year 1809, the year before Clinton
county was organized as a civic unit. Pleasant Moon was
reared in the forest wilderness surrounding his boyhood home, receiving
such education as was provided in the "backwoods" school of that
neighborhood. Upon reaching manhood's estate he married and moved
to Washington township and for twenty-six years lived on a rented farm
west of where his son, the subject of this sketch, now lives.
Following the death of his wife, in 1863, Mr. Moon returned to
Clark township, taking a farm near Lynchburg, where he spent the rest of
the life, his death occurring in 1885.
To Pleasant and Huldah (Pike) Moon were born
sixteen children, twelve sons and four daughters, namely: Lucy,
Parker, Rachel, Sarah E., Mary A., Samuel, James A., Lindley M., Daniel,
Carey, Joseph P., William, Harvey, Stephen R., Elwood and Murray
(or Manara). The mother of these children died on May
25, 1863, and in April, 1868, Pleasant Moon married, secondly,
Mrs. Susan Boyd, widow of Samuel Boyd and daughter of John
and Jane Terrell, who was the mother of five children by her
former husband, Jane M., Sylvester W., John T., James and
Suzana.
Lindley M. Moon was reared on the home farm in
Washington Township and attended the district schools of that township
until he was nineteen years of age, at which time he entered the
training school for teachers at Martinsville and equipped himself for
teaching, engaging in this profession the following winter, the pay for
his first term's service being at the rate of thirty-five dollars the
month. The next winter he was engaged as teacher at the Brown
school, near his home, at a somewhat better wage and continued as
teacher in that school for four years, working for his father for his
board. He then was engaged as a teacher at Macedonia for two
years, at a further advance of wages, and then for five years served as
principal of the graded schools at Cuba, this county. Following
this service he was engaged for two years as teacher at Farmers Station.
At this period of his career he moved to Washington, where he made his
home, and for two yeas was engaged as teacher at Burtonville, after
which he went back to the Brown school in Washington township, teaching
there for four years, at the end of which time he was engaged to serve
as principal of the central school building at Wilmington, a position
which he filled for five years, after which he returned to Cuba, where
he concluded his service as a teacher three years later, having for
twenty-eight years been engaged in instructing the youth of Clinton
county, a service of inestimable value. During that time
Professor Moon made many enduring friendships, his students, now men
and women of affairs in this county, entertaining for him to this day
feelings of the most sincere esteem and deepest gratitude.
While thus engaged in teaching, Professor Moon
was looking ahead to the future and made some judicious investments in
land. In 1892 he brought a small farm of sixty-one acres in
Washington township, later adding an adjoining small farm of fifty-three
acres, this being the tract on which he now lives; to this latter adding
another tract sixty-five acres in extent, to which seven acres later
were added and still later a tract of seventy acres, all adjoining,
which gives Mr. Moon a fine farm, all of which is under an
excellent state of cultivation and to which he has given his personal
attention since the year 1905. This farm has three dwelling houses
on it, and Mr. Moon rents the larger part of his land to
responsible tenants, giving his chief attention to the tract on which
his home is situated. In connection with his general farming,
Mr. Moon is engaged extensively in the dairy business and has
derived considerable profit from his fine herd of dairy cows. He
also is much interested in poultry raising, giving particular attention
to Black Langshans, and has found this department of his agricultural
operations quite profitable.
On May 22, 1890, Lindley M. Moon has united in
marriage to Alice B. Brown (one of his former pupils), who was
born in this county, daughter of Isaiah and Elizabeth (Anson) Brown
and to this union two children have been born, Vivian, who died
in infancy, and Vera Alice. Mr. and Mrs. Moon have a very
pleasant home and entertain their friends with the most cordial
hospitality. They are interested in all measures designed to
advance the common welfare of their community and are held in the
highest regard by all. They are members of the Christian church
and Mr. Moon is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
being looked upon as one of the leaders in the lodge to which he is
attached. For years he has given close attention to public affairs
in his neighborhood and is now serving his second term as a township
trustee. He has been a member of the Cuba Special District board
since 1907 and has been president of that board since 1912, in both of
these official positions having given faithful and valuable service to
the public.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
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ROLLA E.
MOON. Even before the organization of Clinton county, in
1810, the Moon family was established and prominently known in
this section of the state, the founder of the family in this county
having been Thomas Moon, a native of Sevier county, Tennessee,
who came here in 1809 with the famous "Moon Colony."
Thomas and Elizabeth (Hocket) Moon, the latter of whom also was a
native of Tennessee, were the parents of several children, including
Joel and Jason Moon, who became two of Clinton County's best-known
residents. The latter for many yeas was one of the county's most
successful teachers. Among his self-acquirements was a fine
technical knowledge of surveying, a form of knowledge which he often was
called on to put into practical use in the laying of lines in the
original divisions of property hereabout, and for one term he served as
deputy in the county surveyor's office, under Hiram E. Moon.
He also served for six years as clerk of Jefferson township.
Jason Moon's wife was Lydia E. Cravens, daughter of John
and Elizabeth Cravens.
Joel Moon was born on the old Moon homestead
in Jefferson township, this county, on May 5, 1827, and was married on
Mar. 8, 1851, to Rebecca Jane Moore, born in Washington township,
this county, on Oct. 8, 1835, daughter of Micajah and Rebecca (McGee)
Moore, pioneer residents of this county, to which union were born
six children, namely: Ella J., born in October, 1852, who married
Wilson Peele; Emerson E., Aug. 13, 1855, who married Florence
E. Hale; Americus E., Dec. 26, 1859; George F., Apr.
27, 1866; Rolla E., the immediate subject of this biographical
sketch, and Harley A., Mar. 21, 1869. Joel Moon
owned a well-kept farm of sixty acres in the Westboro neighborhood and
was regarded as one of the leaders in the community life thereabout.
He and his wife were earnest members of the Christian church and were
active in all good works in their community. Mr. Moon was a
Republican and gave thoughtful attention to the political affairs of the
county, for many years having served as a member of the board of
trustees of Jefferson township. He was one of the most active
workers in the Odd Fellows lodge at Westboro and was highly regarded
throughout that whole region. Upon the death of his wife, Joel
Moon retired to the home of his son, Rolla, where his last
days were spent.
Rolla E. Moon, son of Joel and Rebecca Jane
(Moore) Moon, was born on the old home farm near Westboro, in
Jefferson township, this county, on Jan. 26, 1868, and was educated in
the district schools of that neighborhood. Just before reaching
his majority he bought the farm of one hundred acres in Washington
township, where he now is living, and ever since has made his home
there. This was practically an unbroken farm when he bought it and
all improvements on the same have been made by Mr. Moon, whose
enterprise and industry have combined to give him a most comfortable
home, his well-tilled acres also giving him an ample competence.
In 1889 Rolla E. Moon was united in marriage to
Sarah Bond, who was born in Union township, this county, daughter
of John Edward Bond and wife, well-known residents of that part
of the county, and to this union seven children have been born,
Libbie, Ella, Golda, Emmet, Ruby, Marjorie and Jason, the
latter of whom now is the only one of these children remaining at home,
the others having gone out in the world to do for themselves, and all
are doing well.
Mr. and Mrs. Moon are interested in the church work
or their neighborhood, the former being a member of the Baptist church
and the latter a member of the Christian church, and both are held in
high esteem by all who know them.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 949 |
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WALTER I.
MOON. Among the well-known farmers of Clark township,
Clinton county, Ohio, is Walter I. Moon, a native of this
township, born on July 24, 1860, and a son of John W. and Jemima F.
(Moore) Moon, the former of whom was born on the old home farm
northwest of where Walter I. now lives, the latter of whom was
born near Cuba. The paternal grandparents were Isaac and Edna
(Smithson) Moon, and the paternal great-grandparents were Samuel
and Martha (Ruth) Moon. The former were early settlers in
Clinton county. The maternal grandparents were Micajah and
Rebecca (McGee) Moore, the former of whom was an early settler
near Cuba, and the latter of whom came with her parents, early in the
history of Clinton county, to Clarkesville. They were pioneer
farmers.
John W. Moon was educated in the public schools
of Clinton county, and was a grain, and stock buyer in Farmers Station
and at Lynchburg and Martinsville for many years. He is now
retired and living at Burtonville. He had one hundred and forty
acres of land in this county, but has now sold out and is living
retired. Of the seven children born to John W. and Jemima F.
(Moore) Moon, two are deceased.
Walter I. Moon was educated in the public
schools of Clark township, and engaged in farming upon attaining
maturity. He owns sixty-six acres of land and is engaged in
general farming near Martinsville. Mr. Moon's farm has been
greatly improved since he purchased it.
Walter I. Moon was married on Sept. 17, 1881, to
Rebecca Garner, who was born on Dec. 28, 1864, a native of Clark
township and a daughter of Silas Garner. Silas Garner
was a son of Joseph Garner. Joseph was the son of
James and Mary (Moon) Garner. James
Garner was the son of John Fusha Garner. Mary Moon
was the daughter of Joseph Moon.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter I. Moon have had two children,
Ralph H. and Blanche. Ralph H. married Susie
Grindel of Green County, and they have three children,
Morris Melvin, Alice Bell and Helen Ester. Blanche
married L. O. Preston, of Farmers Station, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter I. Moon are members of the
Universalist church. Mr. Moon is a member of the Free and
Accepted Masons.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 557 |
Mr. & Mrs.
John B. Moore |
JOHN B. MOORE Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by
B. F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 912 |
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ORVILLE B. MOORE Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 758 |
Mr. & Mrs.
Frank H. Morris |
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 692
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IEMCIL B.
MORRIS - Few citizens of Clark township, this county, are better
known or more highly respected than the venerable Iemcil B. Morris, who
was born near New Antioch, Ohio, on November 9, 1831, a son of William C.
and Defcy (Bales) Morris, the former of whom was born on November 13,
1789, in Fairfax county, Virginia, and who died on September 7, 1887.
Mr. Morris' paternal grandfather was Nehemiah Morris, who lived and died
in the Old Dominion state. His maternal grandfather was Eldridge
Bales, for many years a resident of Virginia, whose death occurred in
Alabama.
Iemcil B. Morris was educated in the Martinsville high
school, principally under the tutelage of Prof. Charles Oren, a pioneer
educator of considerable note. After completing his education, he
taught school near Centerville, Ohio, for four years, at the end of which
time he married, since which time he has been engaged in farming. He
owns eighty-two acres of land where he lives in Clark township and one
hundred acres of land near New Antioch. His home farm is an
excellent tract of land.
Mr. Morris' father, William C. Morris, emigrated to
Adams county, Ohio, where he lived until his marriage, after which he came
to Clinton county, settling later near Huntsville, Alabama. After a
sometime residence there he returned to Clinton county, where he and his
wife spent the rest of their lives. They were the parents of eleven
children and were devout members of the Christian church.
On December 21, 1865, Iemcil B. Morris was married to
Mary Jane Canney, who born him one child, Tasman P., who was born on
December 24, 1869, and who was educated in the district schools near
Macedonia and in Wilmington College, where he spent three years.
After leaving college he was employed for seven years in a wholesale candy
firm at Columbus, Ohio, being promoted from shipping clerk to manager,
with the offices also of secretary and treasurer of the corporation.
Finally, however, he returned to the farm. He is a member of the
Free and Accepted Masons and the Junior Order of United American
Mechanics.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 570 |
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DAVID A. MURPHY is a
well-known farmer of Green township, this county. He was born in
this county in 1860, the son of David and Hannah (Dennis) Murphy,
the former of whom was born in Berkley county, Virginia, July 31,
1816, and the latter, in Clinton County, Ohio, Sept. 1, 1831.
The paternal grandparents of David A Murphy were
Jacob and Mary (Lohman) 1791, and the paternal grandmother
was born on March 4, 1791, and the paternal grandmother, March 9, 1793.
They came to this county in 1826 and settled west of Wilmington. In
1834 they removed to Green township, settling where Isaiah
Murphy now lives, and there the grandfather died on Dec. 29, 1871, and
the grandmother, January 26, 1873. Jacob Murphy and
wife, who were married on April 20, 1813, reared the following children:
Rebecca J., David, William, Susannah, John, Catherine, Abraham, Nancy,
Isaiah and Mary Ann. Jacob Murphy and his wife
were members of the Christian church and Mr. Murphy was a Democrat.
The maternal grandfather of David A. Murphy was Richmond
Dennis, a biographical sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work.
David A. Murphy was reared on the farm
and received his education in the public schools. He took up farming
as a vocation after leaving school and now rents sixty-eight acres of land
in Clinton county, belonging to his aunt, Sarah Fenner, and
is there engaged in general farming and stock raising.
In 1881 David A. Murphy was married to Ella Clark, of
Butler county, Ohio, a daughter of Sylvester and Sarah
Ann (Gerard) Clark. Sylvester Clark,
who served for three years in the Union army during the Civil War, died at
New Antioch, this county, in 1888, and his widow still survives him at the
advanced age of eighty years. To Mr. and Mrs. Murphy six
children have been born, Hamilton C., Leona, Walter,
Preston, Norval Clifton and Sarah Frances,
all of whom are living.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 931 |
Ulysses G. Murrell, M. D. |
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JOHN THOMAS MYERS is a self-made farmer of Vernon township, this county.
He was born on July 21, 1869, in Kentucky, and son of Abram and Elizabeth (Myers) Myers, both natives of Kentucky, who died when John
Thomas, who was the youngest of four children, was only twelve years
of age, at which time he was compelled to shift for himself. He
had three sisters, Margaret, Martha and Susan.
Beginning at the age of twelve years, Mr. Myers worked for
James Villers, of Clinton county, at seven dollars a month.
After working for seven years, his wages had been raised to thirteen
dollars a month. Later he worked for Charles Richardson and
received sixteen dollars a month. Altogether he worked by the
month twelve years, and his largest wage was twenty dollars a month.
When he was about twenty-four years old, he rented the James Losh
farm for one year and then rented the farm he now owns, comprising one
hundred and thirteen acres of land. Mr. Myers did not purchase
the farm for some sixteen years after he had first moved to it. In
the meantime, he had lived on another farm for three years. He
also owns thirty-one acres of land in Vernon township, in another tract,
and has a total of one hundred and forty-two acres, upon which he has
made many substantial improvements. He is an extensive raiser of
hogs, and a general farmer and stockman.
On Jan. 7, 1883, John T. Myers was
married to Mary Elizabeth Hoover, a native of Grant county,
Indiana, born on May 4, 1862, the daughter of Levi P. and Christina
(Tharp) Hoover. Mrs. Myers' parents were both natives of
Ohio, her father having been born in Clinton county in 1836 and her
mother in Greene county, Oct. 7, 1835. Levi P. Hoover died
in 1862, and his widow died on July 16, 1915 at the age of eighty years.
Mrs. Myers' maternal grandparents were John and Matilda
(Gerard) Tharp, former died in Grant county, Indiana. Mrs.
Myers was one of four children, born to her parents, the others being
Charles Franklin, Rosella Ann and John William.
To John Thomas and Elizabeth (Hoover) Myers
ten children have been born, of whom, Lelia, the sixth born, is
deceased, the living children being Clyde C., Edith Orilla, Creola
May, Gladys Marie, Mary Christina, Hazel Rosella, Mabel Wilota, Charles
Franklin and Harold John.
Mr. and Mrs. Myers are members of the Methodist
church. Mr. Myers votes the Republican ticket, but he has
never been a candidate for office and has never aspired to office.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, Ind. - Page 864 |
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SIDNEY D. MYERS, V. S.
No more prominent veterinary surgeon may be found in the state of Ohio
than Sidney D. Myers, V. S., a resident of Wilmington, Ohio, who
was graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College, at Toronto, in 1894,
and who has served as president and as secretary for two terms each of
the Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association. Doctor Myers
is now a member of the Ohio state board of veterinary examiners, and is
a member of the American Veterinarian Medical Association, which is an
international body.
Born on July 1, 1872, in Wayne county, Ohio, Sidney
D. Myers is the son of S. B. (familiarly known as Doc) and
Sadie (Christy) Myers, the former of whom was born on January 9,
1846, in Wayne county, Ohio, and who died on Dec. 31, 1873, and the
latter of whom was born on Nov. 8, 1848, in Wayne County, Ohio, and who
died on Dec. 29, 1873. Sidney D. Was only a little more
than a year old when both of his parents passed away. His paternal
grandparents, John and Mary J. (Kauke) Myers, were natives of
Columbiana county, Ohio, and of Pennsylvania-Dutch descent. They
were farmers by occupation and owned about two hundred acres of land in
Wayne county. Both were members of the Baptist church.
Doctor Myers maternal grandparents were Peter and Margaret
(Hardy) Christy, the former of whom was of Irish descent and the
latter of Scottish descent. They were born in western Pennsylvania
and early in life located in Wayne county, Ohio, where he was a farmer
and well-to-do citizen. They were members of the Presbyterian
church.
The late S. B. and Sadie (Christy) Myers were
married on Jan. 26, 1871, and about two years later both died in typhoid
fever, the mother two days before the death of her husband. The
young couple were just ready to go to housekeeping and had not left the
parental roof at the time of their death. Doctor Myers had
only one sister, who is younger than himself, Laura B., who
married W. H. Troxel, a retail hardware dealer of Denver,
Colorado. After the death of his parents, Doctor Myers was
reared by his grandparents, both maternal and paternal, and later by his
uncle, George Hutton, and family. Until twenty years of age
he worked on the farm and attended the Wooster, Ohio, high school.
Later he was a student at the Ohio Normal School at Ada, Ohio.
In 1892 Doctor Myers entered the Ontario
Veterinary College, at Toronto, Canada, and after his gradation, in
March, 1894, began the practice of his profession with Walter Shaw,
V. S., at Dayton, where he remained only a few months.
In the fall of the same year he located at Wilmington, and here he has
practiced ever since. He has a model barn and takes care of horses
in his barn.
On March 4, 1896, Sidney D. Myers was married to
Elizabeth Hayes, who was born in the province of Ontario, Canada,
at London, and who is the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Ralph)
Hayes, the latter of whom was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and
who came to America when six years old. The former was born in
Blanchard township, Perth county, Ontario, Canada, and was a farmer by
occupation. He died in 1899, at the age of forty-seven and his
wife died on Feb. 1, 1914, at the age of seventy. They were
members of the Episcopal church. To them were born nine children:
John McIntosh, Georgia and Russell. All of these
children are living near London, Ontario. Doctor and Mrs. Myers
have only one child, Neil, who was born on May 29, 1901.
Doctor Myers is a Republican. Doctor
and Mrs. Myers are members of the Presbyterian church and he is a
member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern
Woodmen of America. He is also a director in the Union Loan and
Savings Company of Wilmington.
Source: History of Clinton County, Ohio - Publ. 1915 by B. F.
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