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OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS A Part of Genealogy Express   WELCOME to COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO History & Genealogy   BIOGRAPHIES BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX Source: Mack, Horace - History of Columbiana County, Ohio  : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879 (Transcribed by Sharon Wick) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z < CLICK HERE to RETURN to 1879 BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX > < CLICK HERE to GO to LIST of BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES >   Charles Long CHARLES LONG.  Charles Long, Sr., settled in what is now Unity township, in 1803, emigrating from Rockbridge Co., Va.  Therefore the history of the Long Family may be said to have commenced with that of Columbiana County, for it was the year the county was organized and christened.  This occurred when the subject of our sketch, Charles Long, Jr., was but five years of age.  His father settled here, and took up a section of land, upon a portion of which Charles, Jr., still resides.      Charles, the senior, was a man of strong physical powers, as is evinced by the remarkable age to which he lived, for most of his life enduring the hardships incident to that of early settlers, and dying at the age of ninety-three.     Mr. Long, Jr., has raised a family of seven children, and, what is remarkable in a family of that number, all are still living.  He has been very successful in his chosen pursuit, - agriculture, - accumulating considerable property, which he now (though eighty-one years of age, and hale and hearty) lives to enjoy.  Politically, Mr. Long has always been and remains a Democrat, though office and political honors have been shunned rather than sought by him. Source:  History of Columbiana County, Ohio  - Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879 - Page 255   CLICK HERE to RETURN to COLUMBIANA COUNTY, OHIO INDEX PAGE CLICK HERE to RETURN to OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS INDEX PAGE FREE GENEALOGY RESEARCH is My MISSION GENEALOGY EXPRESS This Webpage has been created by Sharon Wick exclusively for Ohio Genealogy Express  ©2008 Submitters retain all copyrights