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OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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COLUMBIANA COUNTY,
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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
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Thomas M'ClellanTHOMAS McCLELLAN, son of James and Hannah (Witherow) McClellan, was born March 4, 1804. He was the youngest of a family of ten children, - six sons and four daughters. In 1814 his father removed from Chester Co., Pa., and settled on a farm in Centre township, where he resided till his death. James was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. Thomas spent his youth on his father's farm. His education was limited to the common schools of Centre township.
On July 2, 1829, he was married to Annie, daughter of Samuel and Margaret Dearmon, of Pennsylvania. There were born to them children named as follows: Robert, born April 7, 1830; James, Sept. 19, 1831; Albert, Feb. 28, 1835; Margaret E., Nov. 28, 1838; Harriet, Dec. 2, 1840; Anna E., Oct. 10, 1850. Mrs. McClellen died June 15, 1872.
In politics Mr. Clellan is a Democrat. Both he and his wife have been members of the old Presbyterian church for thirty years, he having been an elder in the same for twenty-five years
Source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio - Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879 - Page 127
Hon. James MartinHON. JAMES MARTIN. The gentleman whose name heads this brief notice, and who is essentially a self-made man, was born Nov. 24, 1808, in Unity township, Columbiana Co., Ohio. His father, Andrew Martin, emigrated to this county from Pennsylvania, abut the year 1801. His mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Ammon, came to Columbiana with her parents from Virginia, about the same date. Andrew Martin was married in 1804, had a family of nine children, and followed agricultural pursuits.
James Martin was educated in the rude school-house of pioneer times, and spent his minority chiefly upon his father's farm. AT the age of twenty-one years he commenced teaching school, which he continued for some time successfully, meanwhile reading both law and medicine, besides giving attention to farming and sheep husbandry.
May 1, 1848, he married Miss Harriet McCalla, of East Palestine, Ohio, who died in less than a year after her marriage. For his second wife he married, Nov. 9, 1858, Miss Louisa C. Foulks, of Beaver Co., Pa. They have one child, a daughter, named Kittie Lou.
Politically, Mr. Martin is a Republican, and has long been identified with that party in this county; as its representative he has been honored with several positions of honor and trust. In 1854 he was elected probate judge of Columbiana County, and re-elected in 1857, serving six years, during which time he never had a case reversed. He was subsequently (1866) elected to the State Legislature from his native county. He is now (1879) living in retirement upon his farm, within the corporate limits of East Palestine, in this county.
Source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879 - Page 255Hanover Twp. -
EDWARD MURRAY, son of Jonas Murray, was born in Ireland in 1797. His father, wishing to try his fortune in America, came from Ireland, in 1800, with his wife and seven children. The vessel upon which they embarked was of but three hundred tons burden, but carried seven hundred passengers, and although crowded well nigh to suffocation, there was no sickness among the people. The voyage was made in the then excellent time of four weeks, and the wanderers toward the New World landed in New York, filled with ambitious hopes touching a happy future. Jonas settled in Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1815, when (being induced by his sister, Mrs. Edward Carroll, whose husband had sailed from Ireland with the Murrays, and settled in Liverpool - then St. Clair - township in 1801) he passed over to Columbiana County, and entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in Hanover township. Mr. Murray was an industrious man. When he came into this county there was little land cleared, and willing hands and hearts of steel were required to fell the large timber that existed where now can be seen the pleasant farms and homes of comfort. Neighbors were few, and social and educational advantages were limited; but he went to work with a will and cleared his farm in good style. By industry and good management he succeeded in surrounding himself with the comforts and beauties of life. He carried on farming here until his death, which occurred in 1826.
Mr. Jonas Murray's family consisted of eight children, viz., John, Joseph, Jacob, Valentine, Edward, Ann, Jonas, and Margery; seven of these were born in Ireland and one in America. Of this large family three only are living, - Jonas, Margery, and Edward. Jonas Murray, Jr., now occupies the farm settled by his father.
Edward Murray (who inserts this sketch) in his early life assisted his father as a farmer, meanwhile receiving such education as the schools in that locality afforded; has spent his life up to this time in the same occupation. On the 1st of December, 1844, Edward Murray married Ann, daughter of John Thomas. On the 1st of August, 1878, Mrs. Murray died. She was a kind and affectionate wife, beloved by all who knew her.
In political affiliation Mr. Murray was formerly a Democrat, but has for some time voted the Republican ticket. He has never been elected to any office, because he was never an office-seeker.
At the age of eighty-two Mr. Murray is still living, bearing upon his face the evidence of a life well spent and of duty well done, and the consciousness within that he has performed his allotted task on the stage of life with honor to himself and credit to his friends. His life is a fitting exemplar to the young of how many and great things can be accomplished by honesty of purpose and stability of character.
Source: History of Columbiana County, Ohio - Publ. Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879 - Page 156
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