SAMUEL B. McCABE, which occurred JAN. 4, 1908, Darke County lost a citizen whose memory is still held in the deepest respect and veneration.  His path was ever that of integrity and virtue, of trustworthiness and fidelity, and his mind bore the impress of the historic annals of the State of Ohio from an early period in its history.  For many years he retained his residence about one-half mile south of Weaver's Station, where he was the owner of one hundred acres of fine land, and was one of the revered patriarchs of the community.  such a life contains many lessons well worthy of emulation, and it is with pleasure, therefore, that his record is presented in these pages.
     Mr. McCabe was born in Middlesex county, New Jersey, Sept. 30, 1832, and was a son of Isaac and Rachael (Brown) McCabe.  His father brought the family from the East of Ohio when Samuel B. was still a child, and settled at Franklin, Warren County, where he spent the remainder of his career in agricultural pursuits.  Both he and his wife died at Franklin and were laid to rest in the cemetery there.  They were the parents of five children, as follows:  Mary, who is making her home in Missouri in advanced years, and James, John, Samuel and Wesley, all of whom are deceased.
     Samuel B. McCabe received his preliminary instruction in the public schools of his native State, and after coming to Ohio completed his education in the district schools of Warren County.  On leaving the Franklin schools, he worked on the home farm until  he was of age, in the meantime carefully saving his earnings with the result that when he was still young he was able to purchase the nucleus of what was to become one of the handsome properties of Darke county.  He was long known to the people of Neave township as a man of sterling integrity of character, generous in all things, and with a degree of public spirit that kept his community's interests all foremost in his heart.  As a farmer and stockraiser he was skilled in his methods, using the most modern machinery with excellent results.  At the time of his death he was living somewhat retired, being in the enjoyment of the fruits of his many years of industrious labor.
     Mr. McCabe was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Knee, who came from Pennsylvania and located at Germantown, Ohio, and subsequently located on a farm in German township, Darke county, where Mr. McCabe was born, educated and reared.  Mr. Knee was a member of the United Brethren church, a well-known Democrat of his day and locality, and a successful agriculturist.  He and his wife had five children:  John, Silas and Jacob, who are all deceased; Elizabeth, who married Mr. McCabe became the parents of the following children: Ula, who married Frank Crumrine, and had one daughter, Zelma, who married William Brown, and has one child; Dora, who married Alfred Niswonger, and had six children; Reo Wealthy, wife of Howard Ketty, with two children, Robert and James; Lester, who is deceased; Arden, who married Ward Williams and has one child, Stephen A.; Elizabeth, who married Lemuel Payne, and had two children, Earl, who married Ethel Thorn, and has four children: Leroy, Mary, Mildred, and Andrew, who married D. Curtner, and had two children, Marion and Helen; Oscar, who married Anna Lautenschlager, and had six children, Clo, Icey, who married Earl, and had two children, and Frank, Ethel, Carl and Ruth; Ora, who married Charles Townsend, and had one child, Vernie; Bert, who married Sadie Jenkerson, and had four children, an infant, Raymond, Harry and D. Wilbur; Max, deceased, who married Luella Royer, and had two children, Fay and Sylvia; and Samuel B., living on the old homestead, who married Julia Zonia and has five children, Gladys, Sylvester, Shirley, Alpha and Warren.
     Mr. McCabe was a lifelong member of the Methodist Episcopal church and earnestly endeavored to live up to its teachings.  He was a Democrat in politics, but did not care for the struggles of the public arena.  Aside from the pleasures of his home, he most greatly enjoyed to set forth with his rod or gun, and it was seldom that he returned from these excursions without some trophy of the fury tribes.  His life was one of industry, sobriety and probity, and his success came only as the result of constant and well-applied effort.
Source: History of Darke County, Ohio - From its earliest Settlement to the Present Time - Vol. II - Milford, Ohio - The Hobart Publ. Co. - 1914 - pg. 345

CHARLES R. MUSSON is a man whose colleagues upon newspaper work admit that he possesses industry, zeal, a real love of his work, clever wit, and an individual style, combined with a high ideal of journalism to which he subordinates any desire for material advancement which may conflict with his principles.  These qualities have placed him in the editorial chair of the Arcanum Enterprise of Arcanum, Ohio.  He was born at St. Paris, Champaign county, Ohio, Oct. 31, 1855 a son of Dr. John J. and Caroline (Rogers) Musson, and grandson of John Musson and his wife were born in Virginia, but became pioneers of Highland county, Ohio, where he died when still a comparatively young man.  His widow survived him for nine years, when she, too, passed away.  John J. Musson was their only child.  The reason for the family migration from Virginia to Ohio was the feeling entertained by James Musson towards the slavery question.  Although his people had been slave owners for many yeas, and he inherited some, he could not feel that the practice was right, and freed those who had come to him, and made his way to another State where he would not be compelled to go against his conscientious scruples.  Charles Rogers, the maternal grandfather of Charles R. Musson was a native of New Jersey, where his wife was also born.  By trade he was a carriage builder, but when he and his wife came to Champaign county, Ohio, he did some farming.  His death occurred in his new home when he was eighty-four years old, his wife having died at the age of fifty years.  They had three children:  Caroline, Charles L. and John S.|
     Dr. John J. Musson was a native of Ohio, but his wife was born in New Jersey.  Early deciding upon a medical career, he took a course at Starling Medical College of Columbus, Ohio, from which he was graduated, and then practiced at St. Paris, Ohio, for half a century, dying there in 1899, aged over seventy years.  His wife died at the same place Jan. 13, 1873, aged forty-one years, firm in the faith of the Methodist church, of which she was an earnest member.  Doctor Musson was a Mason.  At one time he represented his district in which Champaign county was included, in the State Legislature, held various local offices, and had charge of the inspection of the internal revenue office, department of Ohio.  He and his wife, who had come to Ohio in young girlhood, had five children: Ada B., who resides at Washburn, N. D., having been one of the early teachers at that point; Charles R., whose name heads this review; Mary, who is the widow of D. L. Glendenning, Flint, Mich.; John L., who resides at Washburn, N. D., and Callie, who resides at Los Angeles, Cal.
     Charles R. Musson was reared at St. Paris, Ohio, and educated in its public schools.  Following his leaving school, he began learning to be a printer with the St. Paris Erie Dispatch, later having charge of it from 1874 to 1889.  In the latter year he came to Arcanum, Ohio, buying the Arcanum Enterprise, which he has issued continuously ever since. Prior to locating at Arcanum he studied law for two yeas, abut has never practiced, but his knowledge gained in his reading along this line has broadened his outlook and his range of information.  His newspaper occupies a recognized place among those devoted to the support and spread of democratic principles, for Mr. Musson is a stanch Democrat.  He was pos-office inspector under President Cleveland for two years, and superintendent of printing at the Soldiers and Sailors' Home at Xenia, Ohio.  Locally he has held some of the municipal offices, and is a man whose devotion to his party and his desire to secure the progressive improvement of his community, is a genuine and forceful.  On April 29, 1880, Charles R. Musson was married to Miss Caroline (McGrew) Snyder, and they had five children: Samuel J., who is in the treasurer's office of the National Cash Register at Dayton, Ohio, married Ida Klugel, and they have a son, Robert; Florence A. married A. C. Crossman, they live at Detroit, Mich., and have a daughter Gertrude; Marie J., Ruth A. and Mabel C., the last three of whom live at home.
     Mrs. Musson was born at Westville, Champaign county, Ohio, Mar. 16, 1858.  Her father was born in Ohio, and her mother in Indiana, and both are now deceased.  They had seven children
Source: History of Darke County, Ohio - From its earliest Settlement to the Present Time - Vol. II - Milford, Ohio - The Hobart Publ. Co. - 1914 - pg. 187