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BIOGRAPHIES
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
AUGUSTUS MAGOON, son of John and Mary (Browman)
Magoon, was born near Gallipolis, Ohio, Oct. 5, 1847.
He lived in Gallia, Jackson and Vinton until he was fourteen
years old, attending the common schools till twelve years of
age, but by private reading and study in after years he has
acquired a good business education. His father being a
machinist he also learned that trade in early boyhood, and on
leaving home he worked at the Buckeye Furnace in Jackson County
for three years, as an engineer, after which he worked one year
in the same capacity at Hope furnace, in Vinton County. He
next worked one year in Zanesville, and in 1867 he came to
Logan, where he was employed as engineer in the Logan Furnace,
which he followed till 1871, when he was placed in charge of the
foundry of the Logan Furnace, as foundryman, until 1873.
In that year he was promoted superintendent of the furnace, and
held that position until 1876. He was then employed by the
Winona Iron Company of Hocking County to superintend the
building of the Winona Furnace, and after its completion, in
1877, was retained by by the same company till 1879, as
superintendent. He was then engaged in the different
furnaces in the Hocking Valley until 1880, when he was again
employed as superintendent of the Logan Furnace until January,
1883, when he became superintendent of the New York and
Straitsville Coal and Iron Company, but the company
discontinuing soon after, he was thrown out of work. In
April, 1883, he became associated with A. A. Price, under
the name of Magoon & Price, contractors and builders, at
Logan. He was married July 9, 1868, to Miss Ruth
Woodward, of Logan. He is a Master and Royal Arch
Mason, and member of the lodge and chapter at Logan.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
WILLIAM DEAN MANSFIELD, M. D.,
was born in Athens, Ohio, Jan. 23, 1843, a son of George and
Catherine (Dean) Mansfield. He was educated at the
Ohio University at Athens. In 1864 he was appointed a
detective in the secret service of the United States Army by
General Fry, Provost Marshal. In 1865 he began the
publication of the Register at Point Pleasant, Va.
He had been studying medicine in private for some time, and in
the latter part of 1866 began to study under the preceptorship
of Dr. E. Anthony, of Guysville (now Professor of Surgery
and Dean of the Medical College at Indianapolis). He
attended his first course of lectures at the Cincinnati Medical
College in the winter of 1867-'68. He then practiced in
New England, Athens County, till 1870, and in the winter of
1870-'71 took another course at the Cincinnati college,
graduating in the spring of 1871. In the spring of 1874 he
came to Logan and now has an extensive practice in both city and
country, making chronic disease in specialty. In 1878 he
was appointed Physician of the Hocking County Infirmary, serving
till 1881. In 1883 he was appointed to the same position
and also Physician of the Children's Home. In 1883 he was
a delegate to the National Medical Association at Indianapolis,
Ind. In 1866 Dr. Mansfield married Josephine M.
Centers, of Point Pleasant, W. Va. She died in March,
1874, leaving two children - Stanley E. and Jessie L.
Dec. 24, 1881, he married Mattie Castell, of Sugar
Grove, Fairfield Co., Ohio. Dr. Mansfield is a
member of Paramuthia Lodge, No. 25, A. F. & A. M., Athens, and
James K. Rochester Post, No. 140, G. A. R. Logan.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Perry
Twp. -
GEORGE
MARSHALL, M. D., was born in Carroll County, Ohio, April
21, 1846, a son of William and Margaret (Black) Marshall
His father was born near Steubenville, Ohio, July 4, 1812, but
in early youth removed with his father, Robert Marshall,
to Monroe Township, Carroll County. On reaching his
majority he chose the vocation of a shoemaker. In 1835 he
married Margaret, daughter of Andrew Black, of
Monroe Township. Sept. 1, 1856, they started with a family
of eight children for Hocking County, coming in wagons, driving
the cows, etc., and settled within a mile of this Rock House,
where he pursued farming till 1879, when he was taken sick and
died Nov. 1, 1879. George Marshall was ten years of
age when his parents came to Hocking County. His youth was
spent in assisting on the farm and attending the common schools.
He attended the Ohio University a year, and in 1868 went to
Kansas, where he taught school two yes. He then returned
to Ohio and attended the University another year, teaching
during the vacation, and in 1871 went again to Kansas. He
was appointed by Governor Henry one of the first
Commissioners of Smith County. He followed farming two
years, and then returned to Ohio, and after teaching a short
time began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of
Dr. Black, of Carroll County, remaining with him three
years. In the winter of 1875-'76 he attended lectures at
the Medical College at Cincinnati, and again in 18777-'78,
graduating from that institution, in the meantime remaining with
his preceptor. After his graduation he returned to Kansas
and practiced a year, and owing to failing health returned to
Ohio, where he has since resided. Dr. Marshall
enlisted in October, 1863, in the Twelfth Ohio Cavalry, and was
mustered out in November, 1865. He served in Generals Burbridge and Stoneman's commands, and participated in many
battles and skirmishes. He is a member of Mingo Lodge,
No. 171, A. F. & A. M. and of Silver Moon Lodge, No. 440, I. O.
O. F., South Perry.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1122 |
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Marion
Twp. -
JOHN SHAW MARTIN,
farmer, Marion Township, Hocking County, eldest son of John
M. and Isabel (Shaw) Martin, was born in Rush Creek
Township, Fairfield Co., Ohio (now Marion Township, Hocking
County), July 5, 1824, and lived with his parents until
twenty-two years of age, working on a farm and attending the
common schools. At the age of eighteen he began teaching
school, and taught three winters at Geneva, and the winter of
1845 attended the Greenfield Academy in Fairfield County one
term, then in charge of Dr. Williams. The
six succeeding winters he taught school, receiving $16 per
month, and $16⅔ for
the last term. IN the spring of 1850 he purchased and
removed to the farm where he resides, and has been engaged in
farming. He now owns the farm where he was born, and where
his father first settled. He has served as Clerk of Auburn
Township, Fairfield County, two years, and Clerk of Marion
Township nine years. He served as Commissioner of Hocking
County two terms. He has been Justice of the Peace of
Marion Township since 1870. Apr. 8, 1847, he married
Mary W., daughter of William and Jane (McCoy) Black,
of Perry County. They have eight children - George W.,
a missionary minister in Utah; Jane I., widow of
William G. Sweitzer, Sarah A., wife of Robert Boland,
of Perry County; John W., a teacher in Utah; Albert
S., Bible agent in Utah; Franklin P., Emma M.
and Maggie B. at home. James R. died in
infancy, and Mary R., aged four years. Mr. and
Mrs. Martin are memers of the United Presbyterian church.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1154 |
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Starr
Twp. -
GEORGE THOMAS MASON,
son of John Mason, of Starr Township, Hocking Co., Ohio,
was born in Greene County, Pa., Nov. 23, 1850. His parents
removed with their family in1852 to Harrison County, Va., thence
to Coles County, Ill., in 1854, and to Hocking County, Ohio, in
1856. As soon as he was large enough to shoulder a hoe he
was placed in the corn-field. He attended the common
district school for three months during the winter seasons, and
worked on the farm the rest of the year. He attended
Miller's Academy, in Athens County, a short time, and the
Logan High School a few terms. Most of his education,
however, in the higher branches was obtained by persistent study
and without a tutor. He began teaching at the age of
eighteen years, and taught the most of the time for ten years,
in the Stats of Ohio, Illinois and Kansas. He has also
devoted some attention to teaching vocal music and giving public
musical entertainments. He had for his instructors in
music Prof. S. Wesley Martin, of Chicago, Ill., and
Prof. D. Wilson, of Paris, Ill. Our subject was
married Dec. 24, 1879, to Miss Ida E. Gray, daughter of
Harvey Gray (deceased), late of Sidell Township,
Vermillion Co., Ill. They have one child - Guy.
Mrs. Mason was born Sept. 8, 1855, in Jefferson, Ind.
Mr. Mason is a member of the Missionary Baptist church,
and before his business called him almost constantly from home
was an enthusiastic Sunday-school worker. His home is in
Arcola, Douglas Co., Ill.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1055 |
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Starr Twp -
JOHN MASON
was born May 7, 1819, in Aleppo (now Jackson) Township, Green
Co., Pa. His early educational advantages were very
limited, attending a subscription school only a short time
during a few winter seasons, but by private study he has become
very well educated. He mastered the science and art of
surveying and engineering under the teachings of his elder
brother, William, then a prominent school-teacher in
Greene County, Pa., and followed the business of surveying for
thirteen years. He taught the public school in his native
county for five winters, and one winter in Washington County,
Pa. He was married May 21, 1839, to Rachel,
daughter of Jacob and Abigail Ross. They have had
ten children born to them - Mary, Abigail E. (Austin),
William J., Phoebe Jane (Conaway), Hiram, James K. P., Jacob R.
(deceased, George T., Timothy R., and Francis R.
(deceased). William married Nancy J.
Atkinson, by whom he has had nine children; of these six are
living - Rachel Agnes, Lawson, Eve A., Robert, Luther and
an infant. Hiram married Kate Eddington, and
they have had six children, five living - Dannie, Arthur,
Rachel C., John and Maud M. James K. married
Elizabeth Snyder and has five children - Minnie M., Ross,
Gertrude, Frederick and Kelsie. Jacob R.
married Hester Ann Iles, by whom he had two children, one
living - J. Luther. Jacob died Jan. 8, 1878, near
Des Moines, Iowa. William resides near Edenville,
Mich.; James, in Palmero, Ill.; George T., in
Arcola, Ill., and the others in Hocking Valley. Our
subject removed with his family to Harrison County, Va., in
August 1852, and settled on the Reeder farm on the west
fork of the Monongahela River, purchasing 280 acres of land.
In the fall of 1854 he removed to Coles (now Douglas) County,
Ill., where he engaged in farming on the prairie until the fall
of 1856, when failing health caused him to retrace his steps for
some distance, and he settled on his present farm on section 3,
Starr Township, Hocking Co., Ohio. He at first purchased
140 acres, and in 1864 added to it fifteen acres. Mrs.
Mason died Sept. 1, 1864, and Nov. 21, 1869, he married
Charlotte L. Pelton, daughter of Lynus B., and
Hettie M. (Woodruff) Pelton, the former a native of
Connecticut and the latter of New Jersey. They have one
child - Hettie M. Mr. Mason was Auditor of Green
County, Pa., from 1848 to 1851, and in 1851 he came within
seventeen votes of being elected to the office of County
Surveyor in the same county. He held the office of
County Commissioner for Hocking County from 1866 to 1872, having
been twice elected in that time. During his term of office
many very important public improvements were made, among them
several bridges, the new county jail, and the new county
infirmary buildings. He has led a Christian life for many
years and has been a member of the Christian church at Mt. Zion
ever since its organization. The father of the above,
James Mason, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, Sept. 24,
1784, and was a son of William Mason, also a native of
Ireland, who brought his family to Greene County, Pa., in 1788,
and settled near where Waynesburg now stands (it was then
Washington County). The elder Mason died in Greene
County about the year 1815. James Mason married
Mary Sayers, by whom he had six children - Elizabeth
(Ross), William (deceased), Mary (Sayers), George,
Charlotte (Scott), and John, whose name heads this
sketch. James Mason died on the old homestead in
Greene County, Pa., June 13, 1869. Our subject's mother
died in January, 1883, in her ninety-seventh years.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Starr
Twp. -
MARY MASON, a
well-known school-teacher of Hocking County, and daughter of
John Mason, of Starr Township, was born in
Greene County, June 17, 1840; came to
Virginia with her parents in 1852, thence to Illinois in 1854,
and to Hocking County, Ohio, in 1856. She was educated in
the common schools, New Plymouth select school, and Waynesburg,
Pennsylvania, College. She began teaching at the age of
eighteen years and has taught the most of the time since then
until within the past two or three years. As a teacher
Miss Mason has been eminently successful, both a6 a
disciplinarian and tutor. She has taught in all over
thirty terms in the States of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois,
and passed through many rigid examinations to obtain a teacher’s
license. The writer well remembers when he was a small boy
of hearing her relate a dream she had just before attending the
examination. She was young and very anxious as to the
result of the fast approaching event, and a few nights before
the day for the examination she dreamed that she had been
successful and had been granted a certificate for three months
and forty days. When she engages in an enterprise she goes
at it with that iron will which is sure of success, hence her
success as a teacher. Miss Mason has been a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church since eighteen years of
age.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Starr
Twp. -
TIMOTHY R. MASON, M. D.,
section 3, Starr Township, was born in
Greene County, Penn., May 10, 1852, and is a son of John
Mason. Our subject was brought by his parents to
Harrison County, Va., in the fall of 1854, and two years later
to Coles County, Ill., where they remained until the fall of
1856, when they removed to Starr Township. The Doctor was
here brought up on the farm and attended the common district
school during three months in the winter, working on the farm
the rest of the year. In 1873 he learned the art of
telegraphy, but soon after began the study of medicine under
Dr. D. T. Gilliam, of Nelsonville, remaining there
until the fall of 1874, when he took one course of lectures in
the Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio. He then
practiced medicine a short time in Millfield, Athens Co., Ohio,
and removed to Sharon, Noble Co., Ohio, where he practiced until
April, 1876; then removed to Maxville, Perry Co., Ohio, where he
remained until February, 1877. He then removed to Mt.
Blanco, Meigs Co., Ohio, where he practiced till the fall of
1880, when he removed to the old homestead in Starr Township,
where he has since resided. He was married April 10, 1875,
to Ann, daughter of Freeman W. Frey, of
this township. They have had three children - Voss
Genner, Mabel R., and Amos L.
(Sharon Wick's Note: Some one
had crossed out 'three' and hand wrote '4' for the
children and added the name 'Ina B.')
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Ward Twp.
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ROBERT MASTERS
was born Feb. 9, 1824, in
Guernsey County, Ohio, and is a son of Robert and Elizabeth
Masters, both of whom are dead. Mr. Masters
moved from Muskingum to Hocking County in 1854. He is an
old pioneer of this county and is at present Township Trustee.
He was in the Army of the Cumberland three years and seven
months, and was wounded in the battle of Chickamauga, but after
his recovery served the rest of his time and was then
discharged. He was married Aug. 17, 1847, to Miss Ann
Mary Trimmer. They have had four children, only two
now living- Daniel R. and Mrs. Frances Spencer; James
and Charity Almedia are deceased. Mr.
Masters went to California in 1850 and remained until Aug.
16, 1852. He at one time owned 30 acres of coal land but
has now disposed of it. He is worth at present about
$6,500. He owns 186 acres of land in Kansas. Mrs.
Masters was born Oct. 20, 1827, and was a daughter of
Daniel and Charity Trimmer, who are both dead. Mr.
Trimmer was a farmer and stock-raiser. Politically
Mr. Masters is a Republican.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Falls
Twp. including Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
ISAAC
MATHIAS, breeder and dealer in short horn cattle and
chester white hogs, Enterprise, Hocking Co., Ohio, eldest son of
Abraham and Christina (Zeller) Mathias, was born in Falls
Township, Hocking Co., Ohio, Jan. 25, 1827. He lived with
his parents till manhood, receiving a common-school education.
At the age of twenty-two years he purchased the farm first
settled and cleared by his grandfather, Jacob Zeller, who
settled on the land in 1805. On this farm an apple-tree of
the Penick variety transplanted in 1808, which measures ten feet
in circumference five feet from the ground; a pear tree planted
at the same time now measures six feet seven inches in
circumference, five from ground. These threes are regular
bearers of fine fruit at the present time. In April, 1850,
Mr. Mathias removed to the farm where he now resides.
He also owns other lands in this township. In April, 1850,
he married Margaret A., daughter of John and Mary (Havener)
Lanham, of William P., a school teacher and member of
the Board of County School Examiners; Sarah E., Joel B.
and Edward S. at home. Mary E. died at the
age of twenty-six years; Amos L., in his second year, and
a son and daughter died in infancy. Mrs. Mathias
died Jan. 6, 1878, in her fiftieth year. She was a member
of the United Brethren church. Apr. 27, 1882, he married
Mrs. Martha Amerine (Kelley) Reddick, of Washington
Township. Mrs. Martha Amerine, widow of Joseph
Amerine and daughter of Jacob and Martha (Kelley) Reddick,
of Washington Township. Mr. and Mrs. Mathias are
members of the United Brethren church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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J. C. McBroom
Mrs. J. C. McBroom |
Laurel Twp. -
JOSEPH C. McBROOM, son of
Robert and Nancy (Cantwell) McBrom, was born May 26, 1817.
He received his education at the common schools, and at the age
of nineteen entered the profession of a teacher, in which he
continued for sixteen years. He was married Mar. 30, 1843,
to Maria Iles, of Hocking County. They have five
children - Clara E., Allen R., Sarah E., John W. and
Minerva J. Mr. McBroom is a distinguished financier,
and one of the largest real-estate owners in the county, owning
about 2,800 acres. For many years he has been honored with
public trust, nine years County Commissioner, eighteen years a
Justice of the Peace; he has also held most of the township
offices. Politically he is a Democrat. Religiously
he has been a member of the Methodist church for more than fifty
years. In 1863 Mr. McBroom removed to the farm
where he now resides, amid pleasant fields and faithful friends.
He still ranks among the most successful farmers of Hocking
County.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Laurel
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M. V. McBROOM,
son of Robert and Nancy V. (Cantwell) McBroom, was born
in Jackson County, Ohio, Dec. 19, 1819. He was reared and
educated in this township, and when eighteen years of age went
to Mercer County, Ohio, and remained a year, returning again to
Laurel Township. He was married Oct. 18, 1842, to Eliza
Ann, daughter of James and Rachel Carroll. They
have had ten children born to them - James R., Wesley M.,
Elizabeth R., Nancy J., Lewis A., Mary M., Joseph D., Greenburg
V., Hester Rowena and Laura E. Mr. McBroom has
a fine farm of ninety-one acres, all well-improved, and in
surrounded with all the comforts of life. Politically he
is a Democrat. He has held the offices of Land Appraiser,
Assessor and Infirmary Directory.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Laurel
Twp. -
ROBERT McBROOM, deceased, was
born in Pennsylvania, and when quite young came to Ohio and
settled in Pickaway County, and in 1815 came to Laurel Township,
Hocking County, and settled on wild land. He was married
in 1816 to Nancy V Cantwell. They had a family of
fifteen children - J. C., J. K., M. V., Elizabeth H., Robert
M., Minerva P., Edward C., William H., Greenburg S., Mary M.,
Lewis A., Nancy J., Hester Ann, James G. and one not named.
Mr.. McBroom held the office of Justice of the Peace nearly
thirty years. He was a member of the Methodist church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Thomas Foster McCarthy |
Falls
Twp. including Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
THOMAS FOSTER McCARTHY. Sheriff of Hocking
County, Ohio, was born in Logan, Oct. 18, 1853, a son of
Dennis and Alcinda (Gallagher) McCarthy. When he was
five years of age his parents removed to a farm in the vicinity
of Logan, and when he was fourteen years of age his father died.
He remained with his mother till he was eighteen years of age,
when he was employed as assistant freight agent, for the C., H.
V. & T. Railroad, under his uncle, William Gallagher.
In the spring of 1872, having saved his earnings, he went to
Springfield, Ohio, and attended the Wittenberg College till the
spring of 1873. Soon after his return home he was employed
as weighmaster and assistant superintendent of the Lick Run
Mining Company, in Athens. In the spring of 1874 he took
the contract to supply the workmen on the abutments of the
Columbus & Hocking Valley Railroad bridge at Logan with stone.
In the fall of that year he made a Western trip, prospecting;
went to Madison, Wis., and was employed by Colonel Thomas
Reynolds in the United States Pension Office two months; was
then in the office of the Secretary of State five months; then
went to St. Louis, Kansas City and San Francisco, returning to
Chicago, where he was employed in the wholesale store of
Field, Leiter & Co., and by them sent to Valparaiso,
Ind., to work in the retail store of C. H. Osgood.
In the fall of 1875 he returned to Logan and worked on his
mother's farm till the spring of 1877, when he took the contract
to furnish the stone curbing for the streets of Logan, and the
following fall returned to the farm. In the fall of 1879
he was appointed Deputy Sheriff by Sheriff J. M. Acker,
and in the fall of 1881 was elected Sheriff of Hocking County,
his term expiring in December, 1883. April 21 1881, Mr.
McCarthy married Ida M. Murphy, of Logan.
They have two children - Corean and Idean,
twins. Mr. McCarthy is a member of Logan
Lodge, No. 119, K. of P., and Mingo Lode, No. 171, A. F. & A. M.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
WILLIAM D. McCARTHY, deceased, contractor
and superintendent of the Ohio and Hocking Canal, second son of
Patrick and Catharine (McBride) McCarthy was born in the
Parish of Drumlise, Ireland, Mar. 4, 1812. He attended
common schools for a time, and being ambitious and of a
progressive turn he used all available means to procure money,
and attended select schools, studying geometry, trigonometry,
and the higher braches of mathematics late at night by fire of a
few bits of turf. When eighteen years of age he came to
the United States, and first settled in the city of New York and
remained there six months; from there to Honesdale, Penn., where
he was engaged in civil engineering for two years. He then
contracted to construct a bridge at Maysville, Ky., and after
completing his contract he went to Logansport, Inc., and
contracted to construct a canal. He was then
superintendent of construction of that portion of the Hocking
Canal known as the side cut, west of Lancaster. He had
charge of the work of constructing the dam at Falls Mill, near
Logan, in August, 1840. In 1846 he purchased a farm near
Logan. In 1848 he made a trip to California, and was
engaged mining in the San Juan Valley a year. He then
returned home and purchased the Worthington lands, where he
resided to the time of his death. When he returned from
California he again superintended the canal till it was leased
by the State to McCarthy, Stewart, Cooper &
Co. for ten years. When their term of lease was up he
again superintended it until 1865, when he resigned, and in 1866
was elected Treasurer of Hocking County, and re-elected at the
close of his first term. He was a Master Mason - a charger
member of Mingo Lodge, No. 171, F. & A. M. Feb. 10, 1845
he married Alcinda, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth
(Lewis) Gallagher. She is of Virginian parentage.
Seven living children are the fruit of their union - Charles
and William, of Logan; Thomas F., Sheriff of
Hocking County; Frances, wife of Richard S. Weitzell;
Mary A., Katie and Alma H., at home.
Kate, their first daughter, died Aug. 7, 1851, aged six
years. W. D. McCarthy died Jan. 22, 1868. He
was of the Presbyterian faith. Mrs. Alcinda McCarthy,
widow of deceased, is living on the farm, her three daughters
being with her. She is a member of the Presbyterian
church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Perry
Twp. -
SAMUEL McCLELLAND,
farmer and stock-raiser, is the third son of Alexander and
Minerva (Spangler) McClelland. He was born in Perry
Township, Fairfield County, afterward annexed to Hocking County,
Feb. 17, 1836. He was reared on a farm and educated in the
common schools, living with his parents still he grew to
manhood. He was married Dec. 13, 1860, to Miss Mary A.,
daughter of William and Sarah (Fetherolf) Armstrong, early
pioneers of Hocking County. This union was blessed with
five children, four still living - Willis W. and
Wallace A. (twins), born July 22, 1862; Sarah Cedilla,
born Aug. 6, 1864; George H., born Aug. 11, 1867, and
Dervin, born Apr. 1, 1874, and died Apr. 1, 1876. In
1870 he purchased his present farm of 191 acres of land in a
high state of cultivation. He and wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal church (Union). He is a member of the
I. O. O. F., South Perry Lodge, No. 440. In the late civil
war he enlisted in Company B, Seventy-first Ohio Infantry, Sept.
1864. He participated in many battles and skirmishes, and
while at Pulaski, Tenn., was taken seriously ill, when he was
taken to Louisville, Kentucky, Hospital, but was afterward
transferred to Nashville, Tenn. From there he was taken to
Indiana, then to Camp Denison, Ohio, where he remained during
the winter, serving till the close of the war, when he was
honorably discharged Apr. 25, 1865.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Starr
Twp. -
ALEXANDER McCLURG,
section 23, Starr Township, was born in
Columbiana County, Ohio, Apr. 10, 1810, and is a son of James
McClurg (deceased), a native of Boston, Mass. Our
subject was brought up on a farm and educated in the
subscription school of pioneer days. Mr. McClurg
went to Brooks County, Va., in 1831. He was a brick-maker
over thirty years. In 1861 he came to Hocking and settled
in Falls Township, and in Starr Township in 1873. He was
married in April, 1832, to Isabell, daughter of Robert
West (deceased), a native of Ireland. She was born
in Washington County, Pa. They have had twelve children,
of whom only four are living - Leander, Johnson, Sarah A.,
and Mary S. Those deceased are - James,
Robert, William, David, Henderson,
Frank, Nancy J. and Columbus. They
have an adopted child - Ida E. Drake, who still resides
with them. Mr. McClurg owns 164 acres of land, and
is engaged in farming and stock-raising. While he was in
Falls Township he was Justice of the Peace nine years. He
is a member of the Masonic fraternity. For five or six
years he followed oil-cloth painting in Virginia. He also
followed the stone-mason’s and shoemaker’s trades for several
years.
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Starr
Twp. -
ABRAM McCOLLESTER (or
McCALLISTER),
as spelled by other members of the family), was born in
Shenandoah County, Va., Oct 4, 1803, and came to Fairfield Co.,
Ohio, with his parents in 1810. His education was limited
as the advantages were poor. He attended school in a log
cabin of the rudest description. He came to Hocking County
in a very early day, and was married May 15, 1825, to Maria
Woltz, a daughter of George Woltz. They have
had seven children - Elizabeth (now Mrs. Davis), Mary
A. (afterward Mrs. Snyder), Thomas, David, Martha,
Hettie, (now Mrs. Lama), and Almira (now
Mrs. Buckingham). For the most of his life Mr.
McCollester has been a farmer, but for seven or eight
years he was engaged in making chairs, and eleven years he
followed the draying business in Nelsonville. Mrs.
McCollester died Apr. 9, 1879, and he married, Oct. 28,
1879, Mrs. Rebecca Loomis. She had five children by
her first husband - Russell, James, John, Elizabeth and
Mary A.
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
WILLIAM WILLIAMSON McCRAY, son of
William and Sarah (Williamson) McCray, was born near
Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio, Sept. 26, 1833, where he was
reared. He was educated in the district schools and by
private study, and at the age of twenty began to teach in the
district schools of the county during the winter terms and
farming the remainder of the year till 1864. In that year
he accepted the position of teacher in the "A" grammar
department of the Union Schools of Logan, which he filled for
five years. In 1869 he was promoted to the superintendency
of the same school, in which position he still continues.
Oct. 2, 1861, he married Miss Emmaletta, daughter of
Jones Gibbony, of Fairfield County. They have six
children living, viz.: Minnette May, Rachel Lillian, Bertha
Virginia, Sarah Miranda, Mary Emmaletta and Clarence
Gibbony. The eldest child, William, died Oct.
8, 1864, at the age of two years and three months. Himself
and wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church of Logan.
He is an Odd Fellow and member of Hocking Valley Lodge, No. 262,
and of Mineral Encampment, No. 91, of Logan, and is Past Grand
and Past Patriarch.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
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Starr
Twp. -
WILLIAM McCUE
was born in Augusta County, Va., in Upper
Shenandoah Valley, on Middle River, Apr. 4, 1818. His
father, John McCue, was also a native of Augusta
County. Our subject came to Morgan County, Ohio, in 1830,
and to Athens County in 1835. The first threshing he did
was in Morgan County, in 1832, with an old-fashioned one-horse
tramp grubber, which was a great improvement on the flail and
the tramping floor. The next machine he used was a
four-horse lever-power grubber. In 1855 he came to Starr
Township, which has since been his home. The first
separator he used was a McConnelsville machine in 1858 or ’59,
built by Mr. Patterson and owned by Edmund
Wolf and Joseph McDaniel. Since 1832
Mr. McCue has missed but three seasons from the
dusty threshing machine, and he is known far and near as “Billy
McCue, the thresher.” He was married in 1846 to
Eliza Pierce, by whom he had one child - Catharine
(now Mrs. Stump). Mrs. McCue
died, and in 1856 he married Alma Terry, daughter
of Hubert Terry. They have had seven
children, six living - Philene, Allen, Minerva,
Julia, Robert and Viola.
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Marion
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ALEXANDER McCUNE, M. D.,
third son of Alexander and Margaret (Mitchel) McCune, was
born in Allegheny County. Pa., Dec. 28, 1806. When six
years of age his mother died, and he lived with John Wilson
until seventeen years of age. He then was apprenticed to
William Crawford, of Pittsburg, to learn the cabinet trade,
and worked with him four years. He then worked at
journeyman work in different places till 1832, when he
established a shop in Williamsburg, Guernsey County, and there
began reading medicine with W. B. Stotler, M. D. In
1838 he removed to Hebron, Licking County, and began practicing
medicine. He practiced in Hebron, New Salem, Bremen and
Geneva till 1865, when he came to Marion Township and purchased
the farm where he now resides. He is the oldest practicing
physician in the county. He was Land Appraiser of Marion
Township for the year 1870. He is a Master Mason, member
of Mingo Lodge, No. 171, A. F. & A. M., Logan, Ohio. June 3,
1832, he married Margaret, daughter of Archibald and
Elizabeth (Doughty) Crawford, of Monroe County, Ohio, by
whom he has two sons - Henry, of Kansas, and Alexander
M., of Fairfield County, Ohio. John V. was in
the late war and died in 1862. His wife died in 1841. She
was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. October,
1842, he married Amanda, daughter of Andrew
Craiger, of Fairfield County, by whom he has eight children
- Hilas, Rufus, Hiram, Margaret E.
(wife of Henry Jurgensmier), Isabel (wife
of Robert Bell), Eliza E. (wife of
William Palmer), Emily (wife of John
Shinniff). His wife died Apr. 14, 1861. Jan. 14,
1864, he married Mrs. Harriet, widow of William
Plummer, and daughter of John and Margaret (Rosser)
Rosser. Himself and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
SOURCE: History of
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Perry
Twp. -
ZARA McDANIEL
was
born in Harrison County, Va., Nov. 14, 1822, and when six years
of age came with his parents to Hocking County, locating four
miles from Logan. In 1838 he went into Falls Mills to
learn the trade; served an apprenticeship and remained there
till 1857. He then went into the steam mill at Logan and
worked there eleven years, when he came to Laurelville and
rented the flouring mill for five years. He then bought
the mill and now has a capacity of grinding 100 barrels of flour
per day. He was married Mar. 19, 1844 to Malinda Tatman,
a native of Ohio. She died Dec. 5, 1881. May 25,
1882, he married M. Williamson, a native of Hocking
County. Mr. McDaniel is a member of the Masonic and
I. O. O. F. fraternities. He and his wife are members of
the Methodist church.
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Falls
Twp. including Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
WILLIAM
W. McDONALD, farmer, fourth son of Robert and Mary A.
(Starrett) McDonald, wa born near Hemlock, Perry Co., Ohio,
Dec. 4, 1848, where he lived until fifteen years of age, working
on farm and attending the common schools. In his sixteenth
year, February, 1864, he enlisted in Company A, Thirty-first
Ohio Infantry, at New Lexington, Ohio, as a private, for three
years. He, with his command, was for a time at Camp Chase,
thence via Cincinnati to Nashville, Tenn; from there to
Chattanooga. With a Sherman in the battles of
Ressca, Dallas, Kennesaw Mountain, Marietta, and the siege and
capture of Atlanta. After the capture of Atlanta he was
with his command in pursuit of Hood as far north as Rome,
and Kingston, Ga. From Kingston they returned to Atlanta,
and while foraging near Milledgeville, Ga., he was taken
prisoner and was confined in Augusta prison for a short time,
thence to Columbia, S. C., and from Columbia to the stockade
prison at Florence, S. C., where he suffered all the privations
of thirst and hunger endured by so many in the Southern prisons.
He was held in Florence two months, then a few days in
Wilmington, N. C., then to Goldsborough, where he was paroled
and returned to the Federal forces near Wilmington, and was sent
to Annapolis, Md., where he was discharged June 1, 1865.
He then returned home to Perry County, and at twenty years of
age began teaching school; taught during winter and attended
school during the summer of two years. In the spring of
1870 he made a trip through the West and homesteaded a piece of
land in Kansas. He returned and taught school the
following winter, and in the spring of 1873 removed to his land
in Kansas. In 1879 he rented out his farm and returned to
Falls Township and lived two years on a farm he there purchased,
when he sold out and purchased the farm where he now resides.
He is a member of Hocking Valley Lodge No. 262, I. O. O. F.,
Logan, Ohio. Dec. 31, 1872, he married Isabel,
daughter of John W. and Jane (Hazelton) Ball, of Falls
Township. They have three children - George B., Lewis
A. and Winford W., all at home. Carl R.
died in infancy.
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
ABRAHAM McLAIN, photographer, is the son
of Charles and Nancy (Spearlock) McLain, and was born
Dec. 3, 1834, in Jackson Township, Perry County, but when three
years old he moved to Starr Township, Hocking County, where he
was reared on a farm and educated. In October, 1854, he
went to Jefferson County, Iowa, remaining there a year when he
returned to Hocking County and resumed farming in Starr
Township. Dec. 10, 1861, he enlisted in Company H,
Sixty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, to serve three years, and
in January, 1864, he re-enlisted in the same company and
regiment, serving till July, 1865, when he was discharged at
Louisville, Ky. He participated in the battles of New
Madrid Island No. 10, Corinth, and was with Sherman from
Resaca to the sea. After his discharge in farming near
Rockport, Atchison Co., Mo., until the latter part of 1867.
He then returned to Starr Township and followed farming till
April, 1883, when he came to Logan and with his son, John D.,
established McLain's Photograph Gallery. He was
married Oct. 4, 1854, to Miss Priscilla Crawford, of
Starr Township, by whom he has had four children, three of whom
are living - John D., Charles Wesley and James Finley;
Emma died Sept. 26, 1864, at the age of eight years.
Mr. McLain and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Logan.
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
J. D. McLAIN, of McLain & Beery,
leading photographers of Logan, was born near Fairfield, Iowa,
Mar. 11, 1856. When one year old he came with his parents
to Hocking County. With the exception of one year, when
the family were in Rockport, Atchison Co., Mo., he lived
on his father's farm in Starr Township. Young McLain
attended school until twenty-one, then came to Logan and worked
at the marble-cutter's trade three years. He then began
the study of painting portraits in Logan under D. D.
Beardsley, of New York, for one year. He then followed
portrait painting in oil and water colors until February, 1872,
when he began to learn photography under J. M. Graham.
Four months after he bought out Mr. Graham, and has
improved his studio from time to time, adding the latest and
best photographic instruments, until he has one of the finest
and most complete studios in Hocking Valley. On June 15,
1883, Mr. McLain took Mr. G. W. Beary, artist,
into partnership, and they are now prepared to do all kinds of
first-class photography. Mr. McLain married Miss
Alma Beagle, May 7, 1879. She was born in Hocking
County. Mr. and Mrs. McLain have one daughter,
Naomi, born Apr. 11, 1880.
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Star Twp. -
BENJAMIN C. _. McMANIGAL,
of Union Furnace, was born in Mifflin County, Pa., Mar. 27,
1840, and is a son of Robert McManigal, also a native of
Mifflin County. Our subject received his education at
Tuscarawas and Pine Grove Mills academies (Penn.). He
served in the late war in Company C, Forty-fifth Pennsylvania
Infantry, from the fall of 1861 until the close of the war.
He enlisted as a private, and was made First Lieutenant in the
fall of 1863, and a few weeks later was captured at Petersburg,
Va. He was kept a prisoner for four months and twenty-two
days, in the prisons at Libby, Salisbury, N. C., and Danville,
Va., and on Washington's birthday, 1864, he was exchanged.
After his return home he studied dentistry, and in 1866 came to
Logan, Ohio, where he practiced until 1868, when he went to
Litchfield, Ill., and practiced for one year. His health
then failed, and in 1869 he went to Lake City, Minn., and to St.
Louis, Mo., in 1870, where he kept books for Garrett, McDowell &
Co. until 1871. He then came to Union Furnace and clerked
and kept books three years. In 1874 he, in company with
his brother Dal, purchased the furnace, which they operated from
1880 until 1883. He was married Mar. 18, 1874, to Mary
E. Work, daughter of John W. Work, of Logan.
They have three children - Jessie C., Benjamin E., and
Mary F. the Doctor is a member of the Presbyterian
church, and an Odd Fellow.
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
ROBERT DALLAS McMANIGAL, operator in iron
ore, was born near McVeytown, Mifflin Co., Pa., Mar. 16, 1844,
and is the fourth of six sons of Robert and Elizabeth (Bell)
McManigal. His father died when he was thirteen years
old, and he remained with his mother till sixteen years of age,
receiving an education at the public schools. On leaving
home he went to Washington City, D. C., where he was employed as
a clerk in the dry-goods and fancy store of Alexander
Morrison for eighteen months, when he returned to the
homestead and engaged for eighteen months, when he returned to
the homestead and engaged in farming till June, 1862. He
then enlisted for a three months' service in Company C, One
Hundred and Thirty-first Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry, returning home after the expiration of his term of
service. Soon after he went to Brown County, Ohio, and was
in the store of C. Newkirk until August, 1864, when he
enlisted in the Fourth Ohio Independent Company Cavalry to serve
one year, but served only till July, 1865, or till the close of
the war. His company was assigned to duty in the Fifteenth
and Seventeenth Army Corps as escort to General O. O. Howard.
He was detailed dispatch bearer under General Howard from
December, 1864, until his discharge. He was with
Sherman in his celebrated march from Atlanta to the sea, and
from Savannah, Georgia, to Washington City, D. C. After
his discharge at Camp Dennison he visited his old home in
Pennsylvania, after which he returned to Ohio, where he was
employed as store-keeper by J. C. Garrett & Co.,
proprietors of the furnace at Union Furnace, Hocking County,
with whom he remained till 1868, and then by their successors in
Hocking Valley Iron Company as bookkeeper till 1872, when that
company was succeeded by Brooks & Houston, of Columbus,
by whom he was engaged as general manager until 1878. He
then returned to Nelsonville and was employed a year as
superintendent of the Akron Iron Company's Furnace, at Buchtel.
In May, 1880, he came to Logan, engaging in his present
business. On Oct. 16, 1870, he was married to Miss
Clara M., daughter of John W. and Elizabeth (Fielding)
Work, of Logan. They have been blessed with five
children, viz.: Lizzie Bell, Charles Fielding, Frank
Garrett, Bertha Work and Ella Williams. He and
wife are members of the First Presbyterian Church. He is a
member of Hocking Valley Lodge, No. 262, and Mineral Encampment,
No. 91, I. O. O. F., of Logan.
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Ward Twp.
-
W. J. McMANIGAL
was born December,
1834, in Mifflin County, Penn., and is the son of Robert
McManigal, who died in Pennsylvania in 1857. Mr. R.
McManigal was Sheriff of Mifflin County from 1845 to 1848.
Mr. W. J. McManigal moved to Buchtel, Ohio, in 1877, and
from there to Orbiston in December, 1879, where he has since
filled the position of bookkeeper for the Hocking Iron Company.
He has been surveyor for the Hocking Iron Company since he has
been connected with them, and was appointed Postmaster in 1883.
He was educated in Kishoquillas Seminary, Mifflin County, Penn.,
but left school at the age of twenty, when he was elected County
Surveyor of that county. Mr. McManigal was married
in 1858 to Martha J. Lawrence, of Millroy, Penn.,
daughter of Rev. Samuel Lawrence, who was a minister of
the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and died in 1875 at
Lewistown, Penn. Mr. and Mrs. McManigal are the
parents of six children - Edwin F., Robert C., Elizabeth M.,
Mary Y., Samuel L. and Sallie L. Sallie died
Sept. 24, 1866, at the age of two years.
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Falls
Twp. including Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
D. A. MILLER,
merchant of Logan, is a native of Ohio and was born in Jackson,
Jackson County, Apr. 25, 1835. He attended school there.
At ten years of age he began to learn the printer's trade and
worked on the Jackson Standard as a compositor until
1859, when he came to Logan and worked on the Logan
Republican as manager and foreman until 1861, when he
enlisted in Company H, Seventy-fifth Ohio Infantry; enlisted as
a private but was promoted to Sergeant, then First Lieutenant.
He was shot through the left hip joint at the battle of
Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, and soon after returned home. As
soon as able he reported at the Government Medical Board at
Columbus, and was sent to the hospital at Covington, Ky., where
he remained until January, 1864, when he received his discharge
and returned home to Logan. In 1866 he was appointed
collector for the Hocking Valley Canal Company, and still
retains that office. From 1866 till 1878 he was engaged in
the grocery business. In 1878 he sold out and opened the
Logan House, of which he was proprietor until 1880 when he
opened his present store. He carries a stock of $1,500 of
general merchandise. Mr. Miller was married to
Miss Lucinda Rathburne, Oct. 9, 1865. She was born in
Logan, daughter of James E. Rathburne. Mr. and Mrs.
Miller had three children - Mary M., Lucinda and
Georgia. The mother died Dec. 3, 1875; she was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Miller
married Mrs. Cerepta Davis, Sept. 21, 1881. She was
born in Vinton County, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1852, daughter of
Harrison and Mary Wilkinson. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have
one daughter - Bessie E. Mr. Miller is a member of
the Hocking Valley Lodge, No. 262, I. O. O. F. and has passed
the chairs in the subordinate encampment and the encampment.
Is also a member of Logan Lodge, No. 119, K. of P., and of the
G. A. R. In politics Mr. Miller is a Republican.
He has been elected Township Clerk and member of the City
Council and still retains the latter office. He is one of
the leading merchants and business men of Logan. He was
the third son of a family of six daughters and four sons.
His parents were Alexander and Harmeon (James) Miller.
His father was born near the line between Canada and New
York. He was a school-teacher and hotel man. He died
in 1854. His wife was born in Jackson, Ohio, a daughter of
one of the oldest settlers of Jackson County, and is still
living in Jackson County. She is a member of the
Protestant Methodist church.
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Marion Twp. -
DAVID MILLER, farmer, fourth son of
John and Catharine (Groves) Miller, was born near
Pleasantville, Fairfield Co., Ohio, Sept. 21, 1819. When
he was nine years of age his parents removed to Perry County.
At the age of eighteen years he was employed for a time on a
canal boat on the Ohio Canal, and afterward worked for farmers
in Scioto and PIke counties until twenty-four years of age.
He then rented a farm in Fairfield County, near Rushville, until
1851. In 1848 he had purchased land in Mercer County, and
in 1851 he traded it for the farm where he now resides. In
March, 1841, he married Rebecca, daughter of George
and Mary (Leohner) Rader, of Fairfield County, Ohio, by whom
he has two daughters - Mary A. wife of Isaac Mericle,
and Laura, wife of T. Moyers, both of Allen
County, Ohio. Malinda died June 17, 1882, aged
thirty-eight years; John, in infancy; Catharine,
aged one year; Clarissa, aged two years, Allen R.,
aged five years; William P., aged three years; Rebecca
J., in infancy. His wife, died in 1858, aged
thirty-four years. She was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church. Nov. 1, 1860, he married Elizabeth,
daughter of Thomas G. and Lydia (Barb) Perry, of Licking
County, Ohio. They have one son - Perry. Mr. and
Mrs. Miller are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
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Falls
Twp. including Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
WILLIAM McABOY MONTGOMERY,
grocer and restauranter, is the son of William and Eliza
(Claxton) Montgomery, and was born at Logan, Nov. 28, 1835,
still residing in the house where he was born. At the age
of fifteen he was apprenticed to Raymond Belt to learn
the trade of molder, serving nearly three years, and in the
spring of 1854 he went to Fredericktown, Ohio, working at his
trade till October of the following year, when he returned to
Logan. In November, 1855, he became associated with his
brother John in the grocery trade, under the firm name of
Montgomery Bros. In May, 1857, his brother retired from
the firm, and, with the exception of one year that he engaged in
farming, he has ever since carried out he business at the same
stand. On April, 12, 1857, he was married to Miss Mary
Ann Rolston, of Hocking County. They have been blessed
with ten children, eight of whom are living, viz.:
Fanny Josephine, Charles Porter, Katy Eliza, Edward E., Mary
Eliza, Julia Winforce, and Clarence and Clara
(twins). In May, 1864, Mr. Montgomery went out with
Company K, One Hundred and Fifty-second Regiment, Ohio National
Guards, as a private and served on guard duty in the
fortifications at Washington, D. C., until September of the same
year, when he was discharged on the expiration of his term of
service.
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Starr
Twp. -
JOSIAH
H. MOORE was born near Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pa., Mar.
16, 1805, a son of Abram Moore, also a native of
Pennsylvania. He served an apprenticeship at wool-carding
and cloth-dressing in Uniontown, Pa. When young he went to
Kentucky and worked at his trade, but soon after came to
Cincinnati, working at his trade in a factory. He next
came to Athens County and worked for B. Pruden some time,
when he was engaged at Wolf's Lower Mills, near Athens.
After working there awhile he purchased the saw and grist mills,
and afterward bought the Upper Mills at Salina, in partnership
with John Matheny. He then bought the latter out
and ran both mills for several years, in the meantime
accumulating considerable property, but the slack water in the
canal ruined his business. In April, 1844, he came to this
county and followed the avocation of a farmer, but now, helpless
and stricken in years, he is living with his son, Wilson P.,
in Starr. In 1829 he was married to Lydia, daughter of
Christopher Wolf, one of the first settlers of Athens
Township. They have been blessed with eight children -
Isaac, Andrew, Wilson P., Barak W., Rhoda W. (deceased),
Lydia, Caroline W. and Elizabeth H. Mrs.
Moore died Dec. 27, 1881. Mr. Moore has been a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church for many years.
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Falls
Twp. including Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
MEREDITH
DARLINGTON MOORE, junior member of the firm of Collins
& Moore, was born in Newark, Ohio, July 19, 1842, the eldest
of four children of Wm. M. and Eveline (Darlington) Moore.
He was reared in his native town, receiving a common-school
education. When twenty years of age he was employed as
bookkeeper for Peter Hayde, proprietor of the Haydenville
Coal Works, for whom he worked till 1867, when he came to Logan
and formed a partnership with Jesse L. Collins. From 1875
till 1880 Mr. Moore was Clay Clerk of Logan. They
have one child - William C. Mr. and Mrs. Moore are
members of the Methodist church. He is an Odd Fellow, a
member of Hockhocking Lodge, No. 262, of which he is Past Guard,
and of Mineral Encampment, No. 91, of which he is Past Chief
Patriarch.
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Starr
Twp. -
AARON
W. MOSURE, farmer and stock-raiser, section 13, Starr
Township, was born in Green Township, Hocking Co., Ohio, Mar. 6,
1837. His father, Nathan Mosure, came from Dutchess
County, N.Y., to this county in 1834. He was reared on a
farm and received a common-school education. He enlisted
in the late war in Company E, Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, as a
private, and afterward was transferred and promoted to First
Lieutenant of Company G, same regiment. He participated in
the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga (here his
company of forty-five men lost sixteen of their number),
Atlanta, Kingston, Resaca, Franklin, Tenn., Nashville (where
they took sixty-eight pieces of artillery in two days, and
killed and captured 9,000 rebels). Mr. Mosure
commanded his company at the last named battle, and also at the
battle of Franklin, Tenn. At that battle the boys in blue
made a stand to save their supply train, planting their
artillery on the pike. The rebels made a desperate charge,
and in the single charge lost 4,500 men in killed and wounded.
Lieutenant Monroe received a great deal of praise for his
gallantry. He was married Apr. 21, 1867, to Mary J.,
daughter of Thomas M. Bay. She was born in Guernsey
County, Ohio. Mr. Mosure came to Starr Township in
1869, where he still resides, and owns 131 acres of valuable
land. He was Township Trustee several years, and took the
census in1880.
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
ROBERT MOTHERWELL, superintendent of the
Motherwell Iron and Steel Company's works, was born near
Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 5, 1845, a son of Alexander and Jane
Motherwell. When seventeen years of age he emigrated
to America, landing in Portland, Me., Apr. 26, 1863, remaining
there till 1866. While in Scotland he learned the trade of
a heavy blacksmith, and after coming to America, while in
Portland, was employed in the Casco Bay Forge Works, on
Government work. In 186 he went to Pittsburg, Pa., and
worked in the Reese, Graft & Guyers Rolling Mills
till 1868, when he removed to Lancaster, Ohio, and with his
brothers James and William founded the Motherwell
Bros. Shovel and Spade Works. In 1881 he and his
brother James came to Logan and founded the Motherwell
Iron and Steel Works. Jan. 18, 1870, Mr. Motherwell
married Louise Rich of Lancaster, Ohio. They have
six children - Hattie, Alice, Jennie, Lola, Grace and
Mary. Mr. and Mrs. Motherwell are members of St.
Peter's Lutheran Church, of Lancaster. He is a Master
Mason, a member of the lodge in Lancaster.
SOURCE: History of Hocking
Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co.
- 1883 - Page 976 |
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Green
Twp. -
HENRY
P. MOWREY, section 12, Green Township, was born in this
township Feb. 5, 1853. He was reared a farmer and educated
at the common schools. He has been engaged in mining the
past ten years in which he has been very successful. He
was married Mar. 11, 1880, to Miss Fannie C., daughter of
Jacob B. Angle, of this township. They have had two
children - Noel Henry (deceased) and Nellie May.
He is a member of the United Brethren church at Gore, and his
wife a member of the same denominations at New Fellowship, this
township. The father of our subject, Andrew J. Mowrey,
was born in Belmont County, Ohio, Aug. 15, 1832, a son of
Henry Mowrey (deceased), a native of Pennsylvania, who came
to Ohio in an early day. He was reared a farmer and always
followed that avocation. He came with his parents to
Athens County in 1836, where they settled in Ames Township, on
what is now the Mason farm. In 1850 he came to
Hocking County where he has since resided. He was married
May 2, 1852, to Jane, daughter of Warner Lehman
(deceased), an early settler of this county. They are the
parents of thirteen children, eleven of whom are still living,
whose names are - Henry P., William H., Samuel W., Joshua,
Mary L., Thomas J., Clara A. Benjamin C., Emma J., Idella J.
and George A.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 1031 |
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Falls
Twp. including Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
ALFRED
C. MURPHY, farmer, son of William and Mary A. (Friesner)
Murphy, was born in Falls Township, Hocking Co., Ohio, Sept.
23, 1853. At the age of twenty-one years he began farming
for himself on his father's farm. In 1880 he removed to
the farm where he now resides adjoining Good Hope and Marion
townships. Mar. 18, 1880, he married Mary E.,
daughter of Henry and Mary E. (Warthman) Hansel, of Falls
Township. Himself and wife are members of the United
Brethren church.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 977 |
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Laurel Twp. -
JACOB MYER, born in
Laurel Township, Sept. 18, 1840, is the eldest of six children
of Christian and Caroline (Young) Myer. He was
married in September, 1864, to Caroline Bloom, of Laurel
Township. To them were born three children - Barbara
Ellen, Caroline Elizabeth and Susan Doratina. Mrs.
Myer died May 21, 1875. Mr. Myer moved on to
the farm where he now resides in 1873. He has 115 acres of
good land, a commodious barn, and is intending to erect a new
residence. He is a self-made man. Commencing life
with comparatively nothing, he gained by his industry a good
property, which he afterward lost on account of sickness and
draught. He was not discouraged, but started again and now
has, by his good management, again acquired a good farm.
He has run a threshing machine for twenty years and is
considered one of the best threshers in Hocking County.
SOURCE:
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published Chicago: by
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page
1139 |
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Falls Twp. including
Falls-Gore and City of Logan -
LLOYD MYERS, general insurance agent,
Logan, was born at Plymouth, Washington Co., Ohio, Mar. 21,
1840, a son of Dr. Jacob L. and Rhoda (Case) Myers.
When he was twelve years of age his parents removed to
Lancaster, Ohio, and from there in 1854 to Logan. He was
educated in the common schools, and when fourteen began to work
in the steam flouring mill at Logan, packing flour. In
1857 he was apprenticed to learn the trade of a blacksmith, and
in March, 1861, started a shop of his own in Logan, but the
following September closed his shop and enlisted in Company D,
Seventeenth Ohio Infantry, and served till Jan. 2, 1865.
He with his regiment participated in the battles of Wildcat,
Mill Springs, Corinth, Perryville, Stone River, Hoover's Gap,
Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta,
Jonesboro, Savannah and many other hard fought battles.
After his return home he was employed in the machine shops of
Raymond Belt till the fall of 1868, when he formed a
partnership with C. Kuqua and F. H. Chidester in
the manufacture of wagons and carriages and blacksmithing,
remaining with them till 1871. From that time till 1880 he
was in business alone. He then sold out and became
established in his present business. May 10, 1860, he
married Susan Gibson, of Logan, who died Feb. 5, 1866,
leaving one child - Charles O. Nov. 30, 1870, he
married Mrs. M. A. Pryor. The had two children -
Ada O. and Mary Bertha. Mrs. Myers died Mar.
14, 1877. Mr. Myers is a member of the Methodist
church. He is a Master, Royal Arch and Council Mason.
He has been Master of Mingo Lodge, No. 171, since 1878, and is
King of Logan Chapter, No. 75, and Conductor of Hockhocking
Council, No. 39. He is a member of James K. Rochester
Post, No. 140, G. A. R.
SOURCE: History of Hocking Valley, Ohio - Published
Chicago: by Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1883 - Page 977 |
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