BIOGRAPHIES
 Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio
Publ. Chicago: Inter-state
Publishing Co.
1884
G.
A. EWING, M. D., was born in Ewington, Gallia
Co., Ohio, in 1834, the third of five children of
George Ewing, a native of Virginia, born Jan. 21,
1807, and died in Gallia County, May 1, 1883.
Dr. Ewing's Great grandfather Ewing was a
native of Scotland but died in Virginia. His
grandfather, William Ewing, was born in Virginia
in 1756 and was in the Revolutionary war. He died
in Gallia County, Ohio, Oct. 27, 1822. Dr.
Ewing was reared a farmer, receiving a common school
education. At twenty years of age he began
teaching and taught seven years. In the late war
he enlisted as a private in Company A, Fifty-sixth Ohio
Infantry, but was appointed Hospital Steward and served
in that capacity six months when he was discharged on
account of physical disability. He commenced the
study of medicine in 1857 under Dr. Ira Holcomb,
of Vinton, Gallia Co., Ohio. He graduated at the
Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, in 1866, and located
in Ewington. In the fall of 1881 he removed
to Jackson, where he now has a liberal share of the
patronage. He married Mary Cherington, of
Gallia County, a sister of Sheriff Cherington, of
Jackson County. They have four children - Mrs.
Ida E. Bane, U. B. G., Anna P. and Solomon
K. Dr. Ewing has been a member o the
Masonic fraternity since 1855, and has taken the degrees
up to and including the council. He and his wife
are members of the Methodist church. Politically
he is a Republican.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 557 |
JOHN
M. EWING, ex-Sheriff of Jackson County,
was born in Madison County, Ohio, Jan. 16, 1842, the
eldest of six children of Peter and Elizabeth
(Clements) Ewing. His father died in 1867, and
his mother is now living in Jackson. When he was
five years of age his parents came to Jackson where he
was reared and educated. When sixteen years of age
he was employed as engineer at the Mount Vernon Furnace,
Lawrence County. He remained there and at the old
Diamond Furnace, Jackson County, till 1868, with the
exception of two years that he served in the late war in
the First Ohio Heavy Artillery. From 1868 till
1874, he was deputy under Sheriffs J. H. Wilson, John
Wade and R. W. Hubbard. In the latter
year he was elected Sheriff and re-elected in 1876.
Since the expiration of his last term of service he has
lived a rather retired life. Mr. Ewing was
married Sept. 30, 1871, to Mary E. Farrar, of
Jackson County. She died Apr. 26, 1882, aged
thirty-three years. Of their three children but
two are living - Sophia and John. Alta
is deceased. Mr. Ewing is a Knight Templar
Mason and is Junior Warden of his lodge.
Source:
History of Lower Scioto Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago:
Inter-state Publishing Co. 1884 - Page 557 |
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