OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS

A Part of Genealogy Express
 

Welcome to
Morrow County,  Ohio
History & Genealogy

CLEMENT McANALL. —As a worthy representative of the prosperous agriculturists of Morrow county and as an honored and respected citizen of Canaan township, Clement McAnall is especially deserving of mention in a work of this character. A son of John McAnall, he was born December 6, 1858, in Knox county, Ohio, coming from substantial Virginia ancestry.
     John McAnall was born in Ohio county, West Virginia, April 6, 1828, where he was bred and educated. Subsequently settling in Knox county, Ohio, he lived there a few years and then moved to Morrow county, where he spent his remaining years, dying on his farm in Washington township in September, 1896. He was twice married. His first wife whose maiden name was Sarah A. Levering, died on the home farm in April, 1865. He married second, Minerva J. Logan, who is now living at Mt. Gilead, Ohio. Of the children born by his first marriage but two grew to years of maturity, Clement, the subject of this sketch, and Mary A., deceased, who married D. R. Hammond. By his second union he had five children, as follows: John L.; Cora, wife of George Blayney; Agnes M.; Mattie B., wife of Arthur Kerr; and Hugh W., of Mt. Gilead.
     Brought up on the home farm in Washington township, Clement McAnall acquired his elementary education in the district schools, after which he attended the Ohio Central College, at Iberia, for four terms. Selecting for his life work that occupation upon which the wealth and prosperty of our nation is so largely dependent, Mr. McAnall has since devoted his energies to the pursuit of agriculture, as a farmer and stock raiser meeting with unquestioned success. He now owns three hundred and thirty acres of fertile land in Washington and Canaan townships, and is widely known as one of the foremost farmers of Morrow county. A man of sterling worth, he is in all respects a valuable citizen of the township, performing his duties and obligations as such with commendable fidelity.
     Mr. McAnall married, September 24, 1885, Amy Lyon, who was born in Canaan township, Morrow county, Ohio, June 14, 1861, a daughter of Jacob Lyon. She is a woman of culture, having completed her early education in the Ohio Central College, at Iberia. Mr. and Mrs. McAnall are the parents of three children, namely: Esther M., who graduated from the Mt. Gilead High School, and is now an instructor in the Iberia High School; Hugh R., who graduated from the Iberia High School, and is now attending the Agricultural College at Columbus, Ohio; and Jay R., a pupil in the Iberia High School.
     Politically Mr. McAnall is identified with the Democratic party, and he has served as township trustee. He is a deacon of the Presbyterian church of Iberia, to which he and his wife belong. Mr. and Mrs. McAnall are likewise members of Washington Grange, and take an active part in promoting the good of the organization. They have in their possession three of the parchments or buckskin deeds, executed under the hand and seal of President Andrew Jackson and bearing the following dates: October 18, 1834, October 14, 1835 and October 18, 1834. These deeds are valuable heirlooms in the home, and there are only six of these old deeds recorded in the twentieth century history of Morrow county. The pretty estate of Mr. McAnall is known as "Glenmore Springs Stock Farm."  In the way of souvenirs they have his mother's spinning wheel and reels, which are at least three quarters of a century old, also a fancy double coverlet which was woven in 1849.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 574-575
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist

SEYMOUR McANINCH. ––One of the native sons of Morrow county and a member of an old and honored family of this favored section of the Buckeye state, Mr. McAninch has gained prestige as one of the aggressive and influential business men of the county and his real estate and business interests are of noteworthy scope and importance.  Energy, good judgment and close application have brought him into prominence as a man of affairs, and his careful adherence to the principles of honesty, sincerity and integrity has given him secure vantage ground in popular confidence and esteem.  He has won large and definite success, but has not found it necessary to infringe on the rights of others, and he is known as a liberal and loyal citizen and as a man of abiding kindliness and deep human sympathy and tolerance.  His residence and business headquarters are in the village of Clima [sic] where he is an extensive buyer and shipper of grain, hay and other products and where he is the owner of commodious and well equipped grain elevators.
     On the old homestead farm of his father, which is endeared to him by the associations of the past, Mr. McAninch was ushered into the world on the 22nd of May, 1861, and the homestead noted is situated in Washington township, Morrow county, at a point five miles north of Mt. Gilead, the county seat.  He is a son of John A. and Mary A. (Sipes) McAninch, who continued to reside on this homestead until their death, the father having passed away when about fifty-nine years of age and the mother having been seventy-three years old when she was summoned to the life eternal.  John A. McAninch was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and his wife, at Sumerset [sic], Perry county, Pennsylvania.  They were early settlers of Washington township, Morrow county, and ever commanded the high regard of all who knew them.  The father contributed his quota to the industrial and social development of this section of the state and was influential in public affairs of a local nature.  He was originally a Whig and later a Republican in politics, and both he and his wife held membership in the Methodist Episcopal church.  They became the parents of one child, the subject of this sketch, who still survives them.
     Seymour McAninch was reared under the benignant influences and discipline of the home farm and even as a boy assumed his share of duties and responsibilities in connection with its operation.  The district school of the neighborhood afforded him his early educational advantages, and the lessons thus learned have been effectively supplemented by self-discipline and by association with men and affairs.  He continued actively identified with agricultural pursuits for many years and eventually became the owner of the old homestead.  This is one of the well improved farms of the county and its owner takes much pride in keeping it up to the highest standard, both in the matter of improvements and facilities and in the various departments of its work.  In 1903 he engaged in the general merchandise business at North Woodbury, this county with his son, where he remained about two years.  For two years thereafter he was engaged in the same line of enterprise in the village of Climax, where he has since maintained his home.  He finally disposed of his mercantile business and turned his attention to the buying and shipping of grain, with which he has since been actively and successfully identified.  In 1907 he erected the grain elevators in Climax, and the same have done much to promote the prosperity and growth of the village, while affording valued facilities to the farmers of the adjacent sections.  In connection with the elevators is maintained the freight and ticket agency for the Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad, on whose line the elevators are eligibly located.  Mr. McAninch now controls a large and substantial business as a buyer and shipper of grain and hay and his reputation for fairness and scrupulous honesty in all transactions is unassailable.  He is the owner of seven residence properties in the city of Columbus, Ohio.
     As a progressive and public spirited citizen Mr. McAninch has naturally taken a lively interest in political matters and he has been an active worker in the local ranks of the Republican party.  He is at the present time a member of the board of trustees of Canaan township, having held this position five years, and he gives to his official duties careful and discriminating attention, with the worthy purpose of doing all in his power to promote the best interests of the township and its people.  He is affiliated with Caledonia Lodge, No. 299, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is past noble grand of the same.  Both Mr. and Mrs. McAninch are zealous members of the United Brethren church in their home village and he has given to the same prolonged and effective service as a teacher in the Sunday School, of which he was also superintendent for two years.
     On the 8th of December, 1881, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McAninch to Miss Emma J. Dye, who was born and reared in Washington township, this county, where her father, the late Justice Dye, was a representative farmer.  Walter L., the elder of the two children of Mr. and Mrs. McAninch, married Miss Austa Allwein, of North Woodbury, Ohio, and for three years was a teacher in the public school at that place.  He is now a resident of Columbus, the capital city of Ohio, where he is freight clerk in the offices of the Toledo & Ohio Central Railroad.  He was born on the old homestead farm on the 6th of October, 1883.  He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and Knights of Pythias, being a member of Mt. Gilead Lodge, No. 206, Free and Accepted Masons, also of Gilead Chapter, No. 59, Royal Arch Masons, and Iberia Lodge, No. 561, Knights of Pythias.  Alta Mae, who was born on the 12th of September, 1891, is a student of music, in which art she has fine talent, and at present she resides with her parents at Climax, Ohio.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 715-717
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

JAMES L. McCAMMAN, who resides at 732 West High street, Mt. Gilead, Ohio, is well known as one of the financially substantial men of Morrow county, where he has spent his life and where his enterprising efforts and strictly honorable dealings have brought him the success he now enjoys.
     Mr. McCamman was born in Gilead township, Morrow county, Ohio, July 23, 1850, a son of John and Henrietta (Kelly) McCamman, both now deceased.  In their family were five children, of whom one daughter, Alice, is now the wife of Edmund Wooley and resides in New York state.  When James L. was six years of age his parents moved to the farm in Gilead township on which he was reared and which he still owns, this farm comprising a tract of two hundred and ten acres and being situated a mile and a half east of Mt. Gilead.  Here his boyhood days were passed, attending district school and working on the farm, and here he continued to make his home until 1901, when he came to Mt. Gilead, since which time he has resided on West High street.  For years Mr. McCamman has dealt extensively in cattle, buying by the car load, grazing them on his broad pastures and then shipping to the markets.  From time to time he has made investments, and is a stockholder and director in various enterprises.
     Mr. McCamman and his wife have an only daughter, Florence, wife of Robert Ginn, of Indianapolis, Indiana.  Mrs. McCamman, formerly Miss Ora V. Powell, was born and reared in Morrow county.
     Politically Mr. McCamman is a Republican, though he has never been active in politics, his own personal affairs claiming the whole of his attention.  He has fraternal relations with Mt. Gilead Lodge, No. 169, I. O. O. F., and Morrow Encampment, No. 59; also he is a member of Charles H. Hull Lodge, No. 195, K. of P., in all of which he has been honored with official position.  He and his wife are prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal church of Mt. Gilead and at this writing he is one of its stewards.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 487-488
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

JOHN McCAUSLAND. ––John McCausland, who for fourteen years has been the genial and efficient post master of Chesterville and who is also the proprietor of a well-managed hardware store, has been in business here longer than any other man in the place.  In other days, previous to becoming identified with the grocery business, he was a photographer.  This much respected citizen is a veteran of the Civil war, having given his services almost throughout the entire course of that conflict.
     Mr. McCausland was born in Congress township, Richland now Morrow county, on the 12th day of July, 1838, the son of David and Mary (McClaren) McCausland, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Scotland.  When young people they answered the beckon of opportunity from the shores of the New World, the year in which they took up their residence in America being 1833.  They eventually found their way to Ohio and five years after their arrival upon our shores the birth of the subject occurred.  They became the parents of eight children, four of whom died in infancy and the four surviving being James, John, Elizabeth and Margaret.  These boys and girls attended the district school in Congress township called Miracle School.
     Mr. McCausland assumed the responsibilities of a married man on the 14th day of June, 1864, when occurred his union with Henrietta Smith, daughter of John A. and Mary M. (Baker) Smith, natives of the state of Maryland.  Mrs. McCausland was one of a family of nine children, whose names were Susanna, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Henrietta, Mary, John, Peter, Horace E. and Alice.  After their marriage Mr. McCausland and his bride located in Chesterville, where the former opened a daguerrotype [sic] business and after conducting this for two years he accepted a position as a clerk in a grocery, and subsequently, when he had obtained a thorough knowledge of the business, he established a grocery business of his own, and in the same enjoyed wide patronage.  For the past fourteen years Mr. McCausland has faithfully discharged the duties of the office of post master of Chesterville, his daughter Izola successfully acting as his assistant.
     Mr. and Mrs. McCausland became the parents of the following eight sons and daughters: Frank, Britomart, Izola, Gladys, Arthur, Edith, Wastella and Catherine.  The two sons reside in Oregon, where they have a homestead of three hundred and twenty acres.  Britomart became the wife of Frank Sheively of Chesterville.  Gladys married A. C. Seffner, of Marion, Ohio.  Catherine is a trained nurse in Marion and Edith is employed in a department store in Canton, Ohio.  Wastella and Izola reside at home with their father and are his devoted companions, the latter, as previously mentioned, being his assistant in the post office.  The demise of the wife and mother occurred April 2, 1907, her mortal remains being interred in Maple Grove cemetery in Chesterville.  This kind and sympathetic lady is lovingly remembered by hosts of friends.     Mr. McCausland and his daughters are honored members of the Presbyterian church, in which the father has held the office of ruling elder for twenty-five years.  In his long-time business relations with the people of Chesterville he has proved himself well worthy of the confidence and respect in which he is held, his honesty and uprightness being unquestioned.
     It is appropriate to add something of the military career of Mr. McCausland.  When the Civil war became a terrible reality and the call for three year men was sent forth he was the first man in his township to enlist, becoming a member of Company E, Twenty-sixth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  His service extended over a period of two years and he was wounded in a skirmish at Horse Shoe Bend at New River, West Virginia.  Among the engagements in which he participated were those of Scarey Creek, Gauley Bridge, Sewall Mountain and many others.  As to political conviction he was reared a Democrat, but came out of the Civil war a Republican and has given his allegiance to the men and measures of the “Grand Old Party” in the ensuing fifty years.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 766-767
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

JACOB C. McCORMICK, M. D. ––A man who is well versed in the science of his profession and one who has gained distinctive prestige as an able physician and surgeon at Mount Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, where he has been engaged in active practice since 1900, is Dr. Jacob C. McCormick, who was born at Millsboro, Pennsylvania, on the 25th of September, 1861, and who is the son of Reverend J. B. and Sarah (Crawford) McCormick.  Reverend J. B. McCormick was a minister in the Methodist Protestant church during the major portion of his active career and he was a man of extensive learning and broad human sympathy.  For a number of years he was engaged as a preacher in the Methodist church at Cardington, this county.  The McCormick family traces its ancestry to stanch Scotch-Irish stock and Dr. McCormick is a descendant of Colonel William Crawford who was burned by the Indians in Wyandot county, Ohio.  His parents came to Ohio from the old Keystone state in 1868.  Reverend and Mrs. McCormick became the parent of eight children, five of whom are now living.  The mother died in 1876.
     Dr. Jacob C. McCormick was a child of even years of age at the time of the family immigration to Ohio and in the district and graded schools of Morrow county he acquired his preliminary educational training, which was later supplemented by a course of study in the high school at Cambridge, Ohio, in which he was graduated.  In 1881 he was matriculated in the academy at New Hagerstown, where he was enrolled as a student for some time, after which he entered Adrian College, at Adrian, Michigan.  Subsequently to his leaving the latter institution he was a popular and successful teacher in the public schools at Denmark and Iberia, Morrow county, Ohio, for a period of four years.  Developing a desire to study the science of medicine he became a student in the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, but after two years’ attendance there he entered the Western Reserve College of Medicine, at Cleveland, Ohio, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1890, duly receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine.  He began the practice of his profession at Tosco, Michigan, where he maintained his home for some ten years and where he gained recognition as a skilled physician and surgeon.  In 1900 he severed his business connections in that place and returned to Morrow county, Ohio, settling at Mount Gilead, where he has been eminently successful in building up a large and representative practice and where he is known as one of the leading doctors in this section of the state.  In connection with his profession he is a valued and appreciative member of the Morrow County Medical Society and the American Medical Association.  He has kept abreast with all the advances made in his particular line of work and holds a high place in the regard of his fellow practioners [sic] as the result of his close adherence to the unwritten code of professional ethics.  In addition to his extensive practice Dr. McCormick has various financial interests of important order in Mount Gilead.  He is a stock-holder and director in the Peoples’ Savings Bank and is the owner of considerable valuable real estate.
    Dr. McCormick has completed two post-graduate courses in medicine and surgery in the Post-Graduate College of Chicago––one in 1890 and the other in 1893.  Besides his professional duties he is examiner for the following well known insurance companies, the Mutual Life, the New York Equitable, the John Hancock, the Travellers, the Home, the Ohio State and the Union Central.  He has a fine medical library and an excellent selection of standard works, his shelves containing five hundred volumes.  He is a constant student of his profession.
     On March 20, 1884, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. McCormick to Miss Emma J. Ward, of Livingston county, Michigan, where she was reared and educated, she being a daughter of Guerdon and Rachel (Miller) Ward, of that county.  Mrs. McCormick, who is excellently educated and a former Michigan school teacher, is a woman of most gracious refinement and magnetic personality and she and her husband are prominent and popular factors in ocnnection [sic] with the best social activities of Mount Gilead.  Dr. and Mrs. McCormick became the parents of six children; John, Blaine and Rachel are deceased.  The others are: Ward, born in 1888, who was graduated in the Mount Gilead high school and who is now a student in the University of Michigan; Willie, who was born in 1890, and who is now a student in Oberlin College; and Rose, born in 1896, a student in the Mount Gilead high school.  Ward is pursuing a course of study in medicine and surgery and will graduate in the class of 1913.  He received his degree from the literary department of the University of Michigan with the class of 1911.
     Politically Dr. McCormick is a stalwart adherent of the principles of the Republican party and as a citizen he has ever been prompted by intrinsic patriotism and public spirit to do all in his power to advance the general welfare of the community.  He is a man of wide experience and broad information, is honest and upright in all his dealings and his life in every respect is worthy of commendation and emulation.  In a fraternal way he is affiliated with Mount Gilead Lodge, No. 167, Free and Accepted Masons.  His wife is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to whose charities and benevolences both are liberal contributors.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 674-676
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

MASON W. McCRACKEN. ––At this juncture is a volume devoted to the careers of representative citizens of Morrow county, Ohio, it is a pleasure to insert a brief history of Mason W. McCracken, who has ever been on the alert to forward all measures and enterprises projected for the general welfare and who has served his community in various official capacities of trust and responsibility.  He has been township assessor of Harmony township, was justice of the peace for one year and is now devoting the major portion of his time and attention to diversified agriculture and stock-raising, his fine little estate of fifty acres being located in Harmony township, seven miles distant from the county seat.
     A native son of Harmony township, Morrow County, Ohio, Mason W. McCracken was here born on the 28th of August, 1862, and he is a son of Charles and Ruth (McCreary) McCracken, the former of whom was born and reared on the Fair Emerald Isle, having immigrated to America from Ireland about the year 18??. [sic]  Charles McCracken was identified with farming during the major portion of his active business career and he was long a representative agriculturist in Harmony township, where his death occurred in the month of May, 1873.  Mrs. Ruth McCracken was a native of Ohio and she passed to the life eternal in 1880.  Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCracken were the parents of three children, concerning whom the following brief data are here offered; Mason W. is the immediate subject of this review; Wayne is engaged in the agriculture line of enterprise in Morrow county, Ohio; and Emma died when a young girl. 
     Reared to the sturdy discipline of the old homestead farm, Mason W. McCracken waxed strong in mind and body and his early educational training consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the district schools, which he attended until he had reached his sixteenth year.  After leaving school he assisted his mother in the work and management of the home farm for a time and thereafter he was engaged in farming operations on his own account, settling on a rented farm for ten years, then on his present well improved estate in the year 1901.  As a general farmer and stock raiser he has achieved unqualified success and he is held is high esteem by his fellow citizens in Harmony township.  In 1884 he was elected township assessor and he has served for four years as a member of the school board.  He has also been honored with the office of justice of the peace and in this capacity has acquitted himself most creditably. 
     On the 24th of September, 1890, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McCracken to Miss Eva B. Ulery, who was born in Harmony township and who is a daughter of G. W. Ulery, long of this county.  Mrs. McCracken received a good education in the public schools of this section during her girlhood days and she is a woman of the utmost graciousness and sincerity, a potent influence for good in the home and community.  To Mr. and Mrs. McCracken have been born two children, Brice L., whose birth occurred on the 10th of March, 1894, and Blanche E., born December 17, 1891, both of whom passed the Patterson examination.  Blanche E. is now the wife of Harvey Smith, who is engaged as a clerk in a store at Chesterville, Ohio. 
     Mr. and Mrs. McCracken are devout members of the Harmony Baptist church in which he is a deacon.  In politics, he accords a stalwart allegiance to the principles and policies promulgated by the Democratic party and as previously flirted he has served as assessor and justice of the peace.  He is a straight-forward, broadminded man and throughout his life thus far he has done a great deal toward fowarding [sic] the best interests of Morrow county, where he is accorded the unalloyed esteem of his fellow men.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 502-503
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

WILLIAM McCRACKEN. ––Among the many representative citizens of the present generation who are devoting their entire time and attention to the great basic industry of agriculture in Morrow county, Ohio, is William McCracken, who owns and operates the old Joseph Sellers farm, eligibly located in Harmony township.  Mr. McCracken is engaged in general farming and the raising of high-grade live stock and through persistency and well applied endeavor he has made of success not an accident but logical result.  He is a loyal and public-spirited citizen and contributes in generous measure to all projects advanced for the good of the general welfare.
     Mr. William McCracken was born in Harmony township, Morrow county, Ohio, the date of his nativity being the 30th of August, 1873, and he is a son of Isaac and Almeda (Sellers) McCracken, the former of whom was summoned to eternal rest, and the latter of whom is now residing in Crawford county, Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. Isaac McCracken became the parents of three children, concerning whom the following data are here recorded; Alice is the wife of John George, of Morrow county, Ohio; George married Miss Anna Stoggle, of Knox county; and William, the youngest in order of birth, is the immediate subject of this review.  The father of the above children was born and reared in Morrow county and he was a son of Charles McCracken, while the mother was born on a farm on which William McCracken now resides, she being a daughter of Joseph Sellers.
     Reared to maturity on the old homestead farm on which he was born, William McCracken waxed strong physically and mentally as a result of his strenuous out-of-door life.  His early educational training consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the district schools and he remained at home, helping his father in the work and management of the home farm until he had reached his legal majority.  Shortly after his marriage, in 1893, he rented a farm in this township, operating the same until 1903, in which year he purchased the old Joseph Sellers estate, the same comprising ninety acres of most arable land.  During his residence on this place Mr. McCracken has erected a fine, modern barn and he has remodeled the house so that it is now one of the most spacious and attractive residences in the township.  While Mr. McCracken has never manifested aught of ambition for the honors or emoluments of public office he is deeply and sincerely interested in all matters which make for progress and development and in politics he exercises his franchise in favor of the Democratic party.  He and his family are zealous members of the Baptist church, to whose charities and benevolence he has been a liberal contributor.
     Mr. McCracken married Miss Ollie Warner, who was born and reared in Harmony township, this county, and who is a daughter of Merrill and Mary (Rolling) Warner, both of whom are deceased.  Mrs. McCracken was born on the 17th of July, 1872, and she received her education in the district schools of this locality.  Mr. and Mrs. McCracken are the parents of four children, whose names and respective dates of birth are here recorded: Fred, June 26, 1893, is engaged in farming, Morrow county; Aral, August 2, 1895; Iris, October 13, 1898; and Bertha, September 4, 1903, the latter three of whom remain at the parental home.  Mr. and Mrs. McCracken are popular and prominent in connection with the best social activities of their home community and their comfortable and home-like abode is a recognized center of gracious refinement and hospitality.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 517-518
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

JOSEPH McFARLAND, M. D. ––The state of Ohio, with its extensive industrial interests, has attracted within its confines men of marked ability and high character in the various professional lines, and in this way progress has been conserved and social stability fostered.  He whose name initiates this review is a native son of the fine old Buckeye state and during fully half a century’s connection with the medical profession in Blooming Grove, Ohio, he has gained recognition as one of the able and successful physicians of the state.  By his labors, his high professional attainments and his sterling qualities he has justified the respect and confidence in which he is held by the medical fraternity and the local public.  It it [sic] interesting to note here that Dr. McFarland has not confined his attention to the material welfare of humanity but has also given considerable thought to their spiritual well being.  He was ordained as a minister in the Methodist Episcopal church in 1859 and has been a licensed elder in the church since 1870.
     Dr. Joseph McFarland was born in Richland county, Ohio on the 29th of August, 1827, and is the eldest child of John and Sarah (Schlosser) McFarland.  He traces his ancestry back to stanch English extraction, his great-grandfather, William McFarland, having come to America as a soldier in the English army to fight in the French and Indian war, prior to the war of the Revolution.  The next in line of direct descent to the Doctor was Robert McFarland who was the father of John McFarland, whose son is the immediate subject of this review.  John McFarland was born in the state of Virginia, whence he came to Ohio in the year 1825, first locating in Mansfield, Richland county, but later establishing his home in Washington township, that county.  He was married in June, 1826, and he and his wife raised a family of nine children, of whom six are now living.  He continued to maintain his home in Richland county until 1868, in which year he removed to Morrow county, where he was summoned to the life eternal in the year 1896.  The mother passed away in 1856.
     To the sturdy and invigorating discipline of the home farm Dr. McFarland is indebted for his fine, robust constitution, which has weathered the storms of many years and which even to-day at the venerable age of eighty-three years, is alert and splendidly preserved.  After completing the curriculum of the common schools of his native county he entered College Hill Academy, at Ellsworth, Ohio, in which he pursued his studies with unusual brilliancy for one year.  Thereafter he was identified with the pedagogic profession for a number of years and in the meantime he conscientiously devoted all his leisure moments to the study of medicine.  Eventually he was matriculated as a student in a medical school, and completed his professional education at the Homeopathical College at Cleveland, Ohio, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1852, duly receiving his well earned degree of Doctor of Medicine.  Immediately after his graduation Dr. McFarland located at Blooming Grove, Morrow county, where he has been engaged in the active practice of medicine and surgery during the long intervening years to the present time, in 1911.  This is an age of progress and the Doctor has kept abreast with the advances made in his profession and his contribution to the alleviation of human pain and suffering has been of most prominent order.  About 1859 Dr. McFarland became interested in the Methodist ministry and after devoting considerable time to theological studies he was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal church in 1859.  Since 1870 he has been a licensed elder in the church and it is interesting to note at this point that during his connection with the ministry he has performed as many as seventy-six marriages and has officiated at over three hundred funerals.  The Doctor is also a fine musician possessing a wonderful voice of peculiar richness and purity of tone.
     On the 26th of August, 1845, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. McFarland to Miss Samantha Norton, who was born February 7, 1821, in Trumbull county, Ohio.  To this union were born five children, concerning whom the following brief data are here incorporated: Ermina Alcesta, became the wife of Thomas M. Cantwell, of Blooming Grove; Roderick N. resides in Los Angeles, California; Sarah S. wedded James Wilcox, of Lima, Ohio; Martha Eulalia is the wife of Zadok Beard, of Jackson county, Kansas, and Mary F. is the wife of F. E. Dille, of Olympia, Washington.  Mrs. McFarland has ever been a good, true and sweet companion and mother.  She is a woman of most gracious personality and is deeply beloved by all who have come within the sphere of her gentle influence.
     In politics Mr. McFarland has ever been aligned as a stanch supporter of the cause of the Prohibition party and though he has never manifested aught of desire for public office of any description he has ever been alert and enthusiastically in sympathy with all measures advanced for the good of the community.  He was commissioned major of the Fifty-sixth Battallion [sic] of Infantry O. V. M., of Morrow county, by Governor Todd September 25, 1863.  He is affiliated with various professional and fraternal organizations of representative character and he and his family are devout members of the Methodist Episcopl [sic] church, as already intimated.  He is a man of fine mentality, extensive information and broad human sympathy.  The list of his personal friends is said to be coincident with that of his acquaintances and if his every kind act and charitable impulse were known and were entered in print they would cover many pages.  Progressive and kindly in spirit the success which Dr. McFarland has attained is not of the ordinary kind.  It is not to be reckoned in dollars and cents but in kind and generous deeds and thoughts.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 813-815
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

RAY L. McFARLAND. ––As a citizen of the younger generation of Mount Gilead Ray L. McFarland is early acquainting himself with the intricacies of local politics.  At the present time, in 1911, he is ably filling the position of deputy auditor of Morrow county, to which he was appointed in April, 1907.
     Mr. McFarland was born on a farm in Marion county, near Iberia, Ohio, on the 16th of September, 1887, and is a son of Willis C. and Florence M. (Crane) McFarland, both of whom are now residing at Mount Gilead.  The father is an auctioneer by occupation and served two terms as auditor of Marion county, from 1902 to 1909.  Ray L. McFarland was reared to the age of eleven years on the home farm, attending the district schools until he moved to Iberia, a small village in the northern part of Marion county, where he attended the graded schools.  In 1901 he located in Mount Gilead, the county seat, whither the family had come, to allow the father to assume his duties as county auditor, the following year.  He immediately enrolled as a student in the public schools at Mount Gilead, from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1904.  After graduating Mr. McFarland worked in his father’s office as a clerk until September, 1905, when he was matriculated in the University of Wooster, at Wooster, Wayne county, Ohio.  After completing the college year, 1905-6, he sought his fortune as a book agent in the state of Indiana, from whence he returned to Mount Gilead at the urgent request of his father to again take up work in the auditor’s office in July, 1906.  In April, 1907, he was promoted to the deputyship, which position he held during the remainder of his father’s term of office, at the expiration of which, in October, 1909, he was reappointed deputy under the present auditor, Mr. Clifton Sipe.
     In politics Mr. McFarland accords a stalwart allegiance to the principles and policies of the Republican party.  He has been an active participant in political affairs since attaining to his majority and is now secretary of the County Central Committee.  In July, 1910, he was a delegate to the Republican state convention, which nominated the Hon. Warren G. Harding, of Marion, for governor.
     Fraternally Mr. McFarland is affiliated with Charles H. Hull, Lodge, No. 195, Knights of Pythias, and he is also a valued and appreciated member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, No. 1191, Galion, Ohio.  He is a conscientious member of the Presbyterian church.  He is a young man whose energy is on a par with his ambition and one for whom the future holds forth bright promises.  His genial, accommodating personality is one of his best assets and as a citizen of Mt. Gilead he is accorded a high place in the confidence and esteem of his fellow men.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 839-840
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

WILLIS C. McFARLAND. ––From the participation of Willis C. McFarland in the varied affairs of Mount Gilead and Morrow county, the well-sustained inference may be drawn that an honest, able, progressive busines [sic] man is the best timber for the efficient and faithful public official.  Mr. McFarland has made a worthy and prominent record in both fields of activity, as will be fully maintained by the following facts, which constitute but an outline of what he is and what he has done.
     A native of Morrow county, he was born January 5, 1859, the third child in a family of three sons and three daughters.  His father, Newton McFarland, who was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and a pioneer of Morrow county, is deceased; the mother (previous to her marriage, Caroline Burton) is a resident of Iberia.  She also came to this section of Ohio at an early day.  She was born at Manchester, Vermont, April 24, 1830, and moved to Ohio in 1838.  Six children were spared to the worthy widow, as follows: Ada, who is now herself a widow, formerly the wife of M. H. Henderson and a resident of Iberia, Ohio; Charles N., who also lives near that place and is an agriculturist; Willis C., of this sketch; C. W., of Mount Gilead, who is a prominent farmer, president of the Ohio State Fair Association in 1910 and one of the oldest and most active members of the organization; Ella B., who married Charles F. Noble, a leading grain and coal dealer of Hawarden, Iowa; and Clara M., who became the wife of J. H. McClarren and died September 27, 1896.
     Willis C. McFarland received his early education in the public schools of his home township and of Iberia.  When eighteen years of age he entered the Ohio Central College, at the latter place, where he pursued a course of study and then taught faithfully and well for a period of ten years; during this chapter of his career he also took special advanced studies at Ada College.
     After his marriage in 1885, Mr. McFarland purchased a small farm in Tully township, Marion county, which he worked during his summer vacations, but eventually sold the property, located in Iberia and became interested in the auctioneering business.  This has been his chief business line since 1890 and of late years it has expanded to such dimensions that practically his entire time is now devoted to its management and promotion.  In politics he is actively and firmly Republican, as he has always been since he was qualified to vote the regular ticket.  In the fall of 1901 he was elected, by a plurality of two hundred and fifty-one votes, to the office of county auditor, and at the expiration of his first term he was returned to office with a plurality of four hundred and fifty-one; and speaking facts these are to his official faithfulness and ability.  Mr. McFarland served altogether for seven years in the capacity named; one term of three years and (by a change in the law) another, of four years.  In October, 1909, his second term as county auditor having expired, he returned to his private interests, which were pressing him for attention.  As stated, most of his time is now devoted to his duties as an auctioneer, a portion of his attention being also directed toward the management of a fine farm in Gilead township.  In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church at Mount Gilead.
     On January 8, 1885, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. McFarland to Miss Florence M. Crane, who is a daughter of the late E. J. Crane, of Morrow county, but a native of Muskingum county.  Mrs. McFarland was also born in the latter county, but was reared and educated in the former.  After completing the curriculum of the district schools she attended Iberia College for some years and prepared herself to assume her place in the community as an educated and gracious woman.  The only child, Ray L. McFarland, is now serving as deputy auditor of Morrow county, and as an able and coming citizen is accorded a review in other pages of this work.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 848-849
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

HUGH A. McKINNON. ––As a member of the firm of McKinnon & Jago, photographers at Mount Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, Hugh A. McKinnon has gained an influential place in the business world of this city.  He was born at Atkins, Iowa, on the 2nd of June, 1881, and is a son of Hugh and Elizabeth McKinnon, the former of whom was born on the Isle of Man and the latter at Irvington, Scotland.
     Hugh McKinnon, Sr., was born on the Isle of Man but was reared and educated in Scotland.  He received a good practical education and was a skilled mechanic, being a fine smithy.  He worked on the first steel ship which ever was built and launched on the river Clyde.  The people were very skeptical as to the floating qualities of steel vessels, claiming they would sink; but when the day of launching the vessel came, hundreds of people gathered on the wharfs and were nonplussed when it dipped six inches less than a wooden vessel.  Mr. McKinnon and wife sailed from Glasgow, Scotland, and landed in Quebec in 1865, the voyage being of six weeks’ duration.  He came to Montreal to pursue his trade, and went thence to several points in Canada, later to Detroit and Chicago, and worked there some years, trying each time to better his fortune.  From Chicago he went to Iowa and thence to Nebraska.  He was a great student and reader.  Politically he was a Populist, but a great admirer of McKinley.  Formerly he and his wife were Presbyterians, but in later years they joined the Methodists.  There were ten children, seven sons and three daughters in the family, and all are living but one daughter.  All the children except Hugh A., the subject of this sketch, are residing west of the Mississippi river.  The senior Mr. McKinnon died June 19, 1904.  Mrs. McKinnon was a Scotch lassie and was educated in her native land.  She resides in Parker, Nebraska.
     When seven years of age Hugh A. McKinnon accompanied his parents on their removal from Iowa to western Nebraska, to whose public schools he is indebted for his early educational training.  In 1904 he was graduated in the commercial course in the Western Normal Business Institute at Shenandoah, Iowa, and immediately thereafter he became principal of the Federal Business College at Bucyrus, Ohio, continuing incumbent of that position for one year, at the expiration of which he took up bookkeeping and became cashier of the Hydraulic Press Manufacturing Company, at Mount Gilead.  He was thus employed from September, 1905, until May 1, 1908.  In the latter year he organized the firm of McKinnon & Jago and engaged in the photography business.  In this line of enterprise his success has been on a parity with his well directed endeavors and the firm of McKinnon & Jago now controls a large and flourishing business.
     In 1907 Mr. McKinnon was united in marriage to Miss Jane Jago, who was born at Mount Gilead, on the 9th of June, 1881, a daughter of George and Ellen (Cooper) Jago, of Mount Gilead.  Mrs. McKinnon was graduated in the Mount Gilead High School as a member of the class of 1898, and she was engaged in the work of bookkeeping from 1901 to 1907.
     Mr. McKinnon is a stalwart Republican in his political proclivities and he is affiliated with the time-honored Masonic fraternity.  He and his wife are devout members of the Presbyterian church, in which he is secretary of the board of trustees.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 855-856
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

FRANK B. McMILLIN. ––There is ever patent verification of the aphorism of Epicharmus, “Earn thy reward; the gods give naught to sloth.” and the world instinctively pays deference to those who win success through individual effort and worthy means.
     Judge Frank B. McMillin one of the native sons of Morrow county who has thus been the artificer of his own fortunes and whose success has been of a very appreciable order, the while his course has ever been such as to retain him the unqualified confidence and regard of his fellow men.  In his early youth he felt the spur of necessity, and it may well be said that the development of character in strength and resourcefulness is fostered by such conflict with adverse forces.  Mr. McMillin is now numbered among the veritable captains of industry in his native county, where his excellent initiative and administrative powers have been brought to bear in a most effective way in the promotion of enterprises that have important bearing upon the industrial and social prosperity of the community.  He is one of the most loyal and progressive citizens of Mount Gilead and he has been an aggressive force in supporting all the measures that have tended to advance its best interests.  Here he is now secretary and general manager of The Hydraulic Press Manufacturing Company, and he has been specially influential in placing this important industrial concern upon a substantial footing.  He has served as probate judge of Morrow county and has been given most unequivocal assurance of popular esteem in the community that has ever represented his home.
     Frank B. McMillin was born in Mount Gilead, the metropolis and judicial center of Morrow county, and the date of his nativity was November 3, 1868.  He is a son of Reverend Milton and Mrs. Nancy McMillin, the former of whom was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and the latter in Knox county, Ohio.  Reverend Milton McMillin was graduated in Washington and Jefferson College and the Western Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania, and later was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian church, in the work of which he continued until death, which occurred at Lexington, Ohio, where he had temporarily located, in 1876.  He has held various pastoral incumbencies in Pennsylvania and Ohio and was pastor of the Presbyterian church in Mount Gilead, which he resigned on account of ill health shortly before the time of his death.  He was a man of fine intellectuality and his life was one of consecrated devotion to the work of his chosen vocation.  His wife, a woman of noble character, had been a teacher in seminaries near Pittsburg and Allegheny, Pennsylvania, prior to their marriage, and she survived him by many years the while she reared her children to lives of usefulness and honor, having assumed in this connection a heavy burden of responsibility when the husband and father was summoned from the scene of life’s mortal endeavors.  Her financial resources were of the most limited and uncertain order and she was left to care for five little sons, the eldest of whom was but thirteen years of age at the time of the father’s death.  She continued, to maintain her home in Mount Gilead until her death, which occurred in December, 1908, and she is held in loving memory by all who came within the sphere of her gentle and gracious influence.
     Concerning the five children the following brief data is given: Walter L. is general manager of the Yeomans and Shedd Hardware Company, a representative wholesale concern at Danville, Illinois; Reverend Edward M., is pastor of the Presbyterian church at East Liverpool, Ohio; Frank B. is the immediate subject of this review; Harry B., of Mount Gilead, is individually mentioned on other pages of this work; and Reverend Frederick N. is pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Walnut Hills, a residential section of Cincinnati, Ohio.
     Mr. Frank B. McMillin was in his eighth year at the time of his father’s death, and the straitened condition of the family rendered it necessary for him and his elder brother to assist in providing for the general support of the family, the loving and devoted mother having been determined to keep her children with her and to rear them according to the principles of uprightness, self-reliance and abiding Christian faith.  She was resourceful, self-abnegating, and was sustained by that faith that ever makes faithful in all the relations of life.  Mr. McMillin was afforded the advantages of the public schools, which he attended in a somewhat irregular way, and soon after the death of his father he began to earn his own living and also to assist his mother.  When but eight years of age he secured employment in a brick yard, and from the princely stipend of ten cents a day he was gradually advanced until he received a dollar a day for his services.  He continued to be thus engaged for a period of four summers and during the latter part of this time he held the position of Kiln-setter.  In the meanwhile he also added to his earnings by cutting wood, mowing lawns, making and selling lamp lighters and straw hats and doing such other kinds of work as he could secure.  While attending school he thus employed himself nights and mornings, and during the vacation seasons, assiduous application to work marked his course rather than the play engaged in by the average boy.  Thus he was able not only to provide his own clothing but also to contribute to the support of the family while he was yet a mere boy.  In the perspective of years he has found nothing to regret in the discipline thus secured, for the same gave to him appreciation of the value and dignity of honest toil and endeavor, and also begot a spirit of self-reliance and a determined purpose to make the most of such opportunities as presented themselves.
     After leaving the brick yard Mr. McMillin found employment on a farm, and he was thus engaged for a year, at a compensation of ten dollars a month.  Later he clerked in a dry-goods and grocery stores in his native town, and when sixteen years of age he secured a clerical position in the Mount Gilead post office, in which he was eventually promoted to the position of assistant post master, an incumbency which he retained for four years, the largest salary he received being thirty-seven and one-half dollars a month.  In 1899 he retired from the post office to initiate an independent business career.  Though his capitalistic resources available for investment were summed up in the amount of ninety dollars, he had established a sure reputation for industry, honesty and reliability, and this constituted a most valuable asset.  He purchased a shoe store and, as a matter of course, assumed a very appreciable indebtedness, but his reputation gained to him credit, which he was always most careful to protect, and during the thirteen years of his identification with the shoe business his success was cumulative, implying the building up of a large and substantial trade and the securing of a strong hold upon popular confidence and esteem.  When he sold his business in 1902, he not only owned the building occupied, but also a large stock of goods and was entirely free from debt, with a number of investments outside of the line of enterprise to which he had thus given his attention.  During the greater part of the time he himself did the greater part of the work of the store, besides which he also had charge of bookkeeping for others.
     The genius of success is work, and it will be seen that in this attribute Mr. McMillin had been in no wise lacking.  While serving as assistant post master he became secretary of the Buckeye Building and Loan Association, of which he was one of the organizers and of which he became a director at the time of its incorporation.  When the business was reorganized under its present title, The Mount Gilead Savings and Loan Company, he continued his identification therewith and has retained the office of director.
     In 1900 he became a member of the directorate of The Hydraulic Press Manufacturing Company, and since 1902 he has been an active executive of the corporation.  In the year last mentioned he was appointed by the directors of the company to the office of special auditor, in which capacity devolved upon him the responsibility of instilling new life and methods into the business, as well as to systematize the affairs of the factory, home office and branch sales offices.  He quickly took up and mastered the mechanical details of the business and it has been in a large degree due to his skill as an organizer and to his careful and judicious administration of executive functions that the business has been placed upon a plane of successful operation and constantly expanding ramifications.  From the office of special auditor he was appointed to that of assistant general manager, to the duties of which he later added those of assistant secretary, and since 1907 he has held the dual office of general manager and secretary.  He is one of the leading stockholders in this corporation and has labored with much of ability and with unflagging zeal for the upbuilding of an industry that has contributed materially to the commercial prestige of Mount Gilead and Morrow county.
     Mr. McMillin has ever shown most insistent loyalty to his home city and his progressive ideas have been shown in the ardent cooperation which he has given to the initiating and fostering of enterprises and measures tending to conserve the general welfare and prosperity.  The cause of religion has enlisted his earnest support and, broad and tolerant in his views, he has done all in his power to aid and uplift his fellow men and to bring about the highest standards of morality and clean social life.  He believes in publicity and the judicious exploiting of the advantages and attractions of his city, and he has been active in advertising Mount Gilead as a desirable place for manufacturing and commercial enterprises and as an attractive place of residence.  He is the author of a unique and most interesting brochure entitled “Facts About Mount Gilead,” and the same has been widely distributed with most excellent results.
     In politics Mr. McMillin accords an unfaltering allegiance to the cause of the Republican party and he has given efficient service in its local ranks.  Though he has had no special predilection for public office, he was appointed in 1900 to fill an unexpired term in the office of the probate judge of Morrow county, the vacancy having been caused by the death of Judge Arthur L. Banker.  He retained the office for one year and gave a most careful and acceptable administration.
     A son of a clergyman of the Presbyterian church, Mr. McMillin was early grounded securely in the faith represented by this denomination, and he has been a zealous and valued factor in connection with the various departments of the work of the Presbyterian church in Mount Gilead, in which he is an elder at the present time, as well as superintendent of the Sunday school.  Mrs. McMillin also is a devoted church worker and is a popular figure in connection with the leading social activities of the community.  Mr. McMillin is affiliated with Mount Gilead Lodge, No: 206, Free and Accepted Masons, and is an appreciative member of the time honored fraternity.
     On the 25th of March, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McMillin to Miss Alice K. Struble, of Forest, Hardin county, Ohio.  She was born in Fredericktown, Knox county, this state, and is a daughter of Lafayette and Ella A. Struble, members of old and honored families of this section of the Buckeye commonwealth.  Mr. and Mrs. McMillin have one son, Howard, who is now in his fourteenth year and is in the eighth grade at school.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 857-861
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

HARRY B. McMILLIN. ––Progress is man’s distinctive mark alone, and it is fortunate for the world that there have been those who could triumph over the forces of circumstances and environment and through their resourceful energies contribute to the march of development and progress.  The efficient and popular cashier of the National Bank of Morrow county, at Mount Gilead, may well be given alignment among those who have bravely met and overcome adverse conditions and have won success and honor through their own sterling attributes and well directed efforts.  He has been practically dependent upon his own resources since his boyhood days, and, setting to himself a high standard, none can deny that he has pressed steadily and earnestly forward to the mark or large and worthy accomplishment as one of the world’s noble army of productive workers.  Mr. McMillin is a native son of Morrow county and here has found ample scope for the accomplishment of marked success along normal lines of enterprise, while his course has been so ordered as to give him secure place in the confidence and esteem of the community that has ever represented his home and in which he thus sets at naught any application of the scriptural apothegm that “a prophet is not without honor save in his own country.     
     Harry Bradley McMillin was born in Mount Gilead, the judicial center of Morrow county, Ohio, on the 3d of March, 1870, and is a son of Reverend Milton and Nancy (Mercer) McMillin, the former of whom was born in Beaver county, Pennsylvania, and the latter in Knox county, Ohio.  Reverend McMillin was a man of fine intellectual attainments and was comparatively a young man at the time of his death.  He was graduated in Washington and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, and then prepared himself for the ministry of the Presbyterian church, in which he was duly ordained.  He labored with all of zeal and devotion in his high calling for a period of fifteen years, at the expiration of which he was summoned from the scene of life’s mortal endeavors, at Lexington, Ohio, in 1876, at which time he was forty-three years of age.  He held various pastoral charges, in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and he assumed the pastorate of the Presbyterian church in Mount Gilead about 1866, retaining this incumbency until shortly before his death.  His wife, a woman of gracious personality and much culture, had been a successful and popular teacher in a seminary at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, prior to their marriage, and she long survived him, having continued her residence in Mount Gilead until she was summoned to the life eternal, in December, 1908, at the venerable age of seventy-eight years.  She won the affectionate regard of all who came within the sphere of her gentle and kindly influence, and her memory is revered in the little city that so long represented her home.  At the time of her husband’s death he was left with but slender financial resources and upon her frail shoulders was placed the heavy burden of rearing her five little sons, ranging in age from four to twelve years, to lives of usefulness and honor.  Bravely did this noble woman face the grave responsibility thus devolved upon her, and in after years she was not denied her reward, for her children were ready indeed to "rise up and call her blessed," the while they accorded her the utmost filial solicitude.  All of her sons have made for themselves places of usefulness in connection with the practical activities of life, and two of the number have followed in the footsteps of their father, in that they have become valued and able members of the clergy of the Presbyterian church: Walter L., the eldest of the sons, is general manager of the Yeomans & Shedd Hardware Company, one of the leading wholesale concerns of Danville, Illinois; Reverend Edward M. is pastor of the Presbyterian church at East Liverpool, Ohio; Frank B. is general manager of the Hydraulic Press Manufacturing Company, of Mount Gilead, Ohio; Harry B., whose name initiates this review, was the next in order of birth; and Reverend Frederick N., the youngest of the sons, is pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Walnut Hills, a beautiful suburb of the city of Cincinnati, Ohio.
     Harry B. McMillin was about six years of age at the time of his father’s death, and when a mere boy he secured work in a brick yard and tile mill, by means of which occupation he largely provided for his own maintenance, besides assisting his widowed mother.  In the meanwhile he was not denied the advantages of the excellent public schools of his native place, though he worked assiduously during the vacation seasons and at other times when the average boy was at play.  He has never regretted the discipline thus involved and does not feel that he was in the least deprived of the heritage of the average youth.  He was finally enabled to complete the curriculum of the Mount Gilead high school, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1887, and thereafter he entered Wooster University but abandoned his university course to assume the position of clerk in the National Bank of Morrow County, with which institution he has been connected with continuously for nearly a quarter of a century, within which, through faithful and efficient service, he has advanced step by step until he has become its cashier––an office to which he was elected in 1905.  The other members of the executive corps of the bank are as here noted: M. Burr Talmage, president; Melvin B. Talmage, vice president; and the directorate includes, in addition to these officers, Dr. Nathan Tucker, Calvin H. Wood, Asa V. Miracle, William Edward Miller, Amza A. Whitney, J. Charles Criswell, Harry S. Cruikshank, and Bryant B. Lewis.  The National Bank of Morrow County is recognized as one of the substantial and ably managed financial institutions of this part of the state, and it bases its operations upon ample capital and the representative personnel of its stockholders, all of whom are men of prominence and sterling worth of character.  The specific capital stock of the bank is fifty thousand dollars, but through accumulated earnings this amount has been doubled, while during the regime of Mr. McMillin as cashier the deposits and other resources of the bank have increased fully one-half.  Conservative policies are followed in all departments and the resources now aggregate more than five hundred thousand dollars.  It is uniformly conceded that Mr. McMillin has been a potent factor in the upbuilding of the splendid business of this bank, and he has gained precedence as one of the essentially representative business men of his native city, where he is also known as a citizen of utmost loyalty and public spirit, well worthy of the unequivocal esteem in which he is held in the community which has ever been his home and in which he has risen to success on the ladder of his own building.  His career offers both lesson and incentive to aspiring young men who are dependent upon their own exertions and powers in fighting the battle of life, for like him they may hold the needle true to the pole-star of faith and hope and thus “work out their own salvation.”
     Mr. McMillin gives his influence and tangible cooperation in the promotion and support of enterprises and measures tending to advance the material and civic prosperity of his home city and county, and in Mt. Gilead he is an interested principal in a number of leading industrial corporations.  He is president of the Buckeye Milling Company, is treasurer of the Hydraulic Press manufacturing Company, one of the most important manufacturing corporations of Mt. Gilead, and is manager of the Mt. Gilead Savings & Loan Company.  He is also a member of the directorate of the Commercial Savings Bank of Galion, Crawford county, and is the owner of valuable farming land in Morrow county.
     Though never manifesting any predilection for political office, Mr. McMillin is found arrayed as a stanch supporter of the principles and policies of the Republican party, and in a fraternal way he is affiliated with Mt. Gilead Lodge, No. 206, Free and Accepted Masons; Mt. Gilead Lodge, No. 169, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and Charles H. Hull Lodge, No. 195, Knights of Pythias, of which last named organization he is past chancellor.  Mrs. McMillin holds membership in the Order of the Eastern Star, an adjunct of Masonry, and also in the Daughters of Rebekah, an auxilliary [sic] of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.  Both Mr. and Mrs. McMillin are most zealous and devoted members of the First Presbyterian church of Mt. Gilead and are active in the various departments of its work.  He is a valued member of the Presbyterian Brotherhood and before the same has given a number of effective addresses, while he has also been frequently called upon to deliver addresses before other church and public assemblies, in which connection he has proved himself an interesting and effective speaker.  In the midst of the many exactions of his business interests he finds time to enjoy the social amenities of life, and both he and his wife are prominent in the leading social activities of their home community, their home being a center of cordial and gracious hospitality.
     On the 27th of June, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. McMillin to Miss Margaret Boner, who was born on the homestead farm of her parents, near Chesterville, Morrow county, on the 24th of August, 1870, and who is a representative of honored pioneer families of this county.  She is a daughter of S. and Mary (Thomas) Boner, both of whom were likewise born and reared in Morrow county, where her father has long been numbered among the representative exponents of the agricultural industry––a citizen of sterling character and influential in public affairs of a local order.  Mrs. McMillin received excellent educational advantages, including a course in the Cardington High School, in which she was graduated, after which she attended the Marion Normal College, at Marion, this state.  For some time prior to her marriage she was a successful and popular teacher in the schools of her native county.  She is a prominent figure in social, church and literary circles in Mt. Gilead, where she is president of the Mt. Gilead Free Public Library and a charter member of Sorosia, besides which she is treasurer of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Marion Presbytery.  Mr. and Mrs. McMillin have two children, Mary Elizabeth and Edward Milton.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 704-709
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

GEORGE F. MASTERS. ––This well known citizen and representative agriculturist and stock-grower of Morrow county is a scion of the third generation of the Masters family in this county, with whose annals the name has been identified since the pioneer epoch in its history.  The representatives of this family have contributed materially to the industrial and civic upbuilding of this favored section of the state and have ever stood exemplar of the most loyal citizenship and of inflexible rectitude in all the relations of life.  He whose name initiates this paragraph is well upholding the prestige of the honored name which he bears and he resides upon his splendid homestead farm of one hundred and thirty-eight and one-half acres, in Canaan township, where in addition to general farming and stock-growing he gives special attention to the breeding of high-grade Merino sheep, in which line of enterprise his reputation, based upon distinctive success, far transcends local limitations.
     George F. Masters was born in Canaan township, Morrow county, on the 13th of January, 1856, and is a son of Jonathan and Ruth (Ewers) Masters, the former of whom was born in Knox county, Ohio, on the 27th of April, 1823, and the latter of whom was born in Virginia in 1823.  The father died on his farm in Gilead township on the 29th of April, 1900, and the mother passed away on the 22nd of March, 1871, aged forty-eight years, three months and twenty-five days.  Jonathan Masters was twice married and the maiden name of his second wife was Evaline Roland.  Five children were born of each marriage, and of the number four sons and four daughters survive.
     Jonathan Masters was a son of Robert Masters and the maiden name of his mother was Boyle.  His father was born in 1790, and died in Canaan township, Morrow county, Ohio, in 1834.  Robert Masters was one of the sterling pioneers of this county, where he instituted the reclamation of a farm from the wilderness, though he did not live many years after his removal to the county.  The names of his children are here given: Ezekiel, Elizabeth, William, Jonathan, James, Triphena, Susan, Hannah, Cassie A. and Robert.  All of the number are now deceased except Hannah, Cassie and Robert.
     Jonathan Masters was a child at the time of the family removal from Knox county to Morrow county, and he was reared to maturity in Canaan township.  He received such limited educational advantages as were afforded in the pioneer schools and as a youth he learned the blacksmith’s trade, to which he continued to devote his attention for a period of fully eighteen years.  When he initiated his independent career his worldly possessions were summed up in what few necessary articles he could carry in a large and knotted handkerchief, and the timber of the man is clearly shown when it stated that through his own efforts he accumulated a fortune of more than fifty thousand dollars.  He had great shrewdness and business capacity and his investments were invariably made with perspicacity and good judgment, so that he made of success not an accident but a logical result.  His course was guided by the strictest principles of integrity and honor and he wronged no man.  On the contrary he was generous and kindly and his genial personality gained to him friends in all classes.  He gave his support to the cause of the Republican party from the time of its organization until his death and was well fortified in his opinions as to matters of public import, keeping himself well informed concerning the questions and issues of the hour.  He was a zealous member of what is known as the Boundary Methodist Episcopal church in Gilead township, and his life was one of signal usefulness and honor.  His name merits an enduring place on the roll of the worthy pioneers of Morrow county, where he so long lived and labored to goodly ends.
     George F. Masters was but two months old at the time of the family removal from Canaan township to Gilead township, where he was reared to adult age on the homestead farm––a place that is now owned by Thomas A. Patten.  The district schools afforded him due opportunities for gaining a good practical education of basic order, and this he has effectively supplemented through self discipline and through the varied experiences of an active and successful life.  Upon attaining to his legal majority he located on the farm which now constitutes his home and the greater portion of which was given to him by his honored father.  This is one of the fine landed estates of Canaan township and its improvements are of the best order, including a large and attractive residence equipped with modern facilities.  Mr. Masters is known as one of the enterprising, progressive and resourceful agriculturists of his native county, and as previously stated, he has made a specialty of the raising of fine Merino sheep, being one of the leading breeders of the same in this section of the state and having registered stock entirely.  He became one of the influential members of the Ohio Merino Sheep Register Association, and is still an influential factor in the amplified organization, which is known as the Vermont, New York & Ohio Merino Sheep Register Association, of which he was a director and a member of its pedigree committee.  Though never a seeker of political preferment Mr. Masters accords a stanch allegiance to the Republican party and his influence and cooperation are given in support of all undertakings that tend to benefit the local community, as well as the state and nation.  Mrs. Masters is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in the neighboring village of Denmark.
     On the 13th of February, 1878, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Masters to Miss Florence E. Adams, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio, on the 5th of February, 1860, and who is a daughter of John and Lavina (Miles) Adams.  Her parents removed to Morrow county from Marion county and her father died July 11, 1892.  Her mother is still living in Canaan township.  Mr. and Mrs. Masters have two children: Autha, who was born November 30, 1880, and who is now the wife of Benjamin H. Talmage, a representative young farmer of Canaan township; and J. Wesley, who was born May 18, 1892, and who was graduated in the Mount Gilead High School as a member of the class of 1911.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 831-833
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

JOHN McNEAL. ––One of the chief sources of the wealth of the world, say the economists, is agriculture; and in the pursuits of this branch of industry in Ohio are men of ability, enterprise and skill; men who delve in the soil to good purpose, bringing forth abundant harvests from the richer ground and making the waste places fertile and productive.  Prominent among this number is John McNeal, of Morrow county, who is living in Washington township, near Iberia, on the homestead where his birth occurred March 20, 1838.
     Joseph McNeal, his father, was born and reared in Washington county, Pennsylvania.  Migrating to Ohio in early life, he located first in Marion county, where he established a carding mill and a linseed oil mill.  About 1830 he came to Morrow county, which was then in its pristine wildness, deer, bears and wolves being plentiful, while the deep forests were still the Indian’s hunting grounds.  Entering a tract of land near Iberia, in Washington township, he hewed a homestead from the forest, and was there successfully employed as a tiller of the soil until his death, which was caused by a runaway accident while he was returning from a trip to Mansfield.  He was a man of sterling integrity, prominent in the community, and served as justice of the peace many years.  He was well educated, and as a young man taught school during the winter terms.  He married, March 14, 1833, Martha Struthers, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, and to them five children were born, of whom John, the subject of this sketch, is the third in order of birth.
     Brought up on the home farm, John McNeal acquired his preliminary knowledge of books in the district schools and in Ohio Central College in Iberia.  During the Civil war, in 1861, Mr. McNeal with a company of volunteers in Cardington and Iberia, it being Company I, Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and with his comrades participated in many engagements.  At the battle of Stone River he was wounded through the left pelvis, and lay on the battlefield ten days before receiving aid.  Notwithstanding his exposure, he recuperated and served in the army three years.  His brother, Wallace McNeal, was killed in the engagement at Stone River.  He was very popular both at home and in the regiment, and the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Iberia is named in his honor, being Wallace McNeal Post, No. 687.  Mr. McNeal was with Company I, Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but four months when it was disbanded, but he joined Battery E, First Regiment Ohio Light Artillery, in which he served three years, and now receives a pension of seventeen dollars a month.  He is a member and past commander of the Wallace McNeal Post, which was the first post organized in Morrow county.  It was numbered fifty-nine when formed; but it disbanded and when reorganized was numbered six hundred and eighty-seven.
     Mr. McNeal has continued in the independent occupation to which he was reared, and now owns seventy-eight acres of rich land adjoining Iberia.  He is successful in his farming operations, being one of the leading agriculturists of his community.  He raises fine stock, making a specialty of breeding Norman horses, while formerly he raised in addition to these many high grade roadsters.
     Mr. McNeal married in September, 1876, Mary Feerer, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio, October 5, 1852, and into their household six children have been born, namely: John H., born August 11, 1877, was graduated from the Iberia High School and the law department of the University of Alabama, and is now practising [sic] his profession in Birmingham, Alabama; Walace [sic] H., born in 1879, is at home; Neal, born October 27, 1882, is a student in the veterinary department of the Ohio State University, being a member of the class of 1911; Joseph W., born December 27, 1885, is a member of the class of 1911 at West Point; Ray, born April 12, 1888, is a graduate of the Iberia High School; and Don, born November 9, 1891, was graduated from the Iberia High School, and is now taking the agricultural course at the Ohio State University in Columbus.
     Mr. McNeal was brought up in the Presbyterian faith, but is not a member of any religious organization.  A prominent member of the Knights of Pythias, he served as the first chancellor of the local lodge and is a member of the Grand Lodge.  Politically he is a steadfast Republican, and has filled various offices of trust, having been assessor and trustee and for six years, and from 1887 until 1893, was county commissioner, during which time Mr. A. A. Crawford and Mr. F. A. Welch being the other commissioners, the County Infirmary building was erected.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 710-712
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

W. ODELL MASTERS. ––A man of enterprise and ability, W. Odell Masters, of Canaan township, ranks well among the practical and business-like farmers who are so ably conducting the agricultural interests of Morrow county.  A native of Ohio, he was born in Morrow county January 6, 1873, and was reared on the home farm.  His father, Jonathan Masters, was twice married.  To him and his second wife, whose maiden name was Eveline Rolen, five children were born, namely: W. Odell, the special subject of this brief biographical sketch; Lillian M., of Marion, Ohio; Maude, Claude, a twin brother of Maude, has passed to the life beyond; and Delta Vivian, who died at the early age of two years.
     Obtaining his first knowledge of the three “r’s” in the district schools, W. Odell Masters completed his early education in the high school at Edison.  Becoming a farmer from choice, he subsequently resided for a number of years on the home farm, and then moved to the present farm for three years, and then lived in Denmark, Ohio.  Returning to his farm in December, 1909, Mr. Masters assumed possession of his acres in Canaan township, and in its management has been highly successful.  He carries on general agriculture, and is specially interested in the breeding of Scotch Polled cattle, Humphrie hogs and horses, owning two fine registered road horses and keeping a large flock of Delaine sheep.  He finds both pleasure and profit in stock raising, and keeps in touch with the more modern methods used in that branch of his industry.  His farm is well improved and well kept, and among his buildings is a large circular barn, conveniently arranged, the only barn of the kind in the entire county.
     Mr. Masters married Miss Ruby Swickheimer, who was born February 25, 1882, in Delaware county, Ohio, a daughter of John Jacob and Anna (Basiger) Swickheimer.  She is a Delaware High School graduate and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Denmark.  Their only child, Wilton Thurlow Masters, was born July 10, 1908.  Politically Mr. Masters is a steadfast Republican and has served as township clerk.  Fraternally he belongs to Gilead Lodge, No. 169, Free and Accepted Masons; to Morrow Chapter, No. 59, Royal Arcanum Masons; and is a member and past chancellor of Edison Lodge, No. 434, Knights of Pythias.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 844-845
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

DANIEL S. MATHER. ––A worthy representative of an honored pioneer family of Morrow county, Daniel S. Mather is one of the most highly esteemed residents of Chesterville, and is now rendering appreciated service as mayor of the village.  During his long and active life he has been prominently identified with the development and progress of his community, and as opportunity has occurred has given his influence to encourage the establishment of beneficial enterprises.  He was born June 29, 1838, in Chesterville, which has ever been his abiding place.
     James Mather, his father, was born and reared in New Jersey, and there married Phoebe Struble, a daughter of Peter I. and Annie Struble.  Shortly after his marriage, accompanied by his wife and her parents, he came to Morrow county, Ohio, locating, in 1837, on Owl creek, in Chester township, where Mr. Struble entered a large tract of government land.  He and his wife were the parents of twelve children, none of whom are now living.  James Mather was a shoemaker, and followed his trade in Morrow county for twenty-five years, his home being in Chesterville.  To him and his good wife six children were born and reared, namely: Daniel S., the special subject of this brief personal review; Elsie, widow of James Clink, a highly respected citizen of Chester township, who served in the Civil war; Noama, wife of R. B. Conant, of Chesterville, who was also a soldier in the Civil war; John P., of Chesterville, married Ella Auker, and their only child, Blanche B., married Maynard Frizzell, of Mount Gilead, has one child, Hutchinson; Emma, wife of David Virtue, of Chesterville; and Charles W., a farmer, married Martha Smiley, of Chesterville.
     Spending the days of his boyhood and youth beneath the parental rooftree, Daniel Mather worked with his father at the shoemaker’s bench and also learned the trade of a stone mason and brick layer.  At the age of twelve years, in 1851, he worked on the Methodist church building as an assistant carrying brick, and saw the first brick and the last brick used in its construction laid.  He subsequently followed the mason’s trade until August 22, 1862, when he enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Captain David Lloyd, of Chester township, being mustered into service on September 11, 1862.
     Going with his regiment to Cincinnati, he crossed the river to Covington, Kentucky, and on October 8, took part in the engagement at Perryville.  On September 20, 1863, Mr. Mather was at the front in the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, where he was wounded.  Two months later, on November 24 and 25, he fought in the battle of Lookout Mountain, and was also in the battle of Missionary Ridge.  He was subsequently with his comrades at the siege of Knoxville; was at Buzzard Roost during the engagements that there took place on May 8 and 9, 1864; at Snake creek May 12 and 13.  Following the brave commander, William T. Sherman, Mr. Mather took part in the many engagements of the Atlanta campaign, being at Resaca; at Rome, Georgia, on May 17 and 18, 1864; taking part in the fearful assault upon Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, of that year; and participating in the seige [sic] which led to the fall of Atlanta.  He was with the regiment at Jonesborough, on September 1, 1864, and continued with Sherman in his “March to the Sea,” being at Savannah on December 21 and passing northward through the Carolinas, taking part in the engagements at Averysboro [sic], March 15, and at Bentonville, May 19 and 20, and finally witnessing the surrender of Johnston’s Army, in April, 1865.  He was present at the Grand Review held in Washington, D. C. and was mustered out of service on June 8, 1865.  At the battle of Chickamauga Mr. Mather was wounded in the head, and after an absence of sixty days rejoined his regiment before his wound was entirely healed, and served until the close of the conflict.
     During the Atlanta campaign, while Mr. Mather, with some of the other boys of his regiment, was foraging, a large rooster was captured, and was afterwards kept as a mascot, being named “Bill Sherman.”  The rooster was captured July 25, 1864, and during the march to the sea rode a pack mule.  At Bentonville, North Carolina, as related above, the regiment had a skirmish with the Rebels, lasting from two o’clock until after dark, and the mascot, which stood upon the back of the mule, kept up a constant crowing during the fight.  After the Grand Review the mascot was brought to Chesterville, Ohio, and a fine painting of the bird was made by Mrs. D. V. Wherry, of Mount Gilead, who painted it for the brave One Hundred and Twenty-first Regiment.  It is four feet by five feet in dimensions, and is now in the possession of Mr. Mather, who prizes it highly, and no reunion of the regiment is considered complete without this picture of the rooster.  Mr. Mather now receives a pension of a dollar a day.
     At the close of the war Mr. Mather engaged in the livery business at Chesterville, but later had charge of the star route between Mount Gilead and Fredericktown for twelve years, four years of the time having also the route to Centerburg.  At three different times he has been forced to give up active work for a while on account of the wound he received in battle.
     Mr. Mather married, December 20, 1860, Caroline French, who was born July 12, 1844, a daughter of James French.  Two children were born into their household, namely: Jewett A., born in Chesterville December 14, 1861; and William, born Otober [sic] 17, 1864.  Jewett A., general agent at Oklahoma, married Mary Andress, and they have one son, Jewett A. Mather, Jr.; William, a jeweler in Chicago, Illinois, married Virginia Cobbs, and their only child, a daughter, is named Caroline.  Mrs. Mather has passed to the higher life, her death occurring May 7, 1891.
     A Republican in politics, Mr. Mather cast his first presidential ballot in favor or John C. Fremont.  He is a member of the Presbyterian church, in which he has served as deacon for ten years.  For forty-one years he has been a member of the Masonic Order, and belongs to lodge, chapter and commandery, in all of which he has filled the various chairs.  He also belongs to the Order of the Eastern Star, and is past worthy patron of his chapter.  He is ever ready to perform his full duty in regard to the public, and for more than twenty years has been a member of the village board, and at the present time is serving as mayor.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 805-807
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

EDWARD D. MECKLEY. ––A man of ability and scholarly attainments, Edward D. Meckley, of Troy township, has for many years been actively associated with the development and advancement of the educational interests of Morrow county, and has won a far more than local reputation as a faithful and efficient educator.  A son of Andrew Meckley, he was born September 12, 1863, in Crowford [sic] county, Ohio.  His paternal grandfather, David Meckley, came with his family, sometime in the early forties, to what is now Troy township in Morrow county, Ohio, from Pennsylvania, his native state, and here spent his remaining days.  To him and his wife seven children, four sons and three daughters, were born, and of these six children were living in the spring of 1911.
     A lad of ten or eleven years when he accompanied his parents from York county, Pennsylvania, the place of his birth, to Ohio, Andrew Meckley was brought up in what is now Morrow county, and during his active career has been prosperously engaged in agricultural pursuits, his well-improved and highly cultivated farm being advantageously located in Troy township.  He is an influential member of the community, and has served as township trustee, assessor and treasurer, in each and every official capacity proving himself worthy of the trust reposed in him by his fellow-citizens.  He married Mary Hassler, and they became the parents of five children, as follows: Laura A., wife of Dr. J. W. Davis, of Anderson, Indiana; Edward D., the subject of this sketch; Emma, who became the wife of C. M. Hershner, of Galion, Ohio, has passed to the higher life; and two children that died in infancy.
     Brought up on the old home farm in Troy township, Edward D. Mecley [sic] obtained his rudimentary knowledge of books in the district schools of his township, and later continued his studies at the Upper Sandusky High School.  Scholarly in his tastes and ambitions, he then entered the Ada Normal School, at Ada, Ohio, where he became well qualified for a professional career, and has since pursued his chosen vocation most successfully, for twenty-eight years having been one of the leading educators of Morrow county, his ability and skill as an instructor being widely recognized.
     Mr. Meckley married, September 26, 1888, Winnie May Miller, who was born and educated in Troy township, being a daughter of J. A. and Nancy (Stull) Miller.  She died June 9, 1897, leaving three children, namely: Orrie H., a graduate of the Troy township High School and the Anderson (Indiana) High School, is now a teacher in Iberia, Ohio; John E., who was graduated from the Troy township High School, is teaching in North Bloomfield township; and Marie, a pupil in the Troy township High School.  Mr. Meckley married for his second wife, Mary B. Lewis, and to them three children have been born, namely; Blanche F., Ruth L. and Mary L.
     Politically a Democrat, Mr. Meckley has served continuously as township clerk since 1898.  Fraternally he is a member of Lucullus Lodge, No. 121, Knights of Pythias, at Butler, Ohio; and of Live Oak Camp No. 11321, Modern Woodmen of America.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 671-672
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

BRYANT M. MEREDITH. ­­––Noteworthy among the active and prominent citizens of Chesterville is Bryant M. Meredith, who for many years one of the leading merchants of the place and is now well known throughout this part of Morrow county as an undertaker.  A native of Chesterville, Ohio, he was born August 25, 1870, being a son of the late George Meredith.
     George Meredith imbibed the spirit of patriotism in his youth, and soon after the breaking out of the Civil war offered his services to his country, enlisting first in Company G, Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and at the expiration of his term of enlistment becoming a member of Company C, Fifteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  During his service of four years, one month and thirteen days in the army he took part in many campaigns and hard-fought battles.  At the engagement of Stone river he was taken prisoner, and first confined at Castle Lightning and later in Libby prison, where, while sleeping, both of his hips were broken by a falling piece of timber.  He married Minerva Ralston, and both died in early life, leaving their five children, Addie, Charles, Laura, Emma and Bryant M., to the care of their grandfather and grandmother Meredith.
     Doubly orphaned when but twelve years of age by the death of his paternal grandparents, Bryant M. Meredith was thrown upon his own resources, his only assets being a brave heart, willing hands and an unlimited amount of ambition and courage.  Working faithfully at anything he could find to do, he was successful in his undertakings, and having accumulated some money embarked in mercantile pursuits in Chesterville, becoming junior member of the firm of Bonner & Meredith, which conducted a prosperous business for many years.  Subsequently, in partnership with Fred Livingston, Mr. Meredith purchased an interest in an undertaking establishment, and has since carried on a substantial business, being well patronized.
     A Democrat in politics, Mr. Meredith, although living in a district that is distinctively Republican, has held various local offices, his election to the same being strong proof of the esteem and confidence in which he is held throughout the community, and proving his popularity with all classes of people.  He has served as town clerk a number of terms; has been a member of the Chesterville Board of Education for eight years; and has three times been elected township treasurer.
     Mr. Meredith married, May 12, 1898, Essie Howard, of Chesterville, and they have one son, Miles Howard.  Mr. and Mrs. Meredith are consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and numbered among its active workers.  Mrs. Meredith was born in Morrow county, Ohio, a daughter of Benjamin Howard and a granddaughter of Jesse and Mary (Burns) Howard, natives, respectively, of Virginia and Pennsylvania, and pioneer settlers of Chester township, Morrow county, Ohio.
     Benjamin Howard was born October 25, 1837, in Chester township, Morrow county, and during his active career was engaged in agricultural pursuits, being a progressive and prosperous member of the farming community.  A man of spotless intergrity [sic], he was held in high esteem by his fellow-men, and his death, April 17, 1907, was a loss to the community.  Mr. Howard married, October 28, 1858, Lydia J. Tims, who was born September 17, 1837, coming from substantial pioneer ancestry.  Her parents, James and Sarah Tims, natives of New Jersey, located in Ohio in 1839, being among the early settlers of Morrow county.  They had a family of ten children, as follows: Phoebe, George, Sanford, Rubina, Jonathan, who became a successful physician; Watson, Alexander, Josiah, Melinda and Lydia J.
     Four children were born of the union of Benjamin and Lydia (Tims) Howard, namely: Luther, Clarence D., Jesse and Essie.  Luther Tims, who inherited a portion of the home farm and has built a substantial residence just across the road from the house in which his parents lived for so many years, married Hattie George, and they have one child, Ethel Esther, wife of Charles Hildebrand, by whom she has two children, Ruth Marie and Iris Elizabeth.  Clarence D. Howard, who occupies a part of the old homestead, has remodeled the house, and is profitably employed in tilling the soil.  His first wife, whose maiden name was Jennie M. Stillie, died July 1, 1887.  He married second Nellie A. McCutcheon, daughter of James and Elizabeth McCutcheon, and they are the parents of seven children: Oakey, Earl, Bernice, Waldon, Lister, Dorothea and Dwight.  Jesse Howard, the youngest son, married Anna Graham, and they have five children, namely: Maurice, Hubert, Lulu, Elsie and Carrie.  Essie Howard, the youngest daughter, became the wife of Bryant M. Meredith, the subject of this sketch.
       Mrs. Benjamin Howard preceded her husband to the life beyond, passing away March 26, 1906.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Howard were converted when young and united with the Baptist church in later years, however, uniting with the First Day Adventist church, at Sparta, and thereafter being among its most honored and devoted members.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 731-732
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

WILLIAM E. MILLER. -- A contractor and builder of note in Mount Gilead and a man whose varied business interests are of most prominent order is William E. Miller, who through persistent effort and constancy to the work at hand has made his way to the goal of success and gained distinctive prestige as a representative business man.
     William E. Miller was born on a farm in Gilead township, Morrow county, Ohio, the date of his nativity being May 17, 1853. He is a son of Nehemiah and, Rachel (Straw) Miller, the former of whom was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and the latter of whom claimed Morrow county, at that time Knox county, as the place of her birth. Nehemiah Miller came to Morrow county, Ohio, at an early date and here was solemnized his marriage. He was a cabinet maker by trade and was one of the most prominent citizens in Mount Gilead. He was summoned to the life eternal in 1902, at the age of eighty-nine years, his cherished and devoted wife having passed away in 1863. Mr. and Mrs. Nehemiah Miller were the parents of the following children: John, Martha N., Gilbert E., Lucinda C., John F., Parker J., William E. and Mellville D.

LEWIS C. MITCHELL. ––It is always pleasing to the biographist or student to enter into an analysis of the character and career of a successful tiller of the soil.  Of the many citizens gaining their own livelihood, he alone stands pre-eminent as a totally independent factor, in short “Monarch of all he surveys.”  His rugged honesty and sterling worth are the outcome of a close association with nature and in all the relations of life he manifests that generous hospitality and kindly human sympathy which beget comradeship and which cement to him the friendship of all with whom he comes in contact.  Successfully engaged in diversified agriculture and the raising of cattle, sheep and horses, Mr. Lewis C. Mitchell is decidedly a prominent and popular citizen in South Bloomfield township, where he has resided since 1865.
     Near Mount Liberty, Knox county, Ohio, on the 6th of April, 1841, occurred the birth of Lewis C. Mitchell, who is a son of Almond and Margaret (Hawkins) Mitchell, both of whom are deceased.  The father was a son of Silvenus Mitchell, who was a colonel in the war of 1812, in which several of his brothers served as gallant and faithful soldiers.  The grandfather came to Ohio from Connecticut about the year 1800, he having been one of the early pioneers in this section of the fine old Buckeye state.  Mr. Mitchell’s parents were married in Knox county, Ohio, in 1836, and to them were born a family of fifteen children, twelve of whom grew to years of maturity.  The names of the children are here entered in respective order of birth: Harris, Emer, Lewis (of this review), Alice, Betsey, Albert, Welthy, Torrence, Maria, William, Laura, Dana, Mary, and two who died in infancy, unnamed.  Lewis C. Mitchell was reared to adult age under the influences of the old home farm in Knox county, in the district schools of which place he received his preliminary educational training.  He left school when a youth of fifteen years of age and when nineteen years of age he engaged in farming on his own responsibility.  As a young man he enlisted as a soldier in the Civil war, becoming sergeant of Company F, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  He was with his regiment until after the battle of Perryville, when he was discharged on account of disability.  After remaining at home for one year he had regained his health and then reenlisted for one hundred days service, being later appointed second sergeant.  He participated in all the important battles in which his regiment took part and received his honorable discharge and was mustered out of service in 1864.  After his marriage in 1861, Mr. Mitchell settled in Knox county, and in 1865 he located on his present fine farm in South Bloomfield township, the same being an estate of one hundred and fifty-seven acres of most arable land.  In addition to general farming he devotes considerable attention to the raising of high-grade cattle, Delaine sheep and Percheron horses.  He has been decidedly successful in all his business ventures and as a stock-raiser is a man of prominence in Morrow county.
     On January 1, 1861, Mr. Mitchell was united in marriage to Miss Lenora Orsborn, who was born and reared at Knox county, and who is a daughter of James and Sophronia (Thatcher) Orsborn, the latter of whom was a daughter of Thomas and Mary Thatcher, of New Jersey.  The Thatcher family came to Ohio from New Jersey in the early part of the nineteenth century and settlement was made in Knox county, where Thomas Thatcher entered a large tract of government land.  James Orsborn was a resident of Morrow and Knox counties and is now deceased.  He was a mechanic by occupation and was eighty-three years of age when he died.  To Mr. and Mrs. Orsborn were born four children, namely: George, Jerusha, Curtis and Lenora, who is now Mrs. Mitchell.  Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell are the parents of six children, concerning whom the following brief data are here incorporated: Charles M., born July 17, 1861, is a mechanic at Bloomfield, Ohio, and he married Miss Carrie Corwin; Myrtle E., born November 24, 1863, is the wife of Charles Slack, of Sparta, and they have one son, Ray; Lulu M., born May 12, 1866, is now Mrs. W. E. Wilson, of Sparta; W. Delano, born May 7, 1871, is engaged in the hardware business at Sparta, and he has three children, Harold, Pearl and Ferne; Edwin W., born July 9, 1873, is a mechanic at Sparta, and has one son, Donald; and Elmer C., born July 15, 1875, remains at the parental home.  It is interesting to note at this juncture that of the twelve children in Mr. Mitchell’s family each became the parent of six children except one.
     Politically Mr. Mitchell is a stalwart advocate of the principles and policies for which the Republican party stands sponsor, and while he has never manifested aught of ambition or desire for the honors or emoluments of public office he is ever on the qui vive to do all in his power to advance the general welfare of the community in which he has so long maintained his home.  In a fraternal way he is affiliated with various organizations of a representative character and he and his family are devout members of the Disciple church, to whose charities and benevolences he has ever been a most liberal contributor.  He is a man of fine moral fiber, is well read and intelligent and as a citizen is deeply admired and respected by his fellow men.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 735-737
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

GEORGE W. MODIE was for many years a leading and influential citizen of this section of the fine old Buckeye state and his activity in business affairs, his cooperation in public interests and his zealous support of all public objects that he believed would contribute to the material, social or moral improvement of the community kept him in the foremost rank of those to whom this county owes its development and present position as one of the leading commercial and agricultural regions of Ohio.  His life was characterized by upright, honorable principles and it also exemplified the truth of the Emersonian philosophy that “The way to win a friend is to be one.”  His genial, kindly manner won him the kind regard and good will of all with whom he came in contact and thus his death was uniformly mourned throughout this district.  He was a fine old veteran of the Civil war and during the major portion of his active career was engaged in agricultural operations on his fine farm east of Chesterville.  He was summoned to the life eternal on the 27th of May, 1885, and is survived by his cherished and devoted wife.
     At Mansfield, Ohio, on the 8th of October, 1832, occurred the birth of George W. Modie, who was a son of William and Margaret (Gates) Modie, both of whom were natives of this state.  William Modie was twice married, and by his first union was the father of two sons––Milton and Wesley.  His second marriage was prolific of nine children, whose names are here entered in respective order of birth: George, Sanford, Martin, William, Mary, Martha J., Margaret A., Minerva I. and Emma.  George W. Modie, the immediate subject of this review, recived [sic] his elementary educational training in the Washington district school and at the age of twenty-two years, when President Lincoln issued his first call for volunteers to defend the cause of the Union, his intrinsic loyalty to his country caused him to enlist as a soldier in Company A, Twentieth Regiment, Third Division of the Seventeenth Army Corps.  He immediately proceeded to the front and after the expiration of his three years’ term of enlistment he reenlisted for the remainder of the war.  He participated in a number of important engagements marking the progress of the war and he also accompanied Sherman on that general’s memorable march to the sea.  After the close of the sanguinary conflict he went to Washington, where he took part in the Grand Review, in which the hosts of brave veterans marched up Pennsylvania avenue in the Capital city and lay down their arms, the worthy recipients of a nation’s gratitude and praise.
     Returning home to Ohio in 1865, Mr. Modie was variously engaged until after his marriage, in 1868, when he turned his attention to farming on the old home estate three miles east of Chesterville.  This farm comprises forty-three acres of most arable land and on it Mr. Modie was engaged in diversified agriculture and the raising of high-grade stock.  He was a blacksmith by trade and worked at that occupation off and on as long as his health would permit.  In his political adherency he was a stanch supporter of the cause promulgated by the Democratic party.  In his religious faith he was a consistent member of the Chesterville Baptist church, and he was for twenty years the efficient incumbent of the office of church treasurer.  He was a man of fine moral caliber, broad information and charitable impulses, and in all the relations of life he so conducted himself as to command the unalloyed regard of all with whom he came in contact.
     On the 20th of October, 1868, Mr. Modie was united in marriage to Miss Isabel E. Nye, of Chester township.  She is a daughter of W. W. and Martha (Ball) Nye, the latter of whom was a daughter of Uzell and Penina (Lyon) Ball.  Mr. Nye’s mother was a school teacher in New York prior to her marriage to Samuel Nye, of New Hampshire.  She was related to Josiah Bartlett, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.  While Mr. and Mrs. Modie were never blessed with any of their own children they took into their home and reared to maturity a boy named Lewis Howell, who was a soldier in the Spanish-American war.  After his return home from Porto Rico Mr. Howell contracted dyptheria [sic] and died, at the age of thirty-two years.  Through their energy and industry Mr. and Mrs. Modie had been enabled to build for themselves a fine and comfortable home, but as a result of debts arising from his long illness and subsequent death the grief-stricken widow found herself facing a debt of two thousand dollars.  Determined to retain her home, she borrowed enough money to eradicate the indebtedness and after a number of years of close and persistent management she was enabled to cancel the debt against her property.  After her husband’s death she took a young girl, Rose Dement, into her home and cared for her until her twenty-seventh year, when she became the wife of Wilbur Buckmaster.  Mrs. Modie is a woman of unusual liberality and being very much interested in homeless boys and girls she has frequently harbored orphans and helped them to places of independence.  In connection with her varied interests she is an extensive contributor to a number of newspapers.  She has traveled extensively and visited each of the following expositions: Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis and Jamestown, and she is an annual attendant at the World’s International Stock Show at Chicago.  She is a brilliant woman, an interesting conversationalist and an exceedingly popular hostess.  She is a member of the local lodge of the Order of the Eastern Star and recently gave a memorial recitation to her fraternity sisters, the name of her selection being “The End of the Labyrinth.”  She also holds the office of state inspector of the Ladies Grand Army members, having been elected thereto at the last state encampment of that organization at Florida.  She passes her winters at Kissimmee, Florida, where the southern sunshine and flowers have won her heart.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 669-671
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

JOHN M. MOORE. ––If those who claim that fortune has favored certain individuals above others, will but investigate the cause of success and failure, it will be found that the former is largely due to the improvement of opportunity, the latter to the neglect of it.  Fortunate environments encompass nearly every man at some stage of his career, but the strong man and the successful man is he who realizes that the proper moment has come, that the present and not the future holds his opportunity.  The man who makes use of the Now and not the To Be is the one who passes on the highway of life others who started out ahead of him, and reaches the goal of prosperity in advance of them.  It is this quality in John M. Moore that made him a leader in the business world at Chesterville, Ohio, where he was long a popular and prominent factor in the general merchandise business and where he is now living virtually retired from active affairs.  He is a fine old veteran of the Civil war and is widely renowned as one of the most admirable citizens in Morrow county.
     John M. Moore was born on Duncan’s Island, Pennsylvania, on the 25th of February, 1837, and he is a son of James R. and Priscilla (Martin) Moore, both of whom were born and reared in the old Keystone state of the Union, whence they immigrated to the commonwealth of Ohio about the year 1846.  Settlement was made by the Moore family on a farm of some one hundred and sixty acres, eligibly located four miles west of Chesterville, in Morrow, county.  James R. Moore traced his ancestry back to stanch Scotch extraction and his wife was of Irish descent.  Mr. and Mrs. Moore were the parents of six children––three sons and three daughters––and of the number the subject of this review was the second in order of birth.  The names of the above children are here entered in respective order of birth: James A., John M., Jane E., Rebecca M., Perry M. and Margaret E.  Both the father and mother were summoned to the life eternal in the year 1885.
     Under the invigorating influences of the old homestead farm John M. Moore was reared to adult age and his early educational discipline consisted of such advantages as were afforded in the neighboring district schools.  Subsequently he was a student in the high school at Chesterville and during his high school course was engaged as a clerk in the general merchandise store of W. F. Bartlett, assisting him after school hours and on Saturdays.  He proved so capable and willing a clerk that he was retained as such for a period of seven years.  In the meantime the dark cloud of Civil war had cast its pall over the national horizon and in response to the first call for troops, Mr. Moore left his work and enlisted immediately as a soldier in the Union army.  He was the second man in Morrow county to sign the muster roll and he became a member of Company B, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under command of Captain Banning, of Mount Vernon.  With his comrades Mr. Moore was stationed at Camp Dennison and after his first term of enlistment expired he returned home and raised a company at Chesterville, the same becoming known as Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  This company was commanded by Captain Meredith with James McCracken as first lieutenant and John M. Moore as second lieutenant.  Mr. Moore with his regiment participated in a number of the most important engagements marking the progress of the war and in every possible respect he proved himself a faithful and gallant soldier.
     After the close of the war and when peace had again been established throughout the country John M. Moore returned to Chesterville, Ohio, where he again entered the employ of Mr. W. F. Bartlett.  Later he launched out into the general merchandise business on his own account at Lima, Ohio.  In 1867 he purchased a general store at Upper Sandusky, remaining there for a period of seven years.  After his marriage, in 1868, he entered into a partnership with his father-in-law and former employer, Mr. Bartlett, to conduct a mercantile establishment at Chesterville.  This concern was known as the Bartlett & Moore General Merchandise Business and a very extensive and successful business was controlled for the ensuing seventeen years.  Mr. Moore gained recognition as a business man of fair and honorable methods and as a citizen he is essentially loyal and public spirited.
     On the 1st of September, 1868, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Moore to Miss Margaret E. Bartlett, a daughter of W. F. Bartlett, Mr. Moore’s former employer, who used to remark that “John served faithfully seven years for his wife.”  The maiden name of Mrs. Moore’s mother was Sarah P. Shurr.  The Bartlett family consisted of six children, two of whom died in infancy.  The names of the others are: H. Murray, Margaret E., Flora M. and Mary B.  Mr. and Mrs. Moore became the parents of three children: William Bartlett, James Thaddeus and Florence Belle.  The above children attended and were graduated in the high school at Chesterville.  William Bartlett married Miss Marie Dehn, of Toledo, and he is vice president of the Union Supply Company, of Toledo, Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. William B. Moore are the parents of three children: Thaddeus J., John D. and George E.  James T. Moore launched his boat on the commercial sea as a young boy, his first lucrative work having been that of selling papers on the streets of Chesterville.  Later he obtained a position at Delaware, Ohio, where he became the proud possessor of a salary of three dollars a week and to-day he is sales manager for the Quaker City Rubber Company, of Philadelphia, he having charge of sixty-five salesmen in a territory extending from Philadelphia to the Gulf of Mexico.  Florence Belle is the wife of John G. Swindeman, president and general manager of the Union Supply Company, of Toledo, Ohio.  They have two children: Marjorie L. and John Moore.
     In politics Mr. John M. Moore accords an uncompromising allegiance to the principles and policies promulgated by the Republican party, and while he has never participated actively in politics he is deeply and sincerely interested in community affairs, giving freely of his aid and influence in support of all measures and enterprises projected for the general good.  Mr. and Mrs. Moore are honored members of the Presbyterian church of Chesterville, to whose good works they have contributed liberally of their time and means.  In a fraternal way Mr. Moore is affiliated with Chester Lodge, No. 238, Free and Accepted Masons; with Mount Gilead Chapter, No. 59, Royal Arch Masons; and with Clinton Commandery, No. 59, Knights Templars.  He retains a deep and abiding interest in his old comrades in arms and signifies the same by membership in Creighton Orr Post, No. 501, of the Grand Army of the Republic.  Although he has reached the venerable age of seventy-four years he retains in much of their pristine vigor the splendid mental and physical qualities of his youth.  He is possessed of a cheerful, genial disposition, is ever ready to lend a helping hand to those less favorably situated than himself and he and his good wife command the unqualified confidence and esteem of all who know them.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 834-836
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

ARMONDO L. MUNK, manager of the Mt. Gilead Floral Company, with greenhouses at the corner of Bank and Pleasant streets, Mt. Gilead, Ohio, has been a resident of this place since 1904.
     Mr. Munk was born at Lindsey, Sandusky county, Ohio, February 16, 1881, a son of the Rev. John W. and Mary E. (Reinhold) Munk.  His father being an Evangelical minister, whose work took him from place to place, Armondo L. Munk’s education was carried forward in different towns and cities of Ohio.  He is a graduate of the Roscoe High School and also of a commercial school of Columbus, and he spent some time engaged in the study of law.  He did not, however, engage in legal practice, but turned his attention to other lines of work, at first to railroading and afterwards to the greenhouse business.  He started a greenhouse at Mt. Gilead in 1904, in which his father and brother were interested.  The latter died, and his father sold his share, and Armondo L. now has full charge of the business as manager, which, under his able management, is in a flourishing condition.
     Mr. Munk resides with his family on North street.  He married November 28, 1906, Miss Adah Dale White, and they have one daughter, Helen V., born in September, 1907.
     While Mr. Munk votes the Republican ticket and is always prompt in his duty at the polls, he has otherwise never been active in politics.  Fraternally he is identified with Charles H. Hull Lodge, No. 195, K. of P., and his religious creed is that of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – p. 640
Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.

GEORGE W. MYERS. ––One of the representative and popular residents of Cardington, Morrow county, Ohio, is George W. Myers, who owns and operates one of the best meat markets in this city.  His life history displays many elements worthy of emulation, and in the city where he has maintained his home since 1870 he has many friends, a fact which indicates that his career has ever been honorable and straightforward.
     Mr. Meyers [sic] was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, on the 14th of April, 1843, and he is a son of George and Mary A. (Huffman) Myers, both of whom were likewise born in Lancaster county, their ancestry being of German extraction.  George W. was a youth of twelve years of age at the time of his parents’ removal from Pennsylvania to Ohio, where settlement was made at Springfield, where the father engaged in the hotel business.  He received his educational training in the common schools of his native county and in those of Springfield.  In 1867 he took up his abode in Morrow county and three years later he established his home in Cardington, where he became interested in the butcher business, in which he has been engaged for fully two score years.  He owns the building in which he maintains his business headquarters and also has a fine residence located on South Marion street.  Beginning life with no assets except persistency and a determination to forge ahead, Mr. Myers has wrested prosperity and success from poverty and for that reason his prominent position in the business world to-day is the more gratifying to contemplate.  In his political convictions he is aligned as a stanch advocate of the cause of the Democratic party and though he has never been desirous of political preferment of any description he has ever contributed in generous measure to all matters tending to enhance the general welfare of the community.  In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Knights of Maccabees, in which he carries an insurance.  He and his wife are devout members of the Methodist Episcopal church and they have been most zealous factors in religious activities.
     In the year 1889 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Myers to Miss Lucy Kerwicher [sic]*, who was born and reared in Ottawa, Ohio, and who is a daughter of John Kerwicher [sic], a representative citizen of Morrow county.  Mr. and Mrs. Myers have two children, Fannie, who was born in Morrow county, and who was graduated in the local high school as a member of the class of 1908; and Frank L., who is attending school.

*ADDITIONAL NOTE: [The correct spelling is: Kehrwecker.]
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 512-513Contributed by a Generous Genealogist.