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
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Washington Twp. –
JOHN McANALL, farmer; P. O., Iberia; was born in Ohio Co., W. Va., April 6, 1829.  His parents were originally from Ireland.  His father came to America when very young, and, after his marriage settled in that county.  Both parents lived and died there.  Mr. McAnall lived with his parents on the farm till 23 years of age, at which time he came to Morrow Co., settling in Washington Tp., moving from time to time, till at length he settled permanently upon the farm where he now resides.  This farm contains about a quarter section, and is under a high state of cultivation.  March 29, 1855, he married Miss Sarah Levering.  They have two children -- Clement, 21, and Mary Ada, 18 years of age.  April 28, 1864, Mrs. McAnall died.  In December, 1864, Mr. McAnall married Miss Minerva J. Logan; their children are as follows -- John Logan, Cora Ann, Margaret Agnes, Martha Belle, and Hugh William.  Mr. McAnall is a member of the Presbyterian Church at Iberia.  He is not a politician, wishing to have as little to do with politics as is consistent with intelligent Christian citizenship; he is emphatically a farmer, practical and scientific, striving to get the most out of the soil.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 747-748
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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
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Congress Twp. –
JACKSON McCAMMAN, farmer; P. O., Andrews; was born Sept. 22, 1823, in Mercer Co., Penn.; there were nine of the family, he being the sixth in order; but three are now living; one sister in Beaver Co., Pa., and one brother in Montana; these with himself are all that survive of that large family. At the age of 13 he emigrated to Ashland Co. with his parents, where his father bought a piece of land of one Charles Wheeler. Here Jackson was raised to farming; having good school advantages, he was fitted to undertake any common business vocation. At the age of 22 he was married to Jane Doty, born June 19, 1827, in Ashland Co., daughter of Abraham and Mary (Barr) Doty.  At this time he was in poor health and devoid of means, yet he had “grit,” and a determination to accomplish something in this world; he began by renting land, which he continued until he acquired means to buy a piece of land in Wyandot Co.  About the year 1850, he came to the township, where he bought 115 acres of land, upon which he now lives.  Has since added to it, until he has about 200 acres, and he has brought it to such a state of improvement, that he received the first premium on the same in 1879, at the Agricultural Association.  In 1876 he built a barn, which is the best in the county -- but few, if any, better in the State, and has set an example for the farmers in this direction, that is worthy of their emulation. Mr. McCamman now ranks among the successful farmers of this county. He has always been a Democrat and a staunch advocate of the Prohibition cause, and is ready, at any time, to denounce by his example and precept, every form of intoxicants, and deems their use the worst curse of humanity. They have had ten children; eight are living -- Hiram J., John W., Clara R., now Mrs. F. Walker; Ida V., now Mrs. James L. Lee, of Mt. Gilead; and Doty, Frank, Mary and Adda.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 693-694
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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
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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
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Gilead Twp. –
I. T. McCLAIN, dealer in lumber etc., Gilead Station; was born in Huntington Co., Penn., on his father’s farm, near Burnt Cabins, May 14, 1836.  In 1846, the family moved to Crawford Co., Ohio, and engaged in farming near Bucyrus, until the spring of 1852, when they moved to a farm located a mile west of Gilead Station, where I. T. McClain lived until 1861.  Jan. 19 of that year, he married Miss Sarah M. Shilcote; she was born in Licking Co., Ohio. After his marriage, he occupied a house on the farm, and farmed the place, which he came in possession of by his brother’s will. In 1864 he enlisted in the 136th O. N. G., and served until the command was discharged.  July 23, 1867, his wife died, and the same year he sold his farm, and. Sept. 1, 1868, he married Miss Margaret E. Smith; she was born in Fairfield Co., Ohio.  In 1869 he engaged in the lumbering business with Mr. G. V. Smith, running a saw-mill in this county until 1871, when he sold out, and returning to Gilead Station, followed carpentering about a year; he then engaged in his present business.  By this marriage, there are two children -- William G. and Mary E.  His parents, William and Mary (Traxler) McClain, were natives of Pennsylvania. They married there, and came here as stated and lived here until their death. They died in 1866, and 1864, respectively. They had fourteen children, seven of whom are living.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 549
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North Bloomfield Twp. –
ROBERT McCLAREN, farmer; P. O. Whetstone; is the fourth in a family of ten children, and was born Jan. 8, 1825, in Washington Co., Pennsylvania; his father, Robert McClaren, Sr., was born near Belfast, Ireland, in 1788, and his mother, Sarah (McClenathan) McClaren, was from the Emerald Isle; his father was a farmer, by occupation, and despairing of ever securing a competency in that country, emigrated to America in 1823, with his family, consisting of four persons; he first settled in Washington Co., Pennsylvania, where he lived for six years; he had just five pounds, or twenty-five dollars when he arrived in this country, and wishing to increase his store, he loaned it to one whom he thought responsible and lost it all. In the year 1829, he moved to Ohio, and entered a quarter section of Government land, in Washington Tp., this county; he endured all the privations that fell to the lot of early settlers in a new country; he was poor in purse, but rich in energy, and he was determined to succeed at all hazards; he cleared his farm and lived on it until 1865, when he disposed of it, and moved to Iberia; he cut his own wood till he was ninety years old, and when ninety-two he walked from Iberia to Mt. Gilead. Robert left home and commenced for himself, when twenty-four years old; he purchased part of the farm on which he now lives, and was married March 13, 1855, to Jennette, daughter of James and Susannah Richardson; this marriage has been blessed with seven children, all are living – Arminta, Mary J., Sarah A., Florence I., the twins, James R. and Anna C., Charles E.   Mr. McClaren is giving his children a good education, as soon as they arrive at a proper age, wishing to place something in their possession, that cannot be taken from them. Himself, and wife, and the four oldest children are members of the U. P. Church, of which he is now deacon.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 627-628.
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Westfield Twp. –
JOSEPHUS McCLEAD, farmer and stock raiser: P. O. Westfield; was born in Washington Co., Pa., Apr. 25, 1818; his father moved to Athens Co., Ohio, in 1830, where he remained about seven years, he then moving to Westfield Tp.  Josephus spent about eight years in the fanning-mill business, traveling and selling; during this time, besides spending a good deal of time in Ohio, he covered much of Indiana, and spent four years in Missouri, and had an opportunity to observe the early settlements in those states.  When the gold fever broke out, he led a company to California, and made his first stand at Hangtown, since called Placerville; after a varied experience of about four years, with good success, taking out in the meantime great quantities of gold, he returned to the more quiet scenes of his early home.  He had in 1837, purchased a farm in Westfield Tp., at about $3.00 per acre, unimproved, and this, on his return, he set about improving, which he was now able to do with earnings in the gold regions; after devoting a few years to this work, he decided further to increase his happiness by making Miss Mary Ann Wiley, a lady born and educated in Lincolnshire, England, the sharer of his fortune; they were married in 1856, and have since had six children, all of whom are now living.  He is of a family of thirteen children, all of whom are now living, and scattered over four states, the youngest being about 43 years of age; he is of Scotch descent, his great grandfather emigrating from Scotland, the characteristics of which are plainly marked in Mr. McClead; he is strong in his convictions, fearless in the expression of them, and when he espouses a cause which he believes to be right, you will find him staying by it.  He is truly a self-made man, but unlike many such, he belongs to the advanced school, and favors education, culture and the improvement of society; he is now quietly enjoying the pleasures of home on his farm, one of the largest in the township, and his elegant residence commands the finest view in that part of the county.  He gives especial attention to stock-raising, particularly cattle, of which he keeps a fine herd; in his religious belief he is Deistic.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 642
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Congress Twp. –
MRS. RACHEL C. McCLENATHAN, Whetstone; born Feb. 25, 1811, in Washington Co., Penn.; her father’s name was James Dalrymple who married Esther Locia, natives of New Jersey, and of English and Irish descent. At the age of twenty she was married to Samuel McClenathan, born January 15, 1803; the son of William and Mary (Coalson) McClenathan, of Washington Co., Pa. Their marriage took place Feb. 24, 1831; in Sept., 1833, they landed in this county, located on an eighty-acre tract he had purchased for $500 of Richard Iiams, in Washington Tp., adjoining her present residence. Subsequently he entered 160 acres in the northeast corner of the township, afterwards he sold eighty acres to Mr. liams for the piece of land purchased of him, leaving him 160 acres, upon which he settled and cleared away the forest growth, and was from that time forward up to the time of his death, which occurred Feb. 12, 1873, a constant resident, and was one of the county’s esteemed citizens. Since his death his worthy wife has remained upon the farm, consisting of 185 acres, and is spending the eve of her life in peace and quietness. She has four children -- Mary, born Feb, 16, 1832; William Allen, born Aug. 2, 1837; Sarah Ellen, Dec. 17, 1848; John, May 5, 1851, who married a Mary Brewer, born April 25, 1852. They have three children -- Retta J., Martha E. and Margaret Edna.  Mrs. McClenathan is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 690-691
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Washington Twp. –
HEZEKIAH McCLURE, farmer; P. O., Galion; resident of Polk Tp., Crawford Co.; was born in Westmoreland Co., Penn., Aug. 10, 1826; his father was a native of Maryland, while his mother, whose maiden name was Esther Gross, was a native of the above-named county in Penn.; in 1829 they removed to Richland Co., O., where they remained one year, and then moved to Jackson Tp., Crawford Co.; it was on the farm in this latter township Mr. McClure spent the remaining years of his minority; at the time of their first settlement in Crawford Co., the nearest improvement was more than a mile distant from his home; his father died Nov. 12, 1849, while his mother is still living, and though nearly 87 years of age, is fully as active as many another of half her years.  Oct. 5, 1853, Mr. McClure married Miss Ann Crider, originally from the same county of Penn. in which he was born; they have two children -- Malinda A., 25, and Wilber C., 16 years of age; Mr. McClure remained after marriage on his father’s farm, till his removal to Washington Tp., in Morrow Co., which occurred in the spring of 1865; prosperity has smiled upon him, and he has accumulated a large property in the extreme north of this township; recently he has removed across the county line into Polk Tp., Crawford Co., where he now resides, though he still retains the farms he had in Washington Tp.; with wealth sufficient to own a fine town property, and secure to him a prominent place in its society, he still prefers the quiet of the country, and in the management of his farm finds happiness and content.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 748
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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
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CHRISTOPHER McCRACKEN, Infirmary Director at Chesterville, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1826, the second son of Joseph McCracken.  When ten years of age Christopher came to Ohio, and attended the schools of Holmes county, completing his education at Chesterville at the age of nineteen years.  He then learned and followed the blacksmith’s trade in Franklin township, and afterward embarked in the grocery business at Chesterville two different times.  He still occasionally works at his trade.  In August, 1861, Mr. McCracken enlisted for service in the late war, entering Company A, Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the three years’ service.  At the close of his three years’ service he veteranized at Vicksburg.  He was first appointed Sergeant, later Orderly Sergeant, and afterward promoted to First Lieutenant, serving in that capacity until the close of the struggle.  He took part in all the battles in which his regiment participated, including Fort Donelson and both days at Shiloh.  At Atlanta Mr. McCracken was wounded in the left ear by the explosion of a shell.  He was mustered out of service in July, 1865, having participated in the grand parade at Washington.  Mr. McCracken is a charter member of John Bayne Post, G. A. R., of Chesterville, and forty-two years ago became a member of the I. O. O. F., having been one of the first initiated in that order.  He has passed all the chairs in the latter lodge, and has also been a member of the encampment.  In his political relations he affiliates with the Republican party, has served as Trustee of Chester township five years, been a member of the School Board, has frequently been a delegate to county conventions, and is now serving as Infirmary Director of Morrow county.  He has also been a member of the City Council of Chesterville.
     In 1848 Mr. McCracken was united in marriage with Elizabeth States, who was born in Tompkins county, New York, September 30, 1829, a daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hinckley) States, natives of New York.  They came to Ohio in 1832, locating on a farm in Huron county, afterward spent seven years in Richland county, and in 1839 located at Center Corners, then called States Corners, having been named in honor of the States family.  Mr. and Mrs. States had nine children, all now deceased but Mrs. McCracken, who was the youngest of the family.  The parents were members of the Baptist Church, in which the father was one of the leading singers.  He was an active worker in the Whig party.  Christopher McCracken and wife are the parents of two children, W. Thurston, who married Lottie Trowbridge, resides in Cleveland.  They have one son, Fred. T.  Loa B., is the wife of James Thomas, of Chesterville.  Mr. and Mrs. McCracken are members of the Baptist Church, in which he is a Deacon.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 280-281
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Chester Twp. –
MRS. ELIZABETH McCRACKEN, widow; P. O. Chesterville; is the daughter of David and Mary (Johnston) Miller. Her father was born in Scotland, and came to America with Cornwallis’ army, and was a drummer; her mother was born in Ireland, and came to this country in 1775. They were married and came to Mt. Vernon, Knox Co., in 1806; David here worked at his trade, that of a tailor; settled on fifty acres of land in this township, about 1810; the father died here in 1814, mother, 1848. Their union blessed them with thirteen children -- Andrew, Jane, Isabel, Mary, Sarah, Nancy, James and Elizabeth; five died unnamed. Elizabeth was born Feb. 14, 1802, in Virginia; attended school in Mt. Vernon, to a teacher by the name of Norcross, the first pedagogue in that portion of the country; while in Chester Tp., she went to school to a Mr. Miles. She was married March 7, 1821, to William, son of James and Catharine (O’Neal) McCracken, both natives of Ireland. William was born Nov. 18, 1801, in Pennsylvania; came to Ohio in 1812, with his parents. The following are the names of their children -- James, born April 1, 1823; Catharine, Feb. 4, 1825; R. Johnson, May 26, 1827; Mary J., Nov. 12, 1828; Nancy, Dec. 1, 1830; George W., Jasper, April 23, 1834, Isabel, Sept. 26, 1836, Elizabeth, April 14, 1839; Lucretia A., May 24, 1841; John A., March 29, 1844; James, Jasper and John A. were in the civil war. Mary J. was married Oct, 20, 1853, to D. B., a son of Enoch and Hannah E. (Dillman) Kinsell; his grandparents were from Prussia, and emigrated to Baltimore, at which place D. B.’s father was born. Her husband was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, March 4, 1819; by him she had Henry C., born Nov. 13, 1858; George M., born May 19, 1862; Hannah E., April 20, 1864.  Mr. Kinsell died Sept. 8, 1869; he was a member of the Methodist church; he served as justice of the peace for twelve years; he was a strong temperance man. His wife, who survives him, is an active member of the Methodist church, to which her mother has belonged for forty years.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 608
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Chester Twp. –
G. W. McCRACKEN, farmer; P. O. Chesterville; is the son of William and Elizabeth (Miller) McCracken.  G. W. was born Nov. 7, 1832, in Chester Tp., where he has always remained; was married Nov. 18, 1858, to Hannah J., daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Williams) George. She was born Nov. 18, 1837, in this township; her mother was born in Wales, and her father in Pennsylvania; they emigrated to Ohio in 1810 or 1812. The names of the children living are -- Mary, Hannah J., Lydia and John. The subject and his wife settled on seventy-three acres of land, a portion of the present farm; he has since bought thirty acres, making in all 103 acres of finely improved land, obtained through hard labor. He enlisted in Co. “F.” 136th O. N. G.  In 1852, he and James Kinney moved a threshing machine to Wisconsin, and engaged in threshing wheat for six months, and were very successful. He is a member of Chester Lodge No. 238, A. F. and A. M., in which he has been treasurer. He is serving as township trustee; himself and wife are members of the Baptist church, and he votes the Republican ticket; he has two children -- DeWitt, born July 18, 1864, and died 1874; William L., born July 23, 1876.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 608
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CAPT. JAMES E. McCRACKEN, who is a well known and most popular resident of Mt. Gilead, Morrow county, has passed a somewhat eventful life, and has attained a military record of marked brilliancy.  To him is due particular recognition in this work, whose purport is the reviewing of the lives of the representative citizens of this and two adjoining counties.
     His father, Robert McCracken, was a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, being the son of James McCracken, who was born in the north of Ireland, and who came with his family to Pennsylvania in an early day.  Robert McCracken married Elizabeth Irwin, a native of this county (then a part of Knox county), and the daughter of Rev. James and Susan (Holt) Irwin, both of whom were born in New Jersey, and the latter of whom was the daughter of Evans Holt, a Revolutionary soldier.  James Holt participated in the war of 1812, having settled in that part of Ohio now comprised in Chester township, Morrow county, in 1820, and having been one of the pioneer clergymen of the Baptist Church in the Buckeye State.
     The paternal grandfather of our subject was one of the first settlers in Chester township, having located there about 1814.  He purchased a large tract of land and erected a large house, which was the voting place of the pioneer locality.  He passed the remainder of his life on this farm.
     The parents of our subject were married in Chester township and settled there, on a farm which had been given them by the father of the young man.  This continued to be their permanent home, and there both parents died.  They had four children, namely: Arminda, deceased, was the wife of George W. Freeman, of Union county, and had two children; Susan is the wife of George W. Freeman, and has three children; William W. married Mary Green, has two children, and resides in Mt. Gilead; and our subject is the youngest in the family.  After the death of his first wife the father consummated a second marriage and had one son, Charles E.  The mother was a devoted member of the Baptist Church.  Robert McCracken was a Democrat and a very active politician, being a man of considerable influence in his locality.
     James E. McCracken, the immediate subject of this review, was born in Chester township, Morrow (then Knox) county, February 10, 1841, remained there until the outbreak of the civil war, and received a good common-school education.
     April 22, 1861, he enlisted in the three-months’ service as a member of Company G, Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was recruited in the neighborhood of Chesterville.  During its term of service the regiment was engaged in guarding the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in West Virginia.  At the end of his term of enlistment our subject returned home and was discharged from the three-months’ service.  August 18th of the same year he again enlisted, for three years, as a member of Company A, Twentieth Regiment, entering as a private, but being soon promoted to the rank of Corporal, serving as such until April, 1862, when he was promoted as Sergeant and served in that office until he veteranized, in January, 1864, when he was chosen Sergeant-Major of the old Twentieth, served one year, was then promoted Captain of Company A, and as such continued until he was mustered out.
     Into the details of his service as a member of the Twentieth Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry we cannot enter minutely, but deem it but consistent to incorporate the following brief review:  The regiment rendezvoused at Camp Chase, then at Camp King, back of Covington, Kentucky, until the expedition to Fort Donelson was organized, when it joined the forces thus sent forward and took part in the battle; after the fall Fort Donelson the regiment took charge of prisoners and conveyed them to various prisons in the North. Reassembled at Paducah, Kentucky, in March, 1862, and then joined Grant’s army on the Tennessee river, being among the first troops to land at Pittsburg Landing; then dropped to Crump’s Landing, moved out in the direction of Purdy and there remained until Sunday morning; then joined Grant’s army on the same night, taking part in the second day’s battle, in command of General Lew Wallace.  Took part in the siege of Corinth, then moved to Bolivar, Tennessee, and there remained all summer, scouting and foraging.  August 30, were attacked by Confederate General Van Dorn, at Middleburg, and under command of General Ross, routed Price and Van Dorn in the battle of Hatchie Ford; moved back to Bolivar, and joined Grant’s Mississippi Central campaign, being assigned to Logan’s division, the Third and Seventeenth Corps; moved down the Mississippi Central railroad toward Vicksburg, with almost daily skirmishes.  Their brigade was the farthest south of the entire body of infantry, and at Water Valley acted as rear guard on the retrograde movement.  They then moved back to Memphis, and February 22, 1863, took boats to Lake Providence, Louisiana; engaged in the work of cutting a canal with a view to securing access to the Red River below Vicksburg; March, 1863, were flooded out and compelled to abandon operations by reason of the tide of backwater; took steamers to Eagle Bend, on the Mississippi side, thence to Milliken’s Bend, where they remained until the blockade was run; then moved across to Grand Gulf.  May 1, crossed the river and participated in battle of Port Gibson, then moved to Hankins’ Ferry, where a lively skirmish took place; then moved in the direction of Jackson, Mississippi, and Logan’s division fought battle of Raymond, May 12, and the battle of Jackson two days later; started for Vicksburg, and on May 16, fought battle of Champion Hills; the succeeding day were in second line at battle of Big Black.  May 18 closed in on Vicksburg, May 22 engaged in the charge in front of Fort Hill: passed through the entire siege, and July 4, 1863, was present at surrender of Vicksburg, Logan’s division being the first to enter.  In August participated in the raid into western Louisiana, destroying the Shreveport & Texas railroad; remained at Vicksburg until December, 1863, when he re-enlisted, and in March following went to Meridian, Mississippi, participating in the raid made by General McPherson.  Captain McCracken arrived in Ohio in April, 1864, and received a furlough for that month, at the expiration of which he proceeded to Cairo, Illinois, thence by boat to Clifton, Tennessee, via Huntsville, Alabama, to Rome. Georgia, joining Sherman’s army at Big Shanty, the division being in command of General M. D. Liggett.  Participated with his regiment in the battles of Kenesaw Mountain and Nickojack; moved up the Chattahoochee river to Roswell’s factory, where they crossed and struck the line of the Augusta railroad, at Decatur.  Moved on to Atlanta and reached the earthworks July 21, 1864.  The great battle ensued the next morning and was the hardest fight our subject ever saw during his long term of active service.  July 27 his regiment was in the body which swung around twelve miles to extreme right of the army, effectually repulsing the precipitate attack made by Hood.  The regiment joined in the siege of Atlanta until September 1, then pulled out at night, moved to Jonesboro, where there was a hot conflict in which the Federal troops were victorious, as also at Lovejoy Station; then moved back to Atlanta, remained a few days, then followed Hood on his raid in rear of the city to the Smyrna camp ground, remaining there until November 10, when began the memorable march to the sea, the troops eating Christmas dinner in Savannah.  Our subject was then in command of his company as they moved to Beaufort, South Carolina, and participated in fight at Pocotaligo; then moved with the Army of the Tennessee forward to take part in the battle at Orangeburg, South Carolina, thence on to Columbia, taking part in the burning of that city.  Thereafter our subject participated with his regiment in the fights in turn at Cheraw, Fayetteville, Bentonville (where they encountered Johnston’s army), Goldsboro, and thence to Durham Station to the surrender of Johnston.  After this Captain McCracken accompanied Sherman’s army on to Washington and participated in the Grand Review, being thence ordered to Louisville, Kentucky, and being mustered out in August, 1865, having been with his regiment on every occasion when it was under fire.
     He left the army with shattered health, and the winter of 1865 he passed in Missouri, going thence in the spring to Fort Benton and then to Helena, Montana, where he engaged in gold mining for two years; he then returned home, and in the spring of 1869 went to California, via New York and the isthmus route, remaining there until 1871.  He then returned to Morrow county and engaged in the grocery business in Mt. Gilead until 1878, then removed to Cleveland and conducted a cold storage enterprise for five years.  Returned to Mt. Gilead in 1883, and was in the furniture trade until 1886, then teller in the Morrow County National Bank until December 31, 1887.  In that year he was elected Clerk of the courts and served as such until August 6. 1894.  In politics the Captain is a stalwart Republican, and fraternally he is a member of Mt. Gilead Lodge, No. 206, F. & A. M., and Hurd Post, No. 114, G. A. R., being Past Commander of the latter.  He is also identified with the Union Veterans’ League, and has held preferment in the same as officer of the day.
     Captain McCracken was married October 23, 1873, to Miss Elsie N. Rhodes, a daughter of John Rhodes.  She was born in Knox county. September 3, 1849, and was reared there.  She is a member of the Baptist Church.  Our subject and wife have one child, Sadie, born August 23, 1877.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 32-34
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JOHN McCRACKEN, a farmer of Morrow county, is a son of Joseph McCracken, born in Bengal township, Washington county, Pennsylvania, August 8, 1800, a son of John and Hester McCracken.  The father, of Scotch-Irish descent, was one of the early pioneers of Pennsylvania, and remained there until his death.  Joseph McCracken was a harness-maker by trade, and remained in his native place until 1836, when he came to Ohio, locating on a farm in Holmes county.  From 1840 to 1850 he lived on a rented farm in Chester township, now Morrow county, spent the following ten years on a farm in Harmony township, and then returned to Chesterville.  His wife died there in 1874, and since that time he has made his home with his daughter one mile south of Chesterville, aged ninety-four years.  Mr. McCracken was married in Pennsylvania to Elizabeth Weirich, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1809, a daughter of Christopher and Sarah Weirich, of Pennsylvania Dutch descent.  Joseph McCracken and wife had ten children, all of whom grew to years of maturity, namely: John, the subject of this sketch; Christopher, of Chesterville; Sarah, deceased; Samuel, a resident of Michigan; Wilson, deceased; Simon, of Centerburg, Ohio; Isaac, of Newark, Ohio; George, also of Centerburg; Hettie, wife of Sampel Stilly, of Chester township; and Charlotte, wife of Benjamin Wilson, of Centerburg, Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. McCracken were members of the Methodist Church.
     John McCracken, the subject of this sketch, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 22, 1824.  When twelve years of age he came to Ohio, attending school two winters, and worked on his father’s farm until seventeen years of age.  He learned and followed the blacksmith’s trade in Chesterville until 1873, and since that time has followed agricultural pursuits.  He now owns 300 acres of the best farming land in the county.
     In April, 1861, Mr. McCracken enlisted for service in the late war, entering Company G, Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which he was appointed Corporal, and served until the expiration of his three months’ term of enlistment.  In May, 1864, he entered Company F, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was appointed Sergeant, and served his term of enlistment at Alexandria, Virginia.
     In 1846 our subject was united in marriage with Elizabeth Meredith, born in what is now Morrow county in 1825, a daughter of William and Mary (Farmer) Meredith, early pioneers of this locality, but both now deceased.  Mr. and Mrs. McCracken had two children: Weirich, deceased; and Mary, wife of Phineas Squires, of Chesterville, and they have four children.  Mrs. McCracken departed this life in 1890.  In the following year our subject married Sarah J. (Blakeley) Meredith, born in Belmont county, Ohio, March 4, 1829, and educated at Mount Gilead.  She is the daughter of John and Jane (Talbot) Blakeley, natives of Loudoun county, Virginia, the former born in 1801, and the latter in 1800.  They came to Ohio at the age of seventy years.  The paternal grandparents, William and Letitia (Russell) Blakeley, were natives of Virginia, of Scotch-Irish descent.  The maternal grandparents, Thomas and Ruth (Ferguson) Talbot, were also natives of Virginia.  John Blakeley and wife had six children, viz: Ruth, wife of John Newson; Letitia, widow of Nathan Coe; Sarah J., wife of John McCracken; Nancy Livenspire, of Mount Gilead; Mary Miller, deceased; and Susan Corwin, also of Mount Gilead.  Mrs. McCracken is a member of the Baptist Church.
     John McCracken is a member of the Masonic order at Chesterville, having been the first to take the third degree in Chester Lodge, No. 236, and is at present the oldest in membership in the lodge.  He has served as Junior Warden, Treasurer and Trustee of the order.  In political matters he affiliates with the Republican party.  He has served as Trustee of Chester township six years; in 1886 was elected County Commissioner for three years, and refused to serve longer.  He has been constantly a delegate to conventions, in which he has always taken an active and leading part.  He has settled several estates, having been assignee of two large firms, which were settled satisfactorily to all parties concerned.  One of the old-time blacksmiths of Chesterville was Sanford Modie, now deceased.  He and Mr. McCracken were partners in the business here for thirteen years, they never having had a word of disagreement during the entire time.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 244-245
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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
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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
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Peru Twp. –
McDONALD BROTHERS, farmers; P. O., Ashley; the brothers, John F. and Charles S., are the sons of Lawrence McDonald, whose birth occurred Oct. 3, 1825, in County Carlo, Ireland; he was two years of age when he arrived in America, and for six years was a resident of New York State, and the remainder of his life a resident of Ohio, locating where he now resides, in 1845. The 13th day of Oct., 1850, Phoebe A. Morehouse, who was born in Peru Tp., and whose birthday was Nov. 2, 1830, united her fortunes with Lawrence McDonald in marriage. In addition to these (the parents) the family consists of the following members, viz.: the brothers, John F., born July 7th, 1851, and Charles S., May 7th, 1853; Emma C., Feb. 1, 1855; Alice M., March 11, 1857; Clara T., Jan. 1, 1839; Rosa E., March 28, 1861. The brothers, whose interests are thus identified, are farmers by pursuit, practical and energetic, and of that class who, by close and constant application to their profession, can confidently expect to thrive. Family education has been well maintained, and Clara T. and Rosa E. are teachers of more than ordinary reputation and qualifications; the brothers naturally incline to the rearing of sheep and fine horses, and enjoy a location affording fine facilities for both departments of business, situated at the junction of two roads, on high, commanding grounds. Avondale (the name of his home) naturally blends with many pleasant surroundings.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 655-656
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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
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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
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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
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Chester Twp. –
WILLIAM McGAUGHY, farmer; P. O. Chesterville; was born June 16, 1827; his father, William, was born in 1797, in Adams Co., Pa., and his mother, Martha Scott, in Chambersburg, Franklin Co., the same state. They were married, and lived on a farm in Adams Co. They came to Ohio in 1853. The children by their union were Alexander S., Ann, William, Jane, Mary, James, Thomas, Margaret, Hugh P. and Robert C.  The father died in 1875, and the mother in 1869. Both were members of the Presbyterian church. The subject spent his younger days in attending school, and working on the farm, then came to Ohio in 1854, and was married in 1865 to Hannah L., daughter of Samuel and Nancy McNay. She was born July 7, 1851. They rented one year, and then bought twenty-five acres; afterward twenty-five adjoining were given them by her father; he bought five adjoining that of the heirs; he afterward sold a portion, and bought 100; he now possesses 155 acres of finely-improved land, on which he deals in stock and farms the same in grain. When he began life he had one horse and one cow. They have four children -- Samuel M., Jennie, Nancy and Missie. He was township trustee for seven years. Himself, wife and three oldest children are members of the Presbyterian church, in which he is now trustee; he is an active Republican. The McGaughy family are Scotch-Irish descent; the mother of William was a cousin of Thomas Scott, the noted railroad president.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 611
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South Bloomfield Twp. –
JOHN McGUIRE, plasterer; Sparta; is the son of John McGuire, a wheelwright, and was born in New Jersey, April 27, 1835; when he was 2 years old his mother died; his father then bound him out to John McGrady, who in 1840 moved to Ohio, bringing young McGuire with him; he remained with McGrady until he was 22 years old.  In 1858 he married Emeline, daughter of Franklin and Harriet Way, and by her has a family of four children -- Ada, F. M. E., Charles and Mary.  Ada married James Work.  Mr. McGuire is a mechanic and builder, as well as a plasterer.  He owns seven lots in Sparta, and is one of the nine men who own the Sears Cemetery.  He served in the 30th regiment O. V. I., during the late war; he is an active politician, and in 1878 was candidate for County Recorder on the Democratic ticket.  His wife died in Feb., 1877.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 671
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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
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South Bloomfield Twp. –
WILLIAM McKINSTRY, farmer; P. O., Sparta; Matthias McKinstry was born in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey, Feb. 12, 1796.  Effie Young was born in Sussex Co., New Jersey in 1799; they were married and had a family of five sons and one daughter -- John, William, Phillip, Matthew, Samuel and Mary M.; John and Matthew are dead; Phillip married Julia A. Dexter; he is a carpenter, and lives in Michigan; Samuel is married, and lives in Michigan, and is a tavern-keeper; Mary married William Miller, and lives in Michigan.  William McKinstry was born June 16, 1821; his parents moved to Ohio in 1831; after stopping three years in Knox Co., they moved to South Bloomfield Tp., and located where William now lives; when William was 20 years old he hired out to clear land, at $9.50 per month; Sept. 2, 1841, he married -Maria, a daughter of James Fletcher, and by her has nine children, seven of whom are yet living -- Matthias, born July, 1842, married Jane Keys, and has three children; he is in the mercantile business in Hardin Co.; Rebecca, born March, 1844, married N. A. Yocum, and has twin boys; her husband is a farmer; William, born Oct. 10, 1846, was married to Jane White, and has a family, and lives in Knox Co.; David, born Oct. 24, 1848, and died Sept. 5, 1877; he was the husband of Lora Rinehart; Isaac, born Sept. 25, 1850, and died Feb. 22, 1871; Jefferson, born Jan. 7, 1853, was married to Sarah White, by whom he has a family; John J., born July 21, 1855; James, May 24, 1858; Anna M., Sep 3, 1861.  Mr. McKinstry is a Democrat, and he and wife are members of the M. E. Church.  He owns 196 acres of nicely-improved land, all of which he has made by hard labor and close economy.  When married, he had but $5.00, and after the expense attending such an occasion, had but fifty cents left; he then started out in life to make a home for himself and wife; after two years hard work, at $9.50 per month, he bought his first team of horses; his mother then re-married, and the estate was divided among the heirs, each receiving about $230.  Mr. McKinstry immediately invested his share in real estate, and has continued to add thereto until he now has one of the best farms in the township.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 672-673
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Canaan Twp. –
WILLIAM McLAIN, farmer; P. O. Gilead Station; born Nov. 28, 1816, in Huntington Co., Penn., the seventh of a family of fourteen children, whose parents were William and Mary (Traxler) McLain. The former was born in Dec., 1780; the latter in 1790, the same month. The Traxlers are of German descent, and the McLains are from Maryland. William emigrated to this State with his parents about the year 1846, locating in Bucyrus Tp., Crawford Co., where they lived until 1852, when William and his brother Eli came to Canaan Tp., and together purchased 260 acres of land, which was only partially cleared. Here they began work, and the timber was speedily cleared to make way for the plow. Mr. McLain’s father and mother died on this farm -- his mother in Jan., 1864. His father was a man that gave his entire attention to his business, and was successful in his undertakings, and of robust constitution, temperate and upright in all his dealings; Republican in politics, but took no part in partisan strife. He died in Feb., 1866. In 1864, William, Jr., was married to Elizabeth Chilcoat, who was born Aug. 18, 1830, in Perry Co. Her mother's maiden name was Mary Robinson. The Chilcoats are natives of Pennsylvania; the Robinsons are of Irish descent. Since his marriage he has been located on the place where he now lives. They have no children, and he has sold off the greater portion of his land, reserving enough for a home. He has been a member of the M. E. Church for forty years and a liberal patron of good literature.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 733
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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
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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
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Chester Twp. –
JOHN McNAY, farmer; P. O. Chesterville; was born June 27, 1833; his father, Samuel, was born Feb. 13, 1797, in Adams Co., Pennsylvania; the mother, Nancy Bigham, was born Dec. 11, 1804, in the same county. The father bought two hundred acres where the family now live, in 1830, and moved on the same in 1853, at which time he bade adieu to his native home. They had leased a portion of the same land, which was cleared before their coming. The father died April 26, 1868, and was a member of the United Presbyterian church; he had six children -- Hannah, L., John A., Margaret L., M. E., Mary A., Rebecca J., deceased. The mother is still living on the old homestead; her granddaughter, Margaret L. Pollock lives with her. Nancy is a daughter of Thomas and Margaret (McNay) Bigham, and was one of four children -- John, Margaret, Nancy and Alexander. John attended school in an old stone house, and farmed during his boyhood days. He was married in 1860 to Mary J., daughter William and Martha (Scott) McGaughy, mentioned elsewhere in this work. He settled on his present farm of ninety-six and one-half acres in a short time after marriage, and has improved the same, and now has a fine farm. His children are -- Nancy J., Samuel A., William S., James G., the latter two are twins. He is a member of Chester Lodge No. 20, I. O. O. F., and has gone through the same; he and his wife are members of the Presbyterian church. He takes an interest in the Republican party; his grandfather McNay was an active soldier in the Revolutionary war.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 611
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Washington Twp. –
ALLEN McNEAL, farmer; P.O., Iberia was born in Washington Co., Penn., in 1809.  At the age of 18 he came with his parents to Ohio and settled in Marion Co.  In the spring of 1837 he came to Iberia for permanent residence, and four years later returned to Marion Co.; six years were then passed on his father’s farm, when he bought land in Canaan Township, where he resided till 1879, when he retired from active farm life, and now resides in Iberia.  In the year 1837 he married Miss Agnes Struthers, from which union two children were born -- J. F. McNeal, of Marion, and Mrs. Thos. D. Riddle, of Canaan, Marrow Co.  But death severed the marital relation after four brief, happy years.  In 1845 he married Mrs. Rachel Davidson.  They had four children, three of whom still survive -- two sons, who are editors and publishers of Medicine Lodge “Cresset,” in Kansas, and one daughter, whose avocation is school-teaching.  Sixteen years later he was again a widower, but after nearly nine years of loneliness he married Mrs. Isabella Frater, who is still living, and with whom he is enjoying the fruits of a long and industrious life; having passed the allotted span of life, he is yet hale and hearty, and a devoted Christian.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 747
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Washington Twp. –
JOHN McNEAL, farmer; P. O., Iberia; was born in Iberia in 1838; his parents were natives of Washington Co., Penn., whence they removed to this county with his grandparents about the year 1832, and were married soon after.  Mr. McNeal has lived all these years in this county, except a single year in Ottawa Co., and those years in the service of his country.  He first entered the army among the three-months’ men; when mustered out of this, he entered the Ohio Artillery, in which he continued till the close of the war.  He was wounded severely at the battle of Stone River, the last day of 1862, and from this wound still suffers.  Mr. McNeal was married in 1876 to Miss Mary Fierer; and they have had two children.  His farm containing seventy-eight acres is unencumbered, and in a good state of cultivation; has fine out buildings; and these, together with his well-appointed home, render him well prepared to enjoy life.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 747
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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
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Westfield Twp. –
JONATHAN McQUISTIAN, farmer; P. O., Cardington; the son of Thomas and Jane McQuistian, who are natives of Pennsylvania, and came to Ohio in 1812, and settled on Salt Creek, Wayne Co., where Jonathan was born, in 1816, amid the exciting times of pioneer life.  His father built the first mill and still-house in Holmes County, which was largely patronized by the Indians.  His early advantages were limited; the school-house in which he was a pupil was built of logs, with the ground for a floor and greased paper for windows.  At the age of 16, he engaged in teaming from Millersburg to Massillon and Cleveland.  At the age of 22, he went to work on Wahlhonding Canal, and a year later he married Miss Sarah Hardman, and three years later moved to Iberia, this Co., and four years afterwards to his present farm, which at that time was in the woods but which he has since made one of the best improved farms in this section, with a good residence.  He has been married three times; by his second wife he had seven children -- James, Thomas, Rebecca, Peter, Amanda, Jacob and Mary.  He is particularly engaged in breeding fine horses, and is the owner of the horse Pride of Normandy, a beautiful dapple-gray, 16 hands high, and weighing about 1600 pounds.  In politics, he is a Democrat.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 643
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Franklin Twp. –
JOHNSON MANN, farmer; P. O., Pulaskiville; only son of John and Christian (Hauger) Mann; was born in Missouri, Nov. 25, 1845. At 17 he took charge of the homestead, and became the chief support of the family. In October, 1876, there was a division of the estate, and he purchased the interest of the other heirs, and now owns eighty acres. He erected his present neat and convenient frame residence in 1875, on perhaps the highest point in Franklin Tp. The view from this point is grand, but especially to the south one can see for miles, and it is magnificent in the extreme. He united his fortunes with Laura L. McBride, of Williamsport, Jan. 1, 1872.  She is the only daughter of Samuel and Lovina (Mitchell) McBride, born in Ashland Co., Ohio, Nov. 23, 1852. One son has blessed this marriage -- Ralph, born Aug. 28, 1876.  Samuel McBride, the father of Mrs. Mann, was born on the 8th day of May, 1817, in Newberry, Lycoming Co., Pa. His parents were poor but respectable, his father being a shoemaker; he died when Samuel was nine years old, and he went to live with an uncle, a very strict Presbyterian, three years. At the age of twelve he went to live with William Bowen, who treated him very badly, so that he only remained some two years. When 14, he was bound out to learn the tailor’s trade with Samuel Toner, serving under his instructions six years and three months. In 1837 he went to Elmira, New York, where he staid till January; then went to Bath of the same State, working there till May, 1838.  He next formed a partnership with Toner, his former guardian, which lasted one year. At the expiration of that time he went to Lockhaven, Clinton Co., Pa., and started in for himself, working almost day and night for months -- sometimes twenty out of twenty four hours. He prospered, and soon bought a lot, and placed a neat house on it, and sent for his mother and sister. There they lived happily together for two years, when in an evil day he embarked in the mercantile business, with Thomas Simmons as partner, who proved to be unworthy of confidence. A failure followed which swept away his home and destroyed the happiness of his hearth. He made a visit to Ohio in 1845, and returned to his native State, where he remained until the fall of 1846, when he came to Ohio, and for some time lived with his brother-in-law; he came to the village of Williamsport in February, 1847, boarding with Ely Mitchell, who soon after sold out, and our subject went to board with his brother, Martin Mitchell; it was here that he met and loved his daughter, Lovina, and they were wed September 5, 1848, and they at once removed to Sullivan, Ashland Co., Ohio; here they were very happy in mutual labor and love; in the fall of 1856 Mr. McBride exchanged his property in Sullivan for property in Williamsport, where he removed in September of that year, and on the fifteenth of November the partner of his joys and griefs fell asleep in death, leaving him a little daughter but four years old. He visited various places for some time, hoping to repair his health and forget his great sorrow amid change of scene. In October, 1860, he married Rachel Finley, of Gilead Tp.; he kept grocery some two years in Williamsport, then traveled for the wholesale grocery house of V. T. Hills, of Delaware, Ohio, about eighteen months. He died of consumption at Clearfield Co., Penn., December 17, 1864; one son also blessed this union -- Frank B., born August 3, 1849; died May 29, 1853.  John Mann, Father of Johnson, was born in Bedford Co., Pennsylvania, July 31, 1802; he received a fair education in his youth; he united in marriage with Christena Hauger January 5, 1826; she was a native of the same State, born March 5, 1804; he came to Congress Tp. in 1834, and settled on a quarter-section of wild land; he cleared up a portion of it and put out an orchard; but brief was the enjoyment of his hard earned home; he was one of those who bailed Robert and Samuel Jeffries, and when they broke it left him and his little family without support; so, bidding farewell to the scenes of his toil and misfortune, he, with his family, emigrated across the Father of Waters to Missouri, settling on the Platte purchase about 1844. They bought a pre-emption right on one hundred and sixty acres, near Savannah, where they lived some two and a half years; they returned to Ohio and bought the eighty where our subject lives in the spring of 1847, where he resided until his death, September 28, 1860; his faithful wife survived until October 13, 1876; they were both consistent and devoted Christians; he was an earnest worker in the New School Baptist Church, at Pulaskiville; he discharged the duties of Justice of the Peace some fifteen years with dignity and integrity. They raised to manhood and womanhood one son and seven daughters -- Rebecca, Mrs. Milton Peoples, of this township; Margaret, Mrs. John Rhodabaugh, of Congress Tp.; Sarah A., Mrs. Marion Peoples, of this township; Louisa, Mrs. Milton Hart, of Pulaskiville; Rachel, Mrs. Newton Shaw, of this township; Mary E., Mrs. Frank Livingston, of Pulaskiville; Johnson, subject; Jane, Mrs. Lafayette Gates, of this township; three children also died young -- Melvina, Abner and Andrew J.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 788-789
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Franklin Twp. –
PERRY MANN, farmer; P. O., Chesterville; he is the fourth son of Joseph and Sarah (Lawhead) Mann; he was born in this township, Oct. 2, 1820; his parents were both natives of Pennsylvania; his mother was born in January, 1785, and Joseph Mann was born April 13, 1785, in Bedford Co., of the Keystone State. He received a good education and taught school in his native State. In about the year 1811, he came alone to Ohio, to select a home in the wilderness for his little family. He entered 160 acres where Mr. Bockover lives, just west of W. P. Cook’s, in this township. But the war which followed detained the family in Pennsylvania until April, 1815, when he resolved to bid adieu to the scenes of his youth, and accordingly, his household goods and a family of six small children were carefully stored within the limits of a two-horse wagon, and after a journey of nearly three weeks, they arrived at what is known as the “Jersey Settlement,” where he rented a house for some months, until a cabin could be reared on his own wild domain. They remained here about ten months, and he employed men to underbrush twenty acres and erect a cabin on his quarter section. The following winter he taught school in the old log school-house in that vicinity. Early in the Spring of 1816, they settled in this township, where they cleared up a large farm. They raised a family of fourteen children, all living at this date but one -- Absolom, who married Emily Scribner, of Delaware Co., is farmer of this township; Louisa, now Mrs. William P. Cook of this township; Leah, widow of Levi Hart, of Perry Tp.; Polly, deceased, leaves seven children; Jehu, married Susan Helm, is now farming near Bedford, Iowa; Sally Ann, born in March, 1815, and was six weeks old when the family started to Ohio; she is the widow of Daniel Lovett, and resides in Iowa. The remaining children were born in Ohio -- Joseph, farmer, in Williams Co., Ohio; Perry, subject of this sketch; Ezra, married a Miss Morrison, and is a physician in Fulton Co., Ohio; Luther, married Mary Schuman, is farming in Richland Co., Ohio; David is a minister and editor at New London, Ohio; Rachel, widow of Azariah Ayres, of this township; Susannah, now Mrs. George Cook, of Michigan; Andrew J. married a Miss Iden, and lives in Fredericktown, Ohio. The family moved in the cabin before the floor was in. The hum of spinning-wheel, and the measured beat of the loom, made the music of the year, while cloth, to be fashioned into garments of the rough “tow linen,” and homespun woolens, was made by busy fingers, when the factory and sewing-machine were things unknown in this new land of ours. To add to the trials and privations of “pioneer life,” Joseph Mann, Sr., became a stockholder in the Owl Creek Bank, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and when the failure came, he was assessed many times the amount of the original investment, to pay the liabilities of the institution. Joseph Mann walked back to Bedford Co., Penn., a distance of about five hundred miles, and returned the same way. He was chosen Justice of the Peace for nine years, and his life was one of unswerving integrity, lofty purpose, coupled with an energy that was a stranger to failure. We will now trace the fortunes of Perry Mann. He lived with his father on the farm until twenty-three. He then united his fortunes with Mary J. Daily. This marriage was celebrated Feb. 28, 1843. She is a daughter of Abraham and Rebecca (McNay) Daily; was born March 30, 1824, in Adams Co., Penn. The family came to Chesterville, Ohio, in 1836, and Mr. Daily followed the pursuit of tailor. They had a family of three children  -- Mary J., Margaret and John. After marriage, our subject lived on his father’s farm until 1850, when he purchased a thirty-two acre lot near William P. Cook’s, where he lived about twelve years; then purchased his present home of fifty-two acres. He has erected handsome and commodious buildings on the same. Perry Mann has a family of six children living, and two dead -- Ettie R., Elnora, Leonidas S., William B., Joseph C., Rebecca A., and Minnie D. Elnora died Nov. 24, 1871, at the age of 26; an infant also died. Leonidas S. Mann is a Physician of Homeopathic School at Cleveland; is now practicing with success at Richmond, Indiana. Mr. Mann and his estimable lady are both active members of the Disciple Church; they appreciate the educational influence of a Christian home, and have surrounded their family with such means of culture and refinement as make it worthy of that sacred name.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 790-791
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Gilead Twp. –
WILLIAM C. MANSON, deceased; was a native of Darke Co., Ohio; he was born April 10, 1842; during his infancy the family moved to the town of Locke, Ohio, where he lived until 1861, when he enlisted in Co. G of the 20th Reg. O. V. I., and served with that command during the war; in Aug., 1862, he, with a large portion of his company, were taken prisoners in a fight with Wheeler’s Cavalry, near Middleburg, Tenn.; they were taken to Vicksburg, and corralled in the jail yard, and kept there until exchanged, he returning to his regiment just one mouth after his capture, and took part in all the battles of the command from that time to the close of the war; in all he was in over twenty battles, including Ft. Donelson, Raymond, Jackson, Vicksburg, Kenesaw Mt., Canyon to Atlanta, and the March to the Sea, passing through all without receiving any injuries or mishaps, save his capture. From the army he returned home, and soon after he began the study of dentistry with Dr. Disney, at Coshocton, and later finished his study with Dr. Bowman, in Columbus, after which he practiced for a short time in Mt. Vernon, and in the spring of 1868 he came to Mt. Gilead, and followed his profession; Sept. 2 following, he married Miss Lizzie Johnson; she was born near Mt. Vernon, Ohio; after the marriage they settled in Mt. Gilead; the following spring they visited at Mt. Vernon, going to Sparta in the fall, where he practiced for three years, when upon his being elected Sheriff of the county, they returned to Mt. Gilead; he served two terms in the office of Sheriff; in 1876, he with his family visited California; they returned to Mt. Gilead after one year’s residence there; in January, 1878, Mr. Manson started out for New York, and on the 29th of that month he was accidentally killed by the cars at Altoona, Pa.; thus came to an untimely death “a man of generous and noble impulses, thoughtful to the last of the good of others, and one whose relations to the community here during his two terms in the Sheriffs office, to society and to his church, of which he was a member during the term of his residence here, was such as to give him a strong hold upon not only the confidence, but the hearts of all.” By the marriage there was born one child -- A. Gertrude, who with her mother resides in Mt. Gilead. His parents were William and Rhoda (Orme) Manson; he was a native of the State of Maine; they were married in Knox Co., Ohio, where they had moved -- he when a young man, and she with her parents; after their marriage they moved to Darke Co., Ohio, later returning to Locke, Ohio, where he died; she is living with her only child, Mrs. Wait, near Chesterville, Morrow Co., Ohio.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 544
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Cardington Twp. –
W. H. MARVIN, banker; Cardington. On the paternal side W. H. Marvin is descended from Matthew Marvin, who came in the ship “Increase” from England to America in 1635, and settled in Connecticut. There his parents -- Hiram G. and Sarah (Champlin) Marvin -- were born, raised and married; and when Central New York was almost an unbroken wilderness, removed to Geneseo Co., in that State. Here, on the 15th of December, 1828, W. H. Marvin was born. He is one of a family of four children born to them, three of whom are now living. In 1835, the parents removed to Ohio, and located in South Bloomfield Tp., Morrow Co. Soon after their coming to the county, the father engaged in mercantile pursuits in the village of Sparta. He departed this life June 7, 1864, and his wife, May 5, 1864. W. H. Marvin received a common school education. When fourteen years of age, he accepted a position as clerk in a store at Mt. Gilead. Here he remained three years, receiving $40, $60 and $80 per year for his services. He then went into partnership with his father in a store in Sparta. At this time neither father nor son had sufficient means to purchase what stock was required; but through the influence of an uncle of young Marvin’s, they obtained credit of a firm in New York city, and young Marvin was sent there to purchase the stock. After some years, the father sold his share of the store to his son, John W., and the two brothers continued in the business in Sparta until 1857, when they sold out and came to Cardington. The brothers remained in partnership some years, when John W. sold his interest to his brother.  W. H. Marvin continued in the business until 1876, when he sold out; since which he has devoted the greater portion of his time to the settling up of his business; he was for a number of years a large stockholder in, and President of the Citizens’ National Bank, of Galion, Ohio; he is at present President of the Morrow County National Bank, of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, and Vice-President of the First National Bank, of Cardington; he is also a large stockholder in the Citizens’ Savings Bank of Columbus, of which Gen. John Beatty is President; he is the Treasurer of the Mutual Endowment and Relief Association, of Ohio. Mr. Marvin’s reputation is that of a prompt and careful business man, and by strict integrity and close attention to business, he has amassed a comfortable fortune. He was united in marriage with Miss Loretta F. Wolcott, Sept. 10, 1855. She was born in Geneseo Co., N. Y., July 28, 1831, and is a direct descendant of the celebrated Oliver Wolcott, of Connecticut. From this union there are three children -- Annie W., Clitus H. and William Beatty. Mr. Marvin is a “stalwart” Republican and a member of the Masonic Order. His home property is located on Marion street, and is one of the nicest in Cardington. He has by his own exertions amassed an independent fortune, and behind his seeming reserve his friends find him a large-hearted, open-handed, generous gentleman, and genial companion.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 577-578
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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
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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
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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
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JUDGE W. D. MATHEWS, a farmer of section 31, Gilead township, is a son of William Mathews, born in Wyandot county, Ohio, in 1817.  His father, Isaac Mathews, was a native of Virginia, and a soldier in the war of 1812.  The mother of our subject, formerly Rebecca Marlow, was also born in Virginia, a daughter of Jeremiah Marlow, an early settler of Richland county, Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. William Mathews were married in Richland county, three miles west of Mansfield, and located on an unimproved farm in Hardin county.  Isaac Mathews entered a large tract of land in that county, with the intention of giving each of his sons a farm of eighty acres.  William Mathews improved his place, and remained there until the failing of his wife’s health made it necessary for them to change their residence, and they removed to near Mansfield, again settling on his grandfather’s old farm.  He afterward purchased land two and a half miles north of Lexington, remaining there until 1865, when he sold that place and purchased a farm in Troy township, Morrow county.  His death occurred in 1871.  His widow lived with her children until her death in 1883.  William Mathews and wife had two children, ––Martha J., wife of A. Whissemore, of Mansfield, and they have two children; and W. D., the subject of this sketch.  The parents were members and active workers in the Presbyterian Church, both grandfathers having been Elders in that church.  William Mathews was first a Whig, and afterward a Republican.
     Judge W. D. Mathews was born in a log cabin located in a cornfield in Richland county, Ohio, three miles east of Mansfield, September 6, 1844.  He completed the studies in the district school, and then attended Lexington Seminary, under Professor Gailey.  During that time the war broke out, and in June, 1862, Mr. Mathews became a member of Company B, Eighty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  He was under General Miles at the battle and surrender of Harper’s Ferry, was captured, paroled, and returned home.  In 1863 he enlisted in Company C, Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as Sergeant, assisted in the capture of John Morgan in Ohio, assisted in the capture of Cumberland Gap, and garrisoned it until the expiration of his term of service.  In 1864 Mr. Mathews helped recruit a company in Richland county, and was mustered into service as First Lieutenant of Company G, One Hundred and Seventy-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry.  He did guard duty at Tullahoma, Tennessee, up to the time of the battles of Franklin and Nashville.  They then moved to Murfreesboro, where they had almost daily skirmishes with Forest’s men in order to secure corn for rations.  While at Tullahoma Mr. Mathews was detailed on a general court martial, and when the regiment was ordered to Murfreesboro he went to General Rosseau and asked to be relieved, in order to join his regiment.  The General refused, but the court temporarily adjourned, and Mr. Mathews served with his company through all their engagements.  The regiment was next ordered to Clifton, Tennessee, and the General disbanded the court, but not in time for our subject to join his command, but, traveling by water, he met it at Clifton.
     After rejoining his regiment he went with them to Washington, District of Columbia, passing through Ohio in freight cars during the cold winter of 1864-5.  They camped on the ice at that city, a part of the time without shelter.  They were ordered to join Schofield in North Carolina, arriving at Fort Fisher immediately after the surrender of that place.  Returning to Beaufort, North Carolina, they became a part of the Twenty-third Army Corps, which joined Sherman at Goldsborough, North Carolina, and participated in the battle of Kingston.  Mr. Mathews had charge of a part of the skirmishers the night before the battle, March 7, 1865.  He remained on picket duty all night and was relieved the next morning.  The little squad under command of our subject opened fire on the advancing rebels; the other troops joining, the battle became general.  The regiment, after the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston, did garrison duty at Charlotte, North Carolina.  Mr. Mathews was discharged July 8, 1865.  He was then transferred to a regiment which was to remain in the service.  An order was sent to the Colonel to grade his officers into three classes, also to ascertain which of them desired to remain in the service.  Two out of nine were selected, and Mr. Mathews was one of the former, the other being Lieutenant W. P. Shrome, who is now a Presbyterian minister near Zanesville, Ohio.  He was ordered to report to the One Hundred and Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but after due consideration he was mustered out with the regiment.
     Returning home, he again attended the seminary, after which he taught school three terms, and then began farming in Troy township.  He next began the study of law.  Mr. Mathews is a stanch Republican, having always taken an active part in the work of his party.  In 1878 he was elected Probate Judge of Morrow county, serving in that capacity six years.  In his first race he was two votes behind the State ticket, but his own townships, although both Democratic, gave him 150 majority over his opponent.  His last majority was 600 votes.  The Judge was nominated for the Legislature in 1886, but was defeated by reason of a dissension in the party as to whom his vote should be cast for United States Senator.  He was appointed by Governor Steele of Oklahoma as County Judge of Beaver county, in that Territory, and held that position six months, after which he was re-elected by the people, resigning in 1892.  The Judge then practiced law there until May, 1893.  While serving as County Judge he received a telegram from Governor Steele, stating that he had recommended our subject for appointment as United States Marshal of Oklahoma Territory, General Sherman having endorsed the recommendation, but Mr. Mathews requested the Governor to withdraw his name.  He had contracted asthma while in the military service, and at the expiration of his two terms as Probate Judge of Morrow county change of climate became absolutely necessary, and he accordingly spent eighteen months in Colorado.  He then returned to Ohio, and afterward to Oklahoma.
     Judge Mathews was married in 1867 to Miss Marietta C. Dean, a native of Washington township, Richland county, Ohio, and who was a schoolmate of her husband at the seminary.  She is a daughter of Benjamin F. Dean, a farmer by occupation, and also an active politician.  Mr. Mathews and wife have eight living children: Gertrude D., Grace A„ Lora R., Mary Edith, Lucy D., William D., Edwin M. and Herbert D.  They have one daughter deceased, a bright little child named Anna, who died at the age of eighteen months with croup.  The family are members of the Presbyterian Church.  The Judge is a member of the Grand Army Post, and was its first Commander.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 355-357
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Gilead Twp. –
W. D. MATHEWS, Probate Judge; Mt. Gilead; is the son of William and Rebecca (Marlow) Mathews, and was born in Springfield, Richland Co., Sept. 6, 1844. His father, though born in Ohio, came of Virginia stock, his parents being among the earliest settlers in Hardin Co., Ohio, and natives of the “Old Dominion” State. His mother was a native of the latter State.  Judge Mathews’ early education was derived from rough experiences, of the farm and the early district school, where he spent a part of the winter months; later he attended the Seminary, at Lexington, Richland Co., for several years, where he received the greater part of his education; he remained a student here until the late civil war, when, in response to the call for volunteers, he in 1862, enlisted as a private from Richland Co., in Company B., 87th O. V. I., for three months. With-his regiment, Mr. Mathews went to Harper’s Ferry, where he did garrison duty, until the attack of the rebels called him to discharge the sterner duties of the soldier; he participated in the engagement and surrendered, and was held for some time as prisoner; at length, having been paroled, he returned to Lexington, where he assisted in recruiting Company C., of the 86th O. V. I., and went out with that company as First Duty Sergeant, under the six months’ call; with the company he participated in a number of engagements, of more or less importance, his company taking an active part in the capture of John Morgan, in Ohio, and in the successful attack on Cumberland Gap, in 1863, when some 2,500 prisoners were captured; the company remained here on garrison duty until the expiration of their term of enlistment. On his return home, Judge Mathews assisted in recruiting Company G., 178th O. V. I and on the organization of the company, was elected First Lieutenant, declining the captaincy on account of his youth. The company was mustered at Camp Chase, from whence, with its regiment, it went to Tennessee, taking part in a number of engagements in that State. Crossing from this army, the regiment was ordered, by way of Washington, D. C., to Fort Fisher, N. C., and from there back to Buford and Raleigh, taking part in the engagement at Kingston, N. C., where Judge Mathews, in command of sixty men, received a flattering compliment, from his superiors, for the effective service rendered by his command. At the surrender of Johnston, and the close of the war, Mr. Mathews received a complimentary transfer to a regiment which was to be retained in the service, but was afterward mustered out at his own request. On returning to his home in Ohio, Mr. Mathews located in Troy Tp., Morrow Co., where he resumed his former occupation of teaching and farming.  In 1878 he was elected Probate Judge, a position he has filled with marked ability.  He was married in 1867, to Marietta C. Dean, of Washington Tp., Richland Co., O., by whom he has six children.  Mr. Mathews is a Republican, and in faith a Presbyterian, being a member of that church in Mt. Gilead.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 543-544
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Congress Twp. –
JOHN D. MAXWELL, farmer; P. O., Andrews; was born June 1, 1845, in this township, being the eldest of a family of five children, born to James and Susannah (Swallum) Maxwell -- James was born Jan. 2, 1818, in Cumberland Co., Penn., and emigrated West in 1839.  John D. received good common school advantages, and began teaching, which he continued to 1870, having accumulated enough means in this time to carry him through college, graduating in 1874.   May 2, 1864, he enlisted in Company C, 136th O. N. G., serving out his term of enlistment. March 2, 1876, he was married to Miss Clara A. Linn, who was born in this township, Jan. 17, 1856; the daughter of Isaac and Mary (Mitchell) Linn. After their marriage they moved to the farm he now owns, consisting of 80 acres, which he farms, and teaches school during the winter. He and his wife are members of the Disciple Church.  Millison J., his brother being a minister of that order, and graduate of Bethany College.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 691
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JOHNSON MAXWELL, one of the prominent farmers and stock dealers of Morrow county, is numbered among the native sons of Ohio, his birth having occurred in Marion county on the 26th of April, 1844.  His grandfather, Franklin W. Maxwell, was a native of Virginia and spent his entire life upon a farm in the Old Dominion.  His father, Marshall Maxwell, was born in West Virginia and grew to manhood in the State of his nativity.  Emigrating Westward he took up his residence in Richland township, Marion county, where he made a permanent location.  His wife, who bore the maiden name of Margaret Johnson, was born in Ohio and was a sister of Mrs. H. N. Curl.  This worthy couple held membership with the Methodist Episcopal Church, took an active part in its work and were consistent Christian people who left the world better for their having lived.  In his political views Marshall Maxwell was a Republican.  His death occurred at the age of seventy-six years and his wife passed away when forty-five years of age, mourned by all who knew them.  They had a family of seven children, five now living, while two have been called to their final rest.  In order of birth they are as follows: Melville, who is living in Cardington township; Minerva, deceased; Melissa Roby, who is living in Kansas; Johnson, of this sketch; Levi, also deceased; Catherine Scribner, whose home is in Missouri; and Estella Gruber, of Cardington township.
     In taking up the personal history of Johnson Maxwell, we present to the readers of this volume the life record of one who is both widely and favorably known in this region.  He was reared upon his father’s farm, and there made his home until about eight years ago.  At the age of seventeen he chose as a companion and helpmeet on life’s journey Miss Nancy Stanton, a native of Marion county, Ohio, and their union has been blessed with a family of three children.  The eldest, Clara A., is now the wife of Jerome Cline, of Marion county, and they have five children.  Rolvin Curtis married Estella Shaw, and, with their four children, they reside in Cardington township.  Harley J. completes the family.  He is now twenty-eight.  He pursued his art studies in Rensselaer, Indiana, and is now very proficient in crayon work.
     The wife and mother having died, Mr. Maxwell was again married, in December, 1869, the lady of his choice being Viola Scribner, a native of Morrow county and a daughter of William Scribner, one of the honored pioneers of this locality.  Her grandfather, Samuel Scribner, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was one of the earliest settlers of Marion county.  William Scribner was born in that county, in 1821, and, after a long and well-spent life, passed away September 22, 1890.  He married Susan Sophia Newberry, who was born in Marion county in 1829, and nine children were born to them, of whom seven are living at the time of this writing, in January, 1895.  Mrs. Maxwell first opened her eyes to the light of day in the same county, the date of that important event being August 3, 1852.  In the schools of Cardington township she acquired her education, and throughout the community she is recognized as a cultured and refined lady, who, by her many excellencies, has gained a wide circle of friends.  She belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has long been an active worker in church and Sunday-school, doing effective service in the cause of Christianity.
     During the late war Mr. Maxwell gave evidence of his loyalty to the Government and the Union cause by enlisting on the 2d of June, 1862, in Company C, Eighty-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which he served for three months, at Camp Chase, Ohio.  He was then honorably discharged, but his faithfulness to his duties of citizenship was not laid aside with the warrior’s dress.  He has given his support to all enterprises calculated to prove of public benefit and his co-operation is withheld from no interest which will promote the general welfare.  He votes with the Republican party but has never been an aspirant for public office, preferring to give his time and attention to his business interests in which he is meeting with a good and well-deserved success.  For the past ten years he has been engaged in dealing in fine horses, handling nothing but roadsters.  He purchased the farm formerly owned by M. L. Maxwell (and upon that place is now residing Rolvin Curtis Maxwell, ––one of the leading and representative agriculturalists of Morrow county.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 423-424
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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
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Chester Twp. –
NOAH MELICK, farmer; P. O. Sparta; Mr Melick was born May 12, 1831, in Knox Co. His father, Jonas, was born about 1788, in Green Co., Pa., and emigrated to Knox Co. early, and there married Nancy Rose, by whom he had Aaron, Drusilla, Greenbury, Eleanor and Caroline. His wife died, and he again married; this time to Sallie Duncan; by her he had Emeline, John, Noah, Harrison and Mary J. His last wife died about 1836 or 1837. The father married a third time, and had Jefferson, Madison, James and Rebecca, and two died unnamed. The third wife died, and he married for the fourth time.  Aug. 22, 1871, the father expired. He was a member of the Disciples’ church; he was a Whig, Republican and captain of militia. Mr. Noah Melick had some advantages of education in the old log school house. He was married Aug. 22, 1853, to Margaret, daughter of John and Naomi (Creg) Bricker. Her father was born in Pennsylvania, and her mother in Knox Co. She was one of thirteen children -- William, Margaret, Christopher, Truman, Marietta and Melissa (twins), Sarah E., Allen, Rebecca, John, Emma, Mary A. and Orpha. Her parents were Methodists. Her father died Sept. 25, 1858, and her mother Sept. 19, 1865. Mrs. Melick was born Sept. 13, 1850, in Knox Co.; they farmed for a while in Knox Co., and in 1858 they bought and settled on one hundred acres, the present farm now in Chester Tp.; he has since bought 50 acres; it is, perhaps, one of the best-watered farms in the country. He enlisted in Co. F., 136th O. N. G.  Himself and wife, and apart of the children belong to the Methodist church. A pleasant and intelligent family of eight children; their names are -- Jane, married B. Boner; Ann, married Cravan Stilley; Alice, John, Ida, Emeline, George and Bud.  Mr. Melick has always been a strong advocate of the Republican principles. Mr. Melick is nearly 50 years old, but active, and in good health. The fields and groves that lie adjacent to his residence, which is nicely situated on a beautiful hill-side, make a very pleasing picture.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 608-609
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Congress Twp. –
AMOS MELLOTT, farmer; P. O., Andrews. Among the early arrivals in this township was Mr. Mellott, who was born Nov. 30, 1808, in Belmont Co., O.; son of John and Mary (Workman) Mellott; he came to this state in 1800, and stopped for a while in Belmont Co., but was driven out by the Indians; he went back to Bedford Co., Pa., but returned the following year. Amos was married Dec. 28, 1830, to Sarah Truax, who was born July 31, 1810, in Bedford, Pa. In March, 1831, he located on the farm he now owns, and has made this his constant residence since that date.  He built a cabin 16 by 18 feet, which had a puncheon floor, and no chairs or table; when he moved in he made his entry by way of the fire-place, as the door was obstructed by a brush heap.  He remembers one night visiting a neighbor’s house in company with his wife, and on returning home got lost; after wandering about for some time, looking in vain for some familiar object, he came across a burning stump, and the direction of a fallen tree assisted him in finding his cabin.  He says those days were his happiest ones although devoid of the advantages that civilization affords, yet his wants were few. His wife died Feb. 16, 1876; they had eleven children, eight of whom are now living -- Samuel, in Kansas; Isaac in Franklin Tp.; Lydia, now Mrs. K. Fox, of Indiana; Joseph, Elizabeth, now Mrs. Rush Crawford, on an adjoining farm; Mary and Rachel J., at home.  Mr. Mellott is a member of the regular Baptist Church; he is about the only survivor of the original members who belonged to it on its first organization.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 694
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Franklin Twp. –
JOSEPH MELLOTT, farmer; P. O., Andrews. The subject of this sketch is a son of Amos and Sarah (Truex) Mellott; born in Congress Tp., on the 7th day of Sept., 1841. His youth was spent on the farm; in the meantime he obtained a fair education in the common schools. He tilled his father’s farm for a share of the products until he was thirty. He united in marriage with Mary S. Cook on the 7th of Nov., 1872. She is a daughter of Rev. Stephen Cook (see sketch), born Oct. 27, 1850. After marriage Mr. Mellott farmed his father’s place some two years, when he purchased the thirty-two acres where Dr. S. M. Cook now lives, where he resided two years; he then sold that property and purchased land just east of W. P. Cook’s, where he lived two years. He exchanged that place for the present one of thirty acres, to which he moved in Feb., 1879. Two sons have blessed this union -- Roy, born Apr. 19, 1874, and Stephen Webb, Sept. 18, 1877.  Mr. Mellott and his estimable lady are both consistent and earnest Christians, having united with the Disciples in early life.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 789-790
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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
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Chester Twp. –
JOHN MEREDITH, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Chesterville; was born Dec. 1, 1804, in Baltimore, Md.; his father, William, was born in England, and came to Baltimore when 29 years old; his mother, Mary Farmer, was also born in England, and came to America about the same time. They were married in Baltimore, and lived there about three years, going from there to Belmont Co., Ohio, and one year later came to Licking Co., where they bought 100 acres of land, which they partly cleared, and in 1814 sold the same for $700, and bought 100 acres in Chester Tp., of Miller & May, where they settled and lived until death. They possessed 150 acres at their death, which became the property of their ten children -- John, Nancy, William, James, Thomas, Mary, Sarah, Charles, Robert and Betsy. Mr. Meredith was married in 1829, to Jane, a daughter of John D. and Lena (Davis) Thomas; her parents were born in Wales, and came to Pennsylvania -- the father when 17 and the mother when 14. They married in Pennsylvania, and came to Licking Co., this State, in 1809 or 1810, where they rented for about ten years, and came then to Morrow Co. and purchased the 100 acres now owned by Isaac Bowen. The father here died at the age of sixty-two. They had ten children -- (infant, deceased), Jane, David, Daniel, Mary, John, Zachariah, Ann, Eliza and Benjamin. Her father was a Baptist minister for over twenty years, of which denomination her mother was a long and faithful member. Mrs. Meredith was born in 1808, in Pennsylvania; she had but little schooling; when they began farming, Mr. Meredith turned the soil with the wooden moldboard, and was perhaps hardly contented to give it up for the more modern improvement; in 1854 he began raising short-horned Durham cattle, and has continued the same ever since, and has been one of the most successful stock-breeders of the State; he has raised several cows which he has sold for $200 each; this is the highest price ever paid for any cow in the county. Perhaps no one is more attentive to his stock than he. This strict attention has won for him praiseworthy success. They have had three children -- (infant, deceased), Mary, died when eleven years old; Zachariah, born 1835, and worked at home with his father until he married which was in 1865, to Nancy L. Martin. They are now living in Johnson Co., Kansas, where he has been in the hardware business, and was one term in the State Legislature of Kansas; while here he was captain of Company F., 136 O. N. G., and was called out.  Mr. and Mrs. Meredith have been members of the Old School -Baptist church for many years, in which they have taken great comfort. He votes the Democratic ticket.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 609
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Chester Twp. –
ROBERT MEREDITH, farmer; P. O. Chesterville; was born June 2, 1823; in what is now Morrow Co., he attended school some during his younger days and worked on the farm. He was married in 1846 to Jane, daughter of Walter and Elizabeth (Pugh) Williams; her parents were natives of Wales and had six children -- Walter, David, William, Elizabeth, Mary A., Jane; her parents are members of the Baptist Church. Robert’s wife died in Feb., 1872; he was again married to Sarah J., daughter of John and Jane (Talbet) Blakely; her parents were natives of Loudoun Co., Virginia, and emigrated to Belmont Co., Ohio, in 1823, and in 1836 came to this county, settling near Mt. Gilead; they there bought 160 acres of land of Albert Nickols, and farmed the same until his death; the mother in 1841 and the father April 16, 1879; the result of the union was six children -- Ruth, Letitia, Sarah J., Nancy, Mary and Susan. Mrs. Meredith was born in 1829, and was married to Rev. D. Jenkins, who died Dec., 1873, leaving the testimony of having done a great work. Mr. Meredith rented for three years, and then bought seventy-three acres of Henderson Williams, and improved the same; in the meantime he added forty acres; he sold the same in 1867, and bought 182 acres of B. Shipley, in this township, which he still owns; it is well watered by spring and stream; is finely adapted to stock-raising; he makes a specialty of sheep. It is, perhaps, among the finest farms in the county. His wife owns a house and lot, together with twenty-two acres adjoining town. They reside in this dwelling.  He rents his farm to John E. George, whom he raised. He has been Township Trustee two terms. He and wife are members of the Baptist church at this place. Honesty and uprightness are two great characteristics with him.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 611-612
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Chester Twp. –
REUBEN METTLER, farmer; P. O. Chesterville; was born Aug. 1, 1819, in Pennsylvania. His father, Levi, was born in 1778, in New Jersey, and went to Pennsylvania when fifteen years old, and there married and engaged in shoe-making in Northumberland Co. His mother’s maiden name was Elizabeth Campbell.  Reuben was one of the following children: Sallie, Polly, Hesther, Asher, Levi, Robert, William, Elizabeth, Phoebe, Miles, Samuel, Maximilia. The father and mother and eight children came to Ohio in 1827 in a one-horse wagon; the children and father walking the greater part of the day, some barefooted, and having no hats or bonnets. They finally settled in Knox Co. The father and the two oldest boys built a pole cabin and filled it with straw, on which they slept, while clearing their first farm. All the hardships that fell to the lot of the pioneer came upon this family, but by their industry they were rewarded with better days. The father died in 1862, and the mother in 1855; both were Presbyterians. Reuben attended school, and actively engaged in splitting rails; he was married May 3, 1849, to Anna, daughter of John and Tamer Lyon; they had one child: William. His wife died Feb. 7, 1854; she was a Baptist. He was again married Dec. 21, 1854, to Barbara, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Knous. Her parents emigrated from Adams Co., Pennsylvania, to Ohio in 1851, and had ten children, three died when young; those living are: Solomon, Daniel, Sarah, Elizabeth, John, Mary, Barbara; her parents were Lutherans; she was born on May 16, 1815, in Pennsylvania; their children’s names are: M. E. married, James Huggins and Smith, at home. He now possesses 125 acres of well improved land, and well watered by spring, which was obtained by hard labor. He served as township trustee twelve years, and also as a delegate to help nominate the first officers of Morrow Co.; he was once a member of the “Patrons of Husbandry.”  He and his wife are members of the church, the former a Baptist and the latter a Presbyterian. Mr. Mettler worked for ten years at carpentering; he has now retired from active labor on the farm. His mother was of Scotch descent, and his grandfather Campbell was a Revolutionary soldier for five years.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 610-611
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Chester Twp. –
ENOS W. MILES, farmer, P.O. Chesterville; was the second in a family of three children, born to Davis and Julia A. Denman Miles, of Chester Tp. The Miles family is one of the oldest in Chester (the founder of this branch of the family coming here in 1815), and has always borne an active part in the history of the township. Davis Miles was horn in Chester, Dec. 14, 1814, and his wife, Julia A. Denman, of an early and important family of this township, was born here April 30, 1817.  Like all members of a new community, Mr. Miles became a farmer, but was repeatedly called from his chosen work to serve the county and State. He served as Sheriff one term; he was elected to the Legislature by the Republicans in 1857, and re-elected in 1861, representing the counties of Knox, Morrow, Holmes and Wayne. In the less conspicuous position of Justice of the Peace he served his townspeople many years, and was for some time a Director of the First National Bank at Mt. Gilead; he died Aug. 6, 1865, a member of the Chester Lodge of Masons and of the Baptist church; he joined the latter in 1854; Mrs. Miles died on January 20, 1874.  Enos W. Miles was born May 6, 1842, in Chester Tp. His early life was an uneventful one, spent upon the farm and in the village school; his life passed thus, teaching in the meanwhile one term of school, when, at the age of 19, he was chosen Teller in the Granite Bank of Mt. Gilead. In the winter of 1864-5 he was elected Engrossing Clerk of the State Senate filling a vacancy. He was afterward elected Message Clerk of the same body. In 1870, he engaged in the dry goods business, under the firm name of Miles & Trowbridge, but retired after continuing some eighteen months, with complete financial success. With this exception, Mr. Miles has devoted his attention entirely to farming, making stock-raising and wool-growing a specialty. In the village of Chesterville, where he resides, and near which is located his farm of 165 acres, he occupies a prominent position in village affairs, is a member of the School Board and of the Village Council, having held the latter some twelve years. In the Masonic Lodge and in the Presbyterian Church, of both of which he is a member, his valuable executive abilities have been brought in requisition. In 1877, Mr. Miles was the standard-bearer of the Republican party as its candidate for representative in the State Assembly; it proved, however, one of those off years, when a combination of circumstances wrought an almost unprecedented revolution in political affairs. Mr. Miles was married Oct. 11, 1866, to Deborah, daughter of John and Sarah A. Reed (Creigh).  She was born January 31, 1847. They have but one child, a daughter, born Nov. 20, 1869.  Mr. Miles’ brother, Milton F., was born Deb. 10, 1835; married Margaret E. Driver; served for awhile in the late war in the 43rd O. V. I., and was later transferred to the 49th O. V. I., as Second Lieutenant. He is now a farmer and miller, in Madison Co., Wisconsin. A sister, Mary E., completed the family. She was born Aug. 27, 1846, and died Sept. 1, 1847.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 612
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Congress Twp. -
JASON MILLER, teacher; Shaucks [sic]; is among the successful teachers of the "young idea" in this township, who was born here, June 4, 1849, and is the eldest child of Jacob Miller, Jr. Jason was reared to farming pursuits, but this not being agreeable to his tastes, he entered the field as an educator, and at the age of 20 began teaching, and has labored in that capacity up to the spring of 1880, seventeen terms; twelve of them were taught in the home district were he was raised. At the age of 24 he was married to Esther J. Burtnett, born in 1857, in North Bloomfield, a daughter of Adam and Caroline Burtnett, whose maiden name was Fringer, and who was from Maryland; her husband, Adam, was from York Co. They have one child -- Clay, born in Feb. 1880. He has forty acres of land.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 694
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Congress Twp. -
WM. MILLER, brick-maker; Shaucks [sic]; was born in Cumberland Co., Jan. 20,1830, the youngest child of a family of six, born to George J. and Catharine Miller; he came to this county with his parents from Richland Co., where they located after coming from Pennsylvania. William, at the age of 21, turned his attention to mechanical pursuits; the use of tools seemed natural to him, and he was able to use them in most of the common trades, but was most interested in working in wood. In 1857, he began the manufacture of brick, and from that time he manufactured them every season. He was married to Mary D. Lyon, who was born Jan. 1, 1834, in this township, and has two children -- Benjamin L., born June 19, 1862, and Sarah E., born July 29, 1859. April 1, 1861, he bought the place he now owns; he has never been identified with any church, but has religious views peculiarly his own. He is a Democrat.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 694
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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.

Westfield Twp. -
WILLIAM H. MILLER, farmer and stock raiser; P. O. Westfield; son of Philip and Hannah (Mattux) Millet, was born in Waldo Tp., Marion Co., Ohio, Aug. 17, 1838. He received a common school education, and attended Mount Hesper one term. He joined the 26th O. V. I., Company C., May 1, 1861, and was the second man in the township to enlist; be served three years, taking part in the battles of Cross Lanes, Cotton Mountain, Raleigh, Kanawha Falls, Scurry and Sewell Mountain, in Virginia. In Feb., 1862, his regiment was transferred to the Army of Ohio, and was in at the last of the battle of Pittsburg Landing, taking part in the pursuit of Hood. At Kenesaw Mountain, of the ninety-four who had reported for duty in his company, the morning they went into battle, only eight answered to roll call after the two days' fight. While in the service he was detailed for several foraging expeditions; in one of these, while near Nashville he, with a detachment, went out on the Nolanville Pike to secure some corn, and while removing it, was surprised and captured by Morgan, of guerrilla fame, but one of their number escaping, carried the news to camp, and they were recaptured the same day by the 3d Ohio Cavalry and the 17th Indiana Mounted Infantry, Mr. Miller suffering only the loss of his boots, which a "reb " had appropriated; secured his watch and revolver, which he had taken the precaution to hide when be found himself surrounded; he had five brothers in the army, of whom one died at Newbern, N. C.  On his return from the army, he read law a short time, which he abandoned to resume farming, purchasing the 'Bijah [sic] Wilson farm of 100 acres of good land, valued at about $6,000. In 1868 be married Ellen, daughter of Hartman and Mary (Stinger) Gickhout, born March 29, 1846. Her father came to America from Hesse Cassel when a young man. They have two children -- Ollie Varrence and Hartman Gickhout. Mr. Miller gives his attention in the way of stock to fine wool sheep; as a citizen he is generous hearted and public spirited, and has the confidence of those who know him. He is a Republican, and a member of the Ashley Lodge No. 407, of Free Masons.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 642-643
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Congress Twp. –
MRS. NANCY MIRACLE, farmer; P. O., Andrews; was born in Bedford Co., Penn., July 12, 1817, daughter of Jacob and Susan (Byres) Baker; Nancy was 6 years of age when she came to Richland Co. with her parents, and was raised near Bellair; in Feb., 1838, she was married to Isaac Miracle, who was born in Virginia and came West when young; when they were married they had nothing, and were thrown upon their own exertions entirely; her parents were not in sympathy with her choice, and refused to assist her in any manner; they began housekeeping in a very primitive manner; their home was a rude cabin; their bed was supported at the corner by pegs in the wall; she made a quilt, and with the proceeds she bought an iron kettle, and worked three months for a blanket, and sheared sheep at twenty-five cents per day, while her husband found employment at whatever labor he could obtain, working for three shillings a day to obtain the actual necessaries of life. They began their married life with a resolve to make the best of their surroundings. As time passed their circumstances were bettered by hard work and strict economy, until they came in possession of a home. In the fall of 1867, Mr. Miracle was taken from her by the hand of death, since when she has remained on the farm. Eleven children were born to them; but six are living.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 691
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Congress Twp. –
ANDREW MITCHELL, saw-mill; Andrews; was born in this township, Sept. 29, 1836, and is the seventh of a family of eight children, born to Daniel and Margaret (Howden) Mitchell; the former born Feb. 16, 1793; the latter April 1, 1801; both in Washington Co., Pa., where they were married Jan. 1, 1818, and emigrated to this region at an early period of its history. Daniel Mitchell died Jan. 14, 1879, at the homestead, one mile east of Williamsport; Andrew was raised upon the farm, where he remained until his 24th year, when he married Maria Wilson, born April 25, 1838, daughter of James Wilson, of Knox Co.; after marriage he located one-half mile north of Williamsport, where he engaged in the saw-mill business, where he continued a short time, then engaged in the grocery business at Williamsport for two years; he then engaged in farming four years, near the town of Williamsport; he then located permanently a short distance north of Williamsport, where he has since been engaged in running a saw-mill, to which enterprise he gives his entire attention; has five children -- Frederick, William, Clyde, Florence and Herbert. 
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 692-693
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North Bloomfield Twp. –
DAVID MITCHELL, farmer; P.O. Galion; one of our most substantial farmers, and second in a family of nine children; was born July 4, 1831, in what is now Morrow Co.; his father, William Mitchell, was born in Center Co., Penn., and his mother, a native of the same State, was born in Washington Co.  David's father was a practical farmer, and emigrated to this county when it was new and sparsely settled; he entered a quarter section of Government land, and by industry and perseverance he at length owned a good farm, which he continued to improve till his death, which occurred in 1863. David left home when 18 years old to learn the carpenter's trade, and followed this occupation until 1870, when he relinquished it for the more free, happy and pleasant occupation of farming. Mr. Mitchell has been Trustee of his Township, and never sought or desired official cares and responsibilities. He is an old-school Democrat, and still has faith in the principles of Democracy. He owns the quarter section of land which belonged to his father, to which he seems much attached. He was married April 7, 1859, to Emma, daughter of Charles and Maria (Shaffer) Roberts; she was born Feb. 25, 1843. They had six children, five of whom are now living – Eliza M., born Aug. 12, 1861; Maggie J., Aug. 27, 1863; Lydia A., June 8, 1865; Hattie B., June 30, 1867, and David W., Jan. 26, 1869.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 626-627.
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North Bloomfield Twp. –
DAVID K. MITCHELL, farmer; P. O. Corsica; was born May 17, 1835, in what is now Morrow Co., Ohio; his father, Andrew Mitchell, was born in 1803, in Mercer Co., Pa., and passed his boyhood in Fairfield Co., Ohio; his parents moved to Richland Co. at an early day, and settled west of Mansfield on Government land; Andrew helped clear the farm, and then went back to Pennsylvania, where he was married to Isabella Cunningham; in 1829 he moved to Ohio, and settled on a farm in this county; his wife died in 1833, and he then married Martha N. Kilgore, who was born in Washington Co., Pa.; he lived in this county till 1851, when he moved to Iowa, where he soon after died, leaving a wife with seven children, the oldest, David K., being only 16 years old. Although a mere boy, he placed himself at the bead of the family, and moved back to Ohio in a wagon, where he was better able to support the family. He was married March 13, 1860, to Clara V., daughter of Isaac and Charity M. Dickerson; during the war he served a short time in the 102nd O. V. I.; soon after receiving his discharge he moved to Iowa, and remained till 1869, when he returned to this State, and has since lived in Morrow Co.; he is a member of the I. O. O. F., and the Encampment; was one of the charter members of the Patrons of Husbandry, and Master the second year; he has been Master of the Pomona Grange two years, and lecturer one years also represented this County for three successive years at the State Grange; both are members of the Seventh-day Advent Church, at Blooming Grove.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 627.
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South Bloomfield Twp. –
LEWIS MITCHELL, farmer and stock raiser; P. O., Mt. Liberty; his father and mother were married in Knox Co., O., in 1836, and to them was born a family of fifteen children; Harris, Emer, Lewis, Alice, Betsey, Albert, Welthy, Torrence, Maria, William, Laura, Dana, Mary, and two that died while infants.  Out of this large family, twelve lived to reach their majority.  Lewis spent his youth in arduous labor improving the farm.  He attended the district schools until 15, and then his father needing his services, kept him at home.  When 19 years of age he began in business for himself; he was married to Lenora Orsborn, and by her has a family of four sons and two daughters -- Charles M., born July 17, 1861, Myrtle E., Nov. 24, 1863, Lulu M., May 12, 1866, W. Delano, May 7, 1871, Edwin W., July 9, 1873, and Emer C., July 15, 1875; all of these survive and live with their parents in South Bloomfield Tp.  In 1862 Mr. Mitchell enlisted in Co. F., 121st Reg., O. V. I., and was with this Reg’t until after the battle of Perryville -- then owing to sickness was discharged; after recruiting his health for one year at home, he enlisted in the 100 days’ service and was appointed Second Corporal.  His grandfather was an officer in the war of 1812.  Mr. Mitchell is a Republican, and himself and family are members of the Disciple Church.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 672
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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
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Gilead Twp. –
THEODORE J. MITCHELL, the Superintendent of the Mt. Gilead public schools; is a native of Indiana, born at Booneville, in that state, May 28, 1830; his father, Rev. Walter Mitchell, is a Presbyterian minister of Quaker descent, born on Nantucket Island; his mother, a daughter of Platt Evans, Esq., was born in Cincinnati; he was the second of four children, and when quite young removed with his parents to Ohio, where he has since, for the most part, lived; his father was located at Marysville for nine years, which comprised the greater part of his boyhood; he then moved to Gallipolis and stayed also nine years. After graduating in the Gallipolis High Schools, the subject of our sketch went to Marietta College, and completed the full four years course. Three years after he received the degree of A. M.  When quite young, he concluded to make teaching his life-work, and with that end in view, studied theory and observed practice, and cultivated the society of those far advanced and proficient in that profession. In the college vacations, he taught district schools in the vicinity of Marietta. He left college with higher aims and more enlarged views of education, prompted by a thorough and liberal course of study. His first regular situation was in the schools of St. Mary’s, Va.  After that he had charge of Vincent’s Academy; the next year he was Superintendent of the Public Schools of Buffalo, W. Va.; here he was re-elected, but receiving an offer of the position of Principal of the Gallipolis High School, where he had formerly graduated, he declined the former and accepted the latter. After teaching here several years he accepted a position at Russellville, where he afterwards organized and conducted a Normal School. The following year he was Superintendent of the Higginsport Public Schools. On Dec. 25, 1878, he was married to Miss Mary F. Langley, second daughter of the late Wm. H. Langley, of Gallipolis, Ohio. The next year he was re-elected Superintendent of Schools at Higginsport and also Principal of the, Gallipolis High School, but having accepted the Superintendency of the Mt. Gilead schools, he removed to the latter place.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 546
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Congress Twp. –
Z. H. MITCHELL, farmer; P. O., Andrews; is the eldest of the Mitchell brothers, which family has been identified with the interests of the county since 1823; he was born Jan. 5, 1820, in Washington Co., Penn., and emigrated to this State with the family, in the spring of 1824; his father’s name was Dan, who came out in the fall of 1823, and prepared the way for the family, who came out the following spring, locating in Peru Tp., where they had entered 80 acres of land; after a residence of four years, moved to the eastern portion of Congress Tp., where they located permanently.  Zephaniah received his first schooling in a log cabin, the first built in the township, where greased paper admitted feeble rays of light, his seat being the soft side of a split slab. Attended subsequently a few terms at Mt. Gilead, and one at Mansfield, which qualified him for the position of “schoolmaster,” in which capacity he officiated several winter terms.  Sept. 15, 1850, he was married to Martha A. Lindsay; born in this county; she died Jan. 17, 1852, leaving one child -- Clarke, nine days old; he was married Aug. 30, 1835, to Sarah A. Carrothers, born Dec. 19, 1829, in Guernsey Co.  They have five children -- Margaret Ann, now Mrs. W. H. Snyder; Susannah, wife of Calvin Hull; Eliza E., born April 19, 1862; James C., May 22, 1864, and Dan H., April 2, 1866.  After marriage with first wife, he moved to the northern part of the township, where his wife died; he subsequently changed his residence to his present abode, one half-mile west of Williamsport, where he has since remained. The early portion of his life (being of a mechanical turn of mind) he employed his time in part, as carpenter, harness and shoe-making, which he took up naturally serving the usual apprenticeship, his time being thus occupied when not engaged in his farm duties; is Republican in sentiment, and though not a member of any church, or secret society, yet has lived a moral and upright life; has served as Township Clerk for several ears, and is among the worthy citizens of the township. His farm, composed of 194 acres -- with his saw-mill, employs the greater portion of his time.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 693
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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
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Chester Twp. –
SANFORD MODIE, blacksmith; Chesterville; is the son of William and Margaret (Gates) Modie; his father was born in Culpeper Co., Virginia, Aug. 22, 1799. His mother in Sussex Co., N. J., Jan. 10, 1811. They were married Nov. 21, 1833, by which union they had Sanford, born Aug. 19, 1834; Mary, July 30 1836, deceased March 31, 1870; George W., born Oct. 9, 1838; Martin G., Dec. 26, 1840; Margaret A., born March 1, 1843, deceased Feb. 25, 1861; Martha J., June 6, 1845; Minerva I., Oct. 26, 1847, married March 13, 1878, to Henry Weaver; Willie, born May 26, 1850, deceased May 4, 1864; Emma L., Sept. 10, 1853, married Oct. 20, 1875, to James Chalfant. The father was married prior, Aug. 29, 1822, to Mary Pittenger, by whom he had Nancy, born June 20, 1823, deceased March 1, 1824; Milton, born Jan. 24, 1825, married Aug. 24, 1848, to Isabel Ketcham, and died Sept. 16, 1861, (she again married 1865, Daniel Struble); John W., born June 11, 1827, married Jan. 2, 1849, to Levena H. McCarty; William -- the father  -- was one of twelve children; William and Rachel (twins), Sallie, John, Samuel, Andrew J., Washington, Jacob, Elizabeth, Harriet, Margaret and Perry. The father died Aug. 13, 1872. The mother of Sanford was the daughter of John and Margaret (Merrin), Gates.  Her father was a native of Monmouth Co., New Jersey, and mother born in Germany and came to New Jersey when a young girl. They had twelve children, Mary only survives, Elizabeth, Anna, George, Christina, Martin, John, Jacob, Margaret. Three died while young. The father of our subject moved to Chester Tp. in 1843, and improved a small farm. Was one term justice of the peace of this township. Sanford attended school as much as he could, conveniently, in his younger days, and worked for his father in the blacksmith shop, seeking this as his avocation for life. He became a skillful workman. In 1857 he went to Geneseo, Henry Co., Ill., and worked at his trade for some time. He then returned and worked with his father until 1860, when he formed a matrimonial alliance with Amanda, a daughter of Daniel Lyon; his father was born in New Jersey in 1798. In 1824 he was married to Hannah Dalrymple, born 1805, in Pennsylvania. Mr. Lyon came to Chesterville in 1855, and engaged in wagon-making and continued the same until 1877, when he retired. He has served as assessor of this township for twelve years; when 80 years old he assessed this township, without the use of a horse or buggy; has been Township Trustee; joined the Methodist Episcopal church in 1829; his wife died Nov. 24, 1875; they had the following children: M.A., A. J. graduated at O. W. U. at Delaware. O. -- now presiding elder of the Mansfield district; Amanda, born 1830; Harriet, married Clark Pierce; Mary J., married James Outcalt; Charles W. married Fannie King. Mr. Modie settled in 1861 in Chesterville, where he has since been engaged in blacksmithing; he was elected township clerk in 1864, and has since held the office; is a member of the school board; also of Chester Lodge, No. 238, A. F. and A. M. and Clinton Commandery, No. 5, K. T., at Mt. Vernon. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church at this place. The result of their marriage was -- Luella C. and Anna B. He enlisted in Co. F, 136th O. N. G. Was early identified with the Democratic party -- casting his first vote for James Buchanan -- and since that time has been an active Republican.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 609-610
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J. M. MOODY, the efficient Treasurer of Morrow county, Ohio, was born in Marion county, this State, January 11, 1842.  Joseph Moody, his father, was a native of Maryland, was reared in Pennsylvania, and was one of the early settlers of Marion county, Ohio.  He cleared away the forest and developed a farm in Tully township, Marion county, and lived there for a number of years.  Subsequently he removed to Morrow county, where in died in the seventy-fifth year of his age.  John B. Moody, the grandfather of J. M., is supposed to have been born in Massachusetts.  He was of Scotch, Welch and Irish descent, was captain of a vessel, and during the war of 1812 was in the United States Navy.  Joseph Moody married Miss Ezemiah Mickey, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania, daughter of Robert Mickey, who was of Scotch origin.  She died in her forty-fifth year.  They were the parents of ten children, only two of whom reached maturity, namely: Mary A., wife of Ed. Beatty, of Pennsylvania, and J. M.
     J. M. Moody was the second born in the family.  He was reared in his native county, receiving his education in the district school and at Central College, and remaining at home until the outbreak of the civil war.  October 22, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company H, Sixty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out December 10, 1864, at Nashville, Tennessee.  Among the battles in which he participated were those of Stone River, Atlanta, Spring Hill, Franklin and many others.  At the battle of Franklin he had his ear pierced by a ball, and after his return home his mother found in his ear a piece of lead which she extracted.
     After the war Mr. Moody settled down to farming in Marion county.  Subsequently he removed to Iberia, Morrow county, and engaged in the manufacture of drain tile, which he continued for some years.  He still has the tile business carried on at that place.  For four years he was traveling salesman for the Standard Oil Company.  In 1892 he received the nomination for County Treasurer of Morrow county, was duly elected, and has rendered a high degree of satisfaction in this office.  At this writing, 1894, he has the nomination for a second term in the same position.  While a resident of Washington township, he served as Township Clerk.
     Mr. Moody married Miss R. M. Colmery, who was born in Pennsylvania but who has been a resident of Morrow county from her early childhood, and they have a family of four, two sons and two daughters, namely: Jennie L., E. C., M. L. and Robert M.  Jennie L. is the wife of J. F. McClaren, of Whetstone.
     Like his father before him, Mr. Moody is a stanch Republican.  He is a member of Wallace McNeal Post, No. 687, G. A. R., and he is also identified with the K. of P., U. V. L. and I. O. O. F.  For many years he has been a Deacon in the Presbyterian Church.  Thus in business, political, social and religious circles he is alike prominent and active, and he is as highly respected as he is well known.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 272-273
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Cardington Twp. –
M. L. MOONEY; druggist; Cardington; of those citizens of Cardington who have succeeded in their respective business enterprises, a list must necessarily include the name of M. L. Mooney; he was born in Sherman, Fairfield Co., Ct., Sept. 2, 1826; his parents removed to Courtland Co., N. Y., when he was three years of age; here his life was spent until twenty years of age, when he left home, and for some time traveled through the New England States, selling “Yankee notions;” he was married Nov. 3, 1850, to Miss J. K. Smith; she was born in Chenango Co., N. Y., Jan. 1, 1826; from this union there were five children, four of whom are now living, –Lydia J., Susan C., Mary L. and Henry S.; the deceased was named Frances A.  Soon after his marriage Mr. Mooney embarked in the hotel business in New York; at the expiration of two years he sold out, and removed to Portage Co., Ohio, where for five years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits; in 1858 he came to Cardington, where he has since resided; on coming here, he first went into the stove and tinware trade, with Mr. D. St. John, but after some time sold out and started in the drug trade, a business he has ever since followed; he is the oldest resident druggist in Morrow Co., and an honest, careful business man, respected by all who know him; he has held a number of offices in the town and township, and was an efficient officer; he is a staunch Republican. Mr. Mooney is very liberal to religious and educational enterprises, and has done much to improve and build up the public schools of Cardington.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 578
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North Bloomfield Twp. –
ALEX. MOORE, farmer; P. O. Corsica; was born in Jefferson Co., Ohio, June 18, 1833, the seventh of a family of thirteen children. His father, Alex. Moore, Sr., was born in Greene Co., Penn., and his mother was a native of Ohio, her maiden name being Elizabeth McMillen. Mr. Moore, Sr., made farming his chief occupation, but for several years he owned a woolen mill, and also a saw mill in Jefferson Co.; from there he moved to Holmes Co., where he lived the rest of his life. Alex. commenced for himself when 21, and was a farm laborer for two years; he then learned the carpenter trade, which he followed till the commencement of the war, but came to Morrow Co. one year previous to his enlistment, and has since been a citizen of this county. He followed the flag over four years; Shiloh, Pittsburg Landing, Chickamauga and Mission Ridge are among the battles in which he was engaged. On receiving his discharge he returned to this county, and Jan. 31, 1866, he was married to Elizabeth C. Doak, daughter of John and Mary (Anderson) Doak. She was born Oct. 22, 1836, in Beaver Co., Penn.; her parents moved to this state in 1840, locating on the farm on which she now lives. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have five children – Stella V., Jud H. and Jay D., twins; Glenn A. and Anna May. Both are members of the Presbyterian Church. Since the war he has been a Republican, but before that, he was a Democrat.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 627.
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Chester Twp. –
JOHN M. MOORE, merchant; Chesterville; prominent for years in the business interests of Chesterville; he was born Feb. 25, 1837, in Pennsylvania, emigrated to Ohio with his parents in 1846. His father, James R., was born in 1805, in Northumberland Co., Pa., and settled at the time mentioned in Franklin Tp.; and in 1872 he moved to Kansas. He had six children by his marriage with Priscilla Martin -- James, now in Kansas, John M.; Jane E. married Asher Shaw, now in Iowa, farmer and stock-raiser; Rebecca married Perry Z. Smith, who was killed at Toledo, in the Milburn Wagon Works, while superintending the iron machinery. She was again married in 1880, to Bennett Taylor, merchant, of DeSoto, Johnson Co., Kansas; Perry M., attorney, in Arcola, Ill.; read law with O. K. Denmore, Mt. Gilead, was superintendent of schools of Chesterville and Arcola; Maggie.  Mr. Moore attended school at this place, and when 17 years old commenced teaching at what was known as the “Blue Jay” school house, Franklin Tp.  In 1857, he was employed in the dry goods firm of Kelley & George, at Mt. Gilead, with whom he remained about two and one-half years. He then transferred to the employ of E. W. Bartlett, at Chesterville. In four years from then, Bartlett sold to his brother W. F. and Goble, with whom John continued his valuable services for three years. In 1861, he enlisted in 4th O. V. I., under Capt. Banning, and remained three months. In 1864, he enlisted in Co. "F " 136th O. N. G., as Lieutenant. In 1865 he engaged in the grocery business at Lima, Ohio, under the firm name of Moore & Bartlett, for two years. The firm then engaged in dry goods at Upper Sandusky, Wyandotte [sic] Co., for three years. Moore then sold to Bartlett and engaged with S. H. Hunt in the dry goods business at the same town, with whom he continued for three years. He then engaged as salesman for some time with E. P. Sturges & Co., wholesale grocers, Mansfield.  In 1874, he returned to Chesterville and entered the firm of Bartlett & Goble as a partner. In 1875, Goble withdrew, and since then Moore has been doing business under the firm name of Bartlett & Moore, and now carry a full line of dry goods, notions, hats, caps, boots, shoes, groceries, etc. He was married in 1868 to Maggie E. Bartlett, born April 12, 1844; by her he had three children -- Willie B., James F., and Florence B.  He is a member of Chester Lodge, No. 238, A. F. & A. M. Chapter, Mt. Gilead and Clinton Commandery No. 5, Mt. Vernon. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church of this place.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 607-608
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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
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Peru Twp. –
MOREHOUSE BROTHERS, farmers; P. O., Ashley. In 1830, Stephen Morehouse, who was born in Essex Co., N. J., left the scenes of the Revolutionary past, and came to Ohio. He had seven sons, and four daughters. The sons were -- James, Caleb, Daniel, and Stephen Jr., Charles, William and Abraham. The daughters were -- Maria, Eliza, Abigail and Julia.  Elizabeth Steinbeck joined hands with Stephen for better or worse, and was the mother of the eleven children above named. Stephen’s birth occurred in 1771, and his death in 1855. His wife, Elizabeth, was born in 1775, and died in 1868, being nearly ninety-four years old. Daniel Morehouse was born Sept. 2, 1799, in Essex Co., N. J., and came to Ohio in 1830. July 1, 1820, in the city of New York, he married Mary Force, who is the mother of the following children to wit: Albert, born July 10, 1821, died March 27, 1828.  Sylvester F., born March 27, 1825.  Catharine E., July 12, 1827. Isabella R., Aug. 23, 1829.  Susan C., Dec. 3, 1834.  Alfred, Nov. 1, 1838.  William F., Nov. 14, 1841. On the 18th day of February, Mary, the wife of Daniel Morehouse died, in her seventy-sixth year. Alfred Morehouse, born Nov. 1, 1838, married Margaret Chadwick, whose birth occurred June 23, 1836, and their marriage Aug. 6, 1858. The children are Estelle, born June 19, 1859, Daniel S., born March 1, 1861, and died Oct. 20, 1865; Albert S., born Feb. 17, 1869. Alfred Morehouse is a carpenter, but by present occupation is a farmer, and, like most farmers of eastern antecedents, strongly and devotedly attached to the rearing and management of horses, but deals in all the usual appointments of farm stock. Alfred Morehouse served two years in the war of the Rebellion. On the 13th day of August, 1862, was in the battle of Perryville, Ky., and was wounded Sept. 20, 1863, in the celebrated battle of Chickamauga, was disabled thereby, and discharged in consequence. The other brother, William Francis Morehouse, was born Nov. 14, 1841, in Delaware Co., Ohio (now Morrow Co.,), and on the 16th day of April, 1863, married Mary Jane Riley who was born Aug. 16, 1837. Their nuptials were celebrated by the Rev. Mr. Frye. William Francis has but one child, a son, Francis E., born June 1, 1876.  William F. Morehouse is also a farmer, and general stock-raiser, with horses as a specialty. The brothers move much together in a business way' and both reside in the immediate vicinity, and contiguous to each other; they are the representatives of a once numerous, but now nearly extinct, family, as regards name.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 656
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Franklin Twp. -
THOMAS P. MORRISON, farmer; P. O., Mt. Gilead; youngest son of Thomas and Mary (Jennings) Morrison; was born on his present place April 30, 1837. He obtained his education in the district school, and at twenty-two began teaching, which he followed three terms. He took charge of the homestead at his majority and has farmed it successfully ever since. In 1859 he purchased sixty-four acres of the home place. He united his fortunes with Caroline A. Bomberger, July 3, 1869. Of this union there is but one child living -- Rhoda B., born August 31, 1874. Mr. Morrison has been called to many positions of trust, serving as Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee in this county for six years; he conducted the campaigns with marked ability, electing some one at each election. He was Justice of the Peace for nine years, and Clerk one year, administering its duties with a fidelity and soundness of judgment that won the confidence of all. He united with the Presbyterian Church at eighteen, and has been a faithful member. Mr. Morrison possesses a fine library and is one of the best read men in that part of his township. His father Thomas Morrison was a native of Green Co., Penn., born June 4, 1792. He was raised to the occupation of farming, and wedded Mary Jennings, December 7, 1820. She was born in Fayette Co., of the same State, August 2, 1798. In May, 1823, they set out for Ohio; he drove the wagon, while the wife rode through on horseback and carried her child before her. After a journey of about fifteen days they arrived at the present place which then had not "a stick amiss."  They erected a pole pen only large enough for the so-called bed and table, and covered it with bark. They slept on poles which lay across from side to side, and cooked outside in kettles hung on forked sticks. They lived in this way until fall when they moved into the log cabin, which had been built in meantime on the one hundred and seventy-one acres, which they had entered and purchased. They went to Mt. Vernon to buy grain and to mill at Young's, below Chesterville. It is worthy of note that the two sons went to mill once on the 3d of Oct., when the snow fell a foot deep, so they could not return that night. The parents united with the Presbyterian Church very early -- he at New Providence about 1821, and she with the George's Creek Church in Fayette Co., Penn. about 1817. On coming to this country they first united with the Harmony Church but when the church was organized on this place they became members of it, and he was Deacon many years. When they first came the wolves were so troublesome that they were obliged to pen their sheep every night. A spirit of fellowship characterized their proceedings, and at one time Mr. Morrison went six miles distant to a barn-raising, and hitching his horse by a brush heap, the animal made way with a part of it. Five sons and three daughters were born to them -- Robert, the oldest son, graduated at the Miami University at Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio, married Flora J. Bomberger, and is now a Minister of the Presbyterian Church at Fulton, Missouri. Henry J. married Sallie A. Fox, and lives in Richland Co., Wis., where he divides his attention between farming and teaching. Infant daughter lies buried on the ground owned by William D. Kelly. Rhoda died Aug. 20, 1847, aged nineteen, and her remains rest in the Bryn Zion graveyard. William M. graduated at the Miami University, and has taught school in Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio. He married Sally Benthall of Kentucky, who died some two years after; he then married Aseneth E. Taylor, a descendant of Hannah Dustin, the colonial heroine.  James L. married Mary J. Shaw of Kentucky; she died, and he subsequently wedded Mary A. Durham. He is now a Physician at Grenada, Mississippi; Thomas P., subject; Mary E. was educated at Delaware, Ohio, and now lives at home with her. aged mother. For further information see township history.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 787-788
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ROBERT F. MOSHER, a prominent citizen of Gilead township, Morrow county, Ohio, was born in Cardington, this county, September 4, 1848, son of Nathan N. and Sarah A. (Bovey) Mosher.  The genealogy of the family is as follows:
     Hugh Mosher, the progenitor of the family in America, was born in England in 1640 and made his first settlement in this country at Bristol, Rhode Island, whence he removed to Dartmouth, Massachusetts, in 1689.  He died in 1714.  His wife was Lydia Dixon, and they had six children: Nicholas, Joseph, James, Daniel, John and Rebecca.  Nicholas was born in 1665.  He had a son Joseph, born July 16, 1693, who married Mahitable Smith in 1718.  Their son Barnabas, born December 28, 1720, married Bethiah Wollsen in 1743.  Their son Lemuel, born October 21, 1749, married Ruth Gifford in 1770, and their daughter Bethiah, born July 23, 1771, died in 1856.  She married Asa Mosher, February 27, 1794.  Their son Robert, born March 27, 1800, married Edith Nichols February 14, 1822.  She died February 14, 1894, and he May 5, 1886.  Their son Nathan N., born February 2, 1827, married Sarah Ann Bovey April 15, 1847, and their son Robert F. is the subject of this sketch.
     Hugh Mosher’s youngest son, John, and his wife, Experience, had a son John, Jr., who married Hannah Duvall.  A son of theirs, Obediah, born January 12, 1731, died March 24, 1808.  He married Hannah Brownell, who was born July 22, 1732, and died March 8, 1825.  Their son Asa, born November 25, 1771, died March 4, 1843.  He married Bethiah Mosher February 27, 1794.  Therefore the last named Asa and his wife, Bethiah, the great-grandparents of our subject, were both descendants from Hugh Mosher, Asa through his youngest son and Bethiah through his oldest son.
     Of the Bovey family, we record that Christopher Bovey emigrated from Lorraine, then in France, during the latter part of the last century and settled in Maryland.  He had a family of children as follows: John Jacob, Christopher, Adam, Mary and Margaret.  John Jacob married Elizabeth Burgher, and their daughter, Sarah Ann, the mother of our subject, was born February 28, 1824, in Frederick county, Maryland.  Her parents removed with their family to Ohio in 1832 and settled in Knox county, where they made their home for six years, coming in 1838 to Morrow county.  The father was a soldier in the war of 1812.
     Robert Mosher came to Ohio from New York State in 1818.  He was thirteen years of age at the time of the battle of Lake Champlain, which was fought near his father’s home.  Nathan N. Mosher and his wife were married in Morrow county, in the spring of 1847, and after their marriage settled in Cardington, where he carried on the business of wagon-maker for a while.  He moved to Warren county, Iowa, in 1853, and farmed there for four years.  Then he returned to Ohio, and three years later went back to Iowa, where he spent five years.  In April, 1861, he enlisted in the Union army, but was not mustered in until June 4, when he became a member of Company G, Third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, which was organized at Keokuk, Iowa.  He remained with his command, participating in its numerous engagements until the fight on the Hatchie river, when, on account of ill health, he was ordered to the hospital.  He afterward served as nurse in the hospital, and was sent in charge of sick and wounded to Jackson, Tennessee, where he was given the position of ward master.  There he was discharged by the Medical Inspector of the United States Army, after having served in the war over two years.  In 1865 he moved to Kansas and located in Douglas county, where he engaged in freighting, and whence he subsequently removed to Page county, Iowa, and resumed farming, also teaming there.  In 1867 he came to Warren county, Ohio, and farmed there until 1872, after which he kept a hotel at Waynesville, Ohio, for six years.  Following that, he was for three years employed on the Cincinnati Times.  He now resides on a farm in Gilead township, Morrow county.  He and his wife became the parents of ten children, two of whom are now deceased.  Of the children we offer brief record as follows: Robert F. is the subject of this sketch; Mary E., born December 22. 1850; Edith, born February 28, 1853; Martha, November 11, 1855; John Jacob, born January 8, 1857, died June 9, 1894, leaving a widow and three children; Amanda, born December 22, 1858; Samuel F., February 14, 1861; Gideon, born February 5, 1864, died November 1, 1881; Charley, born April 6, 1867; and William, January 28, 1870.  All the surviving children, except William, are married, and all are prospering in life.
     Robert F. Mosher received his education in the district schools and at the Waynesville, Ohio, high school, being a student in the latter for three terms.  He began life on his own responsibility when he was twenty-one and when he was twenty-two he left home in Warren county and came to Morrow county.  Here he worked one year for his grandfather Mosher.  After his marriage, which occurred in 1873, he settled on the farm on which he now lives.  He rented this place for five years and at the end of that time purchased it.  It comprises ninety-four acres, all well improved and in addition to this he has a half interest in an adjoining farm of 112 acres.  His elegant residence, built in 1893, is one of the finest homes in the township.  He gives his attention to general farming and stock-raising, making a specialty of sheep and heavy draft horses.
     Mr. Mosher was married April 29, 1873, to Miss Phoebe A. Harlan, who was born in Noble county, Ohio, December 24, 1848, daughter of Caleb and Pamelia (Benson) Harlan.  The Harlans came to Morrow county in 1857, and both parents died here.  Mr. and Mrs. Mosher have five children, namely: Ralph N., born October 2, 1874; Henry H., born December 27, 1877; Mary M., born August 30, 1881; Samuel J., born October 30, 1884; and Phoebe H., born May 17, 1890.
     Mr. and Mrs. Mosher both come of old Quaker families, and are themselves active members of that church.  He is a Sabbath-school Superintendent and his wife is a teacher in the Sabbath-school.  Mr. Mosher has always been interested in educational affairs and has afforded his children good educational advantages.  He has served as Director of his school district for fifteen years, and as a member of the Township Board for twelve years He has also served as Road Supervisor several terms.  In this capacity he clearly demonstrated what could be accomplished by the application of business principles in discharging the duties of his position.  His road district is well graded and drained and a large portion graveled,––this being accomplished by the agency of only the ordinary road tax.  Politically he has been identified with the Prohibition party since its organization, in 1869, and has served on both the County Executive and Central Committees and the State Central Committee.  He has also been the candidate of his party for County Auditor, Recorder and Commissioner.  Few men are better known or more highly respected in Morrow county than is Robert F. Mosher.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 380-382
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Westfield Twp. –
JACOB MOYER, blacksmith; Westfield; was born in Bavaria, April 8, 1831; a son of Henry and Salomi Moyer.  His father was born in 1800 and was brought up to the blacksmith’s trade, which Jacob, having spent eight years in school, began to learn at 14 years of age, of his father.  In 1847, his parents emigrated to America, with their three boys and five girls; but as they were about to land, their vessel was wrecked on a sand-bar, on Long Island, and soon went to pieces, the passengers barely escaping with their lives, the first mate losing his in his efforts to save them.  His family lost all their property, except such as they had on their persons.  Coming to Marion Co., where his wife had a brother, Henry Schaaf, his father bought a small farm.  Sometime after, Jacob came to Westfield, and worked at his trade about a year, and then went to Columbus, where he worked a year and again returned to Westfield; where, after working six years, he purchased a farm on which he remained seven years.  Selling out, he engaged in the provision business, in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, in which he continued three years.  He returned to Westfield again in 1868, and erected his present shop, where he has since carried on the blacksmith trade successfully.  He has an improved arrangement for setting tire, which obviates the dishing of the wheel, which has made for him a considerable reputation.  In 1853, he married Mary Detwiler, whose parents, Henry and Anna Detwiler, came from Switzerland, in 1847, to Marion Co.  They have a family of six boys and two girls, named in the order of their birth, as follows: Henry, Charles, Jacob, Frederick, Dillie, Wesley Adam and Nettie.  He has been a member of the I. O. O. F. since 1855, and is a member of the German Reformed Church.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 643
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Gilead Twp. –
D. C. MOZIER, of Mozier Bros., grain-dealer, Gilead Station; was born on his father’s farm, at Gilead Station, Dec. 9, 1840.  At the age of 14 years he engaged as clerk with J. B. Rigour & Co., dealers in grain at Gilead Station, and at the age of 17 he did the duties of Railroad Agent at the same point.  In 1861, in addition to his position as Railroad Agent, he also engaged in the grain business, and has conducted both since; during which time he has opened a grain house at Iberia, and has buyers at several other points; in 1867, his brother William became a partner and withdrew the following year.  In 1871, the present firm was formed with his brother G. W., and has continued since.  June 13, 1867, he married Miss Martha I. Rishtine; she was born in Zanesville, Ohio; they married there and came to Gilead Station, where they have since lived.  They have three children -- Mabel R., Clara L. and Nellie E.  Mr. Mozier has from early boyhood, been actively engaged in business.  Formerly the business of the station was done in the name of his father, and June 1, 1880, Mr. D. C. was made the Agent, though except in form, no real change was made.  Mr. and Mrs. Mozier are members of the Baptist Church, of which for the past four years he has served as Deacon, and has taken an active interest in its affairs.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 544-545
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Gilead Twp. –
G. W. MOZIER, grain, wool, etc.; Gilead Station; is the fifth son of L. D. and Abby L. (Harrison) Mozier; he is a native of Gilead Tp., Marion, now Morrow Co., Ohio. He was born on his father’s farm, located at Gilead Station, Oct. 2, 1846. In early life he attended school, and at the age of 18 he engaged as assistant in the railroad station, and his brother’s grain business, and he continued in this employment until in his 25th year, when the present firm of Mozier Brothers was formed between himself and his brother, D. C., where he has continued since.  April 26, 1877, he married Miss Anna, daughter of Issachar and Sarah A. (Trembley) Rowley; she was born in Fredericktown, Knox Co., Ohio; after the marriage they occupied their present residence at Gilead Station, and have lived there since.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 545
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Gilead Twp. –
  LUTHER D. MOZIER, retired; Gilead Station. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work, is the only living child of Joseph and Elizabeth (Dixon) Mozier, who were natives of the Eastern States, and were married in Vermont, where they lived a number of years. They were very poor, and saw very little opportunity for their children in that State, and finally in the year 1818, he got the job of delivering a wagon to a man in Granville, O., and determined to move his family also to this State; they set out and located about one and one-half miles northeast of the present village of Chesterville, in this county; he then took the wagon back to Granville, delivering it to the owner, and returned to the neighborhood of Chesterville; part of the family living with an aunt in that locality, and part going to the oldest brother’s, in Delaware Co.; in the following spring the family occupied a log cabin, which had neither doors nor floor, and was situated upon a tract of 100 acres of military land that he had bought in the vicinity of Chesterville; the land was slowly cleared; Indians, wolves and deer were plenty; the men were robed in buckskin and the women in homespun garments; some corn and potatoes were soon growing, and all seemed to prosper midst the wilds and solitude. But scarce had the little colony had time to think of its new abode, when they were called upon to part with their father; he met his death March 3, 1821, by a falling tree, while working in a sugar camp; Mrs. Mozier lived on the place until 1836, when she left the old homestead and lived with her children until her death, in 1842.  Of their eight children but one now lives -- Luther D., who was born in Chittenden Co., Vt., May 2, 1801; he lived at home until Nov. 29, 1832, when he married Miss Abby L. Harrison, who was born in Essex Co., N. J., in the year 1816. After their marriage they moved on a piece of land he had bought in the vicinity of the old homestead, and in the year 1835 they came to their present place, at Gilead Station, where they now reside. By their marriage there have been eight children, of whom seven are living -- Joseph W., William H., D. Carson, A. Miller, George W., Mary L. Dodge, of Valparaiso, Ind., and Charles R.; John D. is deceased. When Mr. Mozier came to his present place he bought out Mr. Eli Johnson, who had made some small improvements; since living upon it, he has seen beautiful homes and fertile farms supplant the wild forests, the railroad pass his dooryard, and the Station, located on his farm, grow into a thriving village of beautiful and comfortable homes, that may in a few years rival some more pretentious places. In early days Mr. Mozier served as Constable, as a member of the Board of Education for years, and as one of the pioneer educators, beginning to teach about the year 1826; he taught, for the most part, subscription schools, his wife being one of his scholars; he has for many years been Railroad Agent at this Station; the business being done in his name until June 1, 1880, when it was turned over to his son, D. Carson. Though starting with very limited advantages, he has, through indomitable energy and perseverance, been successful, and while remembering that he has been the architect of his own fortune, he has lived so as not only to win, but to deserve, the confidence and esteem of all who knew him, and in addition to liberal donations to his children, he has reserved an ample competency for himself and wife in their old age. Mrs. Mozier’s father, Joseph Harrison, was a native of New Jersey; he came West, to Bennington, Ohio, in the year 1824, and was thrice married.  First, in the year 1813, to Miss Charlotta Gould, of Essex Co., N. J.; she died about one year after their marriage; they had one child -- Charlotta, now Mrs. Alden, of Toledo, Iowa. In 1815 he was married again. His second wife died in Aug., 1827; they had five children, of whom two are living -- Abby L., and William H.; the latter living at Toledo, Iowa. The third marriage was in 1828, to Mrs. Blinn, formerly Miss Mary Baird; during later years Mr. Harrison kept store at Morton’s Corners, in this county, where he died Aug. 25, 1878. She died about two months previous; both lived to a good old age; he being 85 and she 80.  He was raised a Presbyterian, becoming a member of that denomination at the age of 14, and always maintained the Christian principles of his early life.  In later years he affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal denomination of his neighborhood, the Presbyterians being two few to form an organization. By the last marriage there were four children -- Joseph, Aaron, Mrs. Rhoda Hibbard, living in Mich., and Mrs. Lydia Carey in Ohio.  Mr. and Mrs. Harrison traveled life’s pathway together for fifty years; they were well known and possessed unimpeachable integrity; their’s was a long and happy life, brightened by many warm Christian friends, who long mourned their death.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 545-546
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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
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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.