DR. C. H. NEAL, a prominent physician of Cardington, Ohio, forms the subject of this article.  Dr. Neal dates his birth in Mount Gilead, Morrow county, Ohio, July 10, 1854.  His father, Dr. Daniel B. Neal, was born in Oldtown, Maine, where he spent the first thirty years of his age.  He then came to Ohio and settled in Knox county, from whence he subsequently removed to Mount Gilead, where he carried on the business of gunsmith for many years.  During the latter part of his life he was a practicing physician.  He died in Joplin, Missouri, at an advanced age.  The Neals are of Irish origin.  Dr. Daniel B. Neal married Miss Mary Bingham, a native of New York State, who came with her parents to Mount Gilead, Ohio, when she was seven years of age, where she was reared and educated and where she still resides.  She is of English and German descent.  They had a family of five children, namely: Johnson B., deceased: Edgar E., an editor of Cardington; Dr. Charles H., whose name appears at the head of this sketch; Clinton C., and Inez R.
     Dr. C. H. Neal was reared and educated in his native town.  For ten years he was engaged as a printer, four years of which time were spent at Cleveland, to which place he went in 1877.  He began the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. W. J. Scott and Dr. J. H. Lee, of Cleveland, and attended lectures at the medical college of that city.  For one year he was in the Charitable Hospital, and he also spent one year at the Lying-in Hospital in Cleveland.  In 1885 he came to Cardington and entered upon the active practice of his profession, and here his efforts have been attended with success, now having a large and lucrative practice.
     Dr. Neal was married April 11, 1889, to Elma Sharp, a native of Morrow county, and a daughter of Addison Sharp, who was reared in this county and who is a representative of one of the early pioneer families of Morrow county.  They have one child, Carl.
     Dr. Neal is a member of the Cuyahoga County Medical Association and of the Mystic Circle of Cardington.  His political views are in harmony with the principles advocated by the Republican party, and to this party he gives his support.  At this writing he is a member of the Board of Health.  Both as a physician and citizen, he stands high in the estimation of the people of Cardington.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, p. 247
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EDGAR E. NEAL, editor and proprietor of the Morrow County Independent Cardington, Ohio, is a son of one of the early settlers of this State.
     Mr. Neal’s grandfather Neal came from the Emerald Isle to this country at an early day and settled in Maine, where he married a native of England.  Their son, Daniel B., the father of Edgar E., was born in Maine, February 15, 1815.  He came West to Ohio and here, in 1849, married Mary L. Bingham, a native of New York State, born March 1, 1830, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Hagar) Bingham.  Her parents moved to this State in 1836 and settled one mile north of Mount Gilead, where they passed the rest of their lives and died, he being eighty-six at the time of death and she seventy-three.  Four of their children are now living, viz.: Mrs. Freeman Tabor, of Kendallville, Indiana; D. C. Bingham, of Gilead township, this county; Mrs. C. W. Carpenter, of Gilead township; and Mrs. Neal, of Mount Gilead.  After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Neal settled on a farm in Canaan township, this county, and two years later removed to Mount Gilead, where he carried on the business of gunsmith for a number of years.  He was a veteran of the Mexican war, and in politics was a Republican.  He died in the West, in 1878.  Of their five children, we record that Johnson B. married Libbie Smith, née Work, and was in partnership with our subject until December 7, 1892, when he died, leaving a widow and child, Harold; Edgar E. was the second born; Dr. C. H. is given personal mention elsewhere in this work; C. C., of Cardington, married Sadie Campbell and has two children, Edna L. and Howard Kent; and Inez, who resides with mother at Mount Gilead.
     Edgar E. Neal was born April 23, 1852, at Mount Gilead, and was reared and educated here, being a graduate of the high school with the class of 1869.  He served an apprenticeship in the printing business at Mount Gilead, and afterward worked for six years in various places, principally Cleveland, St. Louis and Kansas City.  Then for three years he had charge of his mother’s farm.  In 1882 he came to Cardington and took control of the Independent, which he is still conducting successfully, his home, however, being at Mount Gilead.
     Mr. Neal was married December 24, 1889, to Mrs. Emma (Bunker) Doty, a native of Cardington township, Morrow county, born August 17, 1853, and educated at Cardington and Ada.  For some years she was a popular and successful teacher.  She has two children, both by her first marriage, namely: Frances and Harley Doty.  She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, while he is a Universalist.  Fraternally he is connected with the Masonic order at Cardington and the I. O. O. F. and Knights of Pythias at Mount Gilead.  In politics, he has been a Republican all his life, and he has always taken an active interest in political affairs, this year, 1894, serving as Secretary of the Republican County Convention.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 243-244
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JAMES W. NELSON. —Conspicuous among the younger generation of Morrow county's substantial business men is James W. Nelson, who is filling the responsible position of cashier of the Marengo Banking Company. A native of Ohio, he was born September 14, 1880, in Washington township, Morrow county, on the farm where his parents, William and Nancy (Post) Nelson, still reside.
     Spending his early years on the home farm, James W. Nelson attended first the district schools and later continued his studies at the Iberia High School. He subsequently worked with his father on the homestead, becoming familiar with the various branches of agriculture, but did not care enough for the rural occupation to make it his life work. Leaving the farm, therefore, he found employment as clerk in a store, first at St. James and later at Climax. In 1904 Mr. Nelson successfully passed the civil service examination, and for two years and a half was mail carrier on one of the rural routes going out of St. James. Resigning that position, he entered a business college in Oberlin, Ohio, where he was graduated, receiving his diploma in May, 1907. Two months later, on July 9, 1907, Mr. Nelson came to Marengo, and during the following three months was bookkeeper for the Marengo Banking Company, with which he has since been associated. Developing marked ability in that position, he was made assistant cashier of the company in October of that year, and on April 19, 1910, was made cashier of the institution, a position for which he is well qualified and which he is filling to the satisfaction of all concerned.
     Mr. Nelson married, March 27, 1907, Tamer Crider, who was born in 1887, a daughter of Adam Crider, and was educated in the Iberia High School. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson have two children, namely: Dorothea L. and Mary E.
     Politically Mr. Nelson affiliates with the Republican party, and fraternally he is a member and past chancellor of Marengo Lodge, No. 216, K. of P. Both Mr. and Mrs. Nelson are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Nelson is a capable business man and owns property of value on Walnut street, Marengo.
Source:  History of Morrow County, Ohio by A. J. Baughman - Vol. II - Chicago-New York: The Lewis Publishing Co. - 1911 – pp. 582-583
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Washington Twp. –
T. C. NELSON, farmer; P. O., Iberia; was born in Wayne Co., O., July 16, 1833; his father came from Mercer Co., Penn., when about 18 years of age; his mother is of Scotch descent; after their marriage they removed to Washington Tp., Morrow Co., and settled on the farm, where they are now residing.  This occurred when Thomas, the eldest, was about 11 years of age.  After attaining his majority, Mr. Nelson spent about one and a half years in Iowa.  After his return he spent some time with his father, but together with his brother, leased a farm near Galion, in Crawford Co., for a term of three years; at the expiration of this lease, or in 1862, they together purchased a steam sawmill in Washington Tp., Morrow Co., which they still own and operate.  Mr. Nelson married Dec. 9, 1875; Miss Harriet B. La Rue, whose parents were among the earliest settlers of this township, having settled in the south part in 1833 (the date of their marriage.)  Mrs. Nelson’s father, Wm. R. La Rue, is of French descent; was born in Pleasant Co., W. Va.  Her mother, Miss Eliza Amlin, was a native of Washington Co., O.; after their marriage Mr. LaRue entered ¼ section on the State road, where they remained only a short time, when they removed to a farm on the Iberia road, and there spent their remaining years; both are buried in the cemetery at Iberia.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 749
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Washington Twp. –
WILLIAM NESBITT, clerk; Iberia; was born Sept. 25, 1847, in Northumberland, England, and emigrated to this country when only eight years of age.  He first settled in Marion Co., Ohio, but almost immediately removed to Iberia.  Mr. Nesbitt selected for a companion and helpmeet, Miss Emma McPeek, to whom he was married in the month of October, 1868.  They have one daughter aged ten years.  Mr. Nesbitt is a carpenter by trade, but his health forbidding him to work at that occupation, for the past five years he has been engaged as clerk in the mercantile establishment of E. J. Crane.  His gentlemanly bearing and activity give promise of success in that line of business.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 749
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Perry Twp. –
GEORGE S. NEWHOUSE, merchant; P. O., Shaucks, (Johnsville); is the son of Kasper and Susan (Jager) Newhouse; he was born Dec. 20, 1834, in Alldorf, Rhenish Bavaria.  As prescribed by the laws of that country, he attended school seven years, almost without vacation.  Subsequently he spent about two years traveling in Prussia and other German States.  In 1852 he passed down the river Rhine, taking a farewell view of the "Faderland."  He sailed from the port of Havre, and after a voyage of thirty-five days arrived in New York City July 2, 1852.  Thus we find our subject, a lad of seventeen, without a relative in this country.  He chose the avocation of tailor, and devoted himself to that work in the city for about five years, except a brief period when he made a trip to the Western States, visiting various points of interest; he returned to New York in the fall of 1855, where he united his fortunes with Mary Smith, Sept. 30, 1855.  She was born in Wittenburg, Germany, Oct. 5, 1835, and came across the ocean in 1852, with a sister, now Mrs. Morris Kline, of Johnsville.  Mr. Newhouse came to this village in August, 1857, where he followed tailoring until the breaking out of the war; he entered the Union army under Col. Swayne, of the 43d Regiment, O. V. I., Company "E," and when his term of service had expired he re-enlisted in the 179th Regiment, and fought until the close of the war, being honorably discharged.  In the spring of 1870 he opened a merchant tailoring establishment in Johnsville, in which he continued until 1876, at which time he formed a partnership for five years with John Held, under the firm name of Newhouse & Held.  They carry a large assortment of dry goods, groceries, clothing, hardware, and everything needed by a farming community.  They have business room of forty feet by twenty-two, with wareroom attached.  Mr. Newhouse has made an eminent advancement in that ancient and honorable order of Free and Accepted Masons.  He holds a membership in Belleville Lodge, No. 376; Mt. Gilead Chapter, No. 59, and the Mansfield Commandery of Knight Templars, No. 21.  Has five children living -- George W., Clifton S., Frank M., Dell L. and Irwin S., and two died when young.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 823-824
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Washington Twp. –
A. B. NEWSON, farmer; P. O., Mt. Gilead; was born in Gilead, Morrow Co., in 1832.  His parents were originally from Washington Co., Ind.; his ancestry preceding the second generation were English.  Mr. Newson spent his youth on his father’s farm, attending the public school in the vicinity.  At the age of 25 he married Miss Phoebe A. Hull; the following four years he remained in Gilead, after which he removed to Washington Tp., and settled on a part of the large farm, which he has since acquired, and now controls.  They have three children -- Georgiana, now the wife of W. F. Blayney, living on a part of the farm; Laura, 14, and Elry, 5 years of age.  Mr. Newson’s farm numbers 500 acres, cultivated principally with a view to stock-grazing; while he has a large number of many varieties of live stock, he specializes two branches, viz: fine horses and sheep.  He at present has on the farm about a thousand sheep, some thorough-bred, of the Spanish Merino variety; Mr. Newson is also a prominent official in the M. E. Church.  With a character unimpeachable, with an abundance at his command, with opportunities unsurpassed, the future before him is indeed enviable.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 749
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Gilead Twp. –
  ABRAHAM NEWSON, deceased; was born on a farm in Washington Co., Md., and followed that vocation in his native State. With his brother Joseph he lived on the parental farm, until at the death of the old people, they inherited the same. He continued to reside there until 1825, when he moved in a wagon, stopping for three months in Mansfield, and thence to the vicinity of Mt. Gilead, Ohio, where he continued to follow farming.  His wife’s name previous to marriage was Lucy Friend, also of Washington Co., Md. They were blessed with twelve children; eight of whom are now living -- John, who resides on the old homestead; Louisa Talmage, Elizabeth Hull, A. B., Lucy A. Goorley, and Nelson T., all in the vicinity; and Joseph T., in Iowa; and Nellie F. McKee, in Bellefontaine.  At the time Mr. Newson moved to this State, the locality in which he settled was all timber land, and they lived in a tent, until he could erect a couple of round-log cabins, one for the seven colored persons whom he brought with him from Maryland, but who after a time returned to that State. Mr. Newson was a remarkably large man having at one time weighed 448 pounds, and though when he first came west he was able to work, he was at length obliged to cease, on account of his great fleshiness.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 549
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ABRAHAM B. NEWSON, a farmer residing three miles north of Edison, Gilead township, Morrow county, Ohio, was born on his father’s farm adjoining Mount Gilead, Ohio, February 16, 1832, being the eighth of twelve children born to Abraham and Lucy (Friend) Newson.  He was reared at the old home, which his father located near Mount Gilead in the year 1825, at that time in the dense forest, being a very thickly timbered country, receiving his education in the old round school-house at Mount Gilead, and the adjoining district schools.  He remained at the home of his father until twenty-five years of age.  In February, 1857, he was united in marriage with Miss Phebe Ann Hull, who was born near Chesterville, Morrow county, Ohio, in the year 1833.  She was the daughter of Mahlon Hull, and a sister of Benjamin Hull, whose sketch appears in this work.  After his marriage, Mr. Newson lived on the farm of Benjamin Hull, near Edison, four years, and in 1861 removed to the farm which he now owns, situated three miles north of Edison, on what is called the Boundary road.  In 1883 he built a residence, which he and his family very much enjoy.
     Mr. and Mrs. Newson have had four children, namely: Georgianna Marie, now Mrs. W. F. Blayney, who has one daughter, Jessie; Charles William, who died when three and a half years of age; Laura Alice, wife of William Brockelsby, to whom four children have been born, ––Robert Abraham, Anna Mary, Maggie Ellen, and William Faris; and Elery A., now in his twentieth year and living at home.  Mr. Newson and wife are very fortunate in having all their children living near them, which is a great pleasure to them and makes them think this life almost too short.
     In religion they are followers of Christ, members of the Boundary Methodist Episcopal Church, situated near their home, in which they take great interest.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 164-165
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Gilead Twp. –
JOHN NEWSON, farmer; P.O., Mt. Gilead; was born in Washington Co., Md., March 2 1820, and lived there five years, when the family moved to Ohio, stopping a few months at Mansfield; they then came to this vicinity and settled on the farm Mr. Newson now lives on. The family arrived with a six-horse team and a two-horse carriage; they put up a tent and lived in the same until a log cabin could he built, in which they lived while clearing the farm. At the age of 25 John and his father conducted the farm in partnership, though John superintended, to a great extent, from the age of 17 onward; the conditions of the partnership continued until the death of his parents.  Jan. 18, 1847, he married Miss Ruth Blakeley; she was born in Virginia, and came to this county with her parents when young; they have no children. His parents, Abraham and Lucy (Friend) Newson, were natives of Washington Co., Md.; they married in Maryland and came here as stated, in 1825, and lived here until their deaths, April 1861, and Feb. 1867, respectively.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 550
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JOHN NEWSON, who is one of the prominent pioneer residents and representative agriculturists of Gilead township, Morrow county, has lived on the farmstead which he now occupies since he was a boy of five years, and he has witnessed and assisted in its development from a sylvan wild to its present condition of high cultivation, has replaced the rude forest lodge by a modern and attractive residence, and has attained to marked success in a material way as the result of his own efforts.  Such a life history is one which offers the most perfect justification for a work of this nature.
     Our subject is a native of Washington county, Maryland, where he was born on the 2d day of March, 1820, the son of Abraham Newson, whose place of nativity was the same county, where he grew to man’s estate, coming to Morrow (then Marion) county, Ohio, in the year 1825, when this section was yet, for the most part given over to the virgin forests and the dominion of the Indians and the wild animals.
     Abraham Newson located on the farm where his son, our subject, now lives, taking up his abode in a tent until he could complete his log cabin.  He secured this tract of wild land from the Government, this tract being 160 acres, and the place has ever since remained in the possession of the family.  He afterward purchased 640 acres of school land, and at the time of his death had 1,000 acres.  He was a Democrat of the Jeffersonian type, and religiously was a zealous adherent of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He was a man of gigantic physical proportions, having weighed 448 pounds.  His father, John Newson, was of Irish descent.
     The maiden name of our subject’s mother was Lucy Friend, and she was born in Maryland, where she was reared.  She died in the seventy-first year of her age.  Her father, Jacob Friend, was of English extraction.
     Abraham and Lucy Newson became the parents of twelve children, two of whom died in childhood, the others living to attain mature years, and seven of the number are living at the present time.  Our subject was the second son, and was five years of age when his parents removed from their old home in the East and took up their abode in the Buckeye State.  He grew up on the old homestead and received his educational discipline in the old log school-houses of the period, ––the same having quaint and meagre equipments and accessories, the seats being rude slab benches, and heat being provided by means of a huge fire in the center of the room.
     John Newson remained on his father’s farm until January, 1847, when was consummated his marriage to Ruth Blakeley, a native of Loudoun county, Virginia, where she was born April 14, 1822, the daughter of John Blakeley, who was also a native of the same county in the Old Dominion State, as was also his father, William Blakeley, who was of Irish descent.  John Blakeley came to Belmont county, Ohio, and there lived for eleven years, after which he came to Morrow county, where he passed the residue of his life, passing away in his eighty-third year.  His wife, née Jane Talbert, was born in Virginia, the daughter of Thomas Talbert, who was likewise born in that State.  She died in her forty-second year.  Mrs. Newson was the eldest of a family of eight children, comprising seven daughters and one son.  She was but four years of age when her parents came to Ohio, and was fourteen when they took up their abode in Morrow county.
     After his marriage our subject located on a part of the paternal homestead and gave himself assiduously to its improvement and cultivation.  At that time the nearest point at which groceries could be secured was eighteen miles distant, and for dry-goods they were compelled to go to Mansfield, ––a distance of twenty-three miles.  All kinds of wild animals native to this section were still abundant, and it was impossible for the settlers to raise sheep, on account of the depredations of the wolves.
     Mr. Newson’s residence farm is distinctively one of the finest in this section of the State, comprising 214 acres.  In addition to this place he has another farm of sixty acres, in Congress township.  He devotes his attention to general farming and to stock raising, and has ever been progressive and discriminating in his methods, avoiding old ruts and set habits and bringing to bear a mental function and business judgment in the operation of his fine farms.
     Other interests of financial order are held by our subject: he is a stockholder in the First National Bank of Mt. Gilead, and in the Buckeye Milling Company, of the same place.  He has accumulated a fine property as the result of his own well-directed efforts, and is honored as one of the successful men of the county and as one whose character is above reproach.  In politics Mr. Newson is a stanch supporter of the Democratic party.
Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union & Morrow, Ohio; Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1895, pp. 148-150
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Gilead Twp. –
S. P. NEWSON, farmer; P. O., Mt. Gilead; was born in Washington Co., Md., April 9, 1820, and lived there six years, when, with his parents, he came to Marion (now Morrow) Co., Ohio, and settled on and cleared the present place, on which he has lived ever since, it becoming his after the death of his parents  -- he Sept. 13, 1865, and she July 12, 1867.  He married Miss Nancy R. Kingman Dec. 24, 1855.  She was born in Delaware (now Morrow) Co. They had six children; five are living -- William, Henry, George, Belle and Nellie. His parents, Joseph P. and Susannah (Snider) Newson, were natives of Washington Co., Md.; they married there, and came West as before stated. They had twelve children; five are living -- Moriah, now Mrs. M. G. Webster, of Mt. Gilead; S. P., on the present place; Susan, now Mrs. Dennis Loren, of this county; Sarah, now Mrs. Dr. Charles Hahn, of Marion Co.; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Wesley Roberts, of Crawford Co.  Mrs. Newson’s parents, Joseph and Susannah (Wood) Kingman, were natives of Grand Isle Co., Vt., and Clinton Co., N. Y. They married in the latter county, and came West at a very early date. Of their eight children, four are living -- Hannah, now Mrs. Robert Blakeley, of this county; Melissa, now Mrs. Robert Owens, of Madison Co., Ind.; Orman lives in this county, and Nancy R., now Mrs. S. P. Newson, also of this county. After the death of his first wife, he married Miss Sarah Herendeen, of Cardington, this county. They had three children; one is living -- Binal T., of Cardington. The exact date of his settlement is in doubt, but his oldest son born here, died in Indiana in the winter of 1878, and was aged 60 years; hence, they were here prior to 1818.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 549-550
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Washington Twp. –
NEELY NOBLE, farmer; P. O., Mt. Gilead was born in Stark Co., O., in 1823.  Mr. Noble’s father -- James Noble -- is a native of Shenandoah county, Va., and is now living in Washington Township, Morrow Co., O., and is one of its oldest settlers.  Mr. Noble came with his father to this township when only 10 years old.  All the schooling he ever got was obtained in a log school-house in the vicinity, working on the farm in the summer and going to school in the winter.  During his eighteenth year he helped to build the first railroad in the State of Ohio, then called Sandusky and Newark R. R., now a part of the Baltimore and Ohio R. R.  Mr. Noble was married April 20th, 1852, to Miss Martha Elliott, but after eight years’ married life she died, and in 1861 he married Miss Jane Walker, who is still living.  Their family is as follows -- Franklin Pierce, 27; Robert Lee, 24; Chas. Fremont, 18; James Ellsworth, 16, and Lincoln, 13 years of age.  Mr. Noble has a fine large farm along the eastern boundary of the township, but stock grazing is the particular branch of industry he follows -- raising thorough-bred stock, horses, cattle and sheep.  Of the “Durham” breed of cattle he has some as fine specimens and as near thorough-bred as can be found in the county.  In this department of husbandry he is already a success.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, pp. 748-749
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Chester Twp. –
W. W. NYE, farmer; P. O. Chesterville; was born Aug. 18, 1816, in Knox Co.  His father, Samuel Nye, was born in Massachusetts, and his mother, Mary Bartlett, was born in the State of New York; the former came to Ohio in 1807, and the latter in 1808. They settled in Clinton, then the county seat of Knox Co., where the husband engaged in burning brick, and also in masonry, and built many buildings at that place, some of which are yet standing. They bought a farm of one hundred and thirty-seven acres on the Green Valley Road, some time subsequent to his settlement in Clinton, and moved to the same, where he died; the mother survived him about five years. Their children were -- Eliza, Jane, Harriet, W. W., Mary, Sarah, Catharine, Caroline and Samuel D.  Parents belonged to the United Presbyterian church at Mt. Vernon; the father was a captain in the war of 1812. Our subject attended school in a log house near his father’s home, and also went to school in a frame house, which was built on their home farm. After becoming old enough, he was elected School Director, and superintended building a house on the old site, where he had learned his a, b, c. He early learned masonry with his father, and worked at the same for many years. He was married Nov. 22, 1838, to Martha, daughter of Uzal and Peninah (Lyon) Ball; she was born 1817. They settled after marriage on twenty-six acres, which he had bought from his father, and in 1850 sold the same and bought one hundred acres, subsequently selling out, with the expectation of going west, but did not follow out his intention, and located on the present farm of two hundred acres, which is finely improved and well watered by springs. The result of his marriage was nine children -- infant died unnamed; Sarah E., married Benton Peoples; Amanda and Almeda, twins, the former married Dr. Wemple, and the latter William Philips; Isabel married George Modie; Ella, Francis M., Alice and Charles L.  Mr. Nye has been Township Trustee four years in succession; has been a member of the Good Templars since 1856, and is also a member of the “Patrons of Husbandry.”  He has been a member of the Baptist church since 1857, and his wife since 1856; he cast his first vote for President for Martin Van Buren, and has since taken an active part in the party; he has been a delegate to county and State conventions; deals in fine sheep and cattle; also, breeding fine Samson and English draft horses; takes interest in all modern improvements in farming implements.
Source: History of Morrow County and Ohio – Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1880, p. 613
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