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History of Preble County, Ohio
H. Z.
Williams & Bro, Publishers
1881
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LEVIN T. McCABE.
The man whose name heads this sketch, has been one of the most
active of Eaton’s merchants, and as prominent a promoter of
public improvements and the interests of his fellow men, as the
county affords. He was the son of Amos and Zipporah
(Jones), McCabe, who were respectively natives of Delaware
and Maryland, and was born in the latter State, Worcester
county, on the twenty-third of December, 1807. His father
was a farmer, a much respected citizen, and an exemplary member
of the Methodist Episcopal church. He died at the early
age of thirty-nine years. Of a family of two sons and four
daughters, Levin T. was the eldest son. The first
eighteen years of his life were spent upon his father’s farm,
and all of the schooling he ever had, amounting altogether to
about three months, he obtained during such intervals as he
could make in the hard work of farming. In the spring of
1826 he started for Ohio, and after nearly one month, reached
his destination, having walked nearly all of the way from
Maryland. He arrived in Eaton on the tenth of May and
obtained a situation as a farm laborer with William
Bruce. Three years later he became the partner of
Charles and George Bruce, sons of his first
employer, in the business of buying and fattening cattle for the
eastern market. He began his mercantile career in 1835,
opening, in company with Mr. Henry Montfort, a “general
store.” He continued in this business, and with the same
partner for six years, and then confining himself strictly to
the grocery business carried that on until 1858. During
the two subsequent years he dealt exclusively and extensively in
grain, and in 1860 retired to private life. It is said of
Mr. McCabe that so prudently and cautiously did he
conduct his business that for thirty-seven years he never had a
mortgage or incumbrance of any kind upon his property, and still
he passed through some periods of severe vicissitude. With
all of his conservatism and prudence Mr. McCabe was
original and enterprising, and very bold whence he had once
decided upon any line of action. He conducted business on
a large scale, both in the grocery line and in his grain and
provision buying. It may further be said that he was one
of that class of men who kept abreast or even ahead of the
times. That was a natural consequence of his pushing,
energetic nature. He was the first merchant in Eaton who
received a stock of goods over the Eaton & Hamilton railroad.
He was one of the most highly esteemed merchants who ever lived
in the county, and one of the most useful men. His
prominent identification with public improvements is shown by
the fact that he contributed more in donations, and subscribed
more stock in railroads and turnpikes, in proportion to his
means, than any other citizen of the county, though there were
many who reaped greater advantage than he from those
improvements. Besides holding several other local offices
Mr. McCabe was for nine years a member of the town
council of Eaton, and from 1827 to 1853, in various ways
connected with the old military organizations of the village and
county. Politically he was a Whig until the formation of
the Republican party. He was a warm supporter of the old
organization, and of the one which grew out of it, and has
always taken a keen, though entirely unselfish and non-politic
interest in the success of the party with which he has been
identified. He was married on the thirteenth of December,
1832, to Mrs. Polly Holliday, the widowed daughter of
William Bruce. She died in 1873.
Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z.
Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881 ~Page 148 |
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JOHN McCRISTIE, M. D.
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CATHARINE McMANUS - ok
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Mr. & Mrs. Hugh McQuiston
Mrs. Maggie Stephenson
Mrs. Eliza Pinkerton
Samuel McQuiston
John McQuiston |
THE McQUISTON FAMILY
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Bro, Publishers - 1881 ~Page 239 |
Mr. & Mrs. S. B. McQuiston |
SAMUEL B. McQUISTON
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THE REV. ALEXANDER MEHARRY, D. D.
Although only a resident of Eaton a few years, the citizens of
the place feel themselves largely indebted to the minister of
the Gospel whose name stands at the head of this article.
They have a high regard for this character and cherish lovingly
his memory.
It was principally through the energy and zeal of the
Rev. Alexander Meharry that the Methodist Episcopal
society of Eaton secured their beautiful house of worship,
unrivaled by any in the State or in the western country, except
a very few in the large cities, and one of
the chief, if not the leading architectural ornament of the
village. As the agent who brought about the existence of
this superb church, and no less from the fact that the last
years of Mr. Meharry’s life were spent in Eaton,
and that he was laid away to his final rest in Mound cemetery,
the people of Eaton have a peculiar interest in the “good old
preacher,” and it is fitting that there should be preserved for
them the record of the life which came to the close of its
earthly chapter in their midst.
Alexander Meharry was born in Adams
county, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1813, and died in Eaton, Nov. 10, 1878,
in the sixty-fifth year of his age, and the thirty seventh of
his ministry. His father, Alexander Meharry,
was born in Ireland, Aug. 5, 1763; married Jane Frances,
May 7, 1794, and soon afterward came to America, tarried four
years in Pennsylvania, and in 1798 emigrated to Adams county,
Ohio. He possessed remarkable energy and industry, and was
a zealous Methodist. He was instantly killed by the fall
of a tree while returning from a camp meeting in 1813, and his
wife was left with a family of seven sons and one daughter to
care for unaided. The youngest of the children, the
subject of this sketch, joined the Methodist church at the age
of fourteen. He was reared on a farm, with only pioneer
school advantages.
The first eight years of his majority were spent in a
store at Ripley, Ohio, where he made such a reputation for
integrity that he obtained the loan of one thousand five hundred
dollars on no other security than his individual note. In
September, 1841, he joined the Ohio conference as an itinerant
preacher, and subsequently rode the circuits of Blendon,
Bainbridge, Dunbarton, Deer Creek, and Frankfort, in Ohio, and
Maysville in Kentucky. In September, 1848, he became the
first Methodist city missionary in Cincinnati, and stood
heroically at his post during the ravages of cholera in 1849-50.
In September, 1850, he was appointed financial agent of the Ohio
Wesleyan university at Delaware, and with the exception of one
year gratuitously given as agent to the Springfield Female
college, served six years. In September, 1857, he became
pastor at Franklin, Ohio, wherein two years he built a church
edifice, besides liquidating some debts. In 1859 he took charge
of the church in Middletown, and in 1861 became pastor of Finley
chapel in Cincinnati, and was among the first of the clergymen
who advocated the employment of colored troops in the Union war.
From 1863 to 1866 he was stationed at Wilmington, where
he erected a church edifice. He then became agent of the
Wesleyan Female college at Cincinnati. The old building on
Vine street had been sold for debt, and a new structure would be
erected. He succeeded, although many obstacles opposed, in
securing the erection of the present building, which is an
ornament to the city and a monument to Methodism. In the
fall of 1868 he became pastor at Eaton, and remained three
years, within which time the present house of worship was built.
In 1871 he was appointed presiding elder of the Ripley district,
and in 1872 transferred to the Springfield district. In
1875 he settled in Eaton. In 1877 the Athens Wesleyan
university, of Tennessee, conferred upon him the degree of
doctor of divinity. In 1878 he was appointed financial
agent of the Delaware Wesleyan university. During a
service of thirty-seven years he travelled nearly forty-five
thousand miles, received into church
connection over three thousand persons, and raised as agent for
colleges and churches over one hundred thousand dollars.
Since 1874 he had held superannuated relations to his
conference. His long and active service had given him a
warm place in the hearts of the multitudes for whom he had
labored.
He was twice married. Aug. 14, 1844, he married Ann
Ransom, a niece of Governor Worthington, of Ohio.
She died June 22, 1847. On May 1, 1856, he married
Eliza Ann Ogden, of Clark county, Ohio.
Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z.
Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881 - Page 153
SHARON WICK'S NOTE: See Memorial No.
134493773 at
www.findagrave.com Portrait and Gravestone can be
found there. |
Wm. Morton Residence & Mrs. Wm. Morton
and Janney Bell Morton |
WILLIAM MORTON. A
highly respected and substantial farmer of Gasper township, is
William Morton, the subject of this sketch. He is
the thirteenth child of Benjamin and Hannah Morton, who
were among the earliest settlers of the county, being natives of
New Jersey. William was born on the Morton
homestead in Israel township, Mar. 2, 1838. A complete and
elaborate sketch of his parents will be found in the biography
of Hezekiah Morton, published elsewhere in this volume.
Mr. Morton received the benefit of an education such as
the common schools of the time afforded. When he was
sixteen years old his father died (June 7, 1854), and William
was left in care of the home. He began life for himself in
1862, when he purchased the farm of one hundred and sixty-seven
acres on which he now resides. Being unmarried, he lived
with a tenant, and farmed the place, until 1873, when the tenant
left the premises, and Mr. Morton was left entirely
alone. He continued to be his own housekeeper as well as
his own farmer until May 21, 1874, when he quit bachelor life,
and was married to Emma I. Dooley, only daughter of
Silas and Isabel (McCracken) Dooley. Emma was born
June 1, 1847. Her parents were pioneers of the county, and
among the most highly respected citizens of the township.
The family of William and Emma Morton consists
of one child, Janney Belle, born May 27, 1876.
Mr. Morton is an energetic and thrifty farmer,
who attends closely and exclusively to his own affairs.
His home, a pictorial sketch of which appears on another page,
is comfortable, and his farm productive. He takes little
part in politics, and has never coveted official honors.
During the war he was a member of the home guards of Ohio, and
when Breckenridge made his famous northern raid in 1864, Mr.
Morton was called in the hundred days; service, and placed
on guard duty at Washington. Mr. Morton is a
Republican, but holds liberal views, in both matters of politics
and religion. He is known in the community as an
industrious unostentatious farmer, who enjoys, in a quiet way,
the prosperity which successive years are accumulating.
Source: History of Preble County, Ohio - H. Z.
Williams & Bro, Publishers - 1881 - Page 184 |
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