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BIOGRAPHIES
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A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio
Vol. II.
Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York
1917
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GEORGE McCALLA is part owner and active manager of one of
the
largest stock farms in Ross County. His farm comprises
1,109 acres
of land. It lies along the Black Run in both Twin and
Huntington town
ships. Mr. McCalla 's home is in Twin Township. He and
his partners
use this land for the raising of high grade cattle and
hogs and they
specialize in the feeding of such stock and ship a
number of carloads
every year. The farm has from 300 to 500 head of hogs on
the average,
and their cattle herd comprises from 100 to 200 head.
Though his life has been spent in Ross County since
infancy, George McCalla was born at Black Hill, England, May 20, 1877. His parents
were John and Jane (McClure)
McCalla. They were both
natives of
County Armagh, Ireland, where they were reared. John
McCalla went
to England when a young man, but subsequently returned
to marry Jane McClure, and following their marriage they lived in
England for
seventeen years. John McCalla was a moulder by trade,
and followed
that occupation as long as he lived in England. On July
5, 1879, this
family arrived in Ross County, locating in Paint
Township, where John McCalla bought the farm on which he died in 1896. His widow
is still living there. They had seven children, and the
three that reached
maturity were: Jane, wife of Samuel McCalla of Paint
Township, Ross
County; Samuel, who died at the age of twenty-four; and
George, the
youngest of the family.
George McCalla grew up on the home farm in Paint
Township and
received a district school training in the Mount Olive
School. The first
twenty years of his life he spent at home and in that
time gained a
practical acquaintance with the business which he has
followed so successfully in later years. For a number of years, Mr.
McCalla was employed by William Baird, a prominent cattle buyer, and
for him he
frequently drove herds of cattle or otherwise conducted
them to market. Mr. McCalla finally became associated with
William Baird
and Fay Baldwin in the purchase of a large farm in Twin and
Huntington town
ships, where Mr. McCalla has since centered his
activities. They bought
this land in 1906 and since July of that year, Mr.
McCalla has had active
charge. In this ten years' time the firm has been
variously improved
with modern facilities and conveniences, and it is
undoubtedly one of
the largest and best kept stock farms in Southern Ohio.
On May 13, 1897, Mr. McCalla married Mary
Shinkle, a
daughter
of Phillip and Mary Shinkle of Paint Township.
Mrs. McCalla was a
child when her father died. Her parents were of
Pennsylvania Dutch
stock. Mr. and Mrs. McCalla had five
children: Ralph,
Dwight, Alice. Clarke and Ruth, all still at home. The mother of these
children died.
March 18, 1908. She was a devoted mother and home maker
and her
memory will always be cherished by her children.
On April 6, 1910, Mr. McCalla married Mary J. Dalzall,
who was
born in Ireland, a daughter of James and Margaret Dalzall. She grew
to womanhood in Ireland and in 1903 came to America to
live with a
sister in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. It was while living
in that city
that she became acquainted with Mr. George
McCalla. They
were married there. Mr. McCalla is affiliated with Chillicothe
Lodge No. 52,
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is a republican
in politics and
a member of the Presbyterian Church at Bourneville. For
one term he
served as township trustee of Twin Township, and was for
one term on
the township school board of Paint Township.
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WARREN
McCOLLISTER, has given his useful and energetic
years to the business of farming. His home is in
Union Township, and the farm and its improvements
represent the value of his long continued industry and
efficient management.
A native of Ross County, he was born near Yellowbud in
Union Township Jan. 6, 1875, the only child of Irvin
and Mary (Lutz) McCollister. His mother, who
was born in Union Township, was the daughter of
Samuel Lutz, Jr., and the granddaughter of Hon.
Samuel Lutz, who was one of the very prominent early
settlers and prominent men of Pickaway County.
Reared on a farm, Warren McCollister received
such education as the rural schools could give him, and
by previous training and experience was well qualified
to become an independent farmer on reaching manhood.
for twenty years or more he has industriously tilled and
soil and reaped its fruits, and all of his activities
have been within the limits of his native township.
In 1912 Mr. McCollister bought the farm he now
owns and occupies. This is known as the Noble
homestead, and one of the well improved farms of the
county. Besides general farming, he is also
engaged in stock raising, and makes a specialty of
Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs.
In 1893 Mr. McCollister married Rose Leist.
Mr. and Mrs. McCollister have two children, Cary
L. and Blanche. Cary married Hazel
Parker, while Blanche is the wife of Bert
Wood. As a voter Mr. McCollister cast
his first ballot for William McKinley twenty
years ago, and has ever since been a steadfast supporter
of the republican party. He has been a public
spirited as he has been industrious in the management of
his private affairs, and has served as a member of his
township school board.
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JOSEPH M. McCOY.
A few families can claim the distinction of having
existed continuously and contemporaneously with the
entire history of Ross County, covering almost one and a
quarter century. Such a family is that of McCoy,
one of whom, Joseph M. McCoy, has been chosen as
a subject of this brief sketch.
Mr. McCoy now owns and occupies a fine old
homestead which is in itself a landmark in Union
Township, and has a host of associations connecting it
with the bygone generations of this name.
The founder of the family here was John McCoy or
MacCoy, as the name was variously written.
This pioneer was a native of Scotland. When he was
nine years of age he showed his independence and
enterprising character by running away from his native
land and in course of time found his way to America.
He lived a number of years in the province and state of
Pennsylvania and eventually came to Ohio. He was
the father of four sons.
One of these sons was also named John and was
born in Pennsylvania Apr. 15, 1771. He married
Margaret Kerr, also a native of Pennsylvania.
The ten children reared by them were named Martha,
Margaret, Jane, Silence, Alexander Spear, William Kerr,
John Montgomery, Mary Gene, Eliza and Sally Ann.
The daughter Margaret was the first white
child born in Ross County. Her birth occurred here
Mar. 1, 1795, and that date of itself attests the very
early settlement of the McCoy family within these
borders.
William Kerr McCoy, father of Joseph M.,
was born in a log house on the same spot subsequently
occupied by the home in which his son Joseph was
born. William K. first saw the light of day
Jan. 30, 1807. He grew up and shared the lot of
the early pioneer in the last century, and eventually
succeeded to the ownership of the old homestead where he
pursued general farming, and lived there until his death
in 1892. William K. McCoy married
Margaret Afflick. She was born in Scotland
Jan. 11, 1815. Her father James Afflick was
born in Drumelgier in the County of Peebles, Scotland,
in 1776. On July 19, 1799, James Afflick
married Marian Gladstone. She was a niece
of John Gladstone and a cousin of Hon. William
Ewart Gladstone, the great English premier. In
1818 James Afflick and wife came to the United
States, and located near Winchester, Virginia.
Margaret Afflick when a young girl left her parents'
home in Virginia and came to Ross County to live with
her ant and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. James Steel, and
remained there until her marriage to William K.
McCoy. She reared nine children named
James, Margaret, John A., Mary, David, Wilson,
Gladstone, Addie and Joseph M. The son
James was for many years connected with the
Baltimore & Ohio Railway and is now deceased.
Margaret is the wife of Moses Steel. John
A. died when about twenty years of age.
Mary married Samuel Shortridge and now lives
in Circleville, Ohio. David was a soldier
in the Union army and lost his life in the service.
Wilson died when about thirty years of age.
Gladstone was a farmer and spent his last days at
Circleville. Addie is living near
Ashville, Ohio, the wife of Howard Veail.
Born on the old McCoy estate in Union
Township in September, 1856, Joseph M. McCoy
spent his early life in the usual manner of farmer boys
of half a century ago. He attended rural schools
and developed his strength and judgment by the tasks of
the home farm. After reaching manhood he moved to
Pickaway county, and there farmed as a renter for
seventeen years. He then went back to the old
homestead, and has since become its proprietor and it
shows many evidences of his careful management and
cultivation. The McCoy home occupies a
conspicuous and attractive site on a high tableland
commanding an extended view in every direction.
The improvements on the farm rank with the best fund
anywhere in the township. The fine dwelling has
withstood the storms of many years, and is a very
substantial old building, a part of it including the
original log cabin in which Mr. McCoy's father
was born. Besides being an active farmer Mr. McCoy
has served as a member of the board of township trustees
for many years.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
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COL. JOHN
McDONALD was one of the most conspicuous of the
early scouts, explorers, Indian fighters, and settlers
of Ross County. A few years ago Dr. J. B. F.
Morgan read before the Ross County Historical
Society a sketch of Colonel McDonald's
career, and that sketch is subsequently published in The
Old North West Genealogical Quarterly. It is from
this course and manuscript that the following paragraphs
concerning this noted pioneer character are drawn.
His paternal grandfather, Thomas McDonald, was
born in the Highlands of Scotland, near Lockshin, about
the beginning of the eighteenth century. His wife
was Henrietta Gray. They died and were
buried in their native Highlands about the year 1770,
having reared a family of four sons and two daughters,
John, Daniel, William and James, and
Nancy and Catherine. The sons John and
William came to America, John in 1770 and
William in 1772.
William McDonald, father of Colonel McDonald,
became a resident of the Colony of Pennsylvania,
He had married Effie McDonald, who was a daughter
of William McDonald and Elizabeth Douglass,
both of whom were born, reared and married near Lockshin
in the Highlands of Scotland. They also came to
America in 1772 and settled in the Colony of
Pennsylvania. In a memorandum made in his family
bible, Colonel McDonald said: "My father
and mother were of the same clan and were distantly
related. Their ancestors were herdsmen as far back
as tradition gives their history. They, like all
the Highland clans were soldiers, always ready to attack
for plunder or resist encroachments on their rights.
My father was a very active but little man, of violent
temper and impetuous in all his pursuits. In his
friendship he was kind and as true as the needle to the
pole. My mother was a most amiable woman: patient
in adversity and affliction in which she was sorely
tried. Her confidence in the watchful protection
of an Unseen Arm rendered her weak and resigned spirit
conspicuous to all who knew her. I believe she was
censured or reviled by no man or woman."
William McDonald died on the 4th day of
September, 1823, aged seventy-eight years. Just
four days later his wife joined him in the realms
beyond. Their bodies were laid to rest on Fruit
Hill, west of Chillicothe. The ashes of Colonel
McDonald's maternal grandparents also commingle with
the dust of Fruit Hill, the home of Governor McArthur
and of Governor Allen. Colonel McDonald was
the oldest in a family of seven children, five sons and
two daughters. The sons were John, Thomas,
James, William and Hiram. The daughters
were Nancy and Henrietta. The sons
John, Thomas, James and William
distinguished themselves in the War of 1812, while
Hiram died in childhood. The daughter Nancy
became the wife of Gen. Duncan McArthur, who in
after years became governor of Ohio. The daughter
Henrietta married Judge Presley Morris.
Col. John McDonald was born Jan. 28, 1775, in
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, which was then on
the border of civilization in an English colony.
About 1780 his father moved with the family over the
mountains and settled at a point on the Ohio River
called Mingo Bottom, about three miles from
Steubenville, Ohio. That was the extreme limit of
civilization, and in those years there was continuous
warfare between the whites and Indians. At the age
of five years Colonel McDonald began the
education that fitted him for the responsibilities that
he so nobly bore in future years. The frequent
incursions of the savages upon the homes of the whites
taught the youth to court danger. The necessities
of the table developed a skill with the rifle that was
only equaled by the savage dweller in the wilderness.
The labor required to hew out homes in the heavy forests
developed the muscles of the boy to their greatest
strength in manhood. By dint of industry and
never-failing perseverance, John McDonald added
to the above qualifications the rudiments of an English
education. His boyhood days were spent chopping,
grubbing, picking, burning, building cabins to live in
and forts for defense; hunting in daytime to furnish
meat for the table, and standing sentinel at night to
give warning to the family in case of a raid from the
Indians.
About 1790 the McDonald family moved to
Kentucky, which at that time was a continental
battleground between the white and Indians.
Simon Kenton, the celebrated frontiersman, was a
resident of the community in which the McDonalds
located. Though twenty years older than
McDonald, a strong attachment sprung up between the
two. McDonald was a lad just to the liking
of the adventurer, and they were most constant
companions. It was with the daring Kenton
that McDonald made his first incursion against
Indians. He was solicited to join a company being
organized by Kenton to avenge the death of a
couple of hunters who had been killed, but his father
forbade him going. His eagerness was so intense
that he disregarded his father's will and secretly took
a rifle from the cabin and joined in the chase.
After that he was constantly employed, scouting, hunting
and surveying. As surveyor he engaged in the most
dangerous calling to which the frontiersman was exposed.
Writing of others and not of himself, McDonald
has left some detailed accounts of early exploring
expeditions on the frontier. He says: "Men
not only placed their lives in peril every day, every
day they were in the country of the savages, but every
hour; every moment had to be guarded with the strictest
precision. Their food consisted alone of what the
forest afforded. No tent to shelter them from the
pelting of the rain or protect them from the blast of
the merciless winds; no ambulance to carry the wounded,
no hospital to receive the sick, no surgeon to stop the
ebbing tide. All this done for the paltry sum of
seventy-five cents a day. But the adventure, the
daring, the captivity, the dying at the stake of noble
men seemed to be necessary for the development of the
wilderness with its savage wigwams into a settlement
covered with beautiful homes."
In the spring of 1792 McDonald joined Gen.
Nathaniel Massie's settlement at Manchester, on the
Ohio River. He accompanied Massie and his
men on many surveying tours and was engaged in several
contests with the savage foe. One of his early
experiences with the Indians occurred within the limits
of what is now Ross County. Doctor Morgan
himself heard the story told from the lips of Colonel
McDonald, and the following account of the tragic
incident is quoted by Doctor Morgan from another
source: "Early in the month of November Lucas
Sullivant, a land speculator and surveyor from
Virginia, collected a company of twenty-one men to go on
a surveying tour in the Scioto country: notwithstanding
the Indians had been severely beaten by General Wayne
a few months previously, yet the country was far from
being in the state of peace. Attached to this
country were three surveyors - John and
Nathaniel Beasley and Sullivant. McDonald
was connected with this company. Every man carried
his own baggage and arms which consisted of rifle,
tomahawk and scalping knife. Having taken Todd's
trace, they pursued their journey until they came to
Pink Creek at the end crossing; from thence they
proceeded to Old Chillicothe, now Frankfort, and thence
on to Deer Creek where they camped at the mouth of Hay
Run. This is a point about two miles southeast of
Clarksburg and about six hundred yards north of Brown's
Chapel in Deerfield township.
"In the morning Sullivant, McDonald, Colven and
Murray were selected as hunters for the day.
They started down towards the mouth of the creek
intending to take its meanderings back to camp.
They had not proceeded more than a hundred rods when a
flock of turkeys came flying towards them and alighted
on the trees above them. McDonald and
Murray were on the bank of the creek near a pile of
driftwood. Murray having no thought that
the turkeys might have been frightened by Indians
stepped up to a tree and shot a turkey. He then
stepped back under cover from the turkeys and
McDonald took the position left by his companion.
He was taking aim when the crack of a rifle greeted his
ear. He whirled on his heel in time to see his
companion fall to rise no more. Looking in the
direction from which a messenger of death came he saw
several Indians with their rifles leveled at him.
As quick as thought he sprang over the bank into the
creek, when they fired but missed. The Indians now
resolved to take him prisoner. Their entire
company made pursuit. For the distance of a
hundred yards or so the land was open and gave the
Indians a fair chance to measure speed with the young
athlete. McDonald succeeded in reaching a
thicket to gather his wind. The thicket was too
small to allow him to make his escape unobserved.
He was driven from his hiding place into the open
timber, and was compelled again to call his brave legs
into action. Now was a race for life. The
Indians were close upon him with the young athlete in
the lead, the entire company yelling like demons
incarnate. For some moments McDonald
imagined that he could feel the Indians' hands grabbing
at his collar. Finally he cast his eyes about him
and found that his pursuers were trying a flank movement
upon him and he also learned that he had gained several
rods upon them. The object of his pursuers was to
chase him into a fallen tree top and there make sure of
their capture. They succeeded in driving him to
the tree top, but no doubt they were greatly chagrined
to see him make a single bound and clear every limb of
the fallen tree alighting safely upon the other side.
This so astonished the Indians that they stood for a
moment in amazement. This short halt put
McDonald safely in the lead in the chase, but he was
not out of reach of the rifles. The Indians again
took up the pursuit, firing as they ran. Several
balls whizzed closely by, but failed to disable the
desired captive. At this juncture he met
Sullivant and three others of the company.
Sullivant immediately three away his compass but
clung to his rifle. Their only safety was in rapid
flight. The Indians were too numerous to
encounter. As they ran the Indians fired upon
them, one of the balls striking Colven's cue at
the tie, which shocked him so much that he thought
himself mortally wounded; but succeeded in making his
escape and ran up the creek and gave alarm at the camp,
stating that he believed all were killed but himself.
Those at the camp fled as soon as possible.
McDonald and his party ran across the highland and
after running three miles struck a prairie.
Casting their eyes over it they saw four Indians along
the trace. They thought of running around the
prairie and heading them off; but not knowing how soon
those in pursuit would be upon them, and perchance they
would be between two fires, they adopted the better part
of valor and hid themselves in the grass until the
Indians were out of sight. After remaining there
some time they went to camp and found it deserted.
"Just as they were about to leave the camp they found a
note in a split stick saying 'if you come follow the
trail.' It was then sundown and they knew that
they would not be able to follow the trail after night.
When night came on they steered their course by
starlight. They had travelled the distance of
seven or eight miles. It was a cold dreary night
and the leaves being frozen the sound of their footsteps
could be heard some distance. All at once they
heard something break and run as if it was a heard of
buffaloes. At this they halted and remained silent
for some time. They finally returned cautiously to
their fires. Supposing that it might be their
companions, McDonald and McCormac
concluded that they would creep up slowly and see.
They advanced until they could hear them cracking hazel
nuts with their tenth. They also heard them
whisper to one another but could not tell whether they
were Indians or white men. They cautiously
returned to Sullivant and after consultation
concluded that they would call which they did and found
to their joy that it was their friends and companions
who had fled from them. They had mutual
rejoicings, but poor Murray was left a prey to
the Indians and wolves. They now commenced their
journey homeward and after three days travel reached
Manchester."
Doctor Morgan also relates another incident of
Colonel McDonald's experience as surveyor.
This was in the spring of 1795, when General Massie
headed a party of surveyors from Manchester.
This became known in local history as the "Starving
Tour." There had been unusual weather conditions
for some days, and there was crust on the snow
sufficiently strong to bear the weight of wild game, but
men would break through. This practically
prevented hunting or pursuit of game, and the party was
almost at the limit of starvation before a change of
weather occurred and game could be found to satisfy
their ravenous appetites. After relating the
incidents of the tour, General McDonald
introduced what was unusual to him, a personal
testimony. He added:
"The writer of this narrative accompanied General
Massie on this tour and had previously passed
through many trying scenes; but the hardships and
privations of this tour were the most trying to the
firmness, resolution and fortitude of the men that we
ever saw or experienced. Only reflect on the
critical condition of twenty-eight men, exposed to the
horrors of a terrible snow storm in the wilderness,
without hut, tent or covering; and what was more
appalling, without provision, without any road or track
to retreat on, and nearly 100 miles from any friendly
aid or place of shelter, exposed to the truly tremendous
and pitiless pelting of the storm of four days
continuance, and you can fancy to yourselves some faint
idea of the suffering of the party."
In 1794 Colonel McDonald and his brother
Thomas joined General Wayne's army as rangers
or spies. It was the duty of this company to
traverse the Indian country in every direction in
advance of the main army. The most daring and
intrepid men were selected for this company. Upon
their bravery and skill as Indian warriors depended the
success of General Wayne's army.
McDonald proved to be a man of unquestionable
bravery and skill and had a combination of qualities
that made him a valuable member of General Wayne's
advance guard. One of his biographies says that
Colonel McDonald under the leadership of Massie
and Sullivant traversed the whole of the Virginia
Military District and located thousands of acres of
land, while the Indians were roaming the forests and
living in permanent villages on the banks of the various
streams. He had a thorough knowledge of Indian
habits and tactics. Daring, yet cautious, trained
to habits of self denial and hard labor, he had nerves
that never quivered in the presence of danger. He
was courageous enough to attempt any task imposed, and
was prudent and judicious enough to conduct it to a
successful close.
In 1796 he accompanied General Massie's colony
to the Scioto Valley and assisted in establishing the
first settlement on the waters of the Scioto River.
He assisted in surveying and laying out the first
capital of Ohio, Chillicothe, and afterwards assisted in
razing the forests to the ground, preparatory to
erecting the beautiful hoes in town and country of which
the present generation so justly boast.
The most important event of his life occurred on the
5th day of February, 1799. On that day he married
Catharine Cutright, who became his guardian
angel. She proved a most faithful and devoted
wife. She underwent the hardships of a frontier
life with a bravery that was unexcelled. They were
employed in the various vocations to be found in the
infant settlement until 1802, when they purchased a
tract of land on Poplar Ridge, Ross County, and
converted it into their future home, where they dwelt
for half a century.
At the time of his marriage the brunt of the struggle
for implanting civilization in the great Northwest had
been passed. The days of greatest danger were
gone. He and his companions who had been in the
very front of the advance guard now began to reap
pleasures and benefits of a life of peace which their
labors had made possible. It was pleasant to know
that some of the men who endured the hardships of
frontier life; who served in the army, who assisted in
the surveys of the rich valley and rolling uplands and
otherwise prepared the way for the advancement of
civilization, found in the land over which they had
marched and fought and dared hidden dangers, happy homes
and comfort in their declining years.
To the marriage of John McDonald and
Catharine Cutright were born six daughters and one
son. The late Ex-Senator, John C. Donald
was the youngest child. Senator McDonald
died near the old homestead in July, 1905, aged
eighty-five. About fifty grandchildren were the
result of the marriages of the children of Colonel
McDonald. Many other descendants in subsequent
generations are still living.
After the time of danger had passed and Colonel
McDonald was settled to the peaceful vocations of
his farm, he was accorded the recognition which his
valuable work and strong character entitled him to.
Several times he was elected justice of the peace, and
served as military officer, being captain, major,
lieutenant-colonel and colonel. When the War of
1812 broke out he enlisted as a volunteer in the First
Ohio Regiment. His well known skill and bravery
again placed him in the front of danger. As soon
as the regiment reached the enemy's country he was
detailed as a spy, and was soon afterward appointed
quarter-master and paymaster of his regiment. He
continued to perform those duties until the surrender of
the army by General Hull. He was made a
prisoner at the surrender at Detroit. In 1813,
having been exchanged, he was made a captain in the
regular army, and in 1814 was in command of a regiment
at Detroit. He remained in the service until peace was
declared in 1813 and the army disbanded.
He then returned to civil life. In 1817 he was
elected to the State Senate, in which capacity he served
two terms. In 1834, when nearly sixty years of
age, Colonel McDonald began writing
reminiscences of the first settlements along the Ohio
and its tributaries, and also began preparing the book
that he called McDonald's Sketches. This
book consisted of the biographical sketches of
General Duncan McArthur, Gen. Nathaniel Massie, Capt.
William Wells and Gen. Simon Kenton.
To this work he devoted much time. As he was
not an educated man the labor was very great. No
task of this kind had ever before been undertaken by a
frontiersman. He was the only pioneer of the
Virginia Military District who attempted to record in
historical form the deeds of his comrades on the
frontier. In giving a history of the four
individuals above mentioned he painted a magnificent pen
picture of the settlements of the western wilderness.
A large portion of the information found in Howe's
History of Ohio and also the History of the Great West
by the same author, was compiled from the manuscript of
this old pioneer. Much of his original manuscript
has been entirely lost. It was borrowed by
Benson J. Lossing, the historian, with the privilege
of selecting such as he might want to use and with the
promise that all should be returned. Instead of
its being returned it was all lost. In this
manuscript much history that today would have been
greatly appreciated by the present generation was lost.
One of McDonald's biographers said: "It
was impossible for McDonald to have been an
educated man, and hence his writings have not the ease
and grace of a cultured literary style; but he was a man
of strong vigorous mind; he had much to say; it was a
labor of love to relate the adventures of his old
comrades in arms, the pioneers of Southern Ohio, and in
his own way he told the story of their lives and left a
lasting monument to their memories. He was very
modest as an author and was reticent in regard to
himself in a degree that has been regretted by all his
readers. His personal knowledge of all the scenes
which he has depicted and his participation in the
adventures he has described, is often only suggested by
the author's graphic style and minute attention to
detail. Considering the slow and painstaking labor
of composition which his sketches published in book form
and in newspaper press must have cost the writer, his
task was an immense one. Contemplating of the
difficulty of production, the reader's feeling of
gratitude is increased and the admiration for the sturdy
pioneer author intensified. It was not ambition
that led to this frontiersman's employment of the pen in
his old days, but the desire to save from oblivion the
record of the hardships through which the early explorer
passed, the sterling traits of character they possessed,
and perhaps to revive in his memory the faces and the
manners of those who had been the companions of his
young manhood's days."
Colonel McDonald spent his declining years in
his home on Poplar Ridge, Ross County. He devoted
much time to reading the current news and writing for
various newspapers. In his last years his eyes
became inflamed by constant use and for many yeas before
death he was entirely blind. On the 11th of
September, 1853, he anchored his bark in that distant
harbor where the blinded eye is restored to sight by the
benign rays of the eternal sun.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 575 |
Edward R. McKee |
EDWARD R. MCKEE.
For nearly three score years closely associated with the
banking interests of Chillicothe, Edward R.
McKee possesses to an eminent degree the business
ability and acumen that inspire confidence in his
integrity and honesty of purpose, while his long record
of service with one of the leading financial
institutions of Ross County bears speaking evidence of
his trustworthiness in positions of responsibility.
A son of David McKee, he was born, Jan. 28, 1843,
in Chillicothe, of colonial ancestry, being a lineal
descendant, according to a well-preserved tradition, of
one of eleven brothers named McKee that
emigrated, in 1769, from Scotland to America, and
settled, nearly all of them, in Pennsylvania.
Hugh McKee, Mr. McKee's paternal grandfather, was a
lifelong resident of Philadelphia, and an active member
of the Society of Friends.
Born and educated in Philadelphia, David McKee
came to Ohio in early manhood, locating in Chillicothe,
where he was subsequently engaged in the wholesale and
retail confectionery business until his death, in 1854,
at the early age of forty-three years. His wife,
whose maiden name was Mary Ann Reister, was born
in Chillicothe, a daughter of Adam Reister, and
to them four children were born, as follows:
Estelle, Eloise, Edward R., George W. and Harry.
Adam Reister, Mr. McKee's maternal grandfather, was
born in Maryland, in Reisterstown, a village established
by his father, who spent his entire life in that
locality. Having served an apprenticeship at the
carpenter's trade when young, Mr. Reister
followed his occupation in Chillicothe until 1840,
carrying on a good business as a contractor for several
years. Seized with the wanderlust in 1840, he
migrated, with teams, to the Territory of Iowa, which
was then in its pristine wildness, the greater part of
the land being owned by the Government. There were
no railroads in the state, the modes of travel and
transportation, and the ways of living being very
primitive. Taking up a tract of wild land near
Iowa City, he cleared an improved homestead, and there
he and his wife spent their remaining days.
Adam Reister married Rebecca Haynes, who
was born in Shepherdstown, Virginia, a daughter of
George Haynes, who came with his family from
Virginia to the Northwest Territory in the spring of
1798, making the removal with teams, his wife, however,
coming on horseback, and bringing her infant daughter,
the future Mrs. Reister, in her arms. Mr.
Haynes was a blacksmith by trade, and he and
Joseph Yates, a millwright, of Shepherdstown, had
assumed a contract to erect for a Mr. Worthington
a ill on the north fork of Paint Creek. Locating
in Chillicothe, Mr. Haynes moved into a log cabin
situated at what is now the corner of Second and
Mulberry streets, and after the completion of the mill
resumed work at his trade. He made the spikes and
bolts used in the construction of the old bridge, and
when that was finally destroyed by fire, it was found
that it was put together so strongly that the timbers
could not be taken apart. Many of the spikes were
saved, and are now kept as souvenirs. He lived to
the venerable age of ninety-seven years, his wife
attaining the age of ninety-four years.
In 1858, having acquired a practical education in the
public schools, Edward R. McKee secured a
situation as collector for the Valley Bank, of
Chillicothe, and has since been connected with that bank
and its successor, the First National Bank, until the
present time. Proving himself very capable in his
first position, he was made bookkeeper in 1859, and upon
the organization, in 1863, of the First National Bank
was elected teller. In 1882 Mr. McKee was
made cashier of the bank, and since 1905 has been its
vice-president.
As a young man, Mr. McKee joined Company A,
Twenty-sixth Regiment, Ohio National Guards, which
responded to the call to arms at the time of the
Kirby Smith raid, in 1863, and later in the year
when Gen. John H. Morgan made his famous raid, in
1863, and later in the year when Gen. John H. Morgan
made his famous raid north of the Ohio River. In
May, 1864, Mr. McKee enlisted in Company A, One
Hundred and Forty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of
which he was commissioned lieutenant. After
remaining with his command in Baltimore six weeks, he
went with his regiment to the Shenandoah Valley, and
there took an active part in all of its marches and
campaigns, including several encounters with the enemy,
during the time, the captain being on detailed duty,
having command of his company. Returning home at
the expiration of his term of enlistment, Mr. McKee
resumed his position with the First National Bank, and
subsequently discharged the duties devolving upon him
with characteristic ability and fidelity.
Mr. McKee married, June 17, 1874, Miss Anna
R. Meek, who was born in Winchester, Adams County,
Ohio, a daughter of William M. Meek, and
granddaughter of Rev. John Meek, one of the first
Methodist preachers to locate permanently in Ohio.
Taking up the study of law when young, William M.
Meek was admitted to the Ohio bar, and subsequently
located permanently in Hillsboro, Highland Co., where he
continued in active practice until his death, for many
years serving as probate judge. Then maiden name
of his wife was Hester De Bruin. Her
father, Hyman Israel De Bruin, Mrs. McKee's
maternal grandfather, was born in Holland, of French
Huguenot ancestry. Immigrating to America when
young, he was engaged in the dry goods trade at
Maysville, Kentucky, until 1833, when he transferred his
residence and his business to Winchester, Adams County,
Ohio, where he spent the remainder of his life.
Mr. De Bruin married Rebecca Easton, who was
born in Scutter, Lincolnshire, England, and came with
her parents, Edward and Mary (Shadford) Easton to
America in girlhood, locating first in Maysville,
Kentucky, and in 1833 coming with them to Ripley, Ohio.
Mr. and Mrs. McKee have three children, Edna,
Mary, and William M. Mary married
Gustave A. Eerdmann of Chicago, Illinois, and has
one child, Edward McKee Eerdmann.
William M., an electrical engineer, is in the employ
of the Jeffries Manufacturing Company, at
Pittsburgh. He married Jean Bunton, who
died April 6, 1915, leaving one son, William M.
McKee, Jr.
Religiously Mr. McKee is an active member of
the Walnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of which
he led the chorus choir for thirty-five years, and is
president of its board of trustees. He takes great
interest in local affairs, and is now serving as
president of the Chillicothe Board of Park
Commissioners. He is also president of the Old
Guard, a military organization; and is a member of
A. L. Brown Post No. 162, Grand Army of the Republican,
and of the Loyal Legion. He is likewise a member
of Chillicothe Lodge, No. 52, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, and president of its board of trustees.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 498 |
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FLOYD
C. McNEAL. The farm home of Floyd C.
McNeal is one with long and interesting associations
with members of that family. When his grandfather
first came to Springfield Township the site of the farm
was in the midst of the heavy woods. It was almost
entirely by the labors and persistent industry of the
McNeal family that the land was eventually converted
into a fertile and productive homestead.
On that old place, which he now owns and occupies,
Mr. McNeal was born August 17, 1869. His
father, William McNeal, was born December 3,
1837, on the same farm. The grandfather was
Thomas McNeal, a native of Pennsylvania, of
Scotch-Irish ancestry. From Pennsylvania he came
to Ross County and was a contemporary of some of the
very early settlers of this part of Ohio. Like
other pioneers he journeyed out of Pennsylvania by means
of a wagon and team. His purchase in Ross County
was a tract of timbered land in the southeast quarter of
section 24 in Springfield Township. There in the
midst of the trees was constructed a log cabin. It
was the first home of the McNeal family in Ross
County. Many years passed before railroads or
canals were built, and Thomas McNeal like the
other settlers had to suffer the handicap of lack of
markets and other advantages that came after Ohio was
well settled. In those early days little money was
in circulation and the people lived largely off the
products of their own fields and the wild game in the
forest and the fish in the streams. Thomas
O'Neal was a man of great industry and in time had
most of his land cleared up and under cultivation.
He died at the age of eighty years. The maiden
name of his wife was Mary Gates, who was born in
Germany and who died at the age of seventy-three.
Reference to her family, which were also among the early
settlers of Ross County, will be found on other pages.
She reared eight children, named Henry, Benjamin,
Tomas, James, William, Kate, Rebecca and Jane.
William McNeal, in spite of the lack of good
schools while he was growing up, acquired a good
education. He had qualified as a teacher while
still in his teens, and many of the older generation
will take a special pleasure in recalling the splendid
services he rendered as an educator, continued upwards
of forty years during the winter seasons. With the
exception of the three terms taught in Illinois and
Nebraska his work was entirely within the school
districts of Ross County. With teaching he
combined the ancient and honorable occupation of
agriculture. He succeeded to the ownership of the
old homestead and there lived and prospered until his
death in his seventy-second year. He married
Rebecca Downs. She was born in Harrison
Township of Ross County, Dec. 3, 1840, and is still
living with her daughter, Mrs. M. L. Strawser, in
Colerain Township. Her father, John Downs,
was also a native of Harrison Township. His
parents probably were born in Pennsylvania and were
early settlers of Harrison Township, where the father of
John Downs bought a tract of timbered land in
section 16 and developed it into a farm before his
death. John Downs purchased and
developed it into a farm before his death. John
Downs purchased 200 acres in section 9 of
Harrison Township. At the time it was covered with
a heavy growth of yellow poplar. His industry
enabled him to convert this into fertile fields, and he
lived upon it until after the death of his wife, when he
made his home with his daughter, Mrs. William McNeal.
John Downs married Elizabeth Rout. William
McNeal and wife reared four children named
Foster, Floyd, Martie and Norris.
Floyd C. McNeal grew up in the country and obtained
most of his education from District No. 6 schoolhouse.
His years were spent in assisting in the labors of the
home farm and as an independent farmer until 1903.
In that year he entered the employ of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, and was an active railroad man
until he met with an accident to his right arm in 1910.
In the meantime he had bought the old homestead, which
his grandfather had cleared up from the wilderness, and
has lived on it since 1912. In the past four years
he has erected a set of good farm buildings, has planted
many fruit and shade trees, and now has a place that
compares favorably with the best to be found in
Springfield Township.
In 1892, Mr. McNeal married Lillian
Hanson. She was born in Harrison Township, a
daughter of Greenbury Hanson. Mr. and Mrs.
McNeal have reared three children: Ralph H.,
Helen and Margaret. The family are all active
members of Mount Carmel Methodist Episcopal Church, of
which Mr. McNeal is a trustee. In politics
he cast his first presidential vote for Grover
Cleveland. He has rendered some valuable
public service to his community, having been elected
assessor of the Second Ward in Chillicothe in 1911,
filling that post two years. In 1915 he was
elected assessor of Springfield Township. Mr.
McNeal is affiliated with Chillicothe Lodge, No. 24,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also with the
Independent Order of Foresters.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 800 |
J. B. Mallow Family |
JESSE B. MALLOW.
Half a dozen generations of the Mallow family have
been identified with Ross County. It is one of the oldest
names in Concord Township, where it was established more than a
century ago. Few families have contributed more to the
substantial progress and betterment of Ross County than the
Mallows.
Their record begins with Adam Mallow Sr., who
was born in Pendleton County, Virginia, about 1750. His
was a somewhat remarkable career. When he was about
six years of age he and his mother were captured by Indians.
They were taken as captives south to the vicinity of New
Orleans. They endured all the horrors of Indian captivity
for six years. Finally Adam was returned as an
exchanged prisoner. He was a young man when the
colonics began the struggle for independence, and in the ranks
of the Virginia troops he played a valiant part in that war.
For many years after the revolution he continued farming and
planting in Pendleton County. In 1806 he came with his
family, including his son Adam, to Ohio. At that time the
barrier of the
Allegheny Mountains was unbroken by any highway except the old
National Road, and the family made the journey over the rough
trails and traces with wagons and teams. After much difficulty
they located in Ross County, and since that year the name has
been one of prominence in this section of Ohio. Adam Mallow,
Sr., married Sarah Bush, who was also a native
of Virginia. His death occurred in Ross County in 1840 and his
widow survived him and passed away at the age of ninety-seven
years.
Adam Mallow, Jr., was born in Pendleton County,
Virginia, in 1778, while the Revolutionary war was still in
progress. He was a young married man of twenty-eight years
when he came to Ross County and located in Concord Township.
There he bought land and was not only a sturdy farmer but a
citizen of recognized prominence. When the War of 1812
broke out he joined the United States forces and rose to the
rank of major. After that war Major Mallow
continued farming until his death on August 11, 1834. Major
Mallow married Phoebe Dice, who died three
weeks after her husband. Their nine children were named John,
Rebecca, Catherine, Simon, Jesse, Sarah, Delilah, and
Gilead.
Simon Mallow, grandfather of Jesse B.
Mallow, was born on the old homestead in Concord Township in
1810. He proved a man of great industry and made a conspicuous
success as the manager of his farming interests. He
acquired extensive tracts of land in Ross County, and spent all
his life in Concord Township. His wife's name was
Malinda.
Adam G. Mallow, who represented the next
generation, was born in Concord Township April 6, 1837. He
grew up on a farm and made farming and stock raising his regular
vocation. He acquired more than local note as a breeder of
Shorthorn cattle and was one of the men who introduced some of
the best of that stock in Ross County. His animals were awarded
many first prizes in competition with the best herds in the
country. He was also prominent in local affairs, and for
twenty years served as a member of the township board of
trustees. His death occurred August 12, 1892. Adam
G. Mallow married Jennie Galbraith, a
daughter of Dr. Robert and Margaret (Scofield) Galbraith.
She died in 1890. Her children were two sons: Jesse B.
and Edgar. Edgar is a physician in active
practice at Dayton, Ohio.
Jesse B. Mallow, who represents the fifth
successive generation of the family in Ross County, was born on
his father's farm in Concord Township August 12, 1870.
After graduating from the Frankfort High School he spent two
years in the agricultural department of the Ohio State
University at Columbus. His father then gave him two
hundred acres of land and he immediately applied his theoretical
knowledge in a practical way as a farmer and stock raiser.
He has also done a great deal of feeding and buying and selling
of livestock, and has conducted his enterprises on a very large
scale, thus contributing to Ross County's enviable position
among the agricultural centers of Ohio. Mr.
Mallow now owns 1,200 acres of choice farm land in Concord
Township. His home is one of the finest residences in
Frankfort.
He is also a well known financier, and for several
years was vice president of the Merchants and Farmers Bank at
Frankfort. After after becoming one of the organizers of
the Commercial Bank of that town in 1912, he took the post of
vice president and still fills that position. Mr.
Mallow served as senator of the fifth and sixth
districts, consisting of Ross, Fayette, Green, Clinton and
Highland Counties. He affiliates with the republican
party. Fraternally Mr. Mallow is affiliated
with Frankfort Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Chillicothe
Chapter No. 9, Royal Arch Masons, Chillicothe Council Royal and
Select Masons, and Chillicothe Commandery No. 8, Knights
Templar, and is a Scottish Rite, thirty-second degree, and also
a Shriner at Dayton.
In 1890 Mr. Mallow married Nannie
James, a daughter of Strawder and Rebecca (Bush)
James. Her grandfathers were Reuben James
and Jacob Bush. Mr. and Mrs. Mallow have
reared two children, Eula and Adam G. Eula is the
wife of Doctor Smith of Frankfort and they have a
daughter named Lillian. Doctor Smith's
Grandfather Byron Lutz served in the Senate two
terms. Adam G. Mallow married Lizzie Peterson, and
their son is named Jesse B., Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mallow
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GEORGE W. MILLER.
The business of farming has been the occupation by which
George W. Miller has accomplished a substantial success, and
he is one of the native sons of Ross County and one of the most
prominent citizens of Deerfield Township.
His birth occurred September 30, 1869, on a farm at
High Banks, in Ross County. His grandfather, Frederick
Miller, was born near Frankfort-on-the-Main, in Germany,
grew up as a farmer and spent his life in that pursuit.
His death occurred in Germany in 1854. His widow, whose
maiden name was Magdalene Brust, was born in the
same locality as her husband, and her parents emigrated to
America in 1834, locating in Pike County, Ohio, where they
bought a tract of timbered land six miles west of Waverly, and
made a farm out of the wilderness before they died. Magdalene
Miller, after the death of her husband, set out with her
seven children to America, making the voyage on a sailing vessel
that was forty-three days on the ocean. From New York she
proceeded west to Pittsburg, where she arrived on the 4th of
July. From that point on their westward emigration they
embarked on a boat and went down the Ohio to Portsmouth, and
thence by wagon and team to Pike County, where she joined her
aged parents and took care of them during their declining years.
After she arrived in Ohio she was married in Pike County to a
Mr. Richert, a farmer living near Beavertown.
Mrs. Magdalene Miller lived to a good old age.
Henry Miller, who was born nine miles
from Frankfort-on-the-Main, in Germany, October 8, 1848, was
very young when he came with his mother to America, and his
education, begun in his native land, was continued in American
schools. He grew up to habits of industry and thrift and
as early as thirteen began working by the month. At first
his wages were only $9 a month and they rose as his usefulness
increased. From the savings of his earnings made by hard
toil he in the course of time was able to secure equipment and
rent farming land. Gradually his means increased and he
bought land of his own, and in 1883 acquired seventy-five acres
in Scioto Township of Ross County. That farm has since
been increased under his management to 243 acres. He also
owns 276 acres in Deerfield and Concord townships.
Henry Miller was during his active years known as one
of the most progressive and successful farmers of Ross County.
In 1907 he retired and has since lived in his home on West Main
Street in Chillicothe. In 1868 Henry Miller married
Elizabeth Hamman. She was born in Pike County,
Ohio, a daughter of Philip and Martha (Bumgarner)
Hamman and a granddaughter of Peter and
Laura Hamman, both natives of Germany. Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Miller reared eight children: George W.,
Magdalene, Henry C., Benjamin F., Mary E., John F., Carl and
Alpha.
The son of a prosperous farmer, George W. Miller
was none the less given a very thorough and practical training
as a boy, and industry has been second nature to him. His
early education was acquired in the public schools. When
very young he began assisting his father on the farm, and until
the age of twenty-two lived at home. Starting out to make his
own way in the world, he rented land, and for a couple of years
kept bachelor's hall. He then rented the Dick Fullerton farm
until 1898, and in that year he located on the farm where he has
since resided. This is one of the choicest tracts of land
in Deerfield Township, and was bought by his father in 1898.
George W. Miller is making a success of general farming and
stock raising there, and the many people who know him speak most
favorably of his intelligence and energetic qualities of
character.
In 1893 he married Laura Ulen, who was
born at Bainbridge, in Ross County. Mrs.
Miller's father was Hamilton Ulen, who was
also born in Bainbridge. Her grandfather, Amos Ulen,
was of German ancestry and an early settler of Bainbridge.
A miller by trade, Amos Ulen at one time operated
the flour mill owned by Judge Benner, and
afterwards operated mills in different places. His last
days were passed in Frank fort. Amos Ulen married
Rebecca Middleton, of English ancestry, and both
of them lived to a good old age. Mrs. Miller's
father learned the trade of miller under his father, and was
also employed in that business at different places. The
last mill he operated was Barrett's Mill, in Highland
County. His last years were spent in retirement in
Bainbridge. Hamilton Ulen married Emma
Crooks, who was born in Bainbridge, a daughter of Andrew
and Ann (Wetherbe) Crooks.
Ann Wetherbe's father was one of the very first
settlers in Southern Ohio, and at one time was part owner of the
pike leading from Lancaster. Andrew Crooks
was a hardware merchant in Bainbridge, where he spent his last
days, and he and his wife both rest in the Bainbridge cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller are the parents of twin
daughters, Marjorie and Marie. The daughter
Marjorie is now the wife of Noel Wright,
and they have a son named Miller Eugene.
In political matters, George W. Miller is
entirely independent in local affairs, though nationally he is a
democrat. Fraternally, he is affiliated with Clarksburg
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Frankfort Lodge of the
Masons, and also the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Frankfort.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 699 |
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DR. JAMES D. MILLER.
One of the leading physicians of the middle and later years of
the last century, Dr. James D. Miller was for full
fifty years engaged in the practice of his profession at
Bainbridge and Chillicothe, during his earlier years of practice
having traveled every where throughout the country on horseback,
doubtless with saddle-bags well filled, as then there were no
drug stores to which a prescription could be sent. He was
born December 28, 1821, in Chillicothe, where his father,
James Miller, settled about 1806.
His paternal grandfather, a life-long resident of the
British Isles, rebelled against the English Government, and his
property was confiscated, and he was condemned to die. His
friend, Lord Castlereagh, how ever, interceded,
and he was pardoned. He continued a resident of his native
land until his death. Several of his sons came to America, among
them having been his son Joseph, who settled in Alabama,
and William and James who located in Chillicothe,
Ohio. William was thereafter for many years engaged
in mercantile pursuits at the corner of Paint and Second
streets.
James Miller, the doctor's father, was
sixteen years old when he sailed for America. During the
voyage across the ocean, he was taken from the ship by the
captain of an English vessel, and pressed into the British
service. Making his escape at Havana, he secured passage
on a vessel bound for Philadelphia, and after landing in that
city came from there on foot to Chillicothe. He had
previously learned the carpenter's trade, and subsequently, as a
contractor, built the Paint Street bridge across the Scioto
River. He was prominent in public affairs, filling various
offices, and both he and his wife were charter members of the
First Presbyterian Church. He died August 31, 1844, at the age
of fifty-four years, six months and eleven days, his birth
having occurred February 20, 1790, in County Londonderry,
Ireland.
James Miller married, in Chillicothe,
March 26, 1816, Rebecca Patton, who was born
February 26, 1794, in Pendleton, Virginia, and came from
there to Ross County with her parents, who acquired large tracts
of land just across the river from Chillicothe. She
survived her husband, dying February 21, 1863. She reared
five children, as follows: Catherine, Joseph, Samuel, William
Patton and James D.
James D. Miller acquired his elementary
education in Chillicothe, and after his graduation from the Ohio
University, in Athens, began the study of medicine with
Doctor Wells. He was subsequently graduated
from the medical department of the Pennsylvania University at
Lexington, Kentucky, and at the age of twenty-one years began
the practice of his profession in Chillicothe, where he remained
for upwards of half a century, an able and successful physician.
In addition to faithfully attending to his professional duties,
Doctor Miller served as clerk of the courts of
Ross County, and for a few years conducted a drug store on Paint
Street. With the exception of the short time that he was
located at Bainbridge, the doctor occupied the parental
homestead, to the owner ship of which he succeeded, it being the
estate situated on the south side of Main Street, next to that
of the Walnut Street Methodist Episcopal Church, and which had
been purchased by his father in 1826, when the doctor was but
five years old. Doctor Miller died October
16, 1893, in the seventy-second year of his age.
Dr. James D. Miller married Louisa Wilson,
who was born in High land County, Ohio, July 17, 1828, a
daughter of William and Elizabeth (Wagner) Wilson,
and the descendant of a pioneer family of prominence. She
survived him many years, passing away December 3, 1914, at. the
venerable age of eighty-six years. The union of Doctor
and Mrs. Miller was blessed by the birth of
eleven children, including Elizabeth, Mary L., Edward, James,
Rebecca P., Frank, and Louisa.
Elizabeth Miller, the second child of the
parental household, attended first the Chillicothe schools, and
later the Ohio Female College, at College Hill, Cincinnati.
Then, after teaching in Chillicothe, in a grammar grade, for a
while, entered the Oswego Normal School, at Oswego, New York,
and having completed the course of the literary department of
that institution continued her studies in its scientific
department. Returning to Chillicothe, she taught natural science
in the high school of that city until her marriage to Fred L.
Todd, a druggist at Newark Valley, New York. After the
death of her husband, fifteen months later, Mrs. Todd
returned to Chillicothe, and was again engaged in teaching until
1884, when she became the wife of Henry H. Howland.
Mr. Howland, a commission merchant at Newark Valley,
New York, was a lineal descendant of John and Elizabeth (Tilly)
Howland, Mayflower passengers. Mr. Howland
died December 6, 1887.
After the death of her second husband, Mrs. Howland
studied theology, first taking a correspondence course under
Dean Wright, of Boston, and Doctor Harper,
president of the University of Chicago, and later being a
student in the theological department of Oberlin Seminary.
In 1894 Mrs. Howland was ordained to the ministry
in the Congregational Church at Napoli, New York, of which she
was pastor the ensuing four years. The following one and
one-half years she was at Chautauqua, New York, going from there
to Nelson, Ohio, remaining until 1902, when she accepted a call
from the Plymouth Congregational Church in Chillicothe.
Seven years later, on account of ill health, she resigned that
position, and for two years was pastor of the church at Oneida,
Kansas. Returning to Ohio, Mrs. Howland held the
pastorate of the Wayne Congregational Church at Williamsfield,
until March, 1915, when she resigned, and came back to her
native city to accept her former position as pastor of the
Plymouth Church.
Mrs. Howland has a stepson, Henry B.
Howland, who was graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, in Troy, New York, and is now in the Government
employ, at San Domingo.
Mary L. Miller, the third daughter of Doctor
Miller, is a teacher in the public schools of Kansas
City, Missouri, and spends her summers in Chillicothe with her
sisters. Edward Miller is a traveling
salesman, with headquarters at Columbus. James, the second son,
is not living. Rebecca P. Miller is a teacher in
the Chillicothe schools. Frank Miller, a
resident of Columbus, is interested in the shoe manufacturing
industry. Louisa, who became the wife of Daniel
Rugg, of Syracuse, New York, died July 29, 1888, aged
twenty -five years.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 661 |
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L. D. MILLER.
Left an orphan at an early age, L. D. Miller, now a
well-known and substantial farmer of Twin Township, had to start
life on his own account and also bear the burdens of others.
He has made a good use of his years, and has not only
accomplished much, but has linked honor and probity with his
name.
He was born in Pike County, Ohio, December 14, 1866, a
son of John and Julia (Kaplinger) Miller. Both
parents were natives of Ohio, and his mother was born in Ross
County. John Miller was given a public
school education, was married in Ross County, and then located
on a farm in Pike County. For a number of years he lived
there, and later sold out and moved to Ross County, where he
spent the rest of his days. He died at the age of
forty-three, leaving his widow to care for the family of young
children. His wife died a few years later. She was
an active member of the Christian Union Church. The six
children were: Andrew, now retired: L. D. Miller; John
B., deceased; Jennie, wife of Ed Hern,
of Scioto Township; Nora A., deceased; and William T.,
a merchant and carpenter.
L. D. Miller grew up in Twin Township and had a
limited education in the common schools. When about fifteen
years of age he determined that he would earn his own way and
help support the family. Since then his life has been one
of consecutive endeavor, and after becoming independent he was
married on February 16, 1889, to Miss Mary Kaplinger.
She was born and reared in the same township.
After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Miller began
a life of simple living and extreme economy. Mr.
Miller worked by the month for six or seven years, and
finally got the start which enabled him to acquire a homestead
and home of his own. He now owns a first-class farm of 105
acres on rural route No. 1 out of Bourneville. All that he
has was made by his own efforts.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller had two children, but both
of them died in infancy. Mrs. Miller is an
active member of the Christian Union Church. Fraternally
he is affiliated with Lodge No. 52 of the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks at Chillicothe, and politically he is a
democrat, though in no sense a politician or seeker for public
honors.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 842 |
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ORLEY W.
MILLER. Among the old family farms that have
descended from father and son in Ross County, Ohio, the
valuable one belonging to Orley W. Miller may be
noted, for over 100 years have passed since his
grandfather, John Miller, bought the 130
acres that John Mooney
had entered in 1812. John Miller erected
the first cabin in Jefferson Township and in it reared a
family of nine children, all of these having
passed away with the exception of one son, William,
who is a resident of Jackson County, Ohio. John
Miller cleared the greater part of this
land and subsequently owned three other farms in the
county.
Orley W. Miller was born on the farm he owns, in
Jefferson Township, Ross County, Ohio, March 7, 1876.
His parents were Sherman and Drucilla (Wills) Miller.
His father was born on this farm July 16, 1843, a son of
John and Mary (Nichols) Miller, and his mother in
Jackson County, January 4, 1848. Sherman
Miller followed an agricultural life and was
considered an excellent farmer. The old farm
became his property by purchase in 1876, and here he
resided until his death, March 30, 1915. He was a
church member, a worthy man and a good citizen.
His children are: Corwin L., who is a railroad
man, is train dispatcher at one of the terminals in
Chillicothe; Myrton, who is a carpenter in the
shops of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Chillicothe;
Orley W.; and Daisy, who is the wife of
J. T. Snyder, of Jefferson Township.
Orley W. Miller attended the public schools in
Jefferson Township, the Richmond Dale schools and the
Chillicothe High School, after which he taught school
for ten years. Mr. Miller carries on
general farming, living perhaps a quieter but not less
busy life than his brothers. He is a highly
respected citizen of Ross County.
Mr. Miller was married to Miss Ethel Dixon,
who died October 27, 1912, the mother of three children:
Donald, Mary and Lucile. Mr.
Miller
was married August 7, 1915, to Miss Ruth Nagle,
of Portsmouth, Ohio. In politics he is a democrat.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 924 |
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WILLIAM
MILLER. For half a century a resident of
Chillicothe, William Miller has always
been regarded as a man of integrity and honor, and is
held in high respect throughout the community in which
he lives, and in whose advancement and prosperity he is
ever ready to lend a helping hand. A German by
birth and breeding, he was born, September 18, 1840, in
the Village of Schladehausen, Hanover, where his
parents, John Henry and Elizabeth (Ziegemeier)
Miller, spent their entire lives, being there
engaged in agricultural pursuits. They reared a family
of six children, Catherine, William, Elizabeth,
Hannah, Mary, and Henry. William,
the special subject of this sketch, and his sister
Mary, who married William Schwan, were
the only members of the family to leave the fatherland.
Obtaining his early education in his native village,
William Miller subsequently served for three
years as an apprentice at the miller's trade, which he
afterwards followed in Hanover until 1865. In that
year, impressed by the superior advantages America
offered a young man just starting in life, he immigrated
to this country, and for a few months worked in a flour
mill at Cincinnati. Coming from that city to
Chillicothe in December, 1865, Mr. Miller,
in company with John Smith, purchased a
small mill, operated by steam power, and located on
South Paint Street, and continued business with his
partner until the death of Mr. Smith in
1878. Buying then the interest of the Smith
heirs in the property, he became sole owner of
the mill, which he managed successfully until meeting
with reverses, in 1903. Mr. Miller
was subsequently out of business for awhile, but in 1904
embarked in the insurance business, with which he has
since been actively and prosperously identified.
Mr. Miller married, in 1866, Eliza
Eggers, a native of Rothenfelde, Hanover.
Germany, and to them five children have been born,
namely: Charles H.; Attilla; Anna; Alvin, who
died at the age of forty years;
and Charlotte. Although not an aspirant for
official honors, Mr. Miller was appointed,
in 1906, justice of the peace to fill out an unexpired
term, and in 1907 was elected to that position, which he
has filled continuously since, having been re-elected in
1911. Religiously both Mr. and Mrs. Miller
are conscientious members of the Salem German
Evangelical Church.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 923 |
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EPHRAIM H.
MINEAR. The career
of a very useful and influential
citizen can be traced in the life of Ephraim H. Minear,
who has been
known to the citizens of Ross County for more than half
a century and
has filled many places of honor and trust in Union
Township, where he
was born, and where with the exception of the time spent
in the army
during the Civil war, he has lived to the present time.
His birth occurred on a farm near the village of
Yellowbud in Ross
County, November 25, 1840. He represents one of the very
oldest families in this section of Ohio. His great-grandfather was
Philip Minear,
who was a native of Virginia and served with the
Continental troops in
the struggle for American independence during the
revolution. After
the close of that struggle he emigrated west to Ohio,
and was one of the
first to claim a farm from the wilderness in Union
Township of Ross
County. He located in the midst of the woods, and lived
there until
death overtook him.
The grandfather, Stephen Minear, was born in Virginia,
was brought
to Ross County when very young, and though not of
military age enlisted for service in the War of 1812. He started with
other Ohio troops
for the purpose of relieving General Hull at Detroit. Some years later
he bought a partly improved farm near Yellowbud in Union
Township,
and was one of the useful citizens and farmers of that
locality until his
death at the age of sixty-six. He married a Miss
Bradley, and one of
her children was William Minear, who was born in Union
Township of
Ross County and spent his brief lifetime usefully and
honorably as a
farmer in that locality. His death occurred in 1844 when
only twenty-six
years of age and when his son, Ephraim, was four.
William Minear
married Margaret Hobbs, who was born in Gallia County,
Ohio, a
daughter of Ephraim and Mrs. (Dodridge) Hobbs. She was
the mother
of three children, named Ephraim H, Ella and Lucy. She
married for
her second husband Joseph Kirkendall.
In one of the early schools of Union Township, conducted
after the
manner of fifty years ago, Ephraim H. Minear received
his early training. He worked on a farm, and was early thrown upon his
own resources
by the early death of his father. Seeking an occupation
he learned the
trade of painter and carpenter, and that was the
business by which he
gave his chief service to the community for many years.
On August 11, 1862, Mr. Minear enlisted as a musician in
Company
K of the Eighty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He went
south with
that regiment and was with it in its various campaigns
and battles until
he was incapacitated by illness. He received an
honorable discharge in
June, 1863, and soon afterwards returned home and as
soon as able
resumed work at his trade. In 1886, Mr. Minear moved to
Andersonville,
and in that community has lived for the past thirty
years. Several
years ago he retired from tire active work of his trade
and is now enjoying the fruits of a well spent career in a
comfortable home.
In 1868, a few years after the war, he married Ellen
Gamble. Mrs. Minear was born in Darbyville, Pickaway County, Ohio, a
daughter of Samuel and Eliza Gamble. She and
Mr. Minear lived
together for twelve
years, and her death occurred in 1880. She was survived
by one son, Fletcher. In 1886, Mr. Minear married for his second
wife Ida Madden.
She was born near Yellowbud in Ross County, a daughter
of William and
Minerva (Bryner) Madden. Mr. and Mrs. Minear
have a
daughter, Ella Belle, who is a successful teacher in the public
schools.
Besides the trade which he followed for so many years,
Mr. Minear
has been able to serve his community in several offices
of trust to which
his fellow citizens have called him. In 1868, he was
elected township
assessor, and was continued in that office consecutively
by repeated elections for a period of seventeen years. He also served as
township clerk
from 1887 to 1912, and for several years was a member of
the township
school board.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 818 |
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JOHN A. MOOMAW. That
men of broad and general experience are particularly
fitted for the vocation of farming is denied by no one
familiar with the intellectual and general demands
placed upon present day exponents of scientific
agriculture. The knowledge gained by the educator,
for instance, especially if he has been a worker in the
country districts, is an important item in the equipment
of those who conduct the basic industry of the world,
and it is this advantage which has contributed largely
to the success of John A. Moomaw, of Paint
Township.
Mr. Moomaw was formerly an educator, but since
1900 has been engaged in farming and is now the
proprietor of Maple Lawn Farm, situated one mile north
of Fruitdale, in the Buckskin Valley, a tract of 114
acres, and of a farm of seventy-three acres located on
Price's Ridge. Mr. Moomaw was born in Paint
Township, Ross County, Ohio, May 21, 1854, and is a son
of Jacob B. and Vashti Carolina (Morton) Moomaw.
His paternal grandparents were Henry and Anna (Gray)
Moomaw, the former of near Roanoke, Virginia, and
the latter of Ohio, of Pennsylvania parents.
Vashti Carolina Morton was born in
Ross County, Ohio, near South Salem, her father being a
South Carolinian and her mother an Ohioan. The
Morton family history extends back to
Scotland, from whence, because of religious persecution,
an early member of the family fled to Ireland.
About 1768, because of continued religious trouble,
several of the name crossed the ocean to refuge in
America, and took up their residence in Pennsylvania,
but in order to find a more desirable climate, went
later to South Carolina. They were active during
the Revolutionary war, and after the close of that
struggle, because of the prevalence of slavery in the
South, of which they did not approve, made their way
overland by wagon, with oxen and cows. John and
Margaret (Alexander) Morton, the grandparents of
Mrs. Vashti C. Moomaw, made this journey in 1806,
settling first in Highland County, and later removing to
near South Salem, Ross County, in 1807. The father
of Margaret (Alexander) Morton was captured by
the British while fighting as a soldier of the
Continental line in the war of the Revolution. To
Jacob B. and Vashti C. Moomaw there were born
four children: John A., of this record; Anna,
who is the wife of Albert C. Ellenberger and
lives at South Salem; Frank Morton, a
farmer in Paint Township; and William, who died
at the age of fourteen years.
John A. Moomaw was reared on the home farm and
received his education in the public school and South
Salem (Ohio) Academy, from which he was duly graduated
in 1875. At that time he began teaching and
continued as an educator until the year 1900, when he
turned his attention to farming, as already noted. In
addition to being a practical and successful farmer,
Mr. Moomaw is a broad-minded and progressive
man, well posted on current events and entertaining
sensible opinions on questions of public interest.
He is president of the Buckskin Valley Farmers
Institute, and a member of the executive committee of
the Buckskin-Lyndon Picnic Association, and in other
ways has shown himself alert and alive in affairs of his
community. He is a republican in his political views and
in the primary of August 8, 1916, was a candidate for
the nomination to the office of county commissioner of
Ross County on the republican ticket, believing that
Paint Township should have a candidate on that ticket,
something it has not had in twenty years.
Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of
America and the Royal Arcanum, in both of which he has
numerous friends. He has likewise been active in
religious work, being a member and elder of the
Presbyterian Church and a commissioner to represent the
Chillicothe Presbytery at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1912.
On November 23, 1881, Mr. Moomaw was
married to Miss Sarah Reihle, who was born in
Pike County, Ohio, November 28, 1851, and they have had
six children: F. Ray, a graduate of South Salem
Academy, who spent two years at Miami University,
Oxford, was a teacher in the schools of Porto Rico for
six years, and present county surveyor of Carroll
County, Tennessee, married Anna Hamm, of
Chillicothe, Ohio; Forest E., a graduate of Salem
Academy, teacher in the high school at Bainbridge, and a
farmer in Paint Township, married Mary Grove, and they
have two daughters, Eleanor Elizabeth and
Margaret Victoria; Willis R., a
graduate of the same institution and a teacher in this
and other counties, married Mildred Hoffman,
and they reside in Paint Township and have one son, John
Hoffman; Lina, born April 12, 1889, who died July 23,
1903, when fourteen years of age; Mary E., a
graduate of Greenfield High School and now the wife of
Seigel Mossburger, of Buckskin Township;
and Venna R., a graduate of Buckskin High School,
now residing with her parents.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 710 |
J. B. F. Morgan, M.D. |
J. B. F. MORGAN, M. D.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
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New York 1917 - Page 851 |
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JEREMIAH HENRY MORROW*.
Of distinguished Scotch-Irish ancestry, Jeremiah H.
Morrow, of Chillicothe, comes from a family that has
been prominent in the annals of Ohio for far more than a
century, many of his ancestors having been active in
public affairs, and influential in advancing the
business and industrial interests of state and county,
and in promoting their religious development and growth.
He was born, May 21, 1870, at Cincinnati Furnace, in
Vinton County, Ohio, being a lineal descendant in the
sixth generation of Jeremiah Murray, the
line of descent being as follows: Jeremiah
Murray; John Morrow, the name having
been changed to Morrow in the second generation;
Jeremiah Morrow; Jeremiah Morrow;
Jeremiah Morrow; and Jeremiah
Henry Morrow. This genealogy of the
family has been found in a volume entitled the "History
of the Morrow Family," compiled by Josiah Morrow.
Jeremiah Murray was born in Ireland, of
Scotch ancestry. A Covenanter in religion, he
emigrated from Londonderry, Ireland, to America in
colonial times, settling in Adams County, Pennsylvania.
On April 8, 1753, he was ordained, by Rev.
John Cuthbertson, the first Covenanter
minister sent to America by the Reformed Presbytery of
Scotland, as a ruling elder of the Covenanter Society of
Rock Creek. He was a farmer by occupation, his
land including a part of what was later the Gettysburg
battlefield. He died, September 14, 1758, when but
forty-seven years old. His wife, Sarah,
survived him a number of years, passing away December
19, 1798, aged seventy-six years. They were the
parents of eight children, seven daughters and one son.
John Morrow, he having been the one to-
change the family name from Murray to Morrow,
was reared to agricultural pursuits, and when ready to
begin life for himself settled at Marsh Creek, southwest
of Gettysburg, on land deeded to him by John and
Richard Penn, his farm containing 222 acres of land.
A man of much ability, he became prominent in public
matters, serving not only as county commissioner and
justice of the peace, but being a delegate to many
township and county conventions, over which he was
invariably called upon to preside. He was for many
years a valued member of the Rock Creek Church, but
later was identified with the Hill Associate Reformed
Church, of which he was ruling elder. He died in
1811. He married, November 9, 1768, Miss
Mary Lockhart. She died, March 12,
1790, and both are buried in the Marsh Creek Cemetery,
west of Gettysburg.
Jeremiah Morrow, one of a family of nine
children, was born October 6, 1771, and as a boy and
youth took every afforded opportunity for adding to his
stock of knowledge, obtaining a very fair education.
Brought up on the home farm, he became well acquainted
with its work, cutting the grain with a sickle, and
threshing it with a flail. In 1794, trying the
hazard of new fortunes, he started westward, and after
spending the most of the winter in Western Pennsylvania
pushed his way onward to the northwest territory,
arriving in the Miami country in the spring of 1795, six
months after General Wayne had gained his
decisive victory over the Indians, who, even then,
committed occasional depredations. He spent about
three years surveying in the Symmes Purchase, which lay
between the Miami River and the Virginia Military
District. Purchasing a tract of land in what is
now Deerfield Township, Warren County, he built a log
cabin near the center of section 15, town 3, range 2, of
Symmes Purchase, near the Little Miami River, where he
established his home.
Activity in public affairs was inevitable in a man
possessing the strong traits of character belonging to
Jeremiah Morrow, and in 1800 he was
elected a member of the Northwest Territory Legislature,
and was also elected to the Second Territorial
Legislature. On the second Tuesday of January,
1803, when the first election for state officers was
held, he was one of the four senators elected from
Hamilton County.
The Legislature passed an act appointing Jeremiah
Morrow, Jacob White and William
Ludlow, commissioners to locate the college
township, granted by Congress for the benefit of the
inhabitants of the Symmes Purchase. The first
election for a representative to Congress was held, June
21, 1803, Ohio at that time having been entitled to but
one representative. Jeremiah Morrow
proved to be the winning candidate, and soon after,
accompanied by his wife and two children, he journeyed
on horseback to Washington to attend the extra session
of Congress, which convened October 17, 1803. Four
times re-elected as a representative, he served five
terms in that capacity, about a month before the
expiration of his last term being elected United States
senator. After serving one term, he refused a
re-election, but in 1822 he became a candidate for
governor of the state, and having served with credit to
himself, and to the honor of his constituents, for two
years, he was honored with a re-election to the same
high position. As governor of Ohio, he welcomed
Lafayette to Cincinnati on May 10, 1825, then, as on
other public occasions, performing the social duties
devolving upon him with ease and dignity.
On February 19, 1799, Jeremiah Morrow
married, in Pennsylvania, his native state, Mary
Parkhill, whose birth occurred in Fayette County,
Pennsylvania, July 8, 1776. Returning with his
bride to Ohio, they began housekeeping in the log cabin
which he had erected on the Little Miami, twenty miles
from Cincinnati, the nearest postoffice, and there both
spent their remaining days, her death occurring
September 19, 1845, and his March 22, 1852, at the
venerable age of eighty-one years. They reared
seven children, as follows: John; Jeremiah; James M.;
Martha, who married George Ramsey; Mary
became the wife of David Mitchell;
Rebecca married Dr. Samuel S. Stewart; and
Elizabeth Jane, who married Dr. Andrew C.
McDill.
Jeremiah Morrow was born in Warren County, Ohio,
December 16, 1809, and being studiously inclined was
given excellent educational advantages. Graduated
from the Miami University, he was ordained as a minister
of the Associate Reformed Church, and having assumed
charge of the church of that denomination at
Chillicothe, remained as its pastor until his death,
July 26, 1843, while yet in the prime of life. He
married, December 16, 1835, Sarah Johnson,
who was born November 23, 1812, in Chillicothe, a
daughter of Henry Johnson, a pioneer of
this city. She subsequently removed to Oxford,
Ohio. Her death occurred April 9, 1893. She
reared three children, namely: Jennie J., who
married John L. Jones; Mary Elizabeth;
and Jeremiah. One daughter, Sarah
Ellen, died in infancy.
Jeremiah Morrow, the youngest child of
his parents, and the only son, was born in Chillicothe,
October 18, 1843, but a short time before the death of
his father. Acquiring his rudimentary education in
the public schools of Oxford, he was graduated from the
Miami University with the class of 1861. At the
outbreak of the Civil war, with several other of his
college mates, he enlisted for three mouths in Company
—, Eighty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and continued
with his regiment until receiving his honorable
discharge, at the expiration of his term of enlistment.
Subsequently enlisting in the United States navy, he
served as assistant surgeon steward on Admiral
Porter's nag ship, being on the vessel during
several engagements. Honorably discharged at the
expiration of his term of service, he returned to
Oxford. Subsequently going to West Virginia, he
was engaged in exploring the oil fields of that vicinity
for a time, and then went to Vinton County, Ohio, where
he was assistant manager of the Cincinnati Furnace until
1872. Since that year he has been actively engaged
in developing, and operating, coal mines for himself and
other promoters in Jackson County, at the present
writing, in 1915, being a resident of Wcllston.
The maiden name of his wife was Louesa Treat
Ford. She was born near New Haven,
Connecticut, a daughter of Stephen T. Ford, and
to them six children have been born, namely:
Jeremiah, Henry, William Treat, Mary Louesa, Jennie
Julia, Frank C, and Charles H.
Jeremiah Henry Morrow attended first the public
schools of Jackson County, later continuing his studies
at normal schools. Accepting a position as clerk
in the Ohio Coal Exchange Company, at Columbus, he
retained it for two years, and during the ensuing two
years was engaged in developing the coal mines and
mineral fields of Jackson and Vinton counties. In
1894 Mr. Morrow came to Chillicothe to
accept the position of private secretary to the late
William Trimble McClintock, with whose estate he is
now connected.
Mr. Morrow married, June 6, 1899, Nannie May
Duddleson, who was born in Vinton County, Ohio, a
daughter of Henry and Jean (Appleman) Duddleson,
and into the household thus established two children
have made their advent, Wayne and Inez.
Politically, Mr. Morrow is affiliated with
the republican party, and religiously both Mr. and
Mrs. Morrow are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 780 |
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C. C. MOXLEY.
Agricultural conditions in Ross County have changed to
such an extent during the past several decades that the
enterprising farmer has been compelled to change in
large degree his methods of treating the soil. New
discoveries have been made, powerful machinery has been
invented and new innovations introduced, and he who
would reap the most beneficial results from his property
must keep himself fully conversant with the changes and
developments of the times. Among Ross County's
progressive agriculturists, one who has gained a full
measure of success, largely through an appreciation of
the value of new and improved methods, is C. C.
Moxley, whose handsome property is located in Paint
Township, on Greenfield Rural Route No. 1. Mr.
Moxley is not only a skilled farmer, but also deals
successfully in stock and real estate, and is as well
known in business as he is in agricultural circles.
C. C. Moxley was born near Leesburg, Highland
County, Ohio, May 5, 1870, and was six years of age when
he was brought to Ross County by his parents, John K.
and Lida Moxley. His father, a native of
Kentucky, fought as a soldier of the Union during the
Civil war, being a sergeant in the Forty-Eighth
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He fought
throughout the period of the war, and when he received
his honorable discharge it was with a record for bravery
and faithfulness of which any man might be proud.
At the end of his military service he returned to his
Ross County home and again engaged in farming and here
continues to make his residence, being now seventy-five
years of age. Mrs. Moxley died May 6, 1915,
she having been a native of the Empire State.
There were three children in the family, but only two
survive at this time.
C. C. Moxley was reared on his father's farm in
Paint Township, securing his education during the winter
terms in the district school of his locality. He
remained with his parents until he was twenty-nine years
of age, at which time he was married, and started his
independent career on a rented farm near Bainbridge.
There he resided until 1904, making many improvements
and saving his earnings, and in the year mentioned was
able to buy the farm on which he now lives, a tract of
136 acres. This he has brought to a high state of
cultivation, and on his premises may be found grades of
stock of all kinds. Few men, in so short a period
of time, have made better use of their
opportunities, and he is ranked as one of the most
systematic, progressive and substantial agriculturists
of his township. Several years ago Mr. Moxley
began dealing in live stock, merely as a side line, but
this he has built up to be one of the most important
branches of his business. While so engaged he
became interested in real estate, and having a profound
faith in the future of hits community invested some
capital in property in the locality. He has been
the medium through which some and factors a building
reality.
Source: A Standard History of Ross County, Ohio -
Vol. II. - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago &
New York 1917 - Page 929 |
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