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1883 BIOGRAPHIES
J. C. McBroom
Mrs. J. C. McBroom
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ALEXANDER
McCLANNAHAN was born in Washington
County, Md., June 28, 1813. He was reared
in Perry County, Ohio, and Mar. 12, 1837, he
married Nancy Ann Davis born in Fairfield
County, Nov. 25, 1817, a daughter of James M.
and Catherine Siniff Davis. Their
children are - William S.; Catherine
Jane, wife of John M. Huff; Matilda Ann,
wife of Andrew W. Shuch; Mary Emily,
wife of Eratus Fouch (the last three
inside in Hennepin County, Minn.), and
Harriet Elizabeth. The year after his
marriage he and his father-in-law bought a piece
of land together, and seven years later the land
was deeded to Mr. McClannahan. He
left Perry County in 1851 and settled in Elk
Township, Vinton County, where he bought ninety
acres and lived five years. He then sold
out and came to Swan Township where in 1856 he
purchased his present farm of eighty acres which
to-day contains 162 acres. He was formerly
a Whig in politics and now is a Republican.
He has been Treasurer of Swan Township several
years and Township Assessor one year. His
parents, Alexander and Nancy (Miller)
McClannahan, were natives of Maryland.
In 1819 they located in Perry County, Ohio,
where they died, he in the fall of 1851 and his
wife in the spring of the same year. They
reared a family of thirteen children, ten sons
and three daughters, our subject being the
second son.
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WILLIAM S.
McCLANNAHAN, son of Alexander and
Nancy Ann McClannahan, was born in Perry
County, July 25, 1838. April 19, 1861, he
enlisted in the three months' service in Company
D, Eighteenth Ohio Militia, and was discharged
Aug. 26, 1861. He then enlisted in the
three years' service Mar. 25, 1862, in Company
D, Second West Virginia Cavalry. He
participated in several battles, among which
were the battles of the Shenandoah Valley,
Winchester, Cedar Creek, Waynesborough, Five
Forks and Saylor's Creek. He was present
at the surrender of General Lee, Apr. 19,
1865, and was discharged at Wheeling, W. Va.,
July 5, 1865. He was married Jan. 14,
1864, while home on a thirty-days' furlough, to
Rachel Reed, born in Perry County, Ohio,
July 30, 1838, a daughter of John and Eleanor
Reed. The latter moved from Perry
County to Vinton County after her husband's
death. Mr. McClannahan has resided
on his father's farm attending to the farm
duties since his return from the war.
Sept. 4, 1869, he was appointed Clark of Swan
Township to fill a vacancy, which position he
has since held by re-election. Mr.
McClannahan has one daughter - Ida.
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MICHAEL McCLARY,
farmer and stock-raiser, was born in County
Down, Ireland, in 1818. He came to America
in 1837, and landed at Philadelphia, where he
remained one year, when he went to Pittsburg,
Penn., remaining there for thirteen years.
He then came to Ohio and settled in Wilkesville,
Vinton County, where he lived four years, after
which he lived at Buckeye Furnace, Jackson
County, five years. In 1860 he came to his
present farm on section 19, Milton Township,
Jackson Co., Ohio, where he has 250 acres of
land. He has also eighty-three acres near
Buckeye County, and 200 acres in Shelby County,
Ill. His land contains coal, iron and
limestone in large quantities, and is well
improved. He had a large two-story frame
building erected in 1876. His farm in
Illinois and part of his Ohio land is for sale.
Any one wishing to purchase may call on or
address Michael McClary, Hawks P. O., Ohio.
He was married in 1848 to Alice Harman, a
native of Caambria County, Pa. They have
had four children - Mary, Patrick, Margaret
and John H. Mr. McClaryis a
member of the Catholic church,.
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T. F.
McCLURE, proprietor of Hamden Foundry and
Machine Company, was born in Shelby County,
Ohio, in 1852, and is a son of John B.
McClure, who settled in Shelby County, Ohio,
in an early day, and afterward removed to
Jackson County, Ohio. Our subject began
business at Hamden Junction in 1873, by keeping
hotel and livery, which he continued four years.
Then went to Cincinnati and engaged in the
carriage business, for five years traveling for
Anderson, Harris & Co. In August,
1882, he bought an interest in the Hamden
Foundry and Machine Company and assumed charge
of the business in January, 1883. They
manufacture stoves, castings of all kinds, build
and repair machinery. They give employment
to about eighteen men. Capital stock about
$20,000. Commercial rating of the firm
about $150,000. They also carry a general
stock of hardware. Mr. McClure is a
member of the Hamden Lodge, I. O. O. F., No.
517; Secretary of the lodge. He was
married in 1873 to Miss Cordelia Burt,
daughter of Hamilton Burt, of Jackson
County, Ohio. They have three children -
Stanford B., Ethel and Edward Earl.
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J. H. McCormick |
ISAIAH
H. McCORMICK was born in Wyandot County,
Ohio, a son of James and Mary A. (Savage)
McCormick, the former a native of Pennsylvania
and the latter of New Jersey. His parents
were married in 1832, and had a family of seven
children, six of them sons, Isaiah H.
being the second. All these sons were in
the late war, and I. H. was the only one
wounded. He enlisted in Company A,
Fortieth Illinois Infantry, July 27, 1861.
He was in a number of engagements, and was
wounded twice at Shiloh. He was mustered
out as Captain of Company E, One Hundred and
Forty-eighth Ohio Infantry, Sept. 18, 1864.
He was married Mar. 18, 1864, to Rachel L.
Walker, daughter of Marcus H. and Harriet
L. (Ratcliff) Walker, who was born Nov. 22,
1842. They gave had four children, only
three now living - Charles E., Cora E.
and Elley W. Annie L. died
Aug. 4, 1870. Mr. McCormick
educated himself by his own labor.
He taught school and thus obtained the means to
enable him to attend Otterbein University at
Westerville three years. He is now the
principal merchant at Raysville, carrying a
stock of general merchandise, valued at $3,000.
He at one time owned 1,100 acres of fine land,
and at present owns 1,000 acres.
When he returned from the army he had $300, and
in 1867 began business in Raysville. He is
a Knight Templar Mason, an Odd Fellow, a member
of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Royal
Arcanum and the Knights of Honor. Mr.
McCormick is worth about $40,000, and
carries $16,000 life insurance. He has
held various offices of trust in Vinton County,
but of late years, though often solicited,
refuses to accept any office. He is a
member of the Christian church at Raysville.
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GEORGE McDANIEL,
a native of Bedford County, Penn., was born Nov.
5, 1834. IN 1840 he left his native place
for Ohio, settling near Millfield, in Athens
County. Two years later he removed to
Sugar Creek, three miles from Athens, where he
remained ten years. He then removed to
Waterloo Township, but after two years he came
to Brown Township where he has resided since
1854. Mr. McDaniel has followed
farming for a great number of years, and now is
the possessor of a good farm of 240 acres on
section 12, Brown Township. In 1862 our
subject was married to Sarah Ann Allen,
who has borne him eight children whose names
are: Julia A., Charles W., Marshey,
George, Thomas N., Mary, Frank and
Hannah. Mr. McDaniel enlisted in the
late war in Company G, One Hundred and
Fifty-first Ohio National Guards; served 100
days, returning to his home in 1864. He
and wife are members of the Bible Christian
church. Of his eight brothers and sisters
only two are living at present, viz.:
Joseph and George. James
McDaniel, our subject's father, was born
in Pennsylvania, Oct. 11, 1793. He lived
with his son George until his death,
which occurred Mar. 23, 1873. His mother,
Hannah Williams was also a native of
Pennsylvania, being born there May 27, 1793.
She died in Ohio, Oct. 9, 1848.
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JOSEPH McDANIEL,
section 12, Brown Township, Vinton Co., Ohio,
was born in Bedford County, Penn., Sept. 1,
1832, a son of James McDaniel, a native
of the county. Our subject came with his
parents to Athens County, Ohio, in 1840, and a
few years later came to Vinton County, where he
has since resided. He followed threshing
for nine years, bought and shipped stock five
years, but now is engaged in farming and
stock-raising. He was married in the fall
of 1859 to Elizabeth Thompson, daughter
of Ezra Thompson. They have had
seven children, six living - Sarah E., George
W., Arie Jane, Asa S., Olive B. and John
W. Mr. and Mrs. McDaniel are members
of the Bible Christian church at Mt. Zion, in
Starr Township, Hocking County.
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ARTHUR E. McGRATH,
Clerk of the Court of Vinton County, was born in
Wilkesville in 1852. His grandfather,
Thomas McGrath, was a native of Kilkenny,
Ireland, and when a young man came to America,
locating ultimately in Wilkesville, Vinton Co.,
Ohio, where he died. His wife is now the
widow of James Greathouse. Of their
four children Martin E. the eldest, was
born and grew to manhood in Wilkesville, but is
now living in Gallia County, Ohio. He
married Amanda, daughter of Hon.
Almond Soule who married Rebecca Vanseyoc.
They have two children. Arthur E.
McGrath was educated in his native town and
in 1868 commencing teaching. He taught
twelve terms and was then engaged in the fire
insurance business till his appointment to fill
an unexpired term as Clerk, Nov. 2, 1880, and in
the fall of 1881 was elected to his present
office. Mar. 15, 1871, he married
Clarissa Chapman a native of Meigs County,
Ohio, born Sept. 1, 1854, and a daughter of
T. S. Chapman. They have two children
- Nellie L., born Jan. 13, 1872, and
Maude M. born Sept. 10, 1874.
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JAMES M. McVEY.
- Mr. McVey was born in Morgan County,
Ohio, Oct. 23, 1833. His parents
subsequently removed to Swan Township, Vinton
Co., Ohio, where he spent his youth and the
principal part of his life. Mr. McVey
was twice married. He leaves by his first
marriage a daughter, Mrs. Mary Crooks who
resides with her husband in Zanesville, Ohio.
Mrs. Crooks's mother's name was Sarah
Sands. His second marriage was with
Nancy Stevens, Nov. 7, 1858; she survives
him. After his second marriage he kept
hotel where the Kaler House formerly
stood, after which he engaged a while in
farming. Returning again to McArthur he
engaged in running the hack line from this place
to McArthur station. In the course of time
he bought a farm in Benton Township near
Bloomingville; this still forms part of the
estate. He was on this farm several years
when he again went to McArthur and purchased the
property he owned at the time of his death, the
McVey House. He was conducting the
hotel under his name when his life was
terminated by a wound received in a conflict
with L. D. Vickers. He died May 10,
1883. Mr. McVey was a genial,
whole-souled man and very popular, and the
community will ever regret the sad manner in
which he came to his death.
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THOMAS MAGEE,
farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Washington
County, Penn., Jan. 22, 1828. His father
came to Ohio in 1831 and located in Guernsey
County, coming to this county seven years later.
Mr. Magee has a fine farm of 939
acres on section 34, Brown Township. He is
extensively engaged in stock-raising, making a
specialty of Spanish merino sheep. Nov. 11,
1853, he married Mary Ann Trout, a native
of Perry County, Ohio, born Feb. 22, 1832.
They have two children—Franklin P., born
in July, 1854, and Elizabeth Ann,
in July, 1856. Mr. Magee has
held the offices of County Commissioner and
Township Treasurer, the latter for eleven years.
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THOMAS A. MARTIN,
McArthur, Ohio, is a son of Lewis G. and
Frances (McInteer) Martin, natives of
Virginia. Of their four children Thomas
A. is the eldest, and was born in Stafford
County, Va., Sept. 12, 1809. He was reared
in Virginia, but in the fall of 1830 settled at
Wheeling, and in 1832 removed to Lancaster,
Ohio, where he married Julia Fritter.
One year later he settled in Royalton; thence in
1842, to Logan, where he was a produce dealer
until 1848, when he came to McArthur and engaged
in merchandising. In 1849 he was
instrumental in originating the movement for a
new county to become Vinton, in honor of Hon.
Samuel F. Vinton then an ex-Congressman of
this district. Another object Mr.
Martin had a view was to make McArthur a
county seat. After a severe struggle,
assisted by Joseph Kaler, who then
resided in McArthur, he having been a member of
the Legislature through at that time J. K.
Will was the Representative, in 1850 the
bill was passed and the organization of the
county granted with 402 square miles. He,
soon after coming to McArthur, buried his wife.
His second wife is Elizabeth, daughter of
Jacob Shockey, who is a native of this
vicinity, born in 1826. He and wife have
had six children, three daughters (deceased),
and three sons, of whom two are living - L.
D., Postal Clerk on the B. & O. R. R., and
Charles e. S., of Bainbridge.
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JAMES
A. MARTINDILL was born in 1825 in this
township. He was reared on a farm and
educated in the common schools of that day.
He was married Mar. 16, 1848, to Sarah Shreck.
Nine children have been born to this union,
five of whom are living - Arminda, Edith B.
C., Eliza M. and Sarah V. Jasper,
Douglass, Delila and Ida Bell are
deceased. After his marriage he located in
this township, where he has since resided.
He was elected in 1862 Justice of the Peace,
which office he held continuously till 1880.
Several years previous he served as Clerk of the
township. He owns 248 acres of
well-improved land and is engaged in farming and
stock raising. He and family are members
of the Christian Church.
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MOSES
MARTINDILL was born Oct. 9, 1802, in
greenbrier County, W. Va. Was a son of
James and Margaret Martindill, who located
in Gallia County, Ohio, about 1808. Our
subject grew to manhood in Gallia County and
after his marriage settled in what is now Swan
Township, but after several years returned to
Gallia County. In 1831 or '32 he settled
in this township, where he remained till his
death in 1849. He held some of the minor
offices of the township. He belonged to
the United Brethren church and contributed much
to its welfare. By his first wife, Miss
Butler, he had no children. His second
wife, Matilda Claypool, bore him ten
children - James A., Caroline, Andrew J.,
Amanda, Samuel, Moses, Jr., Margaret, Joseph,
Matilda A. and Sarah E. Mrs.
Martindill died Feb. 3, 1875, at the age of
seventy-one years. Mr. Martindill
came to the county a poor man but during his
life he accumulated a good property.
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S. W.
MONAHAN, M. D., was born in Belmont
County, Ohio, in 1844, and is a son of James
and Maria (Walker) Monahan of Maryland, who
became a pioneer family in Belmont County.
The Monahans were originally from
Ireland, and the Walkers from England.
The early life of our subject was passed upon
the farm, and in the district school he obtained
the rudiments of an education which was
developed by a course of study in the Coolville
Seminary. In 1863 he enlisted in the
Sixty-third Ohio Infantry, of which he was
hospital steward, retaining the position until
discharged in 1865. He attended school a
part of the year after his return from the army,
and taught two winters. In 1867 he began
the study of medicine under his brother, Dr.
I. T. Monahan, of Jackson County, Ohio, who
was his preceptor during his studies. He
attended two full courses of lectures at the
Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati,
from which institution he graduated in 1870.
Immediately after, he began the practice of his
profession at Hamden Junction, where he has
since paid exclusive attention to the demands of
a large and increasing practice. He is a
member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
Hamden Lodge, No. 517, being a charger member.
The Doctor was married in1870 to Miss Chassie
Burt, daughter of Hamilton Burt, of
Jackson County, Ohio, who has borne him five
children - Ora B., Grace, Francis H..,
Stephen W. and Bertha. The
Doctor and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal church of the village.
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ELIAKIM HASTINGS
MOORE, ex-Collector of Internal Revenue
and ex-Member of Congress from the Fifteenth
District, was born in Boylston, Worcester Co.,
Mass., June 19, 1812. In 1817 he came with
his father to Ohio, locating, in Athens County.
His early associations were such as to develop a
hardihood and self-reliance characteristic of
those pioneer days. He attended the
district schools of the day, and as a pupil was
rated among the most apt and proficient.
His later education was eminently practical,
being acquired in the rounds of active business
life by intercourse and association with
business men. He joined the first
temperance organization in 1828 and has
continued to preserve his interest in its
welfare and advancement. In politics he
was a Whig until the formation of the Republican
party, with which he has since acted. In
the winter of 1834-’5 he taught school,
alternating with the study of surveying under
Hon. S. B. Pruden, who, in the spring of
1836, appointed him Deputy County Surveyor.
In 1838 he was elected County Surveyor and
re-elected in 1841 and 1844. In 1846 he
was elected County Auditor and was re-elected
continuously till 1858, when he declined further
service. During the late Rebellion he was
active and prominent in the measures taken for
its suppression. When the system of
internal revenue was adopted he was appointed
Collector for the Fifteenth District of Ohio;
but his political predilections being
diametrically opposed to those of Andrew
Johnson’s he was removed. He was for
many years a Director of the Athens branch of
the State Bank of Ohio, and, as its President,
superintended its conversion into the First
National Bank of Athens. Mr.
Moore has become widely known by reason of
his activity in the matter of public
improvements and the development of the mineral
resources of his county. He served some
years as a director of the M. & C. R. R , and
joined in the construction of the C. & H. V. R.
R. as one of the projectors and incorporators.
In 1868 he was elected to Congress but declined
a nomination in 1870. Mr. Moore
was largely instrumental in securing the
location of the asylum for the insane at Athens.
He has served on its Board of Directors and has
also been a member of the Board of Trustees of
the Ohio University. He was a member of
the first Board of Education organized in
Athens. He married Amy Barker,
a descendant of an old New England family.
Of their four children, but one is living—David
H., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal
church, and formerly President of the Cincinnati
Wesleyan College, and the present head of Denver
University, the leading educational institution
of Colorado.
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SIMEON MORGAN
was born in Westmoreland County, Penn. He
was reared on a farm till eighteen years of age,
and in 1839 came with his parents to Ohio.
He was married Nov. 20, 1844, to Anna Bay,
born Aug. 16, 1812, near Cumberland,
Guernsey Co., Ohio. They have eight
children living - Buena Vista, wife of
Eli W. Sonders; Henry Milton, married in
1871 to Maggie Hughes, who died in
August, 1879, leaving three children, -
Frank, Herbert, and Charles Milton, -
when Henry Morgan again married Alice
Broning; Eliza D., wife of James
L. Hughs, of Vinton County; Anna,
wife of Marion Chedister of Labette
County, Kan.; Johnson C., Hilas F., Carire
M., and U. S. Grant. After his
marriage Mr. Morgan settled in Guernsey
County where he lived two years, when he moved
to Muskingum County and purchased 160 acres of
land, where he lived six years. He then
came to Vinton County and bought 360 acres near
Zaleski, Madison Township. About four
years after he purchased his present farm in
Swan Township, one of the best farms in the
county and makes a specialty of stock-raising,
the average amount of which is said to be about
$3,000 annually. In 1869 he built his fine
brick house at a cost of $6,000. In
politics Mr. Morgan is a Republican.
His father, Morgan Morgan, was a
native of Pennsylvania, of Welsh descent.
He married Nancy Cicily, of Fayette
County, Pa., and in 1839 moved with his family
to Guernsey County, Ohio, where he purchased
five years he lived on a quarter of a section of
land which he had bought in the same county.
He then sold out and moved to Muskingum County
where he bought 140 acres, residing there till
his death in 1864. His wife died in 1842.
Of their nine children five only survive -
Simeon (our subject), Johnston,
Calvin, Morgan, and Nancy. Mrs.
Morgan's father, Robert Bay, was born
Jan. 16, 1777, in Pennsylvania. He was a
Colonel in the war of 1812. He was married
in 1811, in Ohio to Phoebe Lindly, born
Oct. 22, 1790, in Pennsylvania. They had
six children of whom Mrs. Morgan was the
youngest. Colonel Bay moved to
Vinton County about 1853 and died there in 1856,
his wife having died many years previous.
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JOHN
MURRAY, farmer, was born in Virginia,
Jan. 13, 1830. He came to Ohio in 1847,
and about 1855 settled on his present residence
on section 16, Vinton Township, having sixty
acres of good land. He enlisted in the 100
days' service in the Eighteenth Ohio Regiment in
the late war, and after the expiration of that
time he was employed as teamster for the
Government for two years. In 1860 Vinton
Township was visited by a tornado which
demolished his house, and at the same time
Mrs. Murray was struck in the forehead by
something flying through the air, leaving a scar
to this day. He was married Apr. 25, 1864,
to Susan E. Burns, a native of Greene
County, Va., born Mar. 22, 1843. She is a
member of the United Brethren church.
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