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JUDGE
SAMUEL McCLANAHAN. Robert McClanahan and
Isabelle, his wife, came from Ireland and purchased land
on which West Union is now located and while it is still a
part of the Northwest Territory, they donated or sold the
land for public buildings to the county. Their son,
Samuel, was born on the fifteenth of February, 1797.
He was married to Mary Armstrong, Dec. 14, 1815, and
located on the farm west of West Union, where he lived until
1864 when he removed to North Liberty, Ohio, and died Mar.
5, 1882. Isabelle, his daughter, married
William McGovney, May 9, 1839. He was elected
Associate Judge of Adams County in 1831 and served one term.
he was a practical surveyor and did a great deal of work in
the way of land surveying. He was also a school
teacher and County Examiner and was one of the first School
Examiners in the county. He died Nov. 5, 1881.
In politics he was a Whig, an Abolitionist and a
Republican. He was a strong temperance advocate.
He set the example of total abstinence by refusing to use
liquor at a barn raising or in harvet, and to show his
harvest hands it was not to save money, he offered to pay
each one the amount extra for the cost of the whisky they
had formerly been furnished.
He was a Presbyterian, a ruling elder in the church for
many years, the Associate Reformed and afterwards the United
Presbyterian. He was liberal in his views and
spiritually minded. In the last few years of his life,
there was but one book to him - the Bible. He read it
four times in four years, and said that each time he re-read
it there was something new. His mind was clear to the
last. In his final illness, he spoke calmly of his
approaching end, and passed away in the confidence of
Christian faith.
In his personal appearance Judge McClanahan was
a remarkable figure, and in his old age he was one of the
best types of the patriarch, with his long flowing beard and
dignified bearing. He was a man among men and
respected by the entire community for his sterling virtues.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 -
Page 602) |
WILLIAM
McGARRY was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1757,
and emigrated to Virginia in the Spring of 1777. He
enlisted the same spring as a private in Captain Wood
Jones' Company and served afterward in Captain
Benjamin Hoomes' Company, Second Regiment, commanded by
Col. William Febiger, in the Revolutionary War.
His enlistment was for a period of three years.
He was in the battles which occurred during the time of
his services in New Jersey and about Philadelphia, but a
large part of the time his duties consisted in hauling
supplies to the army.
He came to Ohio in 1795, directly after the peace of
Greenville, and bought two hundred and twenty-five acres of
ground on Poplar Ridge, in Tiffin Township. This land
is now owned by w. J. and B. Grooms, Caleb Malone and
Mr. Deitz. He left the blockhouse at Manchester
and located on land in Tiffin Township when there had not
been a single tree cut down in the township and none outside
of Manchester. He cleared off a patch of ground and
built a pole cabin and moved his family into it. There
were plenty of wolves, bears, wild turkeys and deer in the
forest at that time, and a great many roving Indians.
His daughter has told a lady now living near West Union
that she had been at that place many times when all was
forest, not a house in the vicinity, and had drank out of
the spring where the public well now stands. When he
made a clearing, the first think he did was to plant peach
trees and engage in the manufacture of whiskey and brandy.
The squirrels and wild turkeys were so plenty that when
he planted his corn, it was necessary to stand guard over it
until it was grown too high for them to disturb. After
it was planted he made paw-paw whistles and had his children
march around the corn fields at the edge of the forests
during the day, blowing these whistles so that the squirrels
and turkeys would not bother the corn.
Some time after building his pole cabin, be built a log
house with large fire-places, and he was considered a rich
man for his time.
He was one of the first members of the Presbyterian
Church at West Union. He was not a pensioner of the
Revolutionary War, because he owned considerable land and
could not obtain a pension.
He married his first wife, Elizabeth Walker, in
Washington County, Pennsylvania, and she was the mother of
five children.
William McGarry had a second wife, Mary McKee,
and she was the mother of three children. He was
esteemed as a useful and valuable citizen. He did what
could not be done in our day; he was a very pious man and a
consistent member of the Presbyterian Church, and raised his
family in the same manner as himself, and at the same time
made and drank whiskey all the time when it was no disgrace
either to make it or drink it.
He died in 1845 and was buried on the farm which he
cleared and owned.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 603) |
SILAS DYER McINTIRE was
born Dec. 31, 1824, and was reared a farmer's son. He
was married first to Caroline Patton,
daughter of John and Phoebe Patton, on the
third of March, 1852. The children of this marriage were
Ambrose Patton, now living at Lima, Ohio;
Ruth, wife of Henry Brown, of
Washington C. H.; Lizzie, wife of J.
G. Glasgow; Mary, wife of J.
H. Morrison, of Bookwalter, Neb. His first wife
died Oct. 28, 1865, and on Aug. 1, 1867, he was married to
Sarah Marlatt, daughter of Silas and
Jane (Cane) Marlatt, of Eckmansville. The
children of this second marriage were Pearl,
wife of Dr. E. F. Downey, of Peebles;
Jane Faye, Anna L. Wilber, and
Andrew Homer, residing at home.
While a young man, S. D. McIntire taught
school until his marriage, and after that was a farmer in
Wayne Township the remainder of his life. He was a
member of the U. P. Church at Cherry Fork, Ohio, and a ruling
elder for many years. He was Justice of the Peace for
Wayne Township, 1867 to 1865, eight years. In politics,
he was a Republican and anti-slavery man. His father,
Col. Andrew McIntire, has a Separate sketch
herein, and is also referred to in the article under the title
of "The Cholera of 1849."
'Squire
McIntire, as he was familiarly known, was a man of
high character, honest and honorable in all his dealings, and
highly respected. He enjoyed the confidence of all who
knew him. His widow survives him and resides with her
four younger children on the old farm on which he lived and
died.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 -
Page 802) |
GENERAL
NATHANIEL MASSIE, the founder of Manchester and the
leader in the third settlement in Ohio was born Dec. 28,
1763, in Goochland County, Virginia. His grandfather,
Charles Massie, with two brothers, had emigrated to
Virginia from Chester in England in 1680. His son,
Nathaniel Massie, was married to Elizabeth Watkins
in 17670 and our subject was their eldest child. He
had two brothers and a sister. His brother Henry
was the original proprietor and founder of the city of
Portsmouth, Scioto County. When he was eleven years of
age, his mother died, and two years later his father married
again. Nathaniel Massie had a good education
and learned the science of surveying. In 1780 and
1781, he served with the Virginia Militia in the War of the
Revolution.
In 1783, at the close of the Revolutionary War, at the
age of twenty, young Massie set out for Kentucky.
He was a surveyor. His father had already located
lands in Kentucky and he had excellent letters of
introduction. He adapted himself to the conditions of
life he found in Kentucky and made a most expert woodsman,
hunter and Indian fighter. HE had courage, endurance,
and a happy temperament. He would endure any hardships
incident to his life without complaint. He was a
trader in salt in 1788 and made money in the business.
He established a reputation as a land locator which brought
him business and made him money. He was a tall and
uncommonly fine looking young man. His form was
slender and well made. He was muscular, very active,
and his countenance expressed energy and good sense.
During his residence in Kentucky, he made several
expeditions into that part of the Northwest Territory now
Ohio, and in 1790, formed the determination to establish a
settlement at Manchester. He offered an inlot, an
outlot and one hundred acres of land to the first
twenty-five who would accompany him. His offers were
accepted by nineteen persons, and a written contract entered
into December 1, 1790. Of those who signed the
descendants of the Lindseys, Wades, Clarks Ellisons,
Simerals, McCutcheons and Stouts are well known
to the present generation.
In the winter of 1790, in pursuance of this agreement,
a settlement, a settlement was made at Manchester, composed
of Virginians, the third in Ohio. A block house and
stockade were built. While the first people of
Manchester lived in daily dread of the Indians, and while
two of their number were carried off by them, yet they
enjoyed themselves more than the present inhabitants.
Massie was not, however, content to remain at the
Station at Manchester. He located the land on Gift
Ridge in Monroe Township in order to give each of his
settlers the one hundred acres of land he had promised and
he located one thousand acres of the finest upland for
himself, being the tract afterward known as Buckeye Station.
This he sold to his brother-in-law, Judge Byrd, in
1807. Massie began his explorations of the
Scioto country soon after his location at Manchester and
explored Paint Valley. Here, two miles west of
Bainbridge, he located one thousand acres of land on which
he afterward made his home. It is today the finest
body of land in Ohio, and the writer would rather own it
than any tract of the same quantity in the state.
Massie must have had a wonderful faculty of judging land
in the virgin forest, for he never failed to select
excellent land. In 1796, he located in the city of
Chillicothe. In 1799, he represented Adams County in
the first Territorial Legislature with Joseph Darlinton
as his colleague.
In December, 1797, though a layman, he was a Common
Pleas Judge of Adams County, and a Colonel of the Militia.
He was married to Miss Susan Everad Meade, daughter
of Colonel David Meade, of Chaumiere, Kentucky, in
1800, and thereby became the brother-in-law of Charles
Willing Byrd, then Secretary of the Northwest Territory,
and of William Creighton, the first Secretary of the
State of Ohio. He was a member of the second
Territorial Legislature from Ross County, where he had taken
up his residence. He was a member of the first
Constitutional Convention from that county. He was a
member of the State Senate from Ross County at its first and
second sessions.
On January 11, 1804, he was commissioned as Major
General of the Second Division of the Ohio Militia, having
been elected to that office by the Legislature. It is
from this appointment he derived the title of General.
At the same time his friend, David Bradford of Adams
County, was commissioned as Quartermaster General of the
same division. HE was a member of the House from Ross
County in 1806 and 1807, and a candidate for Governor in
1807 and received 4,757 votes to 6,050 votes for Return
J. Meigs, who was declared ineligible to the office.
Massie declined to take the office when Meigs
was declared ineligible and it was filled by his friend,
Thomas Kirker, Speaker of the Senate. To show how
he was estimated among those who knew him best we give the
vote for Governor in the following counties: Ross -
Massie, 1032; Meigs, 62; Adams - Massie,
441; Meigs, 114; Franklin - Massie, 332;
Meigs, 30.
On the question of the ineligibility of Meigs
for the office of Governor, the vote of the General Assembly
stood twenty-four in favor to twenty against.
Thomas Kirker, the Senator from Adams to Scioto and
Speaker, did not vote. Of the representatives from
Adams and Scioto, Dr. Alexander Campbell, Andrew Ellison
and Phillip Lewis, Jr., voted the ineligibility of
Meigs. That vote made Thomas Kirker
Governor from Dec. 8, 1807, for another year.
Massie might have had the honor himself, but preferred
that it should go to Thomas Kirker, who was Governor
of the State almost two years without having been elected to
the office, by filling two successive vacancies.
General Massie's activity in
public affairs largely ceased after his race for Governor.
He had a national reputation and was known as well in
Kentucky and Virginia as in Ohio. He resided in the
Virginia Military District and was better acquainted with it
both as to the manner of locating lands and the lands in it
that any man of his time. He was employed in locating
warrants wherever he could or would accept employment.
Of course he could not serve all and had to refuse many, but
his friends were numerous and some he could not deny.
Besides, he had a large private business of his own.
The large tracts of real estate which he owned required most
of his time. He made sales, subdivisions for
purchasers, perfected titles, made deeds, paid taxes and
made leases. He built saw and grist mills, paper
mills, and, at the time of his death, was making ready to
build an iron furnace.
He was full of the activities of this life, but his
career was cut short. In the fall of 1813, he was
attacked by pneumonia, the result of exposure. The
doctors of that day believed in heroic treatment and the
result was that he was bled profusely and the disease
carried him off. He died Nov. 3, 1813, at his pleasant
home and was buried there in a field in front of the house,
between it and Paint Creek. His wife survived him
until 1837, when she died and was buried at his side.
There their remains rested until June, 1870, when, by
request of the citizens of Chillicothe, they were removed to
the beautiful cemetery of Chillicothe, and reinterred on a
lot which overlooks the entire city.
General Massie was a lover of fine scenery.
He enjoyed the view from Buckeye Station many times, in all
its primitive wilderness. He enjoyed the view from his
home in the picturesque Paint Valley, and in life he has
stood on the spot where his ashes are laid and viewed the
beautiful Scioto Valley, and could his spirit visit the
scene of the last resting place of his body, it would o
doubt be satisfied with the honor shown his memory by the
people of Chillicothe.
His son, Nathaniel Massie, was for the greater
part of his life a citizen of Adams County. He was
born Feb. 16, 1805, in Ross County. He married a
daughter of the Rev. John Collins and reared a large
family. He made his home in Adams County from 1854
until 1874, when his wife died. He removed to
Hillsboro in 1880 and resided there until his death in
March, 1894. He and his wife are interred in the old
South Cemetery at West Union in a spot which has a fine an
outlook as the spot where his distinguished father reposes.
We have refrained from giving a more extensive account
of General Nathaniel Massie because his life has
recently (1896) been published by his distinguished
grandson, the Hon. David Meade Massie of Chillicothe,
Ohio, and we could only copy from that most interesting
work. To all who desire to read up the founding of our
State, we recommend the perusal of this work.
General Massie was the founder of Adams County and of
its largest town, Manchester, and his memory should be held
in affectionate remembrance by every citizen of the county.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 587) |
JOHN
M'COLM born in Maryland in 1800; to this county with
his parents in 1804. John married Hannah
Beach, Apr. 24, 1823. He was the son of John
and the grandson of John & Elizabeth (Blair)
McColm. The grandparents and their family came
from Scotland to Allegheny Co., Maryland in 1793 and here
the grandparents died.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900) |
HENRY HARRISON MECHLIN,
manufacturer and dealer in lumber, of Winchester, Ohio, was
born Apr. 13, 1854, at Jasper, Pike County, Ohio, son of
H. H. and Nancy (Coulter) Mechlin. William
Mechlin, his grandfather, was one of the early
settlers of Pike County, having emigrated from Butler County,
Pennsylvania, in the twenties. His mother was a daughter
of James Coulter, of Irish descent.
Our subject spent his boyhood on a farm in Pike County.
He had such schooling as the District school of his vicinity
afforded. As soon as he became of age, he became a
traveler, visiting nearly every state and Territory in the
United States. In 1879, he returned to Pike County, and
engaged in the mercantile business for a period of three years
and was quite successful. He then traveled through the
South and Southwest until 1885, when he returned to Pike
County.
He was married at Waverly,
Ohio, to Miss Anna Burns, daughter of
Robert Burns, Apr. 18, 1886. After this, he
settled at Coopersville, Pike County, and engaged in the
timber business. He remained here until 1893, when he
removed to Winchester, Adams, County, where he engaged in the
same business, and has since continued it. He owns and
controls the most extensive lumber and sawmill business in the
county, using more timber than any mill in the county.
Since his location, he has cut and removed more timber than
any like plant in the county. His mills are near the
depot and are equipped with the most modern machinery.
He uses electric lights, having a dynamo, which furnishes
light to his plant and offices. He has six children,
five boys and one girl, Rexford K., James C., H. Mark,
Russell P., Marjory, and Collin N.
He is a Republican and a
member of the Methodist Church. He is a member of the
Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 484, at Winchester.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 803) |
JAMES G. METZ - was born August 3,
1846, at Dumbarton, Ohio. His father was, William
Metz, was born in Kentucky, May 6, 1806.
Jacob Metz, the father of William Metz, emigrated
first to Kentucky from Germany, and afterwards to the State of
Ohio. Jacob Metz, the emigrant, by his first
marriage had four children, William, Thomas, Elizabeth,
and Martha; all born in the State of Kentucky.
Elizabeth married David Sprinkle, and Martha
married George Killen. Jacob Metz was
married a second time. There were seven children of this
marriage, George, Jacob, Frank, Edward, and Michael,
sons; and two daughters, Amanda and Margaret.
William Metz, the father of our subject, was reared in
Adams County. He married Katherine Thomas,
February 11, 1826, and she died February 10, 1845. The
children of this marriage were Sarah A., married
William Anderson; Susan, married Joseph
McFarland; George, married Amanda Warren;
Thomas, married Elizabeth Francis; Margaret,
married James McGovney; also William J., married
Della Gregory; and Samuel, two sons. The
second wife of William J. Metz was Hannah
Williams. She was a grand-daughter of James
Williams, a Revolutionary soldier from Washington county,
Maryland, born February 22, 1759, in Chester County,
Pennsylvania, and served ten months; four months in the
Maryland Militia and six months in the Pennsylvania Militia;
the last four being under Col. William Crawford, who
was afterwards burned at the stake by the Indians June 11,
1792.
There were seven sons of the marriage of William
Metz and Hannah Williams, and no daughters;
James G., David H., Jacob F., Lewis T., Edward C.,
Frank C., and Uriah H., of whom three are living,
James G., David H., and Edward C. Hannah
Williams, the second wife of William Metz, died
August 25, 1888, at the age of seventy years. Her
father, James Williams, died September 8, 1873, at the
great age of ninety-five years. His wife, Sarah
Williams, died March 11, 1862, aged seventy-four years.
William Metz, father of our subject, was a
resident of the vicinity of Dunbarton, Ohio, until 1856, when
he removed to Rome, and continued to reside there the
remainder of his life. He held township offices in Meigs
and Greene Townships. He was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He was a Whig and Republican in his
political views. He was an expert in the buying and
selling of live stock. In Rome, he was engaged in the
merchandising business with his son William, but gave
no personal attention to the business. He was a
steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a prominent man
for years. He died August 7, 1879.
Our subject was educated in the common schools and
brought up on the farm. He enlisted in the Civil War in
Company D, 173d O. V. I., on September 1, 1804, at the age of
eighteen years, and he served with the regiment until the
twenty-sixth of June, 1865. He learned the trade of
wagon making with J. W. Pettit, at Rockville, Adams
County, Ohio. He began as an apprentice in 1865, and
bought out Pettit and carried on the business at
Rockville until 1873. He then went to Calloway County,
Missouri. He remained there nine months, came back to
Rockville, and resumed his former business of wagon making.
He removed to Rome in 1875, and went to farming, and continued
that for a period of four years. In 1879, he went into
the butchering business; and in 1881 he engaged as a clerk for
W. T. McCormick, and remained in that business until
the Fall of 1899, when he was nominated by the Republican
party of Adams County for Sheriff and elected.
He was married November 7, 1865, to Mary Devoss,
daughter of David and Rachel Devoss. They have
had eight children, five of whom are living and three
deceased. His living children are Frank C.,
married Ann Gray, living in Rome and engaged in the
timber business. His daughter, Addie Belle, is
the wife of E. A. Scott, Superintendent of the
Schools at Augusta, Ky. His sons, James F.
and George, and his daughter Bertha reside at
home. He was elected Sheriff in 1899 by a majority of
ninety-one over J. W. McKee, who had been elected on
the Democratic ticket two years before.
Mr. Metz has been a Republican in his political
views all his life. He is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and was Superintendent of the M. E. Sabbath
School in Rome for fourteen years prior to his becoming
Sheriff. He is a Mason, Odd Fellow, and Knights of
Pythias. He is a public-spirited citizen, a Christian
gentleman, and an able, careful, and painstaking public
official.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - pg.812)
NOTE: James Metz is also mentioned on page 147 serving
from 1899 - 1901 as Sheriff in Adams County, Ohio.
ALSO NOTE: Thomas Metz was mentioned on page 155 in
Meigs township Qualified as Justice of the Peace on April 12,
1859 and term expired in 1862 |
THOMAS METZ -
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 154) |
BENJAMIN
MONTGOMERY, of Seaman, was born Feb. 4, 1829, in Adams
County, and has resided at his birthplace ever since.
His father's name was John Montgomery and his mother's maiden
name, James Haines. His maternal
grand-parents came from Ireland in about 1790, and settled in
Ross County, Ohio. They were strict Covenanters.
His mother died May 29, 1849, aged sixty-two years, and is
interred at Tranquility. His mother was a very hard
worker and a woman of extraordinary industry and energy and an
expert spinner and weaver. In her younger days, she made
all the clothing for her father's family, and for her own,
after marriage. His father died June 16, 1862, at the
age of seventy-three years, and is also buried at Tranquility.
He was born in Kentucky and removed to Adams County in 1800
with his parents, and settled on the West Fork of Brush Creek.
He was one of five brothers, and four sisters. When a
young man, he purchased a tract of land in the old Peyton
survey, cleared it off, built a cabin, and then married.
He resided there until his death. He raised five
children, Hadassah, John Harvey, Andrew H., Benjamin
and James B. Andrew H., and Benjamin
are the only ones now living. His father was one of the
foremost men of his neighborhood in the erection of the
pioneer log houses and barns, and in the making of rails.
His paternal grandfather came from England at an early date.
Our subject is a farmer by occupation and resides on the same
farm that his father cleared. His education was received
in teh log schoolhouse in the district in which he resided.
Benjamin Montgomery was married to
Margaret H. Seaton, Jan. 15, 1859, and to them were
born three children, Elmer E., Mary Edith and
Charles W. Elmer E., resides with his father
and has charge of the farm. Mary Edith
married H. R. Clarke, a miller employed at
Harsha & Caskey's flour mills at Portsmouth,
Ohio. They have one son Frederick Benjamin
Clarke. Charles W., is a
physician and is conducting a pharmacy at Bethel, Clermont
County, Ohio. He is married and has one son,
Benjamin Brooks Montgomery.
Our subject's wife died in June 7, 1897. She was a
member of the Mt. Leigh Presbyterian Church
for thirty years. She has a brother, John Seaton,
living at King's Creek, Champaign County, Ohio, also, a
sister, Eliza Clark, living at Harshaville,
Ohio.
Mr. Montgomery
was a Democrat from the time he became of age until
General Morgan with his raiders went through Adams
County. He was then converted to the Republican party by
that raid and has continued identified with that political
organization. We give this statement in his own
language. He was raised a Covenanter, but for the last
twenty-five years he has been a member of the Mt. Leigh
Presbyterian Church. He has a brother, Andrew H.,
now living in Kansas, a farmer, who, in his younger days, was
a tanner and had control of the old tanyard at Rarden, Ohio,
with Orville Grant, a brother of Gen.
U. S. Grant, as a partner.
Mr. Montgomery, is regarded as one of the
best citizens of the county and a most excellent neighbor.
He is honest and honorable in all his dealings. He is a
model farmer. He is one of the best judges of horses in
the county and a great lover of them. He is a man of
strong sympathies with those in distress and is ever ready to
express his sympathies in the manner in which they will be
most appreciated. No man stands higher in his sympathies
in the manner in which they will be most appreciated. No
man stands higher in his community in public esteem.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 806) |
DAVID
MORRISON was born Sept. 16, 1807, in Pennsylvania.
He was a nephew of John Loughry. He went from
Pennsylvania direct to Rockville to engage in business under
Mr. Loughry. He was married to Martha
Mitchell, the daughter of Associate Judge David
Mitchell, on the twenty-eighth day of November, 1835, by
Rev. Eleazor Brainard, and they went to house-keeping
in Rockville. He remained with John Loughry
from about 1831 to 1841 as a superintendent of the business
of quarrying and shipping stone. From 1841 to 1847, he
was engaged in boating on the Ohio River. He owned a
tow-boat and a number of barges and engaged in transporting
heavy goods on the Ohio River. He would load them on
barges and tow the barges. From 1851 to 1859, he
resided in Covington, Kentucky. He bought the Judge
Mitchell farm, now owned by his sons, Albert R. and
James H. Morrison, and removed there in 1850 and resided
there until his death, though he never was at any time a
farmer, but was always engaged on the river. He was a
large man, weighing over two hundred and fifty pounds and
was always active and energetic. He died suddenly Mar.
23, 1863, from the effects of an operation on his eyes.
His wife survived him until Mar. 18, 1886. they both
rest in the Mitchell Cemetery on the hill overlooking
the home of Judge David Mitchell, her father.
They had the following children: Mary, wife of
Loyal Wilcox, residing in Kansas. She has a
large family and a son and daughter married. Armour
Morrison resides in Chicago and is engaged in the life
insurance business; Albert R. Morrison married
Elizabeth McMasters, and resides in the old home in Nile
township, Scioto County; James H. Morrison, the
second son, resides in Portsmouth, Ohio; Charles W.
Morrison, the youngest son, is a teacher of music in the
conservatory of music at Oberlin College, and has been so
engaged for twenty-three years. He went there as a
young man to study music and after he had completed his
studies there and in Europe, he was engaged to teach there
and has remained ever since. The sons are all like
their father - active, energetic and industrious men.
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Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 602) |
JAMES H. MORRISON, the
second son of David and Martha (Mitchell) Morrison,
was born at Covington, Kentucky, June 18, 1861. When he
was six years old the family returned to the old
Mitchell home in Nile Township, Scioto County.
He attended school at Elm Tree schoolhouse and obtained his
education there. He is a traveling salesman, and began
as such in 1880 for J. L. Hibbs & Company, of
Portsmouth, Ohio. He traveled for them two years, then
with McFarland, Sanford & Company, of
Portsmouth, Ohio; for Vorheis, Miller & Rupel,
of Cincinnati, Ohio; for Jacobs & Sachs, of
Cincinnati, Ohio, and for Sanford, Storrs & Varner.
Our subject is a Republican, but takes no active part in
political affairs.
On Nov. 3,
1874, he was married to Miss Ora D. McCall,
daughter of Henry McCall, of Nile Township,
Scioto County, Ohio. He has two children living,
Louise, aged fourteen and James Hines,
aged ten. His son, Henry McCall,
volunteered in the Spanish War in April, 1898, in Company H,
Fourth O. V. I. The regiment was sent to Porto Rico, and
when about to return, he was taken sick and died on shipboard
Oc. 26, 1898, and was buried at sea. He was but nineteen
years old at the time of his death.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 806) |
JOHN WILLIAM MORRISON. His birth was
Nov 12, 1853. He was the son of James Morrison and
Mary J. Cobler, his wife. His grandfather,
William Morrison, married a daughter of Ralph
Peterson. Our subject was educated in the common
schools and was a farmer all his life. His father was
a member of Company K, 181st O. V. I. He enlisted Oct.
7, 1864, and died Mar. 16, 1865, while home on furlough,
from the results of the service, when his son, our subject,
was but twelve years of age. he was left the eldest of
seven children, with his widowed mother , to face the worked
and hold the family together, and right nobly did he bear
his burden. These children ranged from twelve to one
year of age, three brothers and three sisters, whose care,
support and education devolved almost wholly on him.
That they have taken their places in the world in honorable
positions is largely due to the example and force of
character of their elder brother.
Our subject was married Oct. 29, 1884, to Miss
Margaret E. Carson, daughter of James Carson and
Eleanor Greathouse, his wife, a woman of a most lovely
and lovable disposition. The marriage was a very happy
one. He and his wife located near Peebles. His
domestic happiness was not, however, to last long. In
June, 1896, he was taken with a catarrh of the bowels, and
the disease steadily progressed till the sixth of July,
1897, when he passed from Earth to Heaven.
During the thirteen years of his married life he was
blessed with four children; two of these died in infancy and
two, a daughter, Mary Ellen, and a son Alfred
Alonzo, survive.
In his political views he was a Democrat. He was
not a member of any fraternal organization. He was a
member of the Christian Disciple Church and lived up to its
teachings. In all his tastes he was domestic. He
felt that he belonged to his wife and children as well as
they to him, and for this reason was not a fraternity man.
He believed in doing the duty nearest to him and pursued it.
Dying in the prime of high noon of life, he was not
permitted to demonstrate what his energies, his mind and
heart could accomplish, but his career to its ending gave
promise of a life full of usefulness and honor. He was
reserved in his intercourse with his fellows, unassuming and
even tempered. He was honorable, just and obliging..
He was most sympathetic with those in sickness or
affliction, and they could and did most gratefully
appreciate his ministrations
He left a record of human sympathy, of religious
feeling and experience, of affection in his family and among
his friends, of industry, economy, which will yield a sweet
smelling incense so long as it shall remain. He did
not live in vain and his memory is a benediction speaking
blessed words to those who feel his loss.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page 797) |
REV.
MARION MORRISON, was born in Adams County, Ohio, June
2, 1821. He received his common school education in a
log schoolhouse near his father's home. He taught
school three winters, continuing to work on the farm in the
summer. In 1842, he started to college at Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio, graduated in 1846, and was
licensed to preach the Gospel by the Chillicothe Presbytery,
April, 1849, and was ordained by the same Aug. 21, 1858.
He was Pastor of Tranquility congregation for six years.
He was elected as Professor of Mathematics in Monmouth
College, Illinois, in 1856 and served in that capacity until
the autumn of 1862. He was Chaplain of the 9th
Illinois Regiment from Aug, 1863, until Aug, 1864. He
published the Western Presbyterian for several
years at Monmouth, Illinois; was pastor of Fairfield,
Illinois, congregation from Jan. 1, 1866, until Dec., 1870;
of Amity, Iowa, from Mar. 1, 1871, until Aug. 30, 1876.
He was appointed general Missionary by the General Assembly
of the United Presbyterian Church for Nebraska and Kansas
and served in that capacity for one year. He was
pastor of Mission Creek Church from Apr. 1, 1878, until Dec.
1, 1889; was pastor of the U. P. congregation at Starkville,
Miss., for about one and a half years. When there, he
broke down with nervous prostration and had to abandon the
active work of the ministry. He returned to Mission
Creek, Nebraska, and has made his home with his only
daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Barr, ever since, preaching
only occasionally when able.
He received the degree of D. D. from Monmouth College.
He is the author of the "Life of the Rev. David MacDill,
D. D.," and of the "History of the Ninth Regiment of the
Illinois Volunteers."
Dr. Morrison has been a whole-souled,
industrious, active and earnest preacher.
(Source 1: History of Adams County, Ohio - by
Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers – West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B.
Stivers - 1900 - Page
591) |
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