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* Source:
Commemorative Biographical Records of Northwestern Ohio
including the counties of Defiance, Henry, Williams & Fulton.
Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
1899.
Transcribed by
Sharon Wick
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SAMUEL B. McLAIN.
The subject of this sketch, who for many years was a
prominent, progressive and prosperous agriculturist, now
living retired, is a native of this State, born March 31,
1836, in Knox county.
John McLain, grandfather of our subject, came from
Pennsylvania to Knox county, Ohio, in 1829, where he
followed farming and stock raising. He married Miss
Phoebe Swan, of Pennsylvania, and by her had a family of
eight children—four sons and four daughters—and one of the
sons, Abijah, is now living in Granville, Ohio, at the age
of eighty-three years.
Charles S. McLain, the eldest born in the family
of John and Phoebe (Swan) McLain, and the father of
our subject, was born in June, 1813. in Pennsylvania, coming
thence to Knox county, Ohio, where he married Miss Ruth
R. Berryhill, a native of that State, born in 1815. They
had a family of ten children—five sons and five daughters—as
follows: Samuel Berryhill: Mary A. (deceased);
Hattie, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Loretta (deceased);
William E., living in Colorado; Frances
(deceased); Charles A., of Colorado Springs,
Colorado; Henry H., of Knox county, Ohio; Louis,
of Mt. Vernon, Ohio; and a son that died in infancy.
S. B. McLain, the subject proper of these lines,
received a liberal education for his boyhood day in the
subscription schools of Knox county, somewhat primitive
though they were in their makeup, the seats being made of
slabs, and the writing desks of rough boards, while quill
pens were yet in use, and the ink was made from the bark of
the maple tree. Until 1859 he assisted his father in the
labor of the farm, and then took a trip to the South,
spending over a year in the sunny latitudes; thence moving
northward again, to Illinois and Iowa, in which States he
made his home some seven years, then returning to Ohio, and
settling on his present farm of three hundred forty acres,
one hundred of which lie in Fulton county, and two hundred
forty in Henry county. In addition to this he has given
eighty acres to each of his sons. For several years he dealt
extensively in horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, but is now
living retired, having rented his farm. In politics he is a
Republican, in religious faith a member of the Presbyterian
Church.
Mr. McLain has been twice married, first
time, in 1864, to Miss Angeline Rosecrans, whose father was
a cousin of General Rosecrans, late of the United States
Army. She had one child that died in infancy, and she
herself passed away after about one year's married life. On
August 29, 1866, our subject wedded Miss Mary E.
Crawford, a native of Knox county, Ohio, born February
11, 1841, and five children graced their union, namely:
George H., of Liberty Center, Ohio; Burton C, a
farmer of Fulton county, Ohio; and Leroy, Ruth
and Hattie, all three deceased.
George and Jane (McCann) Crawford,
parents of Mrs. McLain, were natives of
Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Washington county, Pennsylvania,
respectively. They were married June 12, 1837, in Muskingum
county, Ohio, and came to Knox county in 1838, where they
carried on agricultural pursuits. Their family comprised
four children: James C, who died in April, 1883;
Mary E. (Mrs. McLain); Eliza (Mrs. Joel B. Couch), of
Napoleon, Ohio; and G. A., of Liberty Center,
Henry county. Mrs. McLain's grandfather,
James Crawford, was a native of Ireland, where
he married Catherine Miller, and in 1812 they
came to this continent, making their home in Nova Scotia for
a time, thence coming to Ohio. They had a family of eight
children, all now deceased. Mrs. McLain's
maternal grandfather, Archibald McCann, was
also a native of Ireland, and was a captain in the Irish
army at the time of the first Rebellion in that country; his
father was executed for his active participation in that
"rising." Archibald McCann was married in Washington,
Pennsylvania, to a Miss Mary Mathews, also of Irish birth,
and some time afterward they came to Ohio, both dying in
Muskingum county. They had nine children—seven sons and two
daughters—one of whom, Doctor A. C. McCann, is now living in
Paulding county, Ohio.
Mrs. S. B. McLain was educated in part at the
schools of Napoleon, in part at Granville (Ohio) Female
College, graduating from that institution in 1861, after
which she taught three terms in Henry county. She and her
husband are numbered among the citizens of Fulton county of
the highest respectability, and, socially, they occupy an
enviable position.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of
Northwestern Ohio, Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
1899 |
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DANIEL J. MILLER.
The fine farm of the subject of these lines is
situated in Section 3, Range 7 W., Town 6 S., York
township, Fulton county, and he is one of the most
successful of the many prosperous farmers of this
section of the State.
Born April 21, 1837, in Cambria county, Pennsylvania,
he is a son of John and Saloma (Yoder)
Miller and a grandson of ____ Miller, and
John Yoder, the former of whom was born
in Germany, and never came to America. John
Miller, father of our subject, came to
Pennsylvania from his native Germany, and was
married in Somerset county, Virginia, to Saloma
Yoder, by whom he had a family of nine children:
Tobias;
Moses;
Barbary; and John, all now deceased except
Barbery;
David, living in Hickory county, Missouri; Elizabeth
(deceased);
Magdalena, wife of John Shetler, formerly
of Coshocton county, Ohio; Samuel, of
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, who was a soldier in the
Civil war; Daniel J. (our subject) being the
youngest.
Daniel J. Miller was born on the land at
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, now occupied by the Grand
View Cemetery, and has plowed the very ground
wherein lie the remains of eight hundred
unidentified victims of the Johnstown flood
disaster, May 31, 1889. In the district
schools of his boyhood days he received his
education, which was limited to three months each
year, the rest of his time being occupied partly in
flailing out rye and tramping out wheat with the
horses. He also learned carpentry, at which he
worked as a journeyman some five years, commencing
at the age of twenty-two.
On December 13, 1861, Mr. Miller was
married to
Miss Lydia Jane Stutzman, a native of Pennsylvania,
born near Johnstown, and they commenced their
domestic life a on farm close by there, which
property he had purchased that year. Six
children were born to this union, five of whom are
living, a brief record of them being as follows:
(1) Abraham L.
is married, but still lives with his father: (2) Sadie
is the wife of Abraham Pifer, of Lenawee
county, Michigan, and they have three children -
Lydia; Alden, and an infant unnamed; (3)
William T. S. married Libbie Dunn, of
Butler, Indiana, and they have one child; (4)
Lomie wedded Martin Gray, and they
lived in York township, Fulton county (they have two
children - Vernus and an infant unnamed); (5)
Charles married
Nettie Pifer, of Lenawee county, Michigan, and
they had one child (now deceased). The mother
of this family died September 27, 1892, and is
buried in Union Cemetery, York township.
On October 16, 1862, Mr. Miller enlisted
in Company K, Eighteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer
Cavalry, for three years or during the war, and
participated in the following engagements:
Gettysburg, 1 - 3 July, 1863; Spottsylvania Court
House; Strawberry Hill; seven-days' fight in front
of Richmond; second Bull Run; Cold Harbor;
Wilderness; and was present at Lee's surrender at
Appomattox. On January 22, 1863, Mr.
Miller was taken prisoner, and was confined in Libby
Prison ten days, thence taken to Castle Thunder
dungeon, where he remained in utter darkness for
fifty-two days, during which time he was tried on
the charge of being a spy, but was proven innocent
and paroled; on account of sickness, however, he had
to be sent to the hospital at Annapolis, Maryland,
where he remained some six weeks before he was able
to again proceed to the front. On August 22,
1864, he was wounded at Charleston, West Virginia,
being shot in the right shoulder. On November
7, 1865, he was honorably discharged at Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, was mustered out at Cumberland,
Maryland, and then returned to the pursuits of
peace.
Entering the Cambria (Pennsylvania) Iron Works, he
remained there eight years lacking two weeks, at the
end of which time he came to York township, Fulton
county, Ohio, and located on his present farm of
seventy-nine acres, which was partly cleared, but he
put up all the buildings thereon - the barn in 1884
and the house in 1885. Politically he is a
Republican, his first Presidential vote being cast
for Abraham Lincoln, and he has ever been a true and
loyal to his party as he was to his country in her
dark hours of need.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of
Northwestern Ohio, Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
1899 |
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ROBERT N. MURRAY,
one of the substantial farmers of Swan
Creek Township,
is a man whose standing both as a citizen and agriculturist is unquestioned. He is a native of
Fulton county, having been born in York
Township May 26, 1848, a son of
John and Mary (O’Brien) Murray, he
born in County Down,
Ireland, in 1804, and she in
County Armagh,
Ireland.
They came to Albany,
New York, prior to their marriage, and were there married, coming thence
to Berea, Cuyahoga county, entering the tract of
land from the government on which Berea now stands.
When the prospectors for the railroad came through to survey the land
they managed to frighten the settlers away and secured their land at a nominal
figure, and among them were the Murrays. They then came to Lucas county, in
which the present York
Township was included entering in 1834 a tract of timber land. This they improved, made into a fine
property, and it is now owned and occupied by their youngest son,
Thomas C. Murray. The family did not settle on this
property, however, until 1838, when they were brought here by boat to
Toledo, Ohio, and thence with oxen to
their destination. The father died
on the farm on Jan. 18, 1872, the mother surviving him until Mar. 14, 1888, when
she, too, passed away. Their
children were as follows:
John, who was born Mar. 13, 1835,
died in November, 1883; Ellen, who died at the age of eighty years was Mrs. J. W. Wright; Mary, who died on June 25, 1900; was
Mrs. Thomas Fraker; James W., who is deceased;
Samuel, who lives at Delta, Ohio;
Sarah, who was born on Oct. 2, 1844,
and died on June 24, 1900, was Mrs. D. D. Donahue; Robert N., whose name heads
this review; Hugh, who is a farmer of
York Township; Mathew, who died in
1915; Thomas, who is a farmer of York
Township, and his twin sister, Katie¸ is Mrs. Nathan Wright, of Wauseon, Ohio.
On Dec. 13, 1876,
Robert N. Murray was married to
Alice A. Du Maresz, born in York
Township, a daughter of John and Margaret
(McKay) Du Maresz, he born in the parish of Saint Saviour, Island of
Guernsey, and she at Big Tree, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. In 1834
Mr. Du Maresz came to Cleveland,
Ohio, where he was married, and there he lived until four children were born to
him and his wife, when he went to Michigan, spent five years, and then located
in York Township, Fulton county, Ohio, where he died on Sept. 15, 1892, being at
that time eighty-three years of age, as he had been born on May 8, 1809. His wife died on Apr. 11, 1889, aged
seventy-four years, as she was born on July 1, 1814.
Following his
marriage Robert N. Murray moved to an
eighty acre farm, of which only twenty-three acres were cleared. On it was an old log house and a log
barn.
Mr. Murray began at once to thoroughly improve his place, erecting a large barn and a modern
residence and other outbuildings.
After the death of his father-in-law, Mr.
Murray bought the Du Maresz
homestead of eighty acres, which was ˝ mile away from his own farm. This property was well improved, but
he rebuilt the house, and conducted both farms until 1893, when he sold his
original farm and went to Auburn Township, Rush county,
Kansas, and
bought 240 acres of land, all prairie.
Mr. and Mrs. Murray spent ten
months on this property, and then when he had things well started he left his
son to conduct it and came back to Ohio, buying
eighty acres of improved land in
Swan Creek Township. In 1911 he
bought thirty acres of improved land in the same township, and has made a number
of improvements of all kinds on this property, rebuilding all of the structures
and putting things in fine shape, although he continues to reside on his
thirty-two acre farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Murray have become the
parents of the following children:
John D., who was born Apr. 1, 1878,
married Adelpha Verne Taber, and they
have one daughter, Ardys Ruth, born Sept. 10, 1909; and Mary Margaret, who was born in October, 1879, who is now
Mrs. Claude L. Sturtevant, of Toledo,
Ohio. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Murray attended the district schools of their neighborhood, but they have added
to their store of knowledge and are very well informed persons. The Methodist Episcopal Church of
Swanton, Ohio,
claims them as members.
Mr. Murray is heartily in accord with
the principles of the democratic party, and supports its candidates at each
election. He is a Mason and belongs
to Delta Lodge No. 248, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Delta Chapter No.
254, Royal Arch Masons. He is also a
believer in the work of the Grange, and belongs to that organization operating
under the name of Brailey Grange No. 1974.
Having had a long and varied experience in different neighborhoods,
Mr. Murray is one of the leading
farmers of this region, and his success has been fairly won through his own
unaided efforts.
Source: Standard History of Fulton County,
Ohio - Publ. by The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York – 1920 – Page 246 |
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GEORGE W. MYERS. This truly representative
American citizen, a typical Ohio farmer, and a brave veteran
of the Civil war, is a man whose energy and enterprise,
while affording an instructive lesson to mankind, seem
worthy of being held up as examples for emulation.
Born in Stark county, Ohio, April 30, 1833, Mr.
Myers is the son of Henry and Elizabeth (Rogers)
Myers, both natives of Pennsylvania, the former of whom
was born in 1798. From his native State the father
moved to Stark county, Ohio, thence, in 1847, to Fulton
county, settling in Section 3, York township, where he
purchased eighty acres of land, the property whereon his
son, our subject, now lives. Here the father died in
1854.
George W. Myers received his education in an
old-time log school house, the seats and desks being made of
slats. He has always followed agricultural pursuits,
and in 1861 he commenced for his own account on the farm
that he has since resided on. To the original eighty
acres above referred to he added forty acres, having now one
hundred and twenty acres of as good land as is to be found
in the township. His labor thereon was really
interrupted however, by the war of the Rebellion, which
claimed his services. On October 28, 1861, he enlisted
in Company A, Sixty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for
three years, and with his regiment was at Fort Donelson,
Shiloh, at the siege of Vicksburg, Tallahatchie river, in
the engagement at Champion Hill, and in the Atlanta
campaign. In July, 1865, he was honorably discharged
from the service at Cleveland, Ohio, and returned home.
On December 30, 1860, Mr. Myers was married to
Rhena A. Farwell, a native of Coshocton county, Ohio,
born October 17, 1835, a daughter of John and Elizabeth
(Thompson) Farwell, who were of English descent.
John Farwell was born in Cheshire county, New
Hampshire, whence at the age of twenty-eight he came to
Ohio, locating in Coshocton county, in August, 1833, thence
in October, 1847, moving to York township, Fulton county.
They had five children: James O., who died in
the army during the war of the Rebellion; Rhena A. (Mrs.
G. W. Myers); Orvil (deceased); Priscilla,
wife of Orin Tabor, of York township; Adelpha,
who lives in Wauseon, Ohio; and James (deceased).
Great-grandfather Farwell was a native of England;
grandfather Farwell was born in New Hampshire; he had
a family of ten children, all now deceased. To Mr.
and Mrs. Myers have been born three children, one of
whom is deceased; those living are: Nettie,
wife of Charles Field, of Wauseon, by whom she has
one son; and May, wife of Fred Skeels, by whom
she has one son, Floyd, born July 18, 1894.
Politically, our subject is a Democrat, his first
Presidential vote being cast for James Buchanan.
Socially, he is a member of Losier Post, No. 135, at
Wauseon, and he is universally regarded as one of the most
useful, most loyal, and most successful of Fulton countys
worthy citizens.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of
Northwestern Ohio, Published at Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co.
1899 |
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