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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.
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LEONARD MERIDEW,
of Swan Lake Township, came as a child of six years with his
father from England. He was born there Nov. 7, 1879,
and in Aug, 1885, he arrived in New York City. The
family came at once to York Township, Fulton county.
Mr. Meridew is a son of Thomas and Martha
(Glass) Meridew. His sister, Editha, became
the wife of Carson Carston and lives in Frederick,
Michigan. In 1883 their mother died, and their father
married Caroline Young, of England. The
children of this second married are: Alice, who is
the wife of William Jackson of Toledo; Kate,
wife of Bert Snyder of Delta; Ruby wife of
Fritz Emch of Delta; Benjamin and Jesse,
of the United States Navy; Fred of the United States
Army; and Earl of Delta. Mrs. Caroline Young
Meridew also lives in Delta.
From the time he was eleven until he was twenty-four
years old Leonard Meridew worked on farms by the
month, and then for eight years he was employed in the
Helveta Condensary. In 1913 he bought the eighty-acre
farm in Swan Creek Township that is now his home. He
has added many improvements and has about seventy acres of
hte land under cultivation, the remainder in timber and
pasture. He is engaged in general farming,
stockraising and dairying.
May 5, 1908, Mr. Meridew married Pauline
Crauss of Chesterfield. She is a daughter of
William and Maria (Baum) Krauss, who are natives of
Germany. Their children are: Dorothy, Grace and
Ocie. The family belong to the Disciples Church
in Delta.
Source: Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio - by The
Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago & New York - 1920 - Page
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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.
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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 3: 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 county-s
worthy citizens.
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