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WILLIAM
MAXWELL was a native of New Jersey. It is quite
possible that he for a short time lived in Kentucky before
he came across to Cincinnati. In that city, which was
then only a cluster of a few log huts, he printed the first
newspaper ever published in the Northwest Territory.
Maxwell succeeded Abner Dunn as the second
postmaster at Cincinnati. In 1799 he with his family
left the little village of Cincinnati and came north,
settling on what is now known as the Maxwell farm in
Beavercreek township, this county. He was elected a
member of the House of Representatives of the First General
Assembly of Ohio, which met at Chillicothe, March 1, 1803,
and he favored the law erecting Greene county. By an
act of the Legislature he was appointed one of the first
three associate judges of the county on April 6, 1803.
He resigned his office of associate judges of the county on
April 6, 1803. He resigned his office of associate
judge on Dec. 7, 1803, was chosen sheriff of Greene county
and served until 1807. He took an active interest in
organizing the state militia and held the rank of major in
1805. On his farm in Beavercreek township, he devoted
himself chiefly to cattle raising. His death occurred
in 1809 and his grave is located on the old Maxwell farm,
about one and one-half miles southeast of Alpha.
(Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, its
people, industries & institutions by Hon. M. A. Broadstone,
Editor in Chief - Vol. I.- Publ. 1918 by B. F. Bowen &
Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.) |
GEORGE
A. McKAY, engineer and surveyor, Xenia, was born in
this county, Dec. 25, 1850, and is a son of Samuel F. and
Angeline A. McKay. His mother is a Virginian by
birth, and came to Ohio when she was but seven years of age.
His father was born in Ohio, and was married in the year
1850 to Miss Angeline A. Moore, daughter of
Persley Moore, of this county. He lost his life by
a tree falling on him, and left a family of five children,
George A., Maria L., Oscar F., Sarah J., and
Irving F. George A., our subject, was married
Sept. 25, 1873, to Miss Ada I. Peterson daughter of
Jacob S. and Sarah C. Peterson, of Clinton County,
Ohio. They have a family of two children, Werter
P., and Mable. He commenced
engineering when but sixteen years old, and now holds the
position of civil engineer of the Miami Valley and Columbus
Railroad, where he has been for the last two years, and
where he is likely to remain as long as he wishes. He
was raised on a farm, but being of an active mind and an
aspiring nature, he left it and engaged in his present
profession. He received a common school education in
this county, and afterwards graduated in mathematics at
Antioch College, Yellow Springs.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ.
1881 - Page 509 - Xenia Twp. |
SAMUEL
F. McKAY, farmer, is a native of Clinton County,
Ohio; was born May 8, 1825, reared and educated there.
Was married, Mar. 17, 1850, to Angeline A. Moore of
this county, a native of Virginia; five children is the
result of this union: George A., M. Louisa, Oscar
F., Sarah J., and Irving F., all of whom are
living, and three married. Irving and Sarah
are yet at home with their parents. Mr. McKay
has a farm of three hundred and forty acres left, after
giving his children one hundred and eighty acres. He
inherited ninety acres of land on which there were no
buildings, except a log house 14 x 18 feet, and a log pen
without a roof; to which he has added four hundred and
thirty acres, and his farm well improved. Has a good,
large house, and a barn. Most of his money was
made by raising wheat and hogs. At one time, he sold
sixty-two hogs for twenty-four hundred and fifteen dollars.
Mr. McKay's parents (George and Mary) were
members of the Baptist Church. Mr. McKay died
Jun. 11, 1850, and Mrs. McKay Sept. 25, 1878.
She met death submissively.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio - Publ.
1881 - Page 890 - Caesar's Creek Twp. |
SCOTT
MONGOLD, clerk, Xenia, was born in Hardy County, West
Virginia, March 17, 1859. Is the son of George and
Caroline Mongold, who immigrated to this county, in
1863, with seven children, John W., Charles H., Cary,
Jacob F., Harvey W., Virginia, and Scott.
The subject of this sketch worked on a farm for John
Levally for about eight years after he came to Ohio, and
then lived with David Davis until 1880, when he came
to this city and took the clerkship of the Burnett House,
where he still remains. Is a young man of promise,
pleasant ways, and accommodating disposition. His
father, during the war, or at the commencement of it, was
living in Virginia, but, true to his country, he took up
arms for the side of right, and fought for the Union, and
when at home on furlough, was captured, taken South, and
imprisoned, first at Wheeling, and from there to Libby.
Watching an opportunity, with some others he broke guard,
came to this city, and wrote to his wife and son Scott
to meet him here, which they did at once.
(Source #1 - pg. 507 - Xenia Twp.) |
WILBUR
D. NESBIT, author and poet, was born at Xenia on
September 16, 1871, and was reared at Cedarville, where he
received his schooling and where he began his newspaper
career, in the office of the Cedarville Herald, no
only learning the rudiments of the art preservative of all
arts but becoming accustomed to the appearance of his own
stuff in print. He remained with the Herald for
two years and then went over to Anderson, Indiana,
where he became a reporter on one of the daily newspapers of
that city, presently going from that employment to the
Muncie Star. Young Nesbit's work at Muncie
attracted the attention of John T. Brush, an
Indianapolis clothing merchant, who employed the young man
to take charge of the advertising department of his store.
In this latter employment the distinctive character of his
work attracted much attention and he presently was persuaded
to join the advertising staff of the Indianapolis
Journal. There he speedily earned his spurs, his
work attracting attention in the East and he was presently
employed as a feature writer on the Baltimore American,
his column in that paper, written under the nom de plume
of "Josh Wink," quickly becoming recognized as one of
the best bits of feature writing done in the country.
For three years Mr. Nesbit remained in Baltimore and
then he responded to the inducements that meantime had been
made to get him back into the Middle West and in 1899 became
a feature writer on the staff of the Chicago Tribune,
later going over to the Post and in this
connection continued to earn additional laurels. After
awhile he accepted an attractive offer from the Mahin
Advertising Company of Chicago to become the director of the
copy staff of that concern. Not long afterward he
assumed a proprietary interest in the concern, which at the
same time changed its name to that of Ranking Advertising
Agency. Mr. Nesbit has long been recognized as
one of the most versatile figures in literary circles in the
United States. His great poem, "Your Flag and My
Flag," is known probably to as many persons as is Riley's
"Old Glory." As a librettist, Mr. Nesbit's fame
Girl of My Dreams, " while in poetic and other productions
he is known as the author of numerous volumes of a pleasing
character. Mr. Nesbit now makes his home at
Evanston, a suburb of Chicago. In 1899, while living
at Indianapolis, he was united in marriage to Mary Lee
Jenkins, daughter of Dr. John Jenkins,
of that city, and he and his wife have three sons,
Richard, Robert and Wilbur D.
(Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, its
people, industries & institutions by Hon. M. A. Broadstone,
Editor in Chief - Vol. I.- Publ. 1918 by B. F. Bowen &
Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.) |
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