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(Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Chicago:
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884)
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H. N. GALL, fifth son of
Michael and Nancy (Cook) Gall, was born in Pike
County, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1886. He was reared on a
farm and by close application acquired sufficient
education to enable him to teach, an occupation he pursued
several years, teaching during the winter and working on a
farm in the summer, still living on the old homestead.
In 1870 he purchased forty acres, where he resided till
1877, when he returned to the old homestead. He has
230 acres of improved land. Dec. 13, 1869, he
married Mary Ann, daughter of John and Margaret
(Johnson) McMonigel. Of seven children born to
them but four are living. Mr. and Mrs. Gall
are members of the Protestant Methodist church.
Politically he is a Republican. His father was born
Feb. 12, 1799, a son of George and Susannah (Nichols)
Gall, a grandson of George Gall, a native of
Switzerland, and an early settler of Maryland. He
was married April 15, 1824 and in the fall of 1833 located
in Pike County, Ohio. He was a prominent man of the
county, and lived, to be eighty-one years of age.
Our subject's mother was the daughter of Zachariah and
Martha (Andick) Cook. Her father was one of the
Hessian soldiers in the English army, and after serving a
year was taken prisoner, and soon after enlisted in the
Colonial army and served till the close of the war.
In 1833 he came to Ohio, where he died at the age of
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