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(Source: History of Lower Scioto Valley, Ohio - Chicago:
Inter-State Publishing Co. - 1884)
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MILTON RANKIN, farmer and
stock-raiser, Elm Grove, was born in Hamilton County,
Ohio, Oct. 2, 1840. His parents, Peter and
Margaret (Haynes) Rankin, were born and reared in
Virginia, and came to Ohio in an early day. In
1849 they moved to Scioto County, where the father died
about 1851, and when our subject was sixteen years of
age his mother married again. He then left home
and purchased a team of oxen and followed teaming during
the summer and attended school in the winter till he
reached the age of twenty years. Feb. 8, 1862, he
enlisted in Company K, Seventieth Ohio Infantry, as a
private for three years, and afterward re-enlisted as a
veteran and served over three years and a half
altogether. He was at the battles of Shiloh,
Corinth, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain and a
number of others. He was discharged at Camp
Dennison in August, 1865. While in the war he cast
his first presidential vote for George Be. MacClellan
and has always voted the Democratic ticket. After
the war he purchased 120 acres of land and spent two
years in the lumber trade and in buying and selling
land. Since 1879 he has devoted his time to his
farm and stock, and now owns 900 acres of farming lands
in Sunfish and Benton townships, Pike County. He
was married July 8, 1860, to Martha, daughter of
Allen and Latha J. (Sanderson) Humble, of Adams
County. They have had seven children born to them
- Louisa A., Luella B., Albert C., Olive L.
and Mermena I. Charles B. and Luna
M. are deceased. Mr. Rankinhas been
Township Trustee a number of years, and is at present
Township Treasurer. |
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