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DANIEL S. LEYMAN, M. D., is a native of Columbiana County, Ohio, and was born December 30, 1825. He was the fifth son born to Jacob and Naoma Leyman, natives of Virginia and
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Pennsylvania, respectively, both of German descent. Our subject grew up to manhood in his native county, working upon a farm. At the age of seventeen he began the study of medicine. After attending one course of lectures in a medical college in Cleve- land, Ohio, he entered upon the practice of his profession in his native county. He came to the City of Huntington in May, 1851, ever since which time he has been actively and successfully en- gaged in the practice of his profession. In connection with the practice of medicine he is also interested in the drug business, having engaged in the latter in 1884. February 11, 1847, he was married to Martha Manchester, who died February 11, 1864, leav- ing two children, Sarah E. and Edward M., both of whom are living. He was married to Amanda M. Mitten, by whom he is the father of one child, Lawrence E. Dr. and Mrs. Leyman are members of the Presbyterian Church. The former is a member of the F. & A. M. Lodge.
JOHN LUDWIG, a prominent farmer of Huntington Town- ship, was born in Germany, March 17, 1830, being the fifth in a family of fourteen children born to Arnold and Ann (Crouse) Ludwig, with whom he remained working upon a farm un- til he was twenty-one years of age. On reaching this age, he bade his father, mother and friends good-bye and came to America, reaching the City of New York about the 1st of May, 1851. He made his way to Warren Co., Ohio, where he was em- ployed in a tannery about fifteen months. He then went to the northern part of Wisconsin, where he was in the employ of the Wisconsin Leather Company seven years, after which he farmed for one year in that- locality. In 1859 he came to Huntington County and engaged at the tanning business in Huntington. He thus continued with success for ten years. In 1869 he lo- cated where he now resides, and since that time his attention has been given to farming and stock raising. February 20, 1857 he was married to Louisa Celtex, who also is a native of Ger- many, born November 4, 1842. She was the daughter of Peter and Margaret (Molitor) Celtex with whom she came to Amer- ica, when she was nine years old. Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig are the parents of eleven children: Matthias, Mary, John, Louisa, John P., Anna, Christian, Joseph, Charley, Maggie and Theresa. Mary, John, Anna and Maggie are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Lud- wig are members of the Catholic Church.
WILLIAM B. LYONS, M. D., is a native of New Castle County, Delaware, and was born September 2, 1818. He was the son of Ira E. and Mary (McDonald) Lyons, both natives of Dela- ware, the former of Irish, and the latter of Scotch descent. In the fall of 1834 he accompanied his father to Perry County, Ohio. In the spring of 1851 he came to the City of Huntington where he has ever since resided. In 1850 he attended a course of medi- cal lectures at Cincinnati. In the spring of 1865 he graduated
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from Rush Medical College, Chicago, and he is also a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Indianapolis. March 24, 1842, he was married to Mary A. Ream, by whom he has had three children: George F., Ira A. E. and William B. The first and last died aged thirty-one and twenty-two, respectively. Dr. and Mrs. Lyons are members of the Presbyterian Church. The Doctor has reached the thirty-second degree in Masonry.
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE MARTIN, proprietor of a lum- ber yard and planing mill, is a native of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, and was born November 13, 1830. He was the youngest child born to Budd and Catharine (Sherarts) Martin, the former of Scotch, and the latter of German descent. His parents were the first white persons married in Northern Ohio, and the young- est brother of his mother, whose name was John Sherarts, was the first white male child born in Erie County. Ohio. A more extensive record of these facts is given in a History of Ohio. Our subject was an orphan before he had lived a half dozen years, his mother having died when he was five years old, and his father having died when he was but two weeks old. His home was made with an uncle and sister until he reached the age of ten, when he became employed in a woolen mill in Bir- mingham, Ohio. He was thus employed in various places in Ohio for fifteen years. He spent the winters, however, attending school, and from the age of fifteen to the age of eighteen he at- tended an Academy at Talmage, Summit County, Ohio. In the
spring of 1862, he came to Huntington, and for some four or five years thereafter he was employed as a carpenter in the yard of the Wabash & Erie Canal. He continued for a number of years in the employment of his brother-in-law, C. L. Thorne, but in 1880 he purchased the necessary machinery and set up a mould- ing machine and bracket saw. His son, E. B. Martin, became his partner in this business. In 1883, the firm took charge of their present planing mill and lumber yard, on State Street. August 1, 1853, he was married to Clarissa L. Thorne, by whom he is the father of two sons: Almon G., and Elmer B. Mr. and Mrs. Martin belong to the Presbyterian Church.
JACOB MARTIN, lime manufacturer, was born in Germany, November 25, 1853. He was the oldest of nine children - five of whom are living - born to Frank and Elizabeth (Baltes) Martin, with whom he came to America, and to Huntington County in 1873. The family located in the vicinity of the lime kilns one mile east of Huntington, where they still continue to reside. Ja. cob attended the schools of his native country until he reached the age of thirteen. At fourteen he took up the avocation of a carpenter, at which he worked about four years and a half. Im- mediately after locating in this county he became employed upon the lime-kilns, and this industry has furnished him employ- ment ever since. He was married November 18, 1884, to Amelia
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Lisman, daughter of Frank and Theresa (Hubrich) Lisman, of this county. Mrs. Martin was born in New York, October 1, 1865. They are the parents of one child: Clara, born Au- gust 22, 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are members of the Catholic Church.
PETER MARTIN, one of Huntington's prominent and influential citizens, is a native of Germany, and was born August 31, 1855. He was the second in a family of nine children, born to Frank and Elizabeth (Baltes) Martin, who also were natives of Germany. Our subject spent his boyhood and early youth in his native country. As soon as he became old enough, he entered school, which he continued to attend both in winter and summer, until he was thirteen years of age, at which time he quit school and began to learn the trade of a stone mason. This was finished in due time, and to it his attention was devoted in Germany, until he reached his seventeenth year, when in the spring of 1872, in company with his father, mother, three broth- ers, and one sister, he came to America. On reaching this country the family immediately continued westward, and some- time during the month of June, they arrived in the City of Hunt- ington. The parents, Frank and Elizabeth Martin. at present reside one mile east of this city. During the first two years of his residence here, our subject worked at his trade, and it is worthy of mention, that in this he became quite proficient. On retiring from his trade he engaged in the manufacture of lime, and to it his undivided attention has been directed ever since. At the time of its organization in 1880, he became a member of the Huntington White Lime Association, with which he has been actively identified ever since. He was married June S, 1880, to Elizabeth T. Rausch, who was born in Huntington, June 9, 1857. She was the eldest of six children, born to Anton and Catharine (Wolter) Rausch, both of whom were born, reared and married in Germany. They emigrated to America, and to the village of Huntington, in about the year 1855. Mr. and Mrs. Martin are the parents of three children: Mary H., born January 31, 1881: Adelaide M., born November 24, 1882, and Edward M., born November 28, 1884, all of whom are living. Our subject and his wife are members of the Catholic Church.
MICHAEL MAST, a locomotive engineer, is a native of Ger- many, where he was born September 27, 1846. He was the oldest of nine children born to Leo and Agnes (Hays) Mast, with whom he came to the United States when he was nine years of age. The family located at Sandusky, Erie Co., Ohio, where the early youth of our subject was spent attending school. At the age of seventeen he became employed in his father's cooper shop, but shortly afterward he became an apprentice in the Fulton Machine Works, of Sandusky, with a view to learn the trade of a machin- ist. He remained there nearly three years, after which he ac-
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cepted a position as machinist for the Domestic Sewing Machine Co., of Norwalk, Ohio. About eight months later, or in October, 1867, he was employed in the shops of the Erie Railway Co., at Buffalo, New York. In April, 1870, he went to Kansas and took the position of machine foreman at Olatha, having entered the employ of Wells, French & Co., railway contractors of Chicago. He continued to pursue the avocation of a machinist, until in May, 1872, when he became a locomotive engineer on the R. R. I. & St. L. Railway. He has been employed almost ever since as an engineer, though this vocation has been more or less inter- rupted by his trade to which he has occasionally given his atten- tion. He has acted in the capacity of a locomotive engineer upon the B. & M., the Union Pacific, the K. C., St. J. & C. B., the N. W. O., and the O. C. Railroads. He has been employed as a locomotive engineer on the C. & A. Railway since September 10, 1882. He was married March 12, 1869, to Rosa Cecelia Klees, a native of Dayton, Montgomery Co., Ohio, born December 28, 1847. She was the daughter of Nicholas and Cecelia (Yetzer) Klees, natives of Prussia and Switzerland. They are the parents of nine children, all of whom are living: Augusta E., Mary J., Lenora A., Agnes C., Etthia M., Veronica F., Monica R., Martha H. and Blanch L. Mr. and Mrs. Mast are members of the Cath- olic Church. The former is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
JOHN McCARTY, contractor, is a native of County Wexford, Ireland, and was born September 12, 1826. He was the second of six children born to Michael and Catharine (Lacy) McCarty, both natives of Ireland. John grew up to manhood in his native country, working upon a farm. At the age of twenty-four - or in 1850 - he emigrated to America, reaching New York City on the 22d day of May. During the first few months he did such work as he could find to do in the State of New York. He, how- ever, soon continued westward, and on September 8th, of the same year, he found himself, with his family, in the village of Huntington. This has been his place of residence ever since. After coming here he was variously employed for five or six years. In June, 1856, he was appointed Street Commissioner - a position he held seven years. He then engaged in the hoop- pole and lumber business. Since 1866 his vocation has been that of a contractor, and as such he has had fair success. June 24, 1849, he was united in marriage to Mrs. Ellen Callaghan, daughter of Martin and Catharine (Morrissey) Brawders. She was born in County Wexford, Ireland, January 6, 1826. Mr. and Mrs. McCarty have had born to them thirteen children - ten of whom are living. Their names, are Richard, Catharine, Johanna, John M., Ella M., Mary T., Elizabeth P., Martin S., Patrick M., William J., Edward T., and a daughter and son that died in in- fancy, unnamed. Elizabeth P., also died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. McCarty are members of the Catholic Church.
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HON. SAMUEL MCCAUGHEY .- The parents of this gentle- man, James and Elizabeth McCaughey, emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1796, and resided near the City of Phila- delphia until 1806, when they removed to Stark County, Ohio, being among the earliest settlers in that locality. Their son Samuel was born in Stark County, Ohio, August 12, 1814. In a region so recently settled by white men, it was not possible for him to enjoy educational advantages of a high order, and the only school at all accessible was situated two miles from his home. It was a private school and sustained by private enter- prise. He continued to attend during the winter until he at- tained his nineteenth year, when he took charge of the school, teaching the winter terms. He taught this school three winters, saving his earnings to defray his expenses at an academy. Dur- ing the summer he then took charge of the public school at Mas- sillon, and continued teaching and superintending his farm near Massillon until the spring of 1845, when he was appointed Post- master at Massillon, and filled that position during the adminis- tration of James K. Polk. November, 1846, he married Miss Elizabeth Avery Hunt, at that time a resident of Massillon, but a native of West Winfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y. In April, 1849, he was elected Trustee of his township, filling that office two years. In November, 1851, he removed to Huntington County, Ind., and purchased 320 acres of land in Clear Creek Township. A saw mill having been erected on the tract purchased by him, he at once engaged in the lumber business. The uncleared land of the neighborhood being heavily timbered with black walnut and poplar, furnished material for an extensive business, to which he devoted himself, shipping large quantities of lumber east. In 1856 he was chosen Township Trustee, and two years later he was elected Treasurer of Huntington County. Re-elected in 1858, he served four years. He was subsequently elected Repre- sentative for the counties of Huntington and Whitley, and repre- sented those counties in the Legislature during the session of 1863. At the expiration of this term he determined to abandon public life, and accordingly retired to Pleasant Grove (his farm), and has since devoted himself to agriculture. In politics he has always been a Democrat; and in religion the family are Presby- terians. He is now one of the most highly esteemed residents of the City of Huntington.
JOHN McGLINN, one of Huntington County's pioneers, and one among the early settlers of Lancaster Township. was born in County Longford, Ireland, September 18, 1810. He was the oldest of five children, born to Philip and Ellen ( Connell ) McGlinn, both of whom were also natives of Ireland. John spent his boyhood and youth in his native country, attending school and working upon a farm. He continued to attend school until he reached the age of nineteen receiving a good early education. On leaving school he worked on the old home place
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until he reached the age of twenty-five, when in May, 1837, he bade his father, mother, brothers and sisters good-bye and emi- grated to America, reaching the City of New York, October, on the 21st day of the month. He immediately continued his journey westward, and on the 3d day of June, he reached the home of an uncle in Union County, this State. After a brief visit he became employed on the White Water Canal which was then in course of construction. He was thus employed two years. He then engaged in mercantile pur- suits in the village of Philomath, Union County. Two years later- or in 1843- he came to this county, and during the two years which followed he conducted a country store in Lancaster Township. He then purchased a tract of land in
that township upon which he located and resided until 1870, at which time he removed to a farm one mile north of Huntington. There he resided until in April, 1874, since which time he has been a resident of Huntington. He was married May 23, 1843, to Esther Goodlander, a native of Montgomery County, Ohio, and daughter of Jacob aud Mary ( Oller ) Goodlander, the for- mer a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter a native of Mary- land, both of German descent. Mrs. McGlinn was born March 9, 1822. Mr. McGlinn is a member of the Catholic Church, and a staunch Democrat in politics. He is now in the 77th year of his age, but possesses the health and strength of a man a score of years younger.
HARVEY H. MILLER, one of the merchant tailors of the City of Huntington, was born in the City of Eaton, Preble County, Ohio, November 6, 1833. He was the only son born to Isaac and Jane C. (Irvin) Miller, the former of whom was born in Jacksonburg. Butler County, Ohio, of German descent, in 1811. He died in Jacksonburg, Ohio, in 1840. The latter was born near the mouth of the Potomac River, in Virginia, about 1815. Her death occurred in the City of Logansport, this State, in 1838. She was of Irish descent. His paternal grandparents were 'lison and Catharine Miller, the former of whom was a native of Germany. His maternal grandparents were Abraham and Maria (Lunsford) Irvin, both natives of Virginia. The former was a soldier in the war of 1812, and the latter was the daughter of Darius Lunsford, who was a soldier in the Revolution. When our subject was but four years old his parents came to this State and located at Logansport. That was in 1837. There the mother died a year later, when the father returned to his native place in Ohio, where he died as aforesaid. Our subject, however, who was a child of but five years of age, was left in Cass County, with his uncle, Lewis L. Irvin. There he made his home, working upon a farm until he had attained the age of twenty-one years. At that age he became a clerk in a store in Fulton, Fulton County, this State, where he remained until 1860. He then accepted a like position in the City of Logansport and was thus engaged
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until July 2, 1861, at which time he enlisted in Company F, Twentieth Indiana Volunteers. After serving eighteen months as a private he was promoted to the rank of Second Lieutenant. In this capacity he served until July 8, 1864, when he received an honorable discharge. His services were confined to the campaign on the Potomac, where he participated in thirty-three different engagements, some of the most important of which are as fol- lows: The Seven Days' Fight near Richmond, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, The Wilderness and Spottsylvania. At Fredericksburg he was wounded by concussion resulting from the bursting of a shell, but it did not prove of such character as to necessitate a desertion from the post of duty. Shortly after the battle of Gettysburg the regiment to which he belonged was sent to New York City to suppress the riot and force the draft. While there he obtained a leave of absence and returned to Fulton, where on the 1st of November, 1863, his marriage oc- curred to Kate R. Wheelock, who was born in Michigan in 1844. On leaving the army he returned to Logansport, where he re- mained until August 1, 1882, when he came to this county and first located at Andrews. November 19, 1886, he came to this city, where he expects to continue to reside. His occupation since the war has been that of a merchant tailor. Mr. Miller is the father of three children: Charlie W., Jennie May and Evie Bell -all living. Our subject and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The former is a member of the F. & A. M. Lodge and G. A. R.
MICHAEL MILLER, of Huntington Township, was born in Ohio, April 25, 1854. He was the third in a family of thirteen children - eight sons and five daughters - born to John and Sarah (Seidner) Miller, both natives of Ohio, of Dutch descent. When Michael was yet a child but two years of age, his pa- rents removed to this State, and located in Jefferson Township, Whitley County. There his early life was spent working upon his father's farm. He attended the common school, in which he re- ceived an ordinary common school education. At twenty years of age, or December 31, 1874, he was married to Mary A. Swine- heart, also a native of Ohio, born of Dutch and Irish descent, May 26, 1855. It is a notable fact that she is just one year, one month and one day younger than her husband. Mrs. Miller is the daughter of Henry and Bridget (White) Swineheart, natives of Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectively. During the first year after their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Miller resided upon the old home place owned by the former's father, in Whitley County. In March, 1875, they came to this county and settled upon a farm in Jackson Township. Two years later they removed to Clear Creek Township, where they resided until February 2, 1887, when they located in a handsome brick residence which Mr. Miller had erected in Section 10, Huntington Township. They are the parents of five children -four daughters and one
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son. Their names are: Laura M., born March 3, 1876; Lucina A., born December 8, 1877; Bertha E., born October 1, 1879; Maggie F., born May 26, 1882, and Harvey Cleveland, born June 18, 1884, all of whom are living. Our subject and his wife are members of the German Baptist Church. In politics the former is a Democrat. Since locating in Huntington Township, Mr. Miller has turned his attentiun to breeding of thoroughbred horses. He is the owner of several specimens of Norman horses, to which he expects to add others in the near future.
LAMBDIN P. MILLIGAN, lawyer, is a native of Belmont County, Ohio, born March 24, 1812. His ancestors emigrated to Maryland with Lord Baltimore's Colony. His father, Moses Milligan, was born in Baltimore, and at the age of thirteen en- tered the Revolutionary Army, in which he continued until the close of the war. He was afterward in the border war with the Indians along the Ohio River at Wheeling, Marietta and else- where. In 1794 he married Mary Purday. She was in the block house at Wheeling when it was attacked by the Indians. Her brother, Robert Purday, and his family, were massacred by the Indians four miles east of Wheeling, Va. Her father, John Purday, was in the British Army and belonged to one of the Cav- alry Regiments known as the Irish Grays. Lambdin P. Milli- gan's early education was limited to a few months' attendance at a subscription school before he was eight years of age. His father being fond of reading had a good library for that day, and at an early age Col. Milligan showed a decided taste for reading. Upon condition of good conduct and faithful labor until he was eighteen, his father promised to educate him for the medical pro- fession. When the time arrived, however, his mother remon- strated against elevating, as she supposed, one of the children above the rest, and yielding to her desire, his father proposed to compensate in money and land. Refusing this offer, Col. Milligan left home intending to qualify himself to study medicine, but owing to the wrangling and ignorance in the profession, he de- cided to study law. He worked with great energy, and on the 27th of October, 1835, at the head of a class of nine, one of whom was Edwin M. Stanton, was admitted to the bar in the Supreme Court of Ohio. On the same day he was married to Sarah L. Ridgeway, who died November 20, 1870. August 12, 1873, he married Mrs. Maria L. Cavender, daughter of Marshall Humphrey. Col. Milligan always had a taste for farm work. In 1846 he re- moved to Indiana, and attempted to clear a farm. As he suffered from epilepsy, however, he was compelled to abandon it, and in 1853 returned to the practice of the law. He soon became one of the foremost members of his profession -in important cases always losing sight of self in the interest of his clients. He was never a politician, and is too frank to make a successful one. He was an ardent opposer of the late war and freely expressed his views of the result. For this he was arrested, tried by a Mil-
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JOHN MINNICH. one of the proprietor operated by Minnich & Strons, is a ostire of Columbiana Cozzir. Ohio, and was born March 2. 1845. He was the second in ily of eight children born to Michael and Sophia E. Miller mich. both of whom were natives of Germany.
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