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ating from the Ohio Wesleyan University, he joined the North Ohio Conference of the M. E. Church, and commenced the ministry by first preaching at Eden, Delaware Co., where he re- mained for two years; thence to Galion three years, Olive Green one year, Martinsburg two years, Utica and Mt. Vernon one year each, Tiffin three years, Sandusky two years, Sandusky Dis- trict four years, Elyria three years, Mansfield one year, and Mansfield District, where he has been Presiding Elder since; he moved to Delaware in 1878; Rev. Mr. Lyon has filled the office of Treasurer of the Ohio Wesleyan University college fund of the Conference for two years. He was married, in 1854, to Miss Olive Weatherby, of Morrow Co., Ohio; they have four children --- three daughters and one son.
B. F. LOOFBOURROW, merchant, Dela- ware; was born in Clark Co., Ohio, Dec. 18, 1820, and is the son of Benjamin W. Loofbour- row, a farmer, who died when the son was an in- fant; he was then sent to his grandfather, Geo. Fryback, where he remained until about 13 years old ; then his grandfather died, and he was placed in the hands of a guardian, with whom he remained engaged in farming until he was 18 years of age ; in 1839, he came to Delaware Co., and located in Eden, Brown Township, where he was engaged for a year as clerk in a dry-goods store ; he then went upon a farm, where he continued until 1852; during his residence in Brown Township he filled the offices of Township Clerk and Justice of the Peace ; in 1852, he moved to Delaware, where he was engaged in clerking in an auditor's office three years. In 1854, he was elected to the office of Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Dela- ware Co., and during this term of office he made a host of friends ; he was re-elected to the same office for the five succeeding terms, being clerk for the county eighteen years. In 1872, Mr. Loof- bourrow became a partner in the Delaware Manu- facturing Co., and was appointed its Secretary and Treasurer, filling this position until the close of this establishment ; in 1879, he entered his pres- ent business-Pearson & Loofbourrow, queens- ware and crockery, located on the east side of San- dusky street, and is the leading house in this line of goods in Delaware. Mr. Loofbourrow was formerly a Whig, and was a hard worker in its ranks. He was married in 1841, to Miss M. E. Longwell, of Delaware Co., daughter of Ralph S. Longwell, one of the pioneer settlers of Delaware Co., and has two children living by his first wife; his wife died
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in 1856. In 1860, he married Miss Hannah M. McConica, of Morrow Co., Ohio.
DAVID LEWIS (deceased). One by one the old settlers of Delaware Co. are passing away; among the highly honored men of the county may be mentioned Mr. Lewis, who was born in South Wales Aug. 29, 1817. He was married in that country at 19 years of age to Miss Anna Thomas, 'and came to America with his wife and one child, and located in Newark, Ohio, where he remained some ten years ; he then moved to Delaware Co., and settled on a farm about one and a half miles northwest of Delaware ; he worked at his trade of bricklaying in Delaware for a number of years ; by hard work and economy he managed to save enough money to purchase a farm, where he engaged in farming for a number of years before his death. He was a member of the Welsh Church from the time the present church was built, for a number of years being a Deacon of this church. After the death of his first wife, he married Miss Margaret Griffiths ; five children are living. Mr. Lewis ac cumulated a good farm of some 240 acres. He departed this life Sept. 29, 1877, a Christian man and a kind father and husband, and respected by his fellow-men. Geo. W. Lewis, who was born in Delaware Co. is conducting the farm.
DR. JOHN A. LITTLE, deceased, Delaware. (Sketch appears in the chapter devoted to the medical profession.)
CAPT. A. LYBRAND, JR., attorney at law, Delaware, was born in Pickaway Co., Ohio, May 23, 1840 ; came to Delaware in 1857. At the breaking-out of the late civil war, he recruited one of three companies raised in Delaware ; upon the completion of his company, finding that the quota of Ohio was filled, he disbanded his com- mand and enlisted as a private in Co. I, 4th O. V. I. ; from this regiment he was transferred to Co. E, 73d O. V. I, and made First Lieutenant ; Mr. three and one-half years, the last two years of which he was Captain of his company, and had participated in the battles of Rich Mountain, Second Bull Run, Cedar Mountain, Fredericks- burg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and other minor engagements ; while in the East, Capt. Ly- brand served a portion of his time as Aid de Camp, under .Gen. Steinwehr, and came West with Gen. Joe Hooker, and took part in the battle of Lookout Mountain, known as Hooker's fight above the clouds; he also participated in other battles around Chattanooga, Tenn., and
those of Atlanta, Ga., receiving two slight wounds, one at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, and the other at Dallas, Ga .; in 1865, at the close of the war, he was mustered out, at Washington City, when he returned to Ohio, and engaged in the mercantile business, at La Fayette, where he re- mained until 1868; he then returned to Dela- ware, where he entered the stove and tinware bus- iness. In 1869, he was elected Mayor of Dela- ware, which office he held for eighteen months, when he resigned and went to Texas, with the intention of locating and engaging in the practice of law, having been admitted to that profession in 1871; in 1872, he returned to Delaware, where he has since remained. Capt. Lybrand is a stock- owner in the Delaware Chair Company, one of the leading manufactories of Ohio; in 1877, he re- turned to the practice of law, under the firm name of Poppleton & Lybrand. He is a Republican and was a candidate for Representative before the Republican Convention, in 1879.
H. J. MCCULLOUGH, lumber dealer, Dela- ware ; his father, David F. Mccullough, was born in 1811, in Franklin Co., Penn., and came to Ohio in 1819, settling near Marietta ; about 1821. he came to this county ; his wife was Eunice Case. who was a daughter of Watson Case, of Connecti- cut ; she is now living with her son, the subject of this sketch; he was born March 14, 1837. in Delaware, and received a liberal education. In 1862, he enlisted in Co. E, 84th O. V. I., serving 100 days; in 1863, he became his father's suc- cessor in the lumber business, in which trade he has been eminently successful, having accumulated a liberal competency, and lives in a fine residence built by him at a cost of $10,000; Mr. Mc- Cullough is a man of sterling qualities, which has endeared him to the community of which he has been a member so long; he has been called upon to fill a position as Director in two different ; an insurance company, also the Treasurer of the Delaware Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
J. W. MCCULLOUGH. grain merchant, Dela- ware ; was born in Scioto Township, Delaware Co .. Ohio, Nov. 13, 1839, and is the son of John Me- Cullough, who was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Delaware Co., about 1818 ; married Mar- garet Flanigan, of Pennsylvania, and died in Scioto Township, September. 1877, at 69 years of age. a respected and highly honored citizen ; our subject's great-grandfather. Joseph MeCullough, was taken prisoner by the Indians, with whom he remained
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some cight years, traveling about with them in different parts of the country, and it is believed he was in what was now Delaware Co. Mr. Mc- Cullough remained on the farm until the break- ing out of the late civil war, when 'he enlisted Aug. 10, 1861, as private in Co. D, 20th O. V. I. (Capt. C. H. McElroy) ; was commissioned Second Lieutenant Aug. 9, 1862, and assigned to enlist- ing men for the service; at the expiration of one year, he was mustered out of the service ; during a part of the last year, he had been assigned to the 121st O. V. I., where the men enlisted by him had been placed ; on the formation of the Ohio National Guard, he was appointed Commissary Sergeant of the 22d O. N. G. (Col. Harris com- manding); May 2, 1864, the regiment being or- dered into service for 100 days was re-organized as the 145th O. V. I., he receiving the appointment of Sergeant Major ; on the expiration of 100 days' service, he was elected by the members of the reg- iment Lieutenant Colonel, which commission he held till the final muster-out of the regiment ; he became a resident of Iowa some two years, where was engaged in the stock business ; returning to Delaware Co., he engaged in farming for three years, when he came to Delaware and entered the commission business, in which he continued for three years, when he entered into the grain and milling business, which he carried on until 1880.
JOSEPH McCANN, M. D., Delaware, was born in Muskingum Co., Ohio, June 28, 1824, and is the son of Maxwell McCann, who moved to Ohio and located in Muskingum Co. about 1812 ; our subject was born on the farm and en- gaged in farming from the time he was able to handle the plow, and in the winter months at- tended district school ; he remained on the farm until about 21 years old ; the two last winters en- gaged in teaching school; then he commenced the study of medicine in Irville, in the office of Drs. Bealmer & Ball, where he remained about three years ; in 1849, Dr. McCann went to Nashport and engaged in the practice of medicine until 1853 ; he then entered the Starling Medical Col- lege, of Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from that institution in 1854; after graduation, he went to Irville and engaged in the practice of medicine until 1869, when he came to Delaware, and has been engaged in the practice of his profession ever since. Dr. McCann was married in 1850, to Miss Margaret R. Waters, of Somerset, Ohio, the daughter of Dr. R. A. Waters; they have four children, two sons and two daughters.
SIDNEY MOORE, Cashier of the Delaware Co. Bank, Delaware ; was born in Delaware, Ohio, Dec. 16, 1822; his parents were Sidney and Phoebe (Mann) Moore ; his father was a native of Vermont, and made his home in Delaware at an early day ; his trade was that of a brick and stone mason, which occupation he followed for a number of years. He was married in Delaware, to Miss Phoebe Mann, who is now living in Delaware and is one of the oldest residents of the city. Sidney Moore received his education at the public school of Delaware, attending the school taught by Mr. Murray, which was at that time the leading school in this vicinity ; for a few years he was a clerk in the court house, and afterward, through the in- fluence of Judge Hosea Williams, obtained a clerk- ship in the Delaware County Bank, in 1845 ; be- fore occupying this position he was sent to Col- umbus, where he learned the banking business, when he returned to Delaware and entered the bank as book-keeper ; in 1855, he became Cashier, which position he has filled ever since, with the exception of some three years when he was in the banking business at Indianapolis.
FRANCIS W. MORRISON, M. D., Delaware; was born near Mansfield, Ohio, July 13, 1831, and is the son of James and Ruth (Billings) Morrison; he entered college at Delaware in the spring of 1853, and graduated in June, 1856; being without means, he earned what he could by manual labor and teaching school, both to to carry him through college and while in pursuit of his medical education. He graduated at the medical schools of Cincinnati in the spring of 1860, when he commenced the practice of his profession with bis former preceptor, Dr. A. Blymyer. In the spring of 1861, he enlisted as a private in Co. I of the 4th O. V. I., in the three- months service; he again, July 7, 1861, en- listed for three years in the 11th O. V. I. as Hospital Steward, and continued with that com- mand in Western Virginia until August, 1862, when he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the 4th O. V. I., and was ordered East to join his new command, with which he was ever present on active service ; in November, 1863, the Doctor was commissioned Surgeon of the regiment, in which capacity he served until the regiment was mustered out of service in June, 1864. He then married Miss Elizabeth Willey, of Troy Township, Delaware Co., June 29, 1864, and, on the 10th of July following, entered the contract serv. ice as Surgeon at Camp Dennison, Ohio, where he
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continued until Sept. 20, when he was commis- sioned Surgeon of the 174th O. V. I., and in this position he faithfully served until January, 1865, when he was detailed as Brigade Surgeon on the staff of Gen. Minor T. Thomas, where he con- tinued until ordered home to be mustered ont with his regiment in July, 1865, at the close of the war. Since then he has continued to reside in Delaware, excepting four years of residence in Richland Co., his native place. Dr. Morrison is a member of the Delaware County Medical Asso- ciation ; has been twice annually chosen its Sec- retary ; he is independent and self-reliant, and, like many others, made his own fortune 'unaided, and is thus in a position to comprehend the many ob- stacles and inconveniences which beset the path- way of the youth who would obtain an education and a competency in life.
REV. FREDERICK MERRICK was born in Wilbraham, Mass., Jan. 29, 1810, and is the son of Noah Merrick, of Massachusetts, a farmer ; Frederick remained with his parents on the farm until he was 15 years of age, when he accepted a position as a clerk in a store in Springfield, Mass., and, at 19 years of age, became a partner in the business, at which he continued until he was about 21 years old, when he commenced his pre- paration for college, first attending an academy at Wilbraham, then entered the Wesleyan University of Middletown and graduated from this institution in 1836 ; the same year he was elected President of the Armenia Seminary of Dutchess Co., N. Y., and was one year a member of the Geological Survey of same State. In 1838, Mr. Merrick was made Professor of Natural Science of the Ohio University at Athens, where he remained until 1842, when he was Pastor of the Methodist Church at Marietta, Ohio; in 1843 and 1845, he was acting as agent for the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity at Delaware; in the latter year, he was elected Professor of Natural Sciences in that in- stitution, then Professor of Biblical Theology and Literature; in 1860, he was elected President of the institution and filled this office until 1873, when he resigned on account of ill health ; since that time, Prof. Merrick has performed the duties in the university of Lecturer on Natural and Revealed Religion ; in about 1846 to 1853, he delivered lectures in the Starling Medical Col- FRANK MOYER, wagon and carriage man- ufacturer, Delaware, was born in Marion Co., Ohio, in 1851; in 1869, he came to Delaware and com- menced to learn his trade in the shops, to which he leges of Columbus, Ohio. On the organization of the Girls' Industrial Home, the Professor was made President of the Board of Trustees, which position he filled for eight years; he is now , has succeeded as proprietor, then owned by David
financial agent of the Home. He has been a member of the Ohio Methodist Conference since 1841.
MAJ. C. II. MCELROY, Mayor of Delaware, was born in Gambier, Knox Co., Ohio, March 19, 1830; the son of James and Maria (Burrows) McElroy, both parents natives of Ireland ; emi- grating to America in about 1828, they came to Ohio and located in Gambier, where James McElroy became a Professor of Gambier Col- lege; in 1832, he, with his family, moved to Del- aware, Ohio, and took charge as Pastor of the Episcopal Church for over twenty years; he is now a resident of San Francisco, Cal .; Maj. McElroy was but a, mere child when his parents moved to Delaware, where they remained until 1840, then moved to Staunton, Va., where they were residents until 1851; the Major received his principal education in the University of Virginia. of which he was a student in 1849-51; in the latter year he was admitted to the practice of law at Lewisburg, Va., and returned to Delaware; from 1851 to 1835, he was engaged in civil engineer- ing; in the latter year he began the practice of his profession. At the breaking-out of the war, in 1861, he enlisted as a private in Co. D, 20th O. V. L., but was made Captain on the organization of the Company ; in 1862, he was commissioned Major of the 96th O. V. I., with which regiment he served until July, 1863, when he was mustered out on account of sickness ; Maj. McElroy partici- pated in the battles of Fort Donelson, where the first substantial success of the war was achieved ; of Pittsburg Landing, the siege and surrender of Vicksburg, and others of minor importance, and witnessed the surrender of the three rebel armies, one each at Fort Donelson. Vicksburg and Arkansas Post ; in 1863, Maj. MeElroy returned to Dela- ware, and entered upon the practice of law; in 1879, the law firm of McElroy & Culver was formed, the junior member being Prosecuting Attorney for the county; the firm stand well up in their profession, and enjoy a lucrative practice ; he was Mayor of Delaware in 1858-59. and was re- elected to the same position in 1878, which office he holds at this writing. He is a Republican. Was married in 1858 to Miss Caroline Murray, of Delaware Co., Ohio.
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Stimmel, who founded the business in 1854; in 1873, Mr. Moyer entered into partnership with William Hedrick, and formed the firm of Moyer & Hedrick, manufacturers of carriages, buggies, etc .; they continued together about two years, when Mr. Moyer became sole owner; from this period began a revolution in the enterprise, and the suc- cess of Mr. Moyer has been demonstrated ; the works are located at No. 33 South Main street, next to the Delaware Run; as manufacturer of carriages, buggies, farm and spring wagons, Mr. Moyer ranks with the foremost in Delaware Co .; he employs expert workmen, and the character of the work he turns out, together with his past suc- cess in the business, is a guarantee of satisfaction to his patrons.
A. MITCHELL. Delaware, was born in Fayette Co., W. Va., April 7, 1829; his parents belonged to Miles Manser, a prosperous and extensive owner of slaves ; after the breaking- out of the war of the rebellion. there was sta- tioned on the plantation of Mr. Manser, a body of Union troops; connected with the command was Gen. R. B. Hays, who made his headquarters in Mr. Manser's house, and who took Mr. Mitchell as his servant; through the General's advice he came to Ohio and worked for S. Birchard, where he remained about five years, when he went to Albany, Ohio ; after a period of about six months, he came to Delaware, where he has been a re- spected colored citizen ; his first start was as a laborer in a brickyard for Mr. A. Welch ; he then became janitor of the Ohio Wesleyan Female Col- lege, which he held for a number of years ; he is now holding the same position in connection with the Episcopal Church and the Opera House. Mr. Mitchell was married in West Virginia, in 1858, to Sarah Ann Bradley, of Christian Co., Ky .; they have seven children.
REV. LORENZO DOW MCCABE. Professor of Philosophy in Ohio Wesleyan University, Dela- ware; was born in Marietta, Ohio, Jan. 7, 1817, and is the son of Robert and Mary ( McCracken ) McCabe. His father was a native of Pennsyl- vania, and his mother of Virginia ; they were mar- ried in Pennsylvania and came to Ohio, locating at Marietta, where they resided until their death, which took place in 1823, both dying in the same year. Prof. MeCabe, the subject of this sketch, commenced life as a clerk at the age of 9 years ; this occupation he followed until attaining his ma- jority ; he then (in 1838) entered the Ohio Uni- versity, at Athens, and graduated there in 1843
under Dr. Wm. H. McGuffey ; he immediately joined the Worthington Circuit, and in 1844 was elected Professor of Mathematics of the Ohio Uni- versity ; in 1845, he was elected to a chair in the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, and in 1860 was elected Professor of Philosophy in the the same institution ; he has been Vice President of the Wesleyan University since 1860, and, during this period, has served five years as President of the institution ; the degree of D. D. was conferred on him in 1855 by Allegheny College, at Mead- ville, Penn., and that of LL. D. was conferred in 1877 by Syracuse University ; he is the author of several valuable works, among which may be no- ticed " The Foreknowledge of God," an interest- ing book of over 400 pages ; also a volume en- titled "Philosophy of Holiness." He was first married to Miss Martha Sewall, in 1845, in Wash- ington, D. C., who was a niece of Dr. Sewall ; she died in 1850; he married his present wife, Miss C. Clarke; in 1857, at Williamsport, Penn .; the result of this marriage is three children.
E. T. NELSON, Professor Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity, Delaware, was born in Worthington, Franklin Co., Ohio, Oct. 14, 1845, and is the son of Rev. Alexander and Jane ( Morrison) Nelson, his mother a native of New Hampshire and father of Vermont; the latter settled in Ohio as early as 1835, and has been a Methodist clergyman for the last forty years ; he was the first President of the Iowa Wesleyan University, at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, where he remained two years; was afterward con- nected with the Baldwin University, at Berea, Ohio. Prof. Nelson graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1866, and in 1869, graduated from Yale College, as Doctor of Philosophy ; from 1869 to 1871 he was Professor in Hanover College; in 1871, he came to Delaware, and accepted a posi- tion in the Ohio Wesleyan University, as Profes- sor of Natural History, which chair he has filled ever since, with marked ability. Prof. Nelson was a soldier in the late war, having enlisted in the 145th O. V. I., Co. D, of which company he was Captain.
REV. ISAAC NEWTON, Presiding Elder of the M. E. Church, Delaware, was born in Shef- field, Yorkshire, England, Nov. 10, 1823, and is son of John and Mary (Shaw ) Newton, both born in England. Our subject, when a young man, began to learn the trade of a whitesmith ( ma- chinist), in Sheffield, at which he worked until 25 years of age, when he sailed for Amer- ica; after being at sea seven and a half weeks, he
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landed in New Orleans ; he went to Galena, Ill., arriving at that place with five cents in his pocket; he obtained work at his trade, and remained there for several months, when he entered Rock River Seminary, where he prepared himself for college. After graduating at this seminary, he came, in the fall of 1852, to Delaware, Ohio, and entered the Ohio Wesleyan University ; here he graduated, in 1856, when he immediately joined the Dela- ware, now Central Ohio, Conference, and was given a charge at Delphia Station, Allen Co., where he remained two years; thence to Green- ville, Darke Co., two years; at Marion, Marion Co., two years; Bucyrus, Crawford Co., three years ; Toledo, one year ; Findlay, Hancock Co., three years ; Bellefontaine, three years ; Canton, three years ; Fremont, one year ; William st., Delaware, two years; Lima, one year, from Lima returned to Delaware, where he has been Presiding Elder ever since. Mr. Newton was married, in 1856, to Miss Susan B. Bell, of Sandusky, Ohio ; they have two children.
T. C. O'KANE, books and stationery. If any man has advertised the name of Delaware, east, west, north and south, it is the above-named gen- tleman, who was born in Fairfield Co., Ohio, March 10, 1830 ; son of James and Julia (Williams) O'Kane; his mother was born in New York, and his father in Virginia ; at 8 years of age, he moved with his parents to Franklin Co., Ohio, where he remained until 1849, during which time he' re- ceived a district school education and engaged in teaching ; in 1849, he came to Delaware and en- tered the Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he graduated in 1852, and was chosen Tutor of Mathematies in the university, where he remained until 1857, when he resigned and went to Cincin- nati, and was made Principal over fourteen dis- trict schools of that city, where he remained in connection with the public schools until 1864; he then accepted a position in the well-known music house of Philip Phillips & Co., of Cincin- nati, and remained with them until 1867, when he came to Delaware, and was engaged for a num- ber of years in traveling for an American house throughout Ohio; in 1873, Mr. O'Kane entered bis present business in company with L. S. Wells, under the name of T. C. O'Kane & Wells, which continued until 1878; this house is the leading book and stationery establishment of Delaware, also doing a large business in wall-paper ; in 1868, Mr. O'Kane began the compilation of a series of Sunday-school singing-books which are among
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