History of Richland County, Ohio : (including the original boundaries) ; its past and present, containing a condensed comprehensive history of Ohio, including an outline history of the Northwest, a complete history of Richland county miscellaneous matter, map of the county, biographies and histories of the most prominent families, &c., &c., Part 102

Author: Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Mansfield, O. : A. A. Graham & co.
Number of Pages: 968

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McBRIDE, THOMAS, attorney at law. He was born in Monroe Township,Nov. 20, 1827 ; his parents, Alex- ander and Ruth J. McBride, came to this county and settled in Monroe about the year 1820, where the sub- ject of this sketch received his elementary education in part, when he removed to Missouri and continued his studies until his return home two years afterward ; from that time until he commenced the study of law. he was alternately engaged in teaching school during the winter, and working on the farm during the sum- mer months ; he commenced the [study of law in this city, and was admitted to the bar by the District Court at Mount Vernon in June, 1857; commenced practice in Defiance, Ohio, where he remained eight years ; while there he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Defiance Co. two terms-from 1859 to 1863; he then returned to Mansfield, where he continued to practice his profession with M. May ; the firm of May & Mc- Bride was dissolved in April, 1868, and McBride & A. M. Burns in April, 1874, when he entered into part- nership with B. Burns & Son, under the firm name of Burns & McBride, and Burns, the junior member of the firm, having been elected Prosecuting Attorney of Richland Co., retired in April, 1877, since which time he has been engaged in the practice with Barnabus Burns, under the firm name of Burns & McBride, He was married in September, 1857, to Miss Barbara E. Brandt, of Springfield Township, by whom he has five children living, three sons and two daughters-Curtis Victor, Willie Edgar, Minnie Blanch, Florence Mabel Brandt, Thomas Hall, Hattie May McBride; the third child and oldest daughter died in her 7th year in Mans- field.

McBRIDE, JAMES (deceased). Prominent among the early settlers of Richland Co., who were identified with its growth and prosperity, were the McBrides, of Scotch pedigree; their father emigrated to America soon after the Scottish insurrection, 1796, and first set- tled in Chester Co., Penn .; James was born in Little York, Penn., Feb. 3, 1812 ; his father's family came to Richland Co. in 1823, and cleared and put up the first building on the Robert Coulter farm west of Mansfield ; during his long residence in this city of fifty-four years, he was largely engaged in stock-dealing, which he took principally to the Philadelphia market, crossing the Alleghany Mountains twenty-seven times before the

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days of railroad transportation. Mr. McBride was married, July 12, 1838, to Miss Lettelia Hoy, a daugh- ter of Richard Hoy, who came to Richland Co. in 1816, and cleared and built on a farm north of Mansfield ; James McBride died in Mansfield Aug. 12, 1876, leav- ing three children, two of whom reside in the city, Sadie J. and Matie L .; Mrs. Lettelia Hoy McBride was born in Salem, Washington Co. N. Y .; she died June 6, 1870, in Mansfield ; John G., second son, died Oct. 16, 1870, aged 25 years ; J. Douglas, the oldest, was born March 26, 1842, now a resident of Washington City.

McBRIDE, ROBERT (deceased). Mr. McBride was born in Chester Co., Penn., March 20, 1808, of Scotch ancestry ; his father, James McBride, was born in Ire- land, whither his parents had gone during the insurrec- tions in Scotland, and soon after migrated to America and settled first in Chester Co., Penn. ; in the year 1823, the McBride's came to Richland Co., Ohio, and lived for a time on what is known as the Finney farm, and afterward on the Barr farm, west of Mansfield ; while yet a young man, he came to Mansfield and opened a dry-goods store, in which business he continued until 1848 ; afterward, he was engaged in a number of enter- prises, and was one of the prominent and extensive wool-dealers of this part of the country ; for a number of years he was engaged largely in that business with a Mr. Sexton, of Cleveland. Robert McBride was mar- ried in the year 1845 to Miss Jane E. Shriner, of Penn . sylvania, to whom were born four children, two of . whom are dead and two residents of Mansfield ; James H. engaged in the practice of the law, and Robert in the dry-goods business ; Mary, the only daughter, died in 1860; George died in 1874, and was a number of years one of the prominent business men of Mansfield and a young man of great promise. Robert McBride will be remembered by the older residents of Mansfield as one of her best citizens, a man of integrity, whom all respected. He died Feb. 14, 1865.

McCLOY, ANDREW JACKSON, was born Feb. 11, 1828, near Zanesville, Ohio, the eighth child of David C. and Elizabeth McCloy ; his father was of Protestant Irish descent, and came to this country in 1812; Eliza- beth McCloy Ilaymaker was born in Virginia ; in the year 1820, they removed to Ohio and settled in Mus- kingum Co., where he died in 1831. In the spring of 1846, A. J. McCloy came to Mansfield, where and in the vicinity he resided until the present time (1880). He was married in 1848 to Miss Mary Church, of But- ler Township, by whom he has raised one son, Eli Chapman McCloy, now a resident of the West; natur- ally of a retiring disposition, yet an enthusiastic ad- mirer of the beauties of nature, possessing fine social qualities, he is at once a companion and friend.

McCOY, ECKELS, Probate Judge. The subject of this sketch is of Scotch-Irish descent, and a name which has, through many years of public services and enterprises, become familiar to the residents of Rich- land Co .; born in Wayne Co., Ohio, June 22, 1825, the second son of Arwin and Jane (Eckels) McCoy ; when of sufficient age, E. McCoy served an apprenticeship as carpenter for three years in Wayne Co., with a Mr. Stichler, previous to his removal to Mansfield, where he continued his trade with Mr. George Watson, long since deceased, whose daughter, Elizabeth Watson, he after-

ward married, by whom he has had seven children, six of whom are living and one is dead. In the year 1846, he joined both the Masonic Order and the 1. O. O. F., in both of which he has held at different times a number of subordinate offices. Since 1856, he has been a useful member of the cemetery association ; to him is due in part its present creditable con- dition. Since the year 1852, he has served as a member of the City Council five terms, and also as City Clerk. In 1853, he was elected Recorder of Richland Co., and re-elected in 1856. In 1860, he served as Clerk pro tem. of the Court of Common Pleas ; appointed Superintendent of the Mansfield Water Works on May 1, 1872, he served as such until Feb. 1, 1879, when he resigned to accept the position of Probate Judge of Richland Co., to which he was elected, and which office he now holds. In March, 1850, Mr. McCoy was one of a party destined for the then comparatively unexplored gold regions of California, going by the way of Panama, and a year later returned through the city of Mexico and New Orleans. In ad-

dition to the public office which he now holds, Mr. Mc- Coy is now and has been a member of the Richland Mutual Insurance Company, and Treasurer of the same; a man whom all classes of citizens without re- gard to party respect, and who has been faithful to all trusts confided to him.

McCRAY, T. Y., lawyer; born in Washington Co., Penn , Aug. 8, 1837; emigrated to Richland Co. in 1846 ; he was raised on a farm; he became crip- pled and had the asthma when young; attended school at Savannah and Hayesville Institutes ; taught school twelve years; in 1860, was appointed on the Board of Examiners in Ashland Co .; served the term of four years ; was admitted at the bar in 1862 in Ash- land Co. He was married in 1863, to Miss Mary E. Barnhill, in Ashland Co. In March, 1866, moved to West Salem, Wayne Co .; had charge of the public schools till 1868; while there, was appointed on the Board of Examiners of Wayne Co .; continued till 1875; in 1868 was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne Co. for a term of two years; in 1870 was re- elected, making a term of four years. In 1868 moved to Wooster, and engaged exclusively in the practice of law; in 1875 went to Cleveland, formed a partnership with J. M. Stewart, continued substantially one year ; being asthmatic for the last three months, lost his voice, then returned to Wooster for the purpose of settling up his affairs ; came to Mansfield Aug. 20, 1876; re- sumed the practice of law up till this time. Have had the following children-Robert, born in Ashland Co., Jan. 12, 1864; Minnie, in Ashland, Jan. 11, 1866; Clarence V., Nov. 5, 1868, in West Salem ; Gracie, Sept. 14, 1872, in Wooster ; Ella B., July 26, 1875, at Woos- ter ; Thomas, June 26, 1878, in Mansfield ; Robert died in 1871, Clarence in 1870, in Wooster; Ella died in 1876.

MCCRORY, R. B., attorney and member of Legisla- ture ; was born in Chambersburg, Franklin Co., Penn., Feb. 13, 1846; came to Ohio with his father, Samuel McCrory, in a wagon to Mansfield. He was educated in the public schools of Mansfield; studied law with Geddes, Burns & Dickey ; was admitted to the bar the 20th of June, 1870; commenced the practice of law ;

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continued a short time alone, then formed a partner- ship with A. R. Scheble ; continued with said firm about four months, then resumed the practice alone. In the spring of 1871, he was a candidate for Prose- cuting Attorney against Andrew Stevenson and J. R. Cowen; Mr. Stevenson withdrew; was defeated by Cowen, by 180 votes ; in the fall of 1872, the office was vacated by Cowen; A. J. Mack and K. B. McCrory were nominated ; Mr. McCrory was elected; in 1874 was re-elected over S. E. Fink; served for the term of four years and three months; since then continued the practice of law ; formed a partnership with An- drew Stevenson in December, 1878; nominated at the Democratic primary meeting in June, 1879, as candi- date for member of Legislature; was elected Oct. 14, by 780 votes over Williams, 706 over Sowers ; it was one of the most enthusiastic campaigns ever known in Richland Co.

MCCULLOUGH, DAVID ; was born in Washington Co., Penn., March 30, 1810, and came to Mansfield in February, 1822; for a number of years, he lived and carried on his trade of tailoring on the west side of Main street, below Market. Mr. Mccullough is now a resident of East Market street, Mansfield, where he has lived for nearly fifty years, and has raised a large family of children, many of whom are scattered over the Western parts of the United States, while others lie at rest in the beautiful cemetery of Mansfield, a place he has done much to improve and adorn while acting as one of the members of the cemetery association. Under the old constitution of Ohio, Mr. Mccullough held the position of Associate Judge a number of years. In 1855, he was elected Treasurer of Richland Co., serv- ing out his full term with fidelity and conceded by all classes to have been faithful to his trusts. Mr. McCul- lough was taken into the Masonic Order in Mt. Zion Lodge, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, in the year 1841, and is now supposed to be the only living charter member of the Mansfield Masonic Lodge, in which he has held at dif- ferent times a number of subordinate offices. During Mr. Mccullough's long residence in Mansfield, he has always been looked upon as one of her best citizens. David McCullough was married to Catherine Tumble- son in Mansfield by the Rev. James Johnson, first min- ister of the U. P. Church in Mansfield. Catherine Tumbleson was born in Franklin Co., Penn., in the year 1809, and died in Mansfield in the year 1878; a kind and affectionate mother and wife, Mrs. McCul- lough will long be remembered by residents of the city for her many acts of charity and love.

MCCULLOUGH, NOAH COOK, tailor; the first child of John and Melissa Cook Mccullough. John Mccullough, also a tailor, came to Ohio and settled in Mansfield Oct. 20, 1817, when a boy of sixteen years, preceding his brother David, who survives him. In August, 1827, Melissa Cook Mccullough died in Mans- field, and was buried in the same grave with an infant child. John McCullough was among the oldest and most respected of our pioneer citizens, and esteemed for his many virtues ; he died in Mansfield Oct. 4, 1872, aged 71 years. Noah C. Mccullough was born in Mansfield, Oct. 29, 1824, on East Diamond street, near the old tanyard ; when about 16 years of age, he com- menced work with his uncle David, and continued in

the same shop until 1848, when David retired ; Noah Mccullough is now and has been in the tailoring busi- ness in Mansfield since that date, and is the oldest tailor, in active business, in Mansfield. On the 24th day of Oct., 1848, Noah Cook Mccullough was married to Sarah J. Pennywell, formerly of Massillon, in Mans- field. Miss Pennywell was born on the Ist day of December, 1825, and came to Mansfield in 1844. To them have been born two sons, Warren John McCul- lough, who died in infancy, and Willard Harvey, born Nov. 12, 1854, now connected with the Adams Express Company, in Mansfield. Mr. Mccullough has been a member of the Mansfield Masonic Lodge, No. 35, since 1848, and during that time has held a number of sub- ordinate offices. A member of the Baptist Church for over fifteen years, he is looked upon as one of Mans- field's best citizens.

MCCULLOUGH, A. H., M.D .; is a native of Beaver Co., Penn .; his parents lived on a farm in Raccoon Township, and he assisted his father in farming and attended school until he was 18 years old ; he then en- tered Westminster College, where he remained one year, and then went to Wooster University, where he graduated in 1873. After graduating, he went to Pitts- burgh, and entered the office of Dr. John Dickson & Sons; and graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1875; he then located in Massillon, Ohio, and practiced his profession about six months, when he removed to Mansfield, where he has practiced medicine ever since. He added to his professional duties that of the drug business, having bought out the establishment of W. B. Mercer in September, 1878, in which bus- iness, together with his profession, he met with excel- lent success.

McFALL, HUGH (deceased). He was born in Bucks Co., Penn., Jan. 3, 1783; from there he moved to Beaver Co., ,where he learned the carpenter trade, which he followed for a time, when he removed to Can- ton, Ohio, in 1815, where he began work as a clerk in the store of Wm. Christmas ; he came to Mansfield in 1821, and commenced business in a general dry-goods store, under the firm name of McFall & Co; his partner was George Stidger, of Canton, Ohio : this partnership continued about five years, when he purchased the interest of Stidger, and carried on the business until 1846, when he retired. He was married in Mansfield, July 4, 1824, to Miss Clarissa Smith, a native of Water- loo, Seneca Co., N. Y .; she was born Jan. 16, 1805; they were the parents of four children, one of whom died in infancy ; Ephraim, the eldest child living, was born in this city, April 26, 1825; Gaylord was born Feb. 22, 1829 ; Susan Franc Dec. 25, 1836; during Mr. M.'s long business career in Mansfield, he acquired the enviable reputation of being a strictly honest man ; he never was known to misrepresent to a customer, and often, when it would have been to his pecuniary inter- est, he refused, while others frequently used the advan- tage. He died in September, 1869. Mrs. Clarissa Smith McFall is yet living, and possesses a vivid rec- ollection of the early times in this county.

McFALL, EPHRAIM, son of Hugh McFall ; was born April 26, 1825, in Mansfield ; he was educated in the Mansfield schools ; then engaged in the wholesale gro- cery ; was the first to engage in a jobbing business ;

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he continued fifteen years ; he then engaged in the study and practice of a veterinarian surgeon. Mr. McFall was married in January, 1854, to Miss G. C. Thomas ; she was born in Maryland. They have one son, Hugh, who was born in 1860; is now employed by H. M. Weaver & Co., in their wholesale boot and shoe store.

MCFARLAND, ROBERT C., grocer ; was born Nov. 23, 1837, in Washington Township, Richland Co. Mar- ried in 1861, to Mary E. Norris, who was born in Han- over Township, Ashland Co., June 6, 1842. They have six children-Joseph S., born June 30, 1866 ; George O., June 10, 1868; Alfred H., June 16, 1870; David O., May 8, 1872; Harry W., March 22, 1874; Almira Adella, June 1, 1876. Mr. McFarland enlisted in Co. E, 64th O. V. I., for the term of three years ; after his discharge, re-enlisted as a veteran soldier; was engaged as a soldier for four years ; he was wounded three times at the battle of Stone River, and at the battle of Franklin, Tenn., was wounded through the left shoulder, and then taken prisoner and retained about twenty-one days ; he was in sixteen regular bat- tles or engagements. After the war closed, he located in Mansfield ; is now engaged in the grocery business, and is a live business man, and as a citizen he is re- garded as one of our leading and enterprising men, always ready to promote every good cause and work.

MCFARLAND, DAVID K .; was born Dec. 30, 1852, in Washington Township, this county. Married Jan. 22, 1874, to Maranda J. McConkie, who was born Feb. 2, 1857. They had the following family-Elbert B., born Nov. 14, 1876; Mary, born May 15, 1879. Ma- randa McFarland died May 30, 1879. Mr. Mc. moved to Knox Co., Ill., March 1877.

McGUIRE, JOSEPH, carpenter ; was born in Cum- berland Co., Penn., 1820; he came to Ohio with his parents in 1822; located in Richland Co. He was married in September, 1849, to Elizabeth Hoover, who was born in this county in 1829. They have the fol- lowing children-Paulinia Rosella, born July 1, 1850; Mary Elisebeth, March 25, 1852: William Franklin, April 30, 1855; Alice Dell, Feb. 4, 1857 ; Emma Ann and John E. (twins), May 31, 1861. Mr. McGuire located in Mansfield in 1842; he has been a citizen of this city ever since.

MCKINLEY, JOHN F., farmer. As a soldier and citizen, this name is familiar to the residents of Mans- field, and the members of the 120th O. V. I .; born in Wayne Co., Feb. 27, 1835, he remained at home attend- ing school and working at different occupations until of age, when he removed to Iowa, and entered into busi- ness ; three years afterward, he returned to Ohio, and settled in Ashland, where he remained until the break- ing-out of the civil war, when he enlisted at Mansfield in Capt. Dickey's company of the 15th O.V. I., three-months service ; after serving his full term of enlistment, Mr. Mckinley returned to Ashland Co., where he was mar- ried to Elisebeth Neal on the 27th day of November, 1861, and remained until August, 1862, when he again entered the service, and recruited Co. C, 120th O. V. I., which was stationed at Camp Mansfield until fully organized ; this regiment was soon after ordered to Cov- ington, Ky., when it entered into active service, the history of which will be found in another part of this

work. During Mr. Mckinley's career as a soldier, he served with distinction in all of the battles in which that regiment was engaged, first at Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss., the battle of Arkansas Post, Port Gibson, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Miss., Fort Blakely, when he was promoted to the position of Major of the regiment, and served as such during the battle of Snaggy Point, on the Red River ; for about eight months thereafter he was in command of the regiment as Major. The 120th O. V. I. was later consolidated with the 114th O. V. I., when Maj. Mckinley was promoted to the lieutenant colonelcy, afterward known as the 114th O. V. I., in which he served until the close of the war.

MCLAUGHLIN, GEN. WILLIAM (deceased). This distinguished soldier was born in Beaver Co., Penn., Feb. 3, 1802; in his youth, he attended the common schools of the country, where, by dint of persever- ance, he learned to write a beautiful hand, which, in early life, he turned to pecuniary advantage by giving writing lessons. Getting interested in the study of law, he determined to study for that profession ; he applied to Gen. Robert Moore, then a member of Congress, and a practicing lawyer at Beaver Court House, Penn .; Gen. Moore advised him to take time to consider the matter, and, if he still concluded to enter the profession, to come to his office. At the end of a week, young MeLaughlin came to Beaver Court House, and enrolled himself as a student. He was a fellow-student with Chief Justice Agnew aud Col. Richard P. Roberts, two of the greatest lawyers in Western Pennsylvania. Col. Roberts has a brother and several other relatives in and about Shelby, in this county. Young MeLaugh- lin was a very frank, honest, manly fellow, and was universally liked. When he had completed his law studies, Gen. Moore advised him to go West, as he had not had the good fortune to receive a thorough early edu- cation, as had been the case with the majority of the young members of the bar in Beaver, then a small place on the west banks of the Ohio. Gen. Moore told him that in the West he would have a better chance to rise, and, in compliance with this advice, MeLaughlin came to Canton, Ohio, and began the practice of law. Here he was cotemporary with David Starkweather, Hiram Griswold, Dwight Jarvis, John Harris, and other men of that class. He made friends in Canton, as he had at Beaver, and soon rose in his profession. Desirous of coming farther West, he left Canton about 1828, and came to Mansfield ; here he engaged in the practice of law, and soon became successful. When the Mexican war broke out, Mclaughlin, who had always been a leader in the militia, raised a company and left for the front. Its history is given in the chapter on that sub- ject. After his return in 1847, he resumed the practice of law, which he followed until the spring of 1861, when he was the first man to respond to the call for troops. He sent a dispatch to the Governor, tendering a company, when, in fact, he did not have a man enlisted. From the breaking-out of the war, until his death, his history is so closely identified with that of the war, that to give it here would repeat, in a large measure, what has been written on that subject. His last public act was to raise a squadron of cavalry, which he led to the field, and which he commanded until his death, July 23, 1862.

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McMILLEN, DAVID C., M. D. The subject of this sketch is of Scotch-Irish descent, and direct offspring of a soldier in the war for American independence and the war of 1812. His grandfather emigrated to Amer- ica with a brother soon after the insurrection in Scot- land. David C. McMillen was born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, July 27, 1832, and was the sixth in a family of eight children ; in 1854 he came to Shelby, this connty, and commenced reading medicine with his brother Cal- vin, with whom he remained until he commenced gen- eral practice, having attended lectures at the Cleveland Medical College in 1856 and 1857. With the exception of two years' residence in Goshen, Ind., the Doctor has continued in the practice of his profession in this county, almost without interruption, until the present time; he removed to Mansfield in the year 1870, and is now in general practice, attending faithfully to his duties, and with an increasing practice. During the war, he served as Assistant Surgeon of the 163d O. N. G., and also on a hospital boat on the Ohio and Ten- nessee Rivers.

McMILLEN, JAMES FRANK, physician (eclectic); Dr. McMillen was born in Weathersfield Township, Trumbull Co., Ohio, the 16th of June, 1824, the eldest of the three brothers residing in Mansfield, belonging to an ancestry which can be traced back to the great Scottish insurrection, and afterward in the American Revolution and the war of 1812. At the age of 19, he commenced the study of medicine, which soon after he discontinued for a short time, but again resumed under the instruction of Dr. Evarts, of Cleveland. In 1849, he came to Shelby, Ohio, and engaged in the practice of his profession ; for over twelve years, the Doctor has been engaged in active practice in Mansfield, and, with the exception of short intervals of absence in St. Louis, Indianapolis and Macon, Ga., has been in gen- eral practice for thirty years. Dr. J. F. McMillen was married in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, Dec. 27, 1853, to Laura Goodale Hadley, who died in Shelby, Ohio, on the 12th of December, 1866. To them was born one child-William E., now a resident of Omaha, who was born March 22, 1857. Was again married on the 27th of November, 1879, to Mrs. Catherine C. Edmonds, at Mansfield.

McMILLEN, JOHN ALFRED, plasterer and painter; was born in Trumbull Co., Ohio, Jan. 29, 1838 ; moved to Shelby, Richland Co., in 1852, with his parents. Of Scotch-Irish descent, he inherits the strength and con- stitution of that people; the lineage can be found in the biographies of his two brothers, in another part of this work. At the breaking-out of the late war, he enlisted in the Union army at Union City, Ind., as private, in the 11th O. V. I., three-months service, serving his full term with credit and honor. J. A. McMillen was married at Union City. Ind., to Anna Caron, in the year 1866, where he remained and worked at his trade, until his removal to Mansfield, in 1871. During his residence in Mansfield, he served on the police force and was accounted a faithful officer. They have three children.

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Author: Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848- Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Mansfield, O. : A. A. Graham & co. Number of Pages: 968

Author: Graham, A. A. (Albert Adams), 1848-
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Mansfield, O. : A. A. Graham & co.
Number of Pages: 968