The History of Union County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, towns military record;, Part 88

Author: Durant, Pliny A. [from old catalog]; Beers, W. H., & co., Chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago, W. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1254

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business, and is to-day one of the oldest business men of the city. He survived several part- nership relations, and was connected with the firm of Sellers & Morelock, in the old tannery, at that time near the Tribune building. He was in the mercantile trade about one year, and has sustained a reputation as an auctioneer for thirty years. Ile served the city as Constable, and was Deputy Sheriff under William M. Robinson some years. He was elected Sheriff of the county, in 1850, and served two terms. His selection as an officer at the annual county fair has won him a noted reputation. Every year the thousands that visit the fair find the genial face of William Malin to accept their tickets. Since its organization he has lost bnt two years at his post. Mr. Malin was married at Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y., November 11, 1841, to Miss Mary Kinney, a native of Oswego County, N. Y., who died after ten years of wedded life. Three of the five children born to this union are living, viz. : Emery F., Mariah and Jennette. He was again married November 11, 1851, to Miss Charity A. Irwin, a native of Claylick, Licking Co., Ohio. This union has been blest with seven children, four of whom are living, viz. : Frankey, Clinton, Carrie and Maud. Emery F., the eldest son, was in the naval service during the rebell- ion, two years, and visited many foreign countries. Subsequently he was promoted to Adjutant of the Eighty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served as Clerk under Gen. Rosecrans, and was with Sherman on his grand march to the sea. Politically, Mr. Malin is a descendant of the Old-Line Whigs. and at present a stalwart Republican.

THOMAS MARTIN, Deputy Sheriff, Marysville. Deputy Sheriff Martin is a son of Michael and Catherine (Holton) Martin, and was born in county of East Meath Ireland, October 31, 1841. His parents were both natives of the same place, and the family embarked to the United States in 1850. After a residence of three years in New York City, they moved and located on a farm in Paris Township, where the parents passed the remainder of life's journey. The sub- ject of this sketch was raised on a farm, and learned to labor with his hands. He joined the ranks of the Union army, in 1861, in Company F, Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for three years' service, in which he experienced the perils of war. He engaged in the battle of Rich Mountain, W. Va., July 11, 1861 ; Carnifax Ferry, W. Va., December 10, 1861 ; Shiloh, Tenn., April 6, 1862 ; Corinth, Miss., April 30 to May 30, 1862; Battle Creek, Tenn., June 21, 1862 ; Perryville, Ky., October 6, 7 and 8, 1862; Stone River, Tenn., December 31, 1862, where he was wounded and taken prisoner. He was sent to Richmond and confined eleven days in Libby Prison when he was exchanged, and joined the regiment at Stone River. He followed the fort- unes of battle at Chickamauga, Ga., September 19 and 23, 1863 ; Mission Ridge, Tenn., Novem- ber 25, 1863, where the Thirteenth distinguished itself in storming the heights, and were the first to plant the stars and stripes upon the ramparts of the enemy's works, besides capturing artil- lery. Then followed the pursuit of Longstreet, and a spirited fight at Bull's Gap, Tenn., Sep- tember 24. 1864. The regiment then joined Sherman in his march through Georgia. At the close of the Atlanta campaign, the army divided, and he, with the regiment, joined Gen. Thomas, at Nashville, through the battle of Franklin, Tenn., September 2, 1864. He was mustered out at Chattanooga, at the close of the war, and on his return to peaceful pursuits, opened a boot and shoe store at Marysville. This business he followed successfully until 1874, and for the two succeeding years engaged in buying and shipping live stock. From 1876 to 1880, he followed farming, but is now in the stock trade. He was appointed Deputy under Sheriff Hobensack, January 3, 1880, in which capacity he has proved a faithful and capable officer. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. society, Improved Order of Red Men and of the G. A. R. He filled the office of Coroner from 1870 to 1872, and from 1876 to 1878. He has served as Deputy Sheriff six years, four of which were under Sheriff Sharp. He was married, in 1870, to Miss Lucy F. Smith, a native of Union County. Five children born to this union are living, viz. : Maud, Thomas A., William S., Robert B. and Jesse E.

SAMUEL MCALLISTER, contractor, Marysville, is a native of Adams County, Penn., where he was born September 18, 1829, and with his parents came to this county among the pioneers. He was raised on a farm where he remained until nineteen years of age, when he went to learn the carpenter's trade with William Crawford, on the Scioto River. After a service of two years, he moved to Logan County, and the following year formed a partnership with his employer, Moses Morrow, in the carpentering business. This firm dissolved after a short time, and he associated himself with James Young, of Kenton, Ohio. During this association, he formed the acquaintance of Miss Louisa J., a daughter of John Russell, of Virginia, to whom he was mar- ried in 1854. Subsequently, he moved to this county and settled on a farm in Dover Township, which he had purchased. This farm he sold six years afterward and purchased eighty-two and a half acres in Leesburg Township. In the spring of 1864, he took up his residence in Marys- ville, which he has since made his permanent home. In the fall of 1864, the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment Ohio National Guards was called into service, and Company C, of which he was Captain, being consolidated, he went into the field as First Lieutenant of Company K, and served through the call. On his return to peaceful pursuits, he became largely engaged in stock dealing, and soon after was elected Street Commissioner. In this capacity he performed serviceable work in grading the streets of this city. Probably no man has laid out more labor in making sound street improvements. Subsequently, he formed a contract for building the first half mile of road from Marysville to Dover, otherwise known as the Delaware pike. This com-

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pleted, he will complete the road from Richwood to Rush Creek. He served the county as Street Commissioner two years, and has always taken an active interest in public improvements. He is a member of the Masonic order and G. A. R. His children are Alice, Henrietta, M. Blanche, Willie, Frank, Dottie, Walter Edwin, Minnie Gertrude, Charlie and Robert Russell.

SMITH N. McCLOUD, druggist, Marysville, of McCloud & Brother. This firm established their present business in this town in 1871, aud carries a stock of considerable value and enjoy a lucrative trade. Mr. McCloud was born in Madison County, Ohio, December, 9, 1845. He is the son of Dr. Charles and Mary Jane (Carpenter) McCloud. Dr. Charles McCloud settled in Canaan Township, Madison County, in 1831, and for twenty years was engaged in the active practice of medicine. He was a prominent man in politics and an active worker in the Whig party. He represented his county in the Ohio Legislature, in the session of 1844-45 and was a member of the Constitutional Convention that framned the present Constitution of Ohio. He was born Febuary 2, 1808, and in 1832 married Mary Jane, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Car- penter, who was born August 29, 1813. They became the parents of four children, viz .: Mary, now the wife of Dr. E. C. Robinson, of Plain City; Rodney C., a druggist at Plain City; So- phronia, wife of Dr. Milton Lane, of Lincoln, Neb., and our subject. Mr. S. N. McCloud was married in 1868 to Miss Nora Filler, of this town. Six children have been born to them- Charles F., Imogene E., Lena E., John Jay, Nora May and Nellie G.

HUGH MCFADDEN, farmer, P. O. Marysville, a highly respected citizen of Paris Township, was born in Westmoreland County, Penn., October 15, 1799. llis parents, John and Sophia (Kelley) McFadden, emigrated from Ireland in 1795, and settled in Pennsylvania. In 1802, they removed to Mason County, Ky. Mr. McFadden followed flat-boating on the Ohio and Mis- sissippi for a number of years, and finally died in New Orleans. Mrs. McFadden removed to Brown County, and subsequently to Clinton County, where he died in 1820. Our subject is the second son and child of a family of seven children. He was engaged in farming and mer- cantile pursuits in Clinton County till 1861, when he came to Marysville and resumed merchan- dising on East Center street. He followed it till 1864, when he removed to his farm, which he had purchased in 1861. Ife was married February, 1822, to Miss Mary West, daughter of Robert and Henrietta (Fairfax) West. Mrs. McFadden was born in Fairfax County, Va., De- cember 25, 1799. She was a lineal descendant of Lord Fairfax, who emigrated to America with a colony in the eighteenth century and settled in Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. McFadden were blessed with nine children ; of these, three are living-Fairfax W., married Sarah Morton ; Hugh, married Mary Allen ; and Harrison W., a physician at Magnetic City ; Mary, Hannah, La Fayette, Charles, Silas and Eliza J. Silas enlisted in the struggle for liberty when eighteen years of age, and died June 27, 1881, from disease contracted while in the service. Mrs. Mc- Fadden departed this life May 24, 1882, after a brief illness. Mr. and Mrs. McFadden had lived together for sixty years, and were earnest, consistent members of the Christian Church. Mr. McFadden is in politics a Republican. He owns a valuable and well-improved farm of 300 acres.

D. F. McKITRICK, dealer in boots and shoes, Marysville. This house was established in 1869, and was the first regular boot and shoe store opened to the public of Marysville. The proprietor occupied his present premises in 1872. He carries a complete and varied stock, and has a steadily increasing trade. He is the manufacturer and patentee of McKitrick's button fastener, which is a model improvement over all others, and is coming into universal use. The subject of this sketch was born in Delaware County, Ohio, in June, 1840. His father, George McKitrick, was a native of Licking County, Ohio, and a pioneer merchant at Beachtown, Jerome Township, Union County, where he was successfully engaged in business to the close of his life, in 1847. His wife, whose maiden name was Caroline Hill, who survives, was a native of Penn- sylvania, and at this writing, July, 1882, a resident of Delaware County, Ohio. They were the parents of five children, four of whom survive, as follows : D. F., eldest son, James H., Israel W. and Clara, wife of T. H. Brannon, of Canal Dover, Ohio. Mr. McKitrick enlisted in 1864, in Company C, One Hundred and Seventy-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in which service he con- tracted lung trouble and failing health, and was returned home just before the close of the war. He was married, in 1865, to Miss Rachel E., daughter of J. M. Robinsou of this county. To this union four children have been born, three of whom are living, viz .: Ida M., Fannie M. and Nellie M. The family are connected with the Presbyterian Church of this city.

WILLIAM McMANNIS, farmer, P. O. Marysville, a soldier of the late rebellion, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, March 14, 1837. He is a son of James and Esther (Calvert) McMan- nis, the former a native of Berkeley County, Va., and the latter of Belmont County, Ohio, and a grandson of Luke McMannis, a native of Ireland, who crossed the Atlantic in a British fleet iu the early part of the Revolutionary war. On his arrival in the United States, he enlisted on the American side and served five years as a private under Gen. Washington, and died in Virginia, at an advanced age. William was reared to his majority in his native place. August 16, 1862, he enlisted as a member of Company E, Ninety-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Ile served in the Western Department and participated at the battle of Champion Hills, where he received a gun-shot wound in the left leg which disabled him about four months. At the expi- ration of this time he rejoined his regiment at Franklin, Tenn., where he received his honorable

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di- charge from the service August 25, 1863. He went to Noble County, and in 1868 to Paris Township, this county, where he has since followed the avocation of a farmer. November 7, 18,1, he was married to Hannah Berry, a native of Noble County, born February 19, 1841, and a daughter of Zachariah and Rachel Berry. They have had no children, but have taken two to raise-Della May Elliott, born May 27, 1877, and Arthur Staley, born March 28, 1868. Mr. and Mrs. McMannis are members of the United Brethren Church. He is a Prohibitionist. His farm contains seventy-eight acres and is well cultivated.

LEWIS MILLS, farmer, P. O. Marysville, a native of Paris Township, was born July 25, 1846. He is a son of Thomas and Sophia (Dines) Mills, the former a native of Maryland, and the latter of Warren County, Ohio. They came to this county, where they both died. Mr. Mills departed this life August 23, 1871, and Mrs. M., September 17, 1864. Our subject is next to the youngest of eleven children, of whom six are living. He was reared on a farm and edu- cated in the district schools and Marysville public schools. He followed teaching of winters and farming of summers from 1866-70. Ile resided most of the time in York, Union and Tay- lor Townships till the spring of 1881, when he purchased the farm he now occupies. Novem- ber 17, 1870, he married Miss Sophronia Hamilton, a native of Taylor Township and a daugh- ter of John and Lucy (Griffin) Hamilton. Their children are Ada, Lucy, Somelia A. and Mary. Mr. Mills owns a farm of 171 acres. His political views are Republican.

JOHN MITCHELL, JR., retired, Marysville, is a son of John Mitchell, who was the youngest of eight children, and was born in Cumberland County, Penn. He moved to Milford Center in 1823, being among the pioneers of that township. The same year he was married to Miss Su- sanal Kingery, a Virginian. He was a hatter by trade, and began the struggles of life with lit- tle, if any means. Ile applied himself closely to his business, and with the elements of energy and frugality accomplished success. He was of a quiet unostentatious nature and a lover of home. In 1835, he purchased 500 acres of land upon which he resided until near the close of his life, in 1882, in the eighty-second year of his age. The widow who survives him resides in this city at the advanced age of eighty-one years. Their children are Ross, eldest son, who married Anna Deland, and resides in Piatt County, Ill .; John, Jr .; William D., who enlisted in August, 1861, in Company B, Thirty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was killed at the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864; James, who enlisted in same regiment and served the full time of enlistment, and was discharged in August, 1864; and George D., who married Sarah Converse, of this county. The subject of this sketch was born in Milford Center, Union Township, Feb- ruary 13, 1826. Ile was raised on the homestead farm, and in 1847 was married to Miss Har- riet, daughter of William and Mary Stansfield. She was of English descent, and with her par- ents came to this country when she was seven years of age. Her father was a merchant at Columbus, Ohio, some years, and died while on a visit to Illinois in 1836. His widow subse- quently remove t to Shawnee County, Kan., where she died in 1861. Mr. M. disposed of his estate in Union Township, in 1876, and moved to this city, where he has since lived in quiet re- tirement. He served his native township as Justice of the Peacc eight years and Trustee for seven years, and was otherwise identified with the township. He is the father of six children, five of whom are living, viz .: Emily L., Elizabeth A., Francis 1., John M. and Carrie M.

HIUGH MOORE, one of the oldest citizens of Union County, was born in Charleston, Va., August 2, 1795. ITis parents, Jonathan and Elizabeth (Long) Moore, were natives of New Jersey and Virginia, respectively. His father served from the beginning to the termination of the Revolutionary war, as a member of a body-guard to Gen. Washington. In 1812, he, with his family. removed to Cincinnati, and the following year to Lebanon, Warren County. He died at the extreme age of one hundred and one years, and his wife in her one hundredth year. IIngh was the eldest of five children. He was reared on a farm till of age. In 1840, he went to Perry County, Ill., where he lived till 1846, when he returned to Warren County, and in 1848 came to this county and located in Paris Township. He was a fife-major in the late war between the United States and Great Britain, and served six months. He was married, and had eleven children ; of these six are living. James, his eldest son, was born in Warren County, Jannary 25, 1824; he married February 28, 1858, to Miss Christiana Belville, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Belville, by whom he has had three children, viz., Nicholas B., Henry A. and Hugh. Mr. Moore owns and occupies the home farm, which contains 116 acres, and is engaged in the avocation of farming.

A. MOREY, one of the old citizens of Marysville, where he has been in business thirty-five years, was born in Perry County, Penn., from whence his parents moved in 1836 to Delaware County, Ohio. They located in Scioto Township, where both now live, at the ripe old ages of eighty-four and eighty-six, respectively. Ilis father, Jacob Morey, was born in Lancaster, Penn., and his mother, Barbara (Jacobs) Morey, was born in Dauphin County, Penn Our sub- ject was born in 1822, and in 1838 he came to Marysville, where he remained until 1840, when he removed to Columbus, Ohio, and finished his trade, cabinet-making. Returning to Marys- ville in 1848, he opened a small place for manufacturing cabinet ware, on the northeast side of the public square. In the following year, he effected a partnership with Samuel Resler, who was succeeded by Judge Cassil, both connections being dissolved after a short duration. Mr. Morey then continued the business alone, and soon added steam power to his works. Shortly after-

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ward, he associated with himself two parties from the East-Sanderson and Warner-to engage in the manufacture of cane seats and split-bottom chairs. After the lapse of about a year, he pur- chased the interests of both of these men, and entered into partnership with G. W. Hupp, of Mechanicsburg, who, five years later, retired from the firm. Mr. Morey then moved his build- ing to the site on which it now stands, and has since carried on business under the firm name of H. W. Morey & Co. In 1848, Mr. Morey was married to Miss Abbie B. Kinney, a native of Oswego County, N. Y , by whom he has had the following children : Henry W., Charles D., Franklin Pierce, deceased, William F., John F., Albert H., Carrie, deceased, and Estella M. Mr. Morey has been a member of the Odd Fellows society for thirty-six years, has passed all the chairs, and for a time filled the chair of Deputy; he is also a member of the Encampment- a charter member of that body here, and has passad all the chairs. He was a charter member of the Marysville Lodge I. O. R. M. and acted at one time in the capacity of Deputy of that society. Ile is a member of the Congregational Church, and for twenty years has had charge of the choir of the church at Marysville. II. W. Morey, the eldest son of the above and a practicing dentist at Marysville, was born in Paris Township, this county, in 1849, and was educated at the public schoo's of this city. He studied dentistry under Dr. Powell, and in 1872 graduated from the Philadelphia Dental College. He is a thorough master of his profession, and is kept con- stantly employed in attending to a large and lucrative practice. In the spring of 1881, he was elected a member of the Board of Council, and in the fall of the following year he was elected Coroner of the county, an office of which he is the present incumbent. In 1874, he married Miss Clara A. Woods, a daughter of Samnel Woods of Union Township. This union has been blessed with one child-Dana.

ANDREW S. MOWRY, civil engineer, Marysville, was born in Smithfield, R. I., Septem- ber 4, 1832, and is a son of Enos and Julia A. (Vose) Mowry, both natives of that State. He, Andrew, was educated at the Providence Seminary at Greenwich, R. I., and studied for a sur- veyor in the office of Henry F. Walling, in whose employ he remained eight years. In 1857, he came to the West, and located at Waukesha, Wis., and made the first map produced in that county. He subsequently mapped Ross, Madison and other counties in Ohio, in the interest of Walling, and in February, 1864, came to Union County under a contract with the county, to make plats for the land appraisers. He was elected Surveyor in 1866, and served nine years. He run and made the first gravel road in this county, and made an efficient and capable officer. He was married December 2, 1862, to Miss Joanna Doolittle, a native of Oneida County, N. Y. One child, Adale, is the issue of this union. Mr. M. has been connected with the Masonic order during his residence in this county, and with the Presbyterian Church of this city. Politically, he is a stanch Republican, and cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln.

THEODORE MULLEN, liveryman, of the firm of Robinson & Mullen. Marysville, was born in Paris Township in 1843. His parents, Charles and Sarah (Bancroft) Mullen, were both natives of Ohio, and his father a life-long resident of this county. His grandfather, Joseph, a Virginian, was a pioneer of Marietta and Madison Co., Ohio, and settled in this county, when Charles was five years of age. Ile afterward moved to Mahaska County, Iowa, where he died in the ninety-eighth year of his age. Charles died in this county in February, 1882. Theodore was left motherless when eight years of age, and in March, 1862, he walked to Columbus, Ohio, and enlisted as a private in Company B, Sixty- first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was promoted to Corporal for meritorious conduct at the battle of Gettysburg. He served in the fortunes of the Potomac army, participating in the battle of the second Bull Run, Va., Angust 30, 1862 ; Freder- icksburg, Va., November 9 to 16, 1862; Gettysburg, Penn., July 1 to 3, 1863 ; Mission Ridge, Tenn., November, 1863; Lookout Mountain, Tenn., November 24, 1863, and Dallas or New Hope Church, Ga., where he was wounded in the right arm, and taken prisoner while being conveyed to the Chattanooga Hospital, but paroled the following day, and sent to Nashville, Tenn. Con- valescing, he was transferred to Columbus and discharged in December, 1864. Mr. M. is the embodiment of robust health and vigorous constitution, but the wound received on the field of New Hope Church is still troubling him, it having never healed. He was raised in this city, and is a dyer by trade. He served as Superintendent of the woolen mill of the Robinson Bros., of this city, for seventeen years, and until the establishment closed in 1880. In June, 1881, he joined his fortunes with J. B. Robinson in the livery business, and the firm have produced the most complete and thorough establishment of the kind in the city. Mr. Mullen was married in 1867, to Miss Lydia, daughter of Samuel S. Jewell, of this county. Of the two children born to this issue, one is living-Edward. Mr. Mullen is a member of the K. P. and G. A. R. societies, and a sterling Republican in politics.

JOSEPH NEWLOVE, deceased. This estimable gentleman, whose demise occurred after the compilation of this sketch, was born at Wold, Newton, Old England, in 1806, and with his parents, Joseph and Ann (Brown) Newlove, migrated to the American shore in 1821. They founded a settlement near Springfield, Ohio, and were among the early pilgrims of Clark County, where both parents died. They raised a family of eight children, but one, Ed- ward, of whom survives. The subject of this sketch remained on the homestead farm until twenty-one years of age, when he started alone and unaided in the battle of life. In 1849, he purchased and settled upon a farm in Pharisburg, Union County, now occupied by his eldest

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son, Garrison. In 1852, he was elected County Auditor, and took up his residence in Marys- ville, assuming the duties of the office in the spring of 1853. Completing his term he was en- gaged in the management of the Marysville Bank several years, and in 1860 was again elected Auditor of the county, in which capacity he officiated six years. He was one of the prime movers in the organization of the Farmers' Bank, founded in 1868, and presided over its man- agement to the close of his life. He was a man of quiet, unostentatious habits, a good neighbor, a faithful friend and esteemed citizen. He was married December 6, 1827, to Miss Martha, daughter of Cornelius Carter, a native of Kentucky. Of the children born to this union, six are living-Garrison ; Ann, wife of Joseph Maskill of this county ; Martha E., wife of Alphonso Young, of this county ; John, Brown, and Benjamin C., of this city.

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The History of Union County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, towns military record;, Part 88

Author: Durant, Pliny A. [from old catalog]; Beers, W. H., & co., Chicago, pub. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Chicago, W. H. Beers & co. Number of Pages: 1254

Author: Durant, Pliny A. [from old catalog]; Beers, W. H., & co., Chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago, W. H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1254