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WILLIAM N. McFADDEN, farmer, P. O. New Antioch, was born in Clinton County, Ohio, June 9, 1844 ; is a son of John and Elizabeth McFadden, whose his- tory, and that of the ancestors, is given in sketch of John McFadden. The subject of this sketch grew to manhood brought up to farm labor ; was married April 11, 1867, to Amy Fisher, a daughter of John and Hannah Fisher, whose ancestral history is given in sketch of John Fisher. By this union they have had six children, five now survive-Levi, born June 6, 1868; Alba, born July 20, 1870; Ida, born, October 26, 1872, and died March 5, 1873 ; Flora, born January 19, 1875 ; Jennie, born June 25, 1877, and Thomas W., born September 17, 1880. Mr. McFadden, after his marriage, located on the place where he now lives and has since resided. This place was pur- chased of a Mr. Brown, of Kentucky. It consisted originally of eighty-eight acres, to which he and his brother have since added more by purchase. Mr. McFadden has always made farming his occupation. He and wife are members of the Christian Church of Centerville. During the war of the rebellion, January 29, 1864, he en- listed in Company B, One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served one year, in the Cumberland army in Tennesee and Georgia, and was discharged January 25, 1865. Mr. McFadden is a man of integrity and high moral character, and a worthy neighbor and citizen.
HARRISON W. MCFADDEN, farmer, P. O. New Antioch, born in Clinton
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County, on the farm where his father still resides, November 13, 1839 ; is a son of John and Elizabeth MeFadden, whose history is given in a sketch of John McFadden. Our subject was married, January 27, 1870, to Mary Catharine Fisher, who was born in Clinton County, Union Township, December 5, 1853, a daughter of William and Margaret Fisher, whose ancestral history is given in a sketch of George Fisher. Will- iam and Margaret Fisher are now residents of Dayton, Ohio, where they are engaged in keeping boarding-house. They have had seven children, six now living-Mary Catharine ; Samuel E .; Isabel, wife of Cyrus Bartlett, and resides in Indianapolis, Ind .; Emma Jane, wife of Daniel Hier, of Dayton ; Eva C., wife of Smiley Duke; and Lizzie, wife of Evans Egbert, of Dayton, Ohio. Mr. McFadden and wife after their marriage, located on the place where they now reside. This farm consists of ninety-one acres, upon which he has erected all new buildings, and has a pleasant home and residence. During the war of the rebellion, Mr. McFadden enlisted, September 17, 1861, in Company B, Fortieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served more than three years, receiving his discharge November 29, 1864. He was first in Kastorn Kentucky and Virginia ; thonce in the Cumberland army, and was with Gen. Garfield in the battles of Sandy River, Ky., and at Chickamauga and others. He also had two brothers in the army, of whoso service, see sketch of his father. This patri- otio family whose father was one of the early settlers of Clinton County, are as neigh- bors and citizens highly esteemed, and are worthy of record in their country's history, to be read and known by the future generations. Mr. McFadden and wife are mem- bers of the Christian Church at Centerville, to which they have belonged for many years. He is also a member of Stickney Lodge, No. 298, I. O. O. F., of New An- tioch ; also of the New Vienna Encampinent, No. 81. His wife is a member of the Rebecca Lodge.
JOHN M. MCKIBBEN, farmer, P. O. Farmers Station, born on the farm where he still resides June 6, 1844, is a son of James and Lucinda Mckibben, he a native of this county, and she of Virginia. The grandparents, Joseph and Hester Mckibben, came to Ohio and settled in Clinton County, on the place now owned by William Stock- well, about 1802, being one of the pioneers of this county, and here opened out right in the woods, and lived and died within one mile of his first location. They had seven sons and five daughters ; all grew to maturity, seven now living-John, Jane, Josiah, Hoster, Nancy, Washington and Louisa. James was born September 22, 1806. Was married March 24, 1835, to Lucinda Turner, who was born in Bedford County, Va., November 16, 1807, a daughter of Meador and Piety Turner, natives of Virginia, where Mrs. Turner died about 1808. Subsequently Mr. Turner married for his second wife Catharine Wilson. In 1830, they removed to Ohio and settled in Preble County ; thence, in the fall of 1844, they removed to Clinton County, where he died July 7, 1853; his wife died August 5, 1872. Mr. Turner, by his first wife, had sovon chil- dren, three now survive-Lucinda, Sarah, wife of C. Beason, and resides in Clark' County, Ohio ; and Albert, who resides in Page County, Iowa. Mr. Mckibben and wife had four children, one only now survives, John M., our subject. Mr. Mckibben followed farming through life. When he started out in life, he was given by his father a horse, saddle and bridle, and from thence fought his own way through life. He was a man of energy, industrious and economical, and a good manager, and before his death he owned 255 acres of land with good improvements, the result of his own and his family's labors. He died May 27, 1879, esteemed and respected by a large circle of friends and acquaintances ; an active member of the Baptist Church thirty years, and Trustee in the same twelve years. The subject of this sketch, the only surviving child of his father, was married December 31, 1873, to Eva Turner, who was born in Illinois, August 3, 1854, a daughter of James and Margaret Turner, he a native of Virginia, and she of Highland County. Ohio. They had seven children, six now living-Charles, Eva, Flora, Ollie, Jennie and Willie. Mr. Turner served three years in the war of the rebellion ; enlisted in August, 1862, in Company D, Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served till the close of the war. Mr. Mckibben and wife have had two children-James Cleo, born. March 4, 1877, and died November 12, 1878 ; and Flo
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E., born July 16, 1881. Mr. Mckibben located on the old home farm of his father, where he still resides, and is one of our county's much respected and reliable farmers; has a good farm and a pleasant home and farmer's residence.
ELIJAH H. MATTHEWS, farmer, P. O. New Vienna, born in Highland County, Ohio, October 20, 1826; is a son of John and Mary Matthews, he a native of North Carolina, and she of Tennessee. The grandparents were John and Rebecca Matthews, natives of North Carolina, but of Scotch descent. They emigrated from North Carolina to Ohio and settled near New Market, Highland County, in 1807; and in 1808 located about four miles north of Hillsboro, on Clear Creek, and there re- mained till their death. John, the father of our subject, was born in March, 1774; was married in Highland County and located on his father's farm, where he remained through life. They had ten children, seven sons and three daughters, eight now sur- vive-John, Albert G., Christopher, Elijah, Joel, Susan (now Widow Brown), Mary (wife of J. Chapman), and Eliza Jane (wife of Wright Hicks, and residing in Kansas). Mr. Matthews was a prominent man of Highland County ; was County Commissioner two terms and Associate Judge of that County twenty-one years. being elected three consecutive terms of seven years each, besides holding minor offices. He died in August, 1848, aged seventy-four years ; his wife survived him till April, 1864, aged seventy-four years. The subject of this sketch, who grew to manhood on the old home farm in Highland County, was married, January 25, 1849, to Ellen Elliott, who was born in Clinton County, November 28, 1832, a daughter of William and Susan Elliott, who became early settlers of Clinton County, were married, lived and died here. They had four children-Thomas G., who resides in Mercer County, Ohio ; William ; Ellen; and Eliza Jane, wife of Valentine Cox, and residing in Van Wert County, Ohio. By this union, Mr. Matthews and wife have had ten children, nine now survive-John W., born December 27, 1850 ; Susan, May 29, 1853, wife of Levi West ; Mary Eliza- beth, June 20, 1857, wife of David Matthews; Sarah E., October 7, 1859, wife of Lafayette West; Kate G., February 10, 1862, wife of Abraham Frazier ; Rachel Ann, April 13, 1864; Ollie M., June 10, 1869; Clara E., December 25, 1870 ; and Oscar L., born December 28, 1874. Mr. Matthews resided in Highland County till in 1850, when he removed to Clinton County, and located four miles east of Wilmington, and has since been a resident of this county. He purchased the farm where he now lives in 1871, and moved on to it in December, 1875, where he has since resided. Mr. Matthews when young, engaged as clerk in a store in Buford, Highland County, and subsequently he and his brother Christopher carried on a general store in the same village seven years. Thence he came to Clinton County and ran a peddler's wagon two years ; thence, as a farmer, has spent the balance of his life. He now owns two good farms, embracing 280 acres of land with good improvements, and is one of the prominent farmers of Greene Township ; has held many of the offices of his township ; was Mayor of New Vienna two years, a Justice of the Peace ten years, and is now Township Trustee ; was also, in 1880, Assessor of the Third Division of Clinton County, embrac- ing the Townships of Greene, Wayne and Richland. Mr. Matthews is a worthy mem- ber of the Masonic fraternity, a man of undoubted integrity, and a highly esteemed and respected citizen.
WILLIAM W. MOORE, farmer, P. O. New Antioch, born in Clinton County March 24, 1833, is a son of William and Susan (Childs) Moore, natives of Virginia. The grandfather, John Moore, was a native of Virginia, but emigrated to Kentucky, and settled in Bourbon County about 1787, being one of the early settlers of that county, where he remained till his death. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, of great firmness of character, a very industrious, hard-working man, and who acquired a large amount of property, which gave his children a good start in life. He was a man of high moral and Christian character, and a Deacon in the church. William, the father, was but a child, less than two years of age, when his father settled in Kentucky, and there he grew to manhood. About 1815, he removed to Ohio, and settled in Clinton County, on the place where his son, Samuel J. Moore, now lives. He married Susan Childs, of Highland County, by whom he had eleven
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children, seven now survive-John, James, Margery (who married James Patton), William W., Sarah (wife of Elijah Heyworth), Thomas C. and Samuel J. Mr. Moore, when he settled here opened out right in the woods, not a stick amiss, and here he spent his entire life; he did a great amount of hard work, and became owner of 942 acres of land, being one of the largest land-holders of Clinton County. The subject of this sketch grew to manhood on his father's farm; was married April 3, 1856, to Lydia, daughter of Elijah and Lucinda Van Pelt. By this union they have had eight children, four now living -- Cassius M., born August 18, 1859 ; America, born June 2, 1866 ; Jesse, born October 17, 1869 ; and Elwood Austin, born May 12, 1871. Mr. Moore has devoted his life to farming, and raising and dealing in stock ; he is giving great attention to improved and fancy stock. He now `has six sheep which were imported from England in July, 1881, for which he paid $585. Mr. Moore is one who realizes the advantage and profits of fine improved stock. And it is to be hoped that the farmers of Clinton County may be led to take a greater interest in the improving of their stock. Mr. Moore now owns 244 acres of good land, and the attention he is giving to improved stock, places him among the leading and substantial farmers of the county. He is also giving atten- tion to the raising of deer, and intends to make this an important branch of the busi- ness, expecting it will be both pleasant and remunerative.
W. D. MOORE, minister, New Vienna, was born in Winchester Township, Adams Co., Ohio, August 11, 1824. He was the eldest of a family of fifteen children, nine sons and six daughters. His father, Joseph Moore, was the sixth child and fifth son of Hon. Aaron Moore, a pioneer of Ohio, who came from Washington County, Penn., as carly as 1793, and settled in Adams County, Ohio, about three miles west of the county seat, on the waters of Eagle Creek. He remained on this farm till 1814, when he sold it and pur- chased a tract of about thirteen hundred acres of land about four miles north of Win- chester, Adams Co., Ohio. Here he remained till his death in. 1834. On this land, W. D. Moore was born and partly raised. His mother, Sarah Moore, was a daughter of Ralph and Susannah Peterson, who came from West Virginia early in the Nineteenth Century, and settled on the waters of East Fork (of Ohio) Brush Creek, about ten miles north of West Union, the county seat of Adams County, Ohio. Sarah Moore, wife of Joseph Moore, and mother of W. D. Moore, died March 27, 1830, when W. D. Moore, her eldest son, was less than six years old. Before she died, she taught her son to spell, and had impressed him with high moral and religious sentiment. Between the ages of seven and fourteen, he went to school about twenty months, and learned to read and write, and gained some knowledge of arithmetic. Here his school-going stopped on account of the misfortunes and ill health of his father. But though thus cut off from the advantages of schools, and for several years devoted to hard labor for the maintenance of his father's large family, yet he devoted all his leisure hours in reading such books as the meagre libraries of generous neighbors afforded. And thus before he was grown, he had acquired a moderate knowledge of both ancient and modern history, both general and biographical, especially the history of the United States, and the biographies of her great men. He read few works of fiction. This course of reading laid the foundation of all his after success and usefulness. It should not be overlooked that he had, at an early age, made himself familiar with the Bible, to which, more than to anything else, he owes the direction of his life. He made a religious profession when but little past fourteen years of age. This carly acceptance of the lordship of Jesus the Christ, did much to save him from the temptations of early years. Naturally sen- sitive, he often felt most keenly the jeers of young people among whom he moved. His inability to dress in fine and fashionable clothes was often the occasion of much apparent merriment by a class of young people who judged from external appearances. Greatly energized by such conduct, he attempted to repair the fortune of his family, and succeeded in helping them much. At twenty-one, he married Miss Sarah Ann Wiek, whose father and mother had immigrated from West Virginia and settled in Highland County, Ohio, in 1817. About fifteen months after his marriage, overwork and extreme exposure to the inclement weather which never stopped him in his busi-
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ness, his health gave way to such a degree that he was unable to continue at hard work. This made it necessary to engage in other business. At this time, the school law of Ohio allowed certificates to be granted for reading, writing and arithmetic; and through the intercessions of the School Board of a district in Scott Township, Adams Co., Ohio, he obtained such certificate and commenced his first school December 2, 1846, at $11 per month; $28 of the $33 which he was to receive was all the public funds the dis- trict had on hand, the other $5 were raised by a pro rata tax, part of which has never been paid. During this year, Mr. Moore completed the study of arithmetic, and com- menced English grammar and geography, and in 1848 received a certificate for those branches, as well as those he had studied before. In 1848-49, he studied algebra and natural philosophy, and had them added to his certificate. Then he commenced the . study of geometry, Latin and Greek. These and other studies, such as anatomy and physiology, geology, botany, chemistry, rhetoric, logie, cte., have kept him employed ever since. As carly as 1851, he had made so much progress in his church work that the church of which he was a member induced him to undertake the work of evangel- izing in which he continued for a while, but at last, he settled for a time at Russelville, Brown Co., Ohio, and preached and taught school. Since then, he has, at times, evan- gelizod, but for the most part ho has been at work for some church or churches as pastor and teaching school. Mr. Moore has held sixteen public discussions on various topics, as Capital Punishment, Man's Future Destiny, Human Depravity, Baptism, Subject, Action and Design, Human Creeds, Spiritism, Materialism, etc. He has resided above cight years in New Vienna, Clinton Co., Ohio. He has raised and edu- cated eight daughters, of whom six have been, and some of them are still, teachers. The chief thing to be noted in this sketch, is the fact that a man can, if he wills it, make himself a scholar without the advantages of schools. Mr. Moore has arisen unaided, to be one of the most thoroughly educated and popular preachers of this vicinity, and is highly estoemed and respected by a large circle of friends and acquaintances, a purely self-made madc.
ISAIAH M. MORTON, farmer, P. O. New Antioch, born on the place where he now lives, May 17, 1832 ; is a son of Joab and Jano Morton, natives of Kentucky, but who removed to Ohio about 1820 and located on the place where our subject now lives, there being at that time about cight acres partly cleared, the balance of the place being all heavily timbered, and here they continued their labors till their death, opening out and clearing up the farm and doing a great amount of pioneer work. He died August 18, 1846; his wife dicd August 8, 1869. They had seven children, five now living-Richard, John, Lucinda (wife of William Mckenzie), Isaiah M. and Betsey (wife of Eli Carson). Mr. Morton was a soldier in the war of 1812 ; he was a member of the New-Light Church at Antioch, which faith he maintained till his death. Isaiah, the subject of this sketch, grew to manhood on the farm where he still resides. Was married, in November, 1854, to Jane Licurance, born in Clinton County May 4, 1833, a daughter of Henry and Sallie Licurance, he a native of North Carolina and she of Ohio. They had ten children, six now survive-John, David, Jane, James, Parker and Harvey. Mr. Morton and wife have had ten children, eight now survive-Sarah Emily, born July 7, 1855; Henry, April 17, 1857; James, December 20, 1859; Durias, November 25, 1862; Lucinda, October 20, 1864; Louisa Jane, January 22, 1867; Cora, September 16, 1869, and Benjamin, born February 5, 1872. Mr. Mor- ton settled upon the old home farm of his father, where he has spent his entire life from his infancy, a period of half a century. The place has now been in pos- session of the father and himself sixty years. It now embraces 111 acres of land with good improvements, and is a pleasant home and residence.
ASA NORDYKE, farmer, P. O. New Vienna. In the history of the Nordyke family, one of the pioneer families of Clinton County, we trace them to one Stephen Henry Nordyke, who was born in Holland and lived and died there. His death occurred in this wise : Ho had taken a contract of improving the harbor or landing place of vessels, by blasting and clearing away the rocks under the waters, and while engaged in this work, by one of these blasts he was killed. Of his children, three sons, Abraham,
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Isaac and Jacob, emigrated to America in an early day, prior to the Revolution, while young, single men, and it is believed that Jacob died unmarried, and that all of the Nordyke families have descended from these two brothers, Abraham and Isaac Nor- dyke. They settled, it is believed, near Philadelphia, as two of these brothers built a vessel at that place, and it was named the " Two Brothers." Abraham and Isaac mar- ried, and became settlers of Virginia, and the latter subsequently became an early settler near Cincinnati, where the town of Fulton now stands, and some of his descendants are known to still be residents of Clermont County, and some of Indiana. Abraham became father of six sons and two daughters. Of these, Micajah was the fifth child and fourth son, who was born in Stafford County, Va., March 8, 1871, and when about four years of age removed with his father's family to Georgia, where they remained a few years, and while residing there had many dangers from the Indians. Aden, the eldest son, was shot through the arm and badly wounded, but recovered, married, and raised a large family of children, and subsequently became a settler of Indiana, where he died. Micajah also, when but a young child, ran a narrow risk from the Indians, who came to his father's house with murderous intent, but were observed while at a distance, and Micajah was taken by his father out at the back door and away into the woods, where they secreted themselves, and remained there all night, though it was quite cold and frosty, and the next day returned to the house. They subsequently removed to North Carolina, and thence to Tennessee, and in the spring of 1806 Mienjah removed to Ohio, and settled in Clinton County, one of the true pioncers. Here he soon after purchased 300 acres of land of the Buford survey, lying north of New Vienna, embracing a portion of the ground upon which the town is now built. This land was all in the woods, and the log cabin life and carly scenes of the pioneer life of Mr. Nordyke are related in the history of Greene Township. Suffice it to say . this family endured all the many hardships and deprivations of those carly times. Micajah was married in Jefferson County, Tenn., April 4, 1798, to Charity Ellis, who was born at Martinsburg, Va., October 4, 1779, a daughter of Nehemiah and Sarah Ellis, who also became carly settlers of Clinton County, Ohio, and died here, and their remains now rest in the Friends' burying-ground near New Vienna, on the piece of ground which Mieajah gave the society as a permanent burial-place. Abraham and Mary Nordyke also became residents of Ohio soon after their son Micajah, and here they died, and were buried in the Friends' burying-ground. Micajah and Charity Nordyke had twelve children, eight sons and four daughters ; all grew to maturity, married, and had families ; eight now survive -- Sarah, now Widow Thomas ; Isaac ; Mary, married to Jonathan Hockett and resides in Indiana ; Henry, Samuel, David, Asa and Lewis ; the deceased, Phebe, who married Amos Lewis ; Ellis, Jesse, and Hannah, married Stephen Peebles. Mrs. Nordyke died Juno 5, 1854 ; Mr. Nordyke died July 6, 1857. Henry Nordyke was born in Clinton County, May 16, 1809 ; mar- ried Phebe Rich, born in Clinton County, Ohio, November 26, 1813, daughter of Thomas and Ann Rich, also early settlers of this county. By this union, they have had seven children, four now survive-Thomas R., Aaron B., Edith H. (married James H. Terrell), and Callie E. Asa Nordyke was born in Clinton County October 25, 1817. Was married in 1842, to Mary James, a daughter of David and Mary James. By her he had one child-Ellen C. (deceased); his wife died July 29, 1844. On September 26, 1850, he married for his second wife Almedia Bailey, born in Virginia June 12, 1822, a daughter of David and Silvia Bailey, who settled in Clinton County in 1827. By this union they have three children-Mary F., Michal E. and Edgar M. Henry and Asa Nordyke still reside on portions of the old home-place of their father's, having been born and raised and spent their entire lives here. They are worthy mem- bers of the Society of Friends, to which their ancestors for several generations also belonged. They are among the substantial farmers of this community, men of high moral, Christian character, constituting them among the most upright and reliable citi- 'zens of the county.
CYRUS NORDYKE, livery, New Vienna, was born in Clinton County, Ohio, August 3, 1826; is a son of Benajah and Ann (Johnson) Nordyke, he a native of
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Tennessee and she of Virginia. The paternal grandfather, Israel Nordyke, came from Tennessee to Ohio, and settled in Clinton County, one among the pioneers, and lived and died near New Vienna. Benajah was a young single man when he arrived here in the wilderness of Ohio; was married here and became the father of ten children ; five now survive-Eliza (married to G. W. Mathews), Cyrus, Rebecca (married to Judge John Mathews), Elijah and Margaret (married to G. W. Mowry). Mr. Nordyke was a farmer during all the early part of his life, and perforined much pioneer work, as when they located here there were but three cabins between here and Wilmington ; then they had to go many miles to the Little Miami River on horseback to get their milling done ; then they would go ten to fifteen miles to assist their neighbors at their log rollings, and often as far to borrow a hoe or some implement with which to do a little work. Those were the times of hard work and hard fare; but all were sociable, honest and happy. Mr. Nordyke in his later years moved to New Vienna and en- gaged several years in the mercantile trade. Mr. Nordyke was born January 10, 1795, and died in New Vienna June 13,-1867. His wife is still living, now in her eighty- third year. She was born in Virginia September 12, 1799. The subject of this sketch grew to manhood, brought up to farm labor till sixteen years of age, after which for several years he followed a variety of business, such as would pay him best. On April 18, 1848,' he was married to Jane Beals, a daughter of Jesse Beals; by her he had six children, four now survive-James A., born September 29, 1849; Lycurgus F., born October 9, 1853; Charles B., born January 12, 1857, and Harry D., born December 1, 1860. Mrs. Nordyke died November 11, 1861, in her thirtieth year. On November 12, 1862, Mr. Nordyke married for his second wife Sallie Dixon, born March 1, 1842, a daughter of Clark A. Dixon, whose family history is given in this work. In the spring of 1854, Mr. Nordyke entered upon the livery business in New Vienna, and was the pioneer in that line of business in this place and is still engaged in that business, and now is running two livery stables in this town, having now carried on the business for a period of twenty-eight years. When he commenced, he was employed to run an engine in a woolen mill at $12 per month ; he bought a horse and spring wagon and began his livery business. This was the " day of small beginnings," but it supplied the demand of that day. Now he keeps from twelve to fifteen horses and about twenty vehicles, and these are generally well employed. Mr. Nordyke is now widely known as a livery man of New Vienna, and has his business well established by experience, ability and a thorough acquaintance with the people, and is one of the prominent business men of New Vienna.
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