Knox County, Ohio - Biographical sketches, 1881 (part 11 of 20)

LYAL, JOHN, Hilliar township, farmer, post office Centreburgh, one of the successful men of Hilliar township, was born in the parish of Thornbury, county of Devonshire, England, April 15, 1814. His father was a farmer, and it was on a farm that Mr. Lyal spent his youth.

His father was what is termed a '"'renter,"' and could not give him the advantages of an education. He, however, in after years acquired a knowledge of the common branches, so that he could transact his business.

He is tall and well built, and was required to serve in the English army; but rather than spend his best days in the service of the Queen's guard, he concluded to leave England. Accordingly, in March, 1835, he was furnished with thirty dollars to pay his passage to New York. After his arrival in America he proceeded as far west as Buffalo, New York, where his money run out. He worked at Buffalo for some time, and again started for the west, and arrived at Mt. Vernon in the same year, 1835, where he commenced work and remained for some three years, saving his money with a view of purchasing land. In 1839 he ninety-two acres of heavily timbered land. He had the usual experience of the early settler - first to buitd a cabin, and then proceed to clearing the land. He worked hard, and in due course of time he was rewarded for his labors, and was enabled to purchase more land, until he now is one of the largest landowners of the township. From a poor boy he attained a com- petence, and has the esteem of his neighbors. He has been twice honored by the voters of Knox county. He was elected county commissioner in 1870, and again in 1873, during which time many of the improvements of the county were started. He has always been an advocate of iron bridges, of which this county can justly boast.

Mr. Lyal, in fact, was the first to advocate iron bridges. He also was in the board when the county infirmary was built. He has been president of the Hartford central fair, of Licking county, Ohio, several years, and one of the board of directors of the Mt. Vernon fair, and one of the main men in keeping it up. He has been engaged for a number of years in raising short horned Durham cattle, and much of the best stock of central Ohio came from his herd. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Jackson, November, 1842; she was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1823. They have six children, two sons and four daughters: William B., Theodore J.. farmer, in Milford township; Mary Ann, wife of John Gearhart; Louisa H., wife of John B. Campbell, Millwood, Knox county, Ohio; Emma S., wife of Ogden M. Thatcher, of Milford township; Margaret E., wife of George M. Shaffer, of Mt. Liberty, Ohio.

LYBARGER, GEORGE, deceased, was born in. Bedford county, Pennsylvania, April 30, 1791, son of Louis Lybarger. At about the age of thirty years he, in company with Andrew Henry and Adam Lybarger, came to Ohio, locating in Knox county.

The subject of this sketch located with his family a short distance south of Mt. Vernon, where he remained but a short time when he purchased a farm"in Harrison township, two miles east of Gambier, where he then moved and reared a family of twelve children, and remained until his death, which occurred October 18, 1877, in his eighty-fifth year. Magdalena Lybarger, his companion, was born in Pennsylvania, August 6, 1793; died December 25, 1848, in her fifty-fifth year.

LYBARGER, HIRAM, farmer, Union township, post office, Danville. Hewas born in Clinton township, Knox county, February 3, 1818, moved to Danville in 1826, and lived there a few years, and in 1849 moved to Pike county, Ohio, lived there two years, and in 1852 moved back to Danville. He purchased his father's tannery in 1863, made extensive improvements on the old property, and conducted the business on a larger scale, continuing until 1878, when he left this trade and commenced farming.

He was married October 5, 1843, to Miss L. J. Roland, who died in 1851, and left one child, J. R. Lybarger. He was married in 1856 to Mary Williams, who died in 1858. His third marriage was to Lydia M. Wolf. They had one child, who died in infancy. His son, J. R. Lybarger, was married in 1868, to Mary Baker, and settled in Rossville.

Hiram Lybarger always lived an honest and worthy life; has been one of the most liberal supporters of the gospel, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

LYBARGER ASA, farmer, Union township, post office, Millwood, born February 18, 1826, in Howard township, and lived at home until his tenth year, when he went to Brown township and remained three years. He thencameto Millwood and worked as a mechanic thirty-two years. He was married to Miss Margaret Conkle in 1848, and settled on a rented farm for a few years, and then bought a farm, which he now owns

LYDICK, WILLIAM, deceased, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, October 28, 1781. He married Miss Catharine Welker in 1807 or 1808, daughter of Paul Welker. Miss Welker was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1787. They emigrated to Union township, Knox county, in 1809, and located on the farm now owned by their son, Reuben Lydick. His first improvement on the land was the erection of a log cabin, which served them as a residence for several years, when he built another log cabin, and in a short time he built an addition to it of hewed logs. The dwelling stood on the ground where the present brick residence is being erected by Mr. Reuben Lydick. They lived in the hewed log and the log cabin until 1835, when he erected a brick residence near their cabin, which served them as an abode the remainder of their days. His wife deceased September 12, 1859. He died May 8, 1861.

LYDICK, REUBEN, farmer, Union township, son of William Lydick, was born January 27, 1820. He was reared on a farm, and has made farming his vocation. On the fifteenth day of January, 1843, he married Catharine Hardin, born April 17, 1824, daughter of John and Catharine Hardin. They settled on the Lydick homestead, where he is now living. By this union he reared five children, two sons and three daughters. Mrs. Lydick died March 31, 1857.

LYONS, BENJAMIN, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Sussex county, New Jersey, February 4, 1802, came with his parents to Wayne township in 1806, and was married in 1828 to Margaret M. Jackson, who was born in New Jersey. They had two children, viz: Isaac J., born in 1830; Eliza Jane, in 1836.

Mr. Lyons was among the earliest settlers of this county. He located on the farm where he now resides, about fifty years ago, when it was all heavily timbered. He cleared up and improved this farm, has erected excellent buildings, and it is now one of the most beautiful farms of Knox county. Mr. Lyon has done much for general improvement, and has always been a quiet and unassuming man, but is one of the reliable men of this county.

LYON, WILLIAM, farmer, Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown, born August 14, 1811, in Wayne township, and was married in 1838 to Louisa Keyes, who was born March 2, 1814, in Vermont. They had the following children - Asher Newton, born August 30, 1839; Francis Marion, March 29, 1842; Mary Elizabeth, February 6, 1844; Sarah Clotilda, December 4, 1846; Arminta Pernina, July 17, 1850; Mertrice Jane, December 31, 1853; Hattie R., November 28, 1856. Mr. W. Lyons' father, Simeon Lyons, was born in Marsh county, New Jersey, August 22, 1767, and was married to Hannah Serring,

Robert Keyes, father of Mrs. William Lyon, was born in Vermont, September 6, 1783, and was married to Sally Scribner, who was born in New Hampshire, November 26, 1781. Their children were named Harriet, Elvina, Louisa, Betsey, and Robert. Mr. Robert Keyes died in this township, December 22, 1870; Mrs. Sally Keyes died February 28, 1864.

LYON, REV. EPHRAIM, farmer, Wayne township, post office, Fredericktown, born in Wayne township, this county, in 1853. He studied and prepared himself to engage in the ministry, and received a license from the Methodist Episcopal church. He is now engaged asa supply, filling the pulpit at Newville, Ohio. Although Mr. Lyon had not the facilities and privileges to receive a liberal education, he is successful, and his labors are very acceptable, and he is destined to make his mark.

LYON, S. W., Hilliar township, proprietor of Lyon's house, Centreburgh. He is the son of Newton and Hannah Lyon, nee Lonesberry. He was born in 1853. He was reared ona farm. He kept store about a year, and then moved to Centreburgh and kept livery for four years, and then purchased what is known as the Scott property and repaired it, and opened a hotel where he is now located. He keeps a good house, is accommodating, and takes especial pride in making his guests feel at home. He was married to Miss Emma A. Herron in 1872, She is the daughter of Abraham Herron, of Sparta, Morrow county. They had two children, one of whom is living.

LYNCH, REV. SAMUEL, Mt. Vernon, was born near Londonderry, Tyrone county, Ireland, February 2, 1807, where he received his education, after which he studied theology under the direction of the Rev. James Lynch. He was licensed to preach in 1831, and in 1832 he emigrated to America, locating in Holmes county, Ohio, where he engaged in teaching and preaching. In March, 1833, he received an appointment from the presiding elder, Rev. William B. Christie, for the Roscoe circuit, Wooster district, Ohio conference, which at that time included the western part of Virginia, Ohio, and Michigan.

He remained in the Roscoe circuit six months, which ended the conference year. He was then recommended to the Ohio conference held at Cincinnati, and was appointed to the Mansfield circuit, where he remained one year, after which he served the following churches, viz: Martinsburgh, one year; Ashland, one year; Millersburgh, one year; Mt. Gilead, two years; Lima, one year; Sidney, two years; Bellefontaine, two years; West Liberty, two years; Olivesburgh, two years; Mt. Vernon, as presiding elder, four years; Delaware, as elder, nine years, and pastor three years; also agent for the Female college of Delaware three years; Huntsville circuit, two years; Bellefontaine station, one year; Toledo, as presiding elder, four years; Mourne station, one year, and Elmore circuit two years,

He came to Mt. Vernon in 1877, where he has since resided, and has devoted his time in aiding in the work as a supply, and as agent for the Superannuated Ministers Aid society of the central Ohio conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, which he has served for the past four years.

He was married September 3, 1835, to Sarah R., daughter of the late Samuel G. and Mariana Berryhill, of Martinsburgh, Ohio. They have had a family of ten children, seven of whom

McARTOR, JAMES O., farmer, post office, Gambier, "was born in Knox county, Harrison township, June 20, 1848; is a son of Jonathan and Minerva McArtor, by whom he was educated. When he arrived at the age of twenty-one years he rented the home place of his father, farming it on the shares, and has continued to do so until the present time. On the twelfth of November, 1868, he married Elizabeth Gaumer, daughter of Peter and Susannah Gaumer, born in Union township, Knox county, September 5, 1848. Their marriage resulted in three children: Lulu B., born December 17, 1869; Robert F., June 5, 1873; Russell B., August 8, 1874; all of whom are living. In 1878 Mr. McArtor was elected justice of the peace of Harrison township, and is performing his official duties acceptably.

McBRIDE, ROBERT D., carpenter, Liberty township, post office, Bangs, was born in Adamsville, Muskingum county, Ohio, March 22, 1841. About 1848 his parents moved to Gilead, Ohio. His father was a carpenter, and Robert learned the trade with him. At the breaking out of the war he enlisted in company C, Fifteenth regiment of three months men, served his time, and again enlisted in company C, Fifteenth regiment, for three years. He participated in the battles of Shiloh and Stone River. He was taken prisoner at the latter place, and was confined for four months in Castle Thunder and Libby prison. He was exchanged, and a few months afterwards joined his regiment, and participated in the battles of Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and siege of Knoxville. He veteranized January, 1864, and was on the Atlanta campaign. He was under Thomas, at Nashville and Franklin, Tennessee, besides numerous skirmishes. He was also in Texas with his regiment. He was discharged December 24, 1865.

After his return home he engaged in farming and working at his trade. He was elected constable of Liberty in the spring of 1880. He was married to Miss Ann L. Roby December 19, 1867. They have four children.

McCAMMENT, JOHN S., farmer, was born in Brooke county, Virginia, October 14, 1818, and with his father removed to Jackson township, Knox county, Ohio, April, 1819, and has resided there ever since. He was married to Sarah Hammell, January 2, 1840; who was born in Butler township, February 8, 1821. They have had five children: Andrew Jackson, born July 10, 1842; Margaret Jane, July 27, 1844; Caroline Mc- Nulty, October 4, 1846; John H., May 13, 1849; Emily Rebecca, November 21, 1857; Emily R. died March 4, 1859. Mr. McCamment has been justice of the peace ever since 1855. He has served three years as commissioner of Knox county, and three years as infirmary director.

McCAMMENT, SAMUEL, farmer, is a native of Jackson township, and was born November~1, 1822. He was married October 17, 1844, to Mary E. Blount, who was born in Dresden, Muskingum county, Ohio, March 29, 1825. They have had eleven children, viz: Maria, born August 6, 1845; JamesA., March 29, 1847, Benjamin F., November 27, 1848; Martha A., July 23, 1851; Thomas J., October 13, 1852; Alonzo C., August

James A. was married to Miss Angeline Bell, October 17, 1868; Martha A. was married to Samuel Davidson, August 17, 1872; Benjamin F. was married to Accious Hall, September, 1873; Sylva Jane was married to Jacob Holbrook, November 9, 1880, Mrs. McCammet died July 21, 1879.

Mr. McCammet enlisted as a private in the Sixth company Ohio volunteer sharpshooters, on the fith day of October, 1862; at the organization of the company was appointed first corporal, was afterwards promoted to third sergeant, then orderly sergeant, first lieutenant, and subsequently became captain of the company,

McCAMMENT, JAMES M., was born April 22, 1832, in Jackson township, this county, and was married to Miss Almira Giffen, March 26, 1854. Mrs. McCammcii was born February 19, 1836. Theyhave had two children; Leonora, born January 26. 1855; and Rebecca, born October 3, 1854. 7

Mr. McCamment removed to Butler township in 1864. He has served eight years as justice of the peace for Butler township. During the late civil war he was a member of company

McCAMMENT, BENJAMIN F., Jackson township, farmer, is a native of Jackson township, and was born November 27, 1848. September 12, 1874, he was married to Accious Hall. They have had three children - Olla Bell, born June 28, 1875; Adda Jane, September 3, 1878; Edmund Garfield, November 2, 1880.

McCAY, DAVID, Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania. February 22, 1824. Hewas reared to work onafarm. In 1843 he went to Indiana, but not liking the country he returned to Ohio the following year, and settled near where he now resides, where he had been engaged in farming.

Mr. McCay is social in his habits, and has the respect of the community. He is industrious and honest. He was married to Miss Mary Rinehart, who died in 1872..

Mrs. Sarah Rinehart, zee Ewart, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, June 22, 1809. Her mother died in Pennsylvania. Her father came to Ohio some years after with two of his daughters, and settled in Delaware county, where he died ata ripe old age. Sarah was married to Lewis Rinehart, Febtuary 22, 1852. They moved on the farm now owned by the heirs of Henry B. Wright, where Mr. Rinehart died September 4, 1855. Shortly after his death Mrs. Rinehart moved to Rich Hill, where she still resides, respected by all who know her.

McCLELLAN, JOHN A., Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1821, and was married to Sarah A. Miles. They had five children - Mary Rosella (deceased); Willie D.; Hattie Bell (deeeased); Charlie W., and James H.

McCLELLAND, WILLIAM, Mt. Vernon, attorney at law, was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, December 22, 1815. He was the second child of James and Jane McClelland, nee Craig. He spent his youth until the age of twenty-three at home on the farm. He attended the schools of the county.

About 1839 he went to Millersburgh, Ohio, and read law with the Hon. William R. Sapp, of that place. In the spring of 1844 he came to Mt. Vernon and opened an office in connection with William R. Sapp and Martin Welker, under the name of Sapp, Welker & McClelland - Sapp and Welker residing in Millersburgh, Ohio. Mr. Welker is now district judge of the United States district court at Cleveland. He was also of the law firm of McClelland & Sapp (W. F.) Hon. W. F. Sapp is now a member of Congress, representing the Council Bluff, Iowa, district. Mr. McClelland is now senior member of the firm of McClelland & Culbertson. Mr. McClelland is principally engaged in the settlement of estates, of which he has a large number. He was elected county commissioner in 1856, and held that office for thirteen years. He also held the office of city solicitor for some fifteen or eighteen years.

McCLUCKION, NEWTON, Middlebury township, miller, post office, Levering, born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1834, came to Ohio in 1836 with his parents and was marred January 19, 1854, to Sarah Cook, who was born in Morrow county, March 16, 1832. They have three children - Ira, born November 15, 1856; Miriam, May 3, 1860, died March 11, 1862; Eva, June 25, 1864. Mr. McCluckion came to Waterford in 1844, and has been engaged in Owl Creek mills five years. He is a good practical miller, and is doing custom work. He formerly learned the shoe trade, and worked at it some thirty-five years. Newton McCluckion was a member of company C, One Hundred and Thirty-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry; served out his time of enlistment, and received an honorable discharge.

McCLUCKION, HARMON S., Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Levering, born in Knox county (now Morrow), May 19, 1836, and was married July 8, 1860, to Betsy A. Wait, who was born in Knox county, May 6, 1845. They have one daughter, Jennie May, who was born April 26, 1866. Mr. McCluckion has always been a citizen of this county, or near the line in Morrow county since his birth. He is one of the enterprising men of this township.

McCLURG, GEORGE, Brown township, farmer, post office, Democracy; son of Robert and Nancy McClurg, born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1824: was brought by his parents to Knox county, Ohio, when a boy about thirteen years old; they locating in the Jelloway valley, Brown township, where he was reared to manhood. He then learned the tanning business with W.H. Robinson, of Wooster, Ohio. After finishing his trade he made a trip to Indiana, where he worked at his trade for two years. In 1853 he crossed the plains to California, where he remained until the year 1858. From thence he went to Texas and spent the winter; and in the spring of 1859 he returned to Ohio, After being at home about one year he made a purchase of a tannery in Amity, Knox county, which he operated until 1862.

On the sixth of June, 1861, he married Frances J. Marshal, daughter of E. W. Marshal, born in Connecticut August 13, 1837. He then enlisted in the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry August 9, 1862; promoted to corporal October 25, 1862; was in the battles of Chickasaw Bluffs and Fort Hindman; promoted to sergeant May 1, 1863; received his commission as second lieutenant May 15, 1863; was in the battles of Vicksburgh, Jackson, Grand Coteau, and Sabine Cross Roads; mustered as first lieutenant June 14, 1864; came home on furlough June.trs,

1864; returned August 31, 1864; was in the battles of Forts Gaines and Morgan, and mustered out with the regiment July 7, 1865, and returned home.

After being home a short time he made a trip with his wife to Connecticut, New York city, western New York, Canada, and Michigan. He then engaged in farming and has continued at it tothe presenttime. In August, 1866, he purchased a farm of one hundred and eight acres, known as the Parish farm, where he then moved and now resides. In 1872 he purchased eighty acres more adjoining him on the east, making in all one hundred and eighty-eight acres.

McCONNEL, J. S., of the firm of McConnell & Co., Mt. Vernon. This firm began business April 1, 1880. Mr. McConnell is a native of Kenton, Hardin county, Ohio. His first business engagement was with James Horn & Co., Pittsburgh, as salesman, with whom:he remained two years. He then entered the employ of T. C. Jenkins & Brother, as travelling salesman. In this he continued three years. He then became a partner in the firm of McCandlass, Son & Co., wholesale grocers, and remained in the firm over two years, when his health failed. As his time and attention were devoted to the business of the firm they closed it out, he not being able to attend to it. After his health had improved some he engaged with the firm of R. R. Wallace & Co., of Pittsburgh, as travelling salesman, where he served about two years, during which time he married Miss May Mills, daughter of Milton L. Mills, esq., of Mt. Veruon. He then came to this city and engaged in the paper and rags, pelts and fur business, which he still carries on, having taken in partnership, April 1, 1880, Mr. James Rankin. In addition to their regular business, the firm make a specialty of shipping apples during the apple season. 'The business has increased to about four times what it was during the first year. The firm is now doing a business of about fifty thousand dollars for the present year, and have a fair prospect of a rapidly increasing trafic in all the different departments of their business. The firm is connected with a large exportiug house in furs. Mr Rankin at present is not a member of the firm.

McCONNELL, THOMAS, J., Morris township, farmer post office, Fredericktown, was born in Belmont county, Ohio: January 17, 1818, moved to Holmes county in 1833, remained there till 1867, and then removed to Worthington township, Richland county, resided there for some time, and came to Knox county in 1869. He was marned in 1848 to Ellen D. Hawkins, who was born in Stark county in 1832. They have the following children: Mary Ellen, born in 1849; Eliza H., in 1851; Sarah M., in 1853; William F., in 1855; Samuel Jeetan. 1857; Thomas L., in 1863. Mary Ellen was married in October, 1868, to R. W. Black. They reside in Mansfield, Ohio, and have the following children: Howard M., born November 16, 1870; Myrtie L., November 11, 1872; Vernie I., January 2, 1875; Maudie Belle, April 13, 1877.

Mr. Thomas McConnell enlisted in the late war, and was a member of company B, Sixteenth regulars, Ohio volunteer 1nfantry. He remained in the service ten months, was wounded and taken prisoner at Vicksburgh. His time expired before he was exchanged. After being exchanged he received an honorable discharge August 3, 1863.

McCREARY, A. C., Middlebury township, blacksmith, post office, Levering, born in Waterford, March 22, 1848, and was married to Rhoda E. Martin, who was born December 5, 1848, in Middlebury township. They have the following children: Charlie A., born May 2, 1872; Clara, May 2, 1875; Louis Warden, December 25, 1876. Mr. McCreary learned the blacksmith trade in Waterford, and is now located one mile and a half southwest of Waterford.

McCUEN, ROBERT S., farmer, son of James and Margaret McCuen, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 14, 1835. He was brought to this county by his parents in 1848, who settled in Clay township, near Martinsburgh, where they passed the remainder of their days. James McCuen, father of Robert, deceased in 1859, aged seventy-three years. Margaret, mother of Robert, deceased February 6, 1860, aged sixty-three years.

Robert McCuen was reared on a farm, and has made farming his principal vocation. January 27, 1869, he married Miss Lydia Sutherland. They settled in pleasant township, this county, on the farm where he now resides. Their union fesulted in one child, Pearl E. Mrs. McCuen died December 10, 1871.

McDONALD, JOHN, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1807; came to Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1828; remained there five years; then came to Knox county, and was married in 1834 to Mary Zinc, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylyrnia. They had two children - Hannah and Joseph.

Mrs. Mary McDonald died in 1844. Mr. McDonald afterwards married Hannah Fidler, who was born in Knox county. Their children are: William, Louisa, Alexander, Louis, Sarah, Ellen, Mary, and Melvin.

Joseph McDonald was in the late war, in the One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was engaged about three years. Mr. McDonald has been engaged at the cooper trade and farming, and is a prominent citizen of this township.

McDOWELL, DANIEL, was born July 9, 1809, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, and when seven years of age his mother came to Ohio and located in Mt. Vernon, where they have resided ever since. His father died about the year 1815,

Daniel was educated in the schools in Mt. Vernon, carried on in those days by subscription, after which he learned the trade of cabinetmaker with Daniel McFarland, his uncle, for whom he worked for some time, and then formed a partnership with him, which continued several years. Their shops were the second established in the city. He has remained in the business ever since.

In connection with his business he has devoted a portion of his time to the fine arts, and has produced some paintings that show fine natural abilities. At present he devotes most of his time to painting.

the county. He is now seventy-two years of age, and physically much younger; can see to read and write nearly as well as he ever could. He was married December 26, 1833, to Patience Elliott, daughter of W. Elliott,. of Mt. Vernon, by whom he had a family of six children, four sons and two daughters, four

McELROY, C., Union township, farmer, post office, Millwood, born in Orangecounty, New York, May 5, 1818. His father came to Knox county, Ohio, and settled on the farm where his son, C. McEjroy, now lives. He built a log cabin and reared his children on this little spot of ground. He was one of General Washington's soldiers, and had two horses shot from under him in the army, but escaped all serious injuries himself.

C.-MckJroy was married to Mary Baughman in 1838. His wife died in February, 1864, leaving twelve children, as follows: Henry, Charles, Alexander, Rachel, Robert, Mary, Philip» Ebenezer, Lida, William, Elihas, and Christine.

McELROY, C. A., post office, Rossville, farmer, was born March 4, 1846, in Union.township. He lived here until his twenty-second year. He went to a number of places, and in 1870 returned to the old farm, where he still remains. Inthe same year he was married. He had two children, both of whom died.

McELROY, JOHN, deceased, Monroe township, son of John and Mary McElroy, was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, on the fifteenth of December, 1804, was educated at Bethany college, Brooke county, West Virginia, and followed teaching school as his vocation during the winter months for several years, while unmarried, but farming was his principal vocation through life.

May 24, 1827, he married Miss Mary Cassil, of Washington county, Pennsylvania, born July 24, 1808, and daughter of John and Nancy Cassil. They settled on a farm in their native county, and remained about four years. In 1831 they moved to Brooke county, West Virginia, and remained until 1836, when they emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Howard township, on the farm now owned by their son James, and remained until the fall of 1837, when they moved on an adjoining farm in Monroe township, now owned by their son John. On this farm they lived until the fall of 1860, when they moved back on their farm in Howard township, and erected the present frame residence in whieh he passed the remainder of his days, dying September 5, 1879. His companion survives him, living on the home farm with her son James in Howard township. He filed the office of county commissioner for two terms in Knox county. They reared a family of seven children: Tabitha, Nancy J., John, James, Mary E., Margaret E. and Juliette V. - all now living, married, and have families. John and James McElroy served in the war of 1861.

McELROY, CHARLES, post office Gann, was born in Union township, September 6, 1849, and lived at home until he was twenty-one years of age, after which he worked at different places until March 4, 1874. He was married to Elizabeth Hess and settled in Gann, where he lives at present. He has one child, Henry, born August 12, 1878. His busniess since his marriage has been carpentering, which he has made a success.

McFADDEN, HENRY (deceased), was born near Chambersburgh, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1804. He emigrated to Hagerstown, Maryland, where he married Miss Hannah Stinemetz in 1826, who was born in 1807, daughter of John Stinemetz. They remained at her father's a short time, and in October, 1827, they, with her parents, moved to Knox county, Ohio, making the entire journey in a two-horse wagon, and located in Mt. Vernon, where he and his family lived about six years, then moved on a farm in Wayne township, remained there about twenty years, and then removed to Clinton township, near Mt. Vernon, where he deceased March 27, 1861. As expressed by a writer at the time of his death, ''he wasa good citizen, an obliging neighbor, an affectionate husband, a kind father, and a good Christian." His companion survived until May 9, 1869.

McFARLAND, J. H.,. was born in Mt. Vernon May 1, 1821, was educated in the public schools, and learned the cabinet maker's trade, also painting, with his father, who was one of the pioneers in the business in Knox county. He remained with his father until 1852, when he was elected county treasurer, in which office he served two terms, and then went into the hardware trade, which he continued in about five years and then sold the store back to Mr. Kelly, the man of whom he bought. He then worked on his farm for about three years, when he established the firm of McFarland & Son, and dealt in hardware, but sold the business to J. M. Byers.

McFARLAND, ROBERT, farmer, Morgan township, was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, February 20, 1821. His parents emigrated to the United States in 1831, and settled in Coshocton county, Ohio, where the father died, and the mother died in Indiana. They had a family of eight children, viz: Margaret, deceased; Armar, of Muskingum county, a minister; Patrick and James, deceased; Joseph and Charles in Lake county, Indiana; Mathew, in Coshocton county, Ohio; Robert, the subject of this notice, was reared on a farm and has always followed farming as his occupation. In 1842 he came to Morgan township and settled on the farm on which he now resides. He is one of the neat farmers of Morgan township, and his farm and surroundings show marks of good judgment.

Mr. McFarland is a member of the Reformed Presbyterian church. He was twice married. In 1847 he married Elizabeth Jane Wallace. His second wife was Miss Jane Watterson, whom he married in 1878. She was a native of Wheeling, West Virginia.

McFARLAND, IRA M., farmer, born in Clinton township, December 25, 1827. His father and paternal grandfather came from Scotland, and moved to Washington county, New York, in 1784.

In 1786 James McFarland, the father of Ira M., was born. In 1814 he settled near Mt. Vernon. In 1818 he married May 'Irvine, a native of Washington county, Pennsylvania, whose parents came to Ohio in 1807. James McFarland died in 1856. His wife still survives and is, perhaps, the oldest living resident of Knox county. They had a family of nine children, three of whom are living, viz: Ira M., John A., a banker in Boone, Iowa, and Mary, wife of R. L. Winston. The deceased are:

The subject of this notice was reared on a farm and attended the common schools, and having obtained sufficient education, he taught school a number of terms. During the war he recruited for the Forty-third and Sixty-fifth regiments Ohio volunteer infantry, and was with the Forty-third regiment about six months. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guard, and was quartermaster for the same.

In 1858 he married Margaret Guy. They had a family of two children, viz: Mary A. and Guy Wallace. His wife died in 1866. In 1871 he married Miss Copper. They had one child (Charles Johnson). Mr, McFarland is a good farmer, owning near four hundred acres of excellent land, and is an excellent citizen,

McGIBENY, JAMES, Mt. Vernon. James McGibeny, the son of David McGibeny, was born near Trenton, New 'Jersey, January 18, 1788. His parents dying while he was quite young, he was thrown upon his own resources. Without patrimony, except a sound body and an indomitable will, by dint of industry and frugality, and by the wise use of the fragments of time at his command, he so improved upon the elementary education acquired at the neighborhood schoois, that he developed into the noble character the sequel shows him to be. He engaged in the carpenter business. At an early age he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Newell, and in 1814 emigrated to Mt. Vernon. Here, by energy, industry and frugality that characterized his earlier years, he soon acquired a competence. Asa citizen, he was public spirited, and liberal in all laudable enterprises tending to the upbuilding of the then village of Mt. Vernon, for which his fellow citizens showed their appreciation by placing him in various positions of public trusts, such as county commissioner, justice of the peace, postmaster, associate judge, etc. But his indomitable energy and public spirit show most conspicuously in his character as a Christian. Judge McGibeny had a well rounded symmetrical character. In 1814, when the subject of this sketch came to Mt. Vernon, Christians of all denominations had a common preaching place, in the court house, no church edifice having been erected in the village. Sometime prior to this, about 1810, the Presbyterians put up a frame meeting house in Clinton, one and one-half miles north of Mt. Vernon, which place had been an unsuccessful candidate for county seat. When the county seat was established in Mt. Vernon, the business and population naturally drifted thitherward, and the church building at Clinton gradually went into dilapidation, and the society determined to build a house of worship in Mt. Vernon. Here the sterling qualities of James McGibeny, as an energetic and safe business man, and a skilful and wise léader in a difficult enterprise, shone conspicuously. He took upon himself the superintendence of the entire construction of the building, from the making of the first brick to the driving of the last nail.

The subscription list for the building of that church would be a decided marvel at the present day. Anything and everything was put down, but the one thing most needed - cash. With that motley subscription, McGibeny furnished a comfortable house of worship, in which the church grew and flourished for many years. In the course of events, when the Master saw that the time had come for a new colony to go out, the old hive was shaken up a little, and the progressives, of whom McGibeny was a leader, became restive under the old regime, and yearned for new measures and more aggressive work than would be tolerated in the old hive. The result was a ''swarm;" the radicals forming a new colony, which was the nucleus of the present Congregational church, while the conservatives remained to build up the old society.

Here again McGibeny's business tact was put to the test in furnishing a house of worship for the new colony, and was found adequate to the emergency. Here in this new organization Judge McGibeny found full scope for the free exercise of his active and energetic mind in Christian and philanthropic enterprise:

As to the family: An only child - a son - named John N., was born, who survived his parents, to inherit the homestead, a valuable farm, one mile northeast of Mt. Vernon, who enjoyed his patrimony for a few years, and then passed away, leaving his inheritance to his family. On the twelfth day of March, 1868, James McGibeny was gathered to his fathers, full of years and good works.

McGINLEY, JAMES, farmer, Pike township, post office, Democracy, born January 26, 1846, and was married December 29, 1867, to Elizabeth Braddock, who was born in Morris township this county, October 30, 1846. They have three children, Kitty Estella, born June 1, 1869; Walter, July 24, 1871, and Ella Pearl, August 21, 1879.

His father, Robert McGinley (deceased), was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1806, and was married in 1830, to Eva Lindsey, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1806. They had ten children, Isaiah, born September 27, 1828; John, July 8, 1831; Mary J., September 8, 1832; William, July 26, 1834; Michael, April ro, 1836; Nancy Ann, January 28, 1838; David, March 22, 1840; Sarah, July 15, 1841; Wilson S., August 24, 1843, and James, January 16, 1846. The following have deceased, Mr. Robert McGinley, .\ugust 23, 1871, at his home in Pike township; David, December 4, 1853; Nancy Ann, June 17, 1863, in Porter county, Indiana.

Isaiah and John reside in Porter county, Indiana; William in Jefferson county, Nebraska; Mary J. married to William Davis, now living near Cincinnati... Mr. Robert McGinley came to Knox county when about eighteen years of age. Mrs. McGinley still resides on the old homestead.

McGINLEY, MICHAEL, Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Pike township, in 1836, and was married in 1861 to Clitha Jane Parrish, who was born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1841. They have three children, viz: Florence B., born in 1862; Wilson C., in 1863; George B., in 1869.

McGREW, ALEXANDER, Perlin township, retired, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Adams county, Pennsylvania, in 1806, came to Harrison county with his parents when a child, and was married in Richland county to Tlizabeth Cobean, who was born in Harrison county. They had four children, namely: James, John F., William, and N. J.

Mrs. Elizabeth McGrew died in 1853. He married L. A. Ball, who was born in Morris township in 1819. They have one son, viz: L. L., who was born in 1860.

Mr. McGrew moved to Knox county in 1835, located on the farm now known as the Burson farm. In 1866 he came to Berlin, bought the McIntire farm, and was elected justice of the peace of Morris township. Four sons of the family were in the army, viz: James, William, John I°., and N. J.

McGREW, JOHN, F., Berlina township, farmer, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Morris township in 1836, married in 1866 to Susan McIntire, who was born in Holmes county in 1845. They had the following family, namely: Mary E., Oscar Fred (deceased), Milo M., Martha H. (deceased), Lima A. (deceased), and James E.

Mr. McGrew was a soldier in the late war, a member of company A, Fifty-sixth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, Captain Banning. He was in the following engagements: Port Gibson, Fourteen Mile Creek, Champion Hills, Siege of Vicksburgh, Siege of Jackson, Mansfield, La., Monatt's Ferry, Alexandria, Snaggy Point, May 5, 1864, where he was taken prisoner; was released June 17, 1864, and was honorably discharged.

Oscar I'reddie McGrew came to his death through a sad accdent, which occurred January 16, 1881, at his father's barn, while engaged in playing in company with other children. He jumped through a mow hole, a distance of twenty feet, struck a sill, fractured the skull, above the left eye, and died January 24,

McGREW, N. J., Fredericktown, dentist, was born in Morris township in 1847, and was married in 1871 to Melinda J. Moose, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio, in 1849. 'They have two children - John A., Lorn June, 1873, and Lizzie L., in December, 1878.

Mr. McGrew studied dentistry with Dr. W. F. Semple, of Mt. Vernon, and received a certificate from the State board of examiners, testifying to his ability.

McILVAINE, RIGHT RIEV., BISHOP. 'The residence of Bishop Mecllvaine in Knox county, commenced in 1832, and continued many years, and it is probable that he attracted to himself during those years, as much public attention as any man that ever lived within the limits of the county.

Charles Pettit McIlvaine was born in Burlington, New Jersey, January 18, 1798. He was a son of Joseph Mellvaine, a distinguished lawyer, judge and statesman of New Jersey, who died in 1826, while one of the United States senators from that State. His son, the subject of this sketch had excellent educational opportunities afforded him, and was graduated at Princeton college in 1816, at the early age of cighteen years, and some months. He was ordained a deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church, July 4, 1820, by Bishop White, and having labored in Christ church, Georgetown, Distict of Columbia, he received, two years later, priest's orders from Bishop Kemp of Maryland. He officiated as professor of ethics and History in the United States Military academy at West Point, New York, from 1825 to 1827, meanwhile also serving as chaplain in that institution. From 1827 to 1832 he was rector of St, Anne's church in Brooklyn, New York, serving also during those five years of his Brooklyn ministry, as Congressional chaplain, having been elected twice to that position. In 183t he was appointed professor of the Evidences of Revealed Religion and Sacred Antiquities in the university of the city of New York.

In/1832"Reve C. P: diocese of Ohio, as successor of Bishop Chase, resigned, and was consecrated bishop of Ohio, October 31, 1832. Mellvaine was a large contributor to theological literature. His '' Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity," delivered in from 1832 to 1859, when Rev. G. T. Bedell, D. D. was elected and consecrated an assistant bishop of the diocese. Bishop McIlvaine continued to exercise episcopal functions until his - death in 1873, embracing ap eriod of forty-one years. He also discharged the duties of president of Kenyon college from 1832 to 1840; and for many years served as president of the theological seminary of the diocese of Ohio. He was also a large contributor to the various religious periodicals, and a voluminous writer, having written many pamphlets and books, some of which were widely circulated and popular.

Among the earlier works given to the public by Bishop McIlvaine were the '' Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity," delivered in the university of New York in 1831, and first published soon after they were delivered, comprising a volume of more than four hundred pages. :

His justification by Faith appeared in 1840. His Oxford Divinity compared with that of the Romish and Anglican Churches, was first published in 1841. In the same year he gave to the public in pamphlet form, his sermon preached at the ordination held at St. Paul's church, Chillicothe, on Sunday, September 12, 1841. It was published by request of the clerical and lay members of the convention. Soon after his appeal on behalf of Kenyon college, appeared in a small pamphlet. His respectful address to the Protestant Episcopalians of the city of Cincinnati also appeared in pamphlet form about this time.

In 1843 and at previous dates he published pamphlets with the following titles: An Earnest Word in Behalf of the Church Institutions at Gambier, Ohio; Respectful Address to all who would Promote the Progress of Learning and Religion in the Western States; The Christian's Duty in the Present Crisis; The Chief Danger of the Church in these Times - a charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Ohio; Baccalaureate Discourse to the Senior Class of Kenyon college, and others on various topics.

In 1854 Bishop Mcllvaine published a volume of sermons entiled ''The Truth and the Life." He also compiled, soon after, two volumes of select family and parish sermons. His next publication which appeared in 1857, was a large pamphlet entitled ''Correspondence between the Right Rev. C. P. Mcllvaine, D.D., D.C.L., and the Rev. James A. Bolles, D.D., Rector of Trinity Church, Cleveland, with an Explanatory Pastoral Letter to the Members of the Parish of Trinity Church, Cleveland." "Bishop Mcllvaine's Address to the Convention of the Diocese of Ohio, in Newark, June 3, 1858," was a pamphlet publication, as was also his ''Sermon at the Consecration of Calvary Church, Clifton, Ohio, May 5, 1868."

Bishop Mcllvaine received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the University of Oxford in 1853, and in 1858 that of L.L.D from the University of Cambridge; and it is safe to say that those honors bave been seldom more worthily conferred.

During the great Rebellion Bishop McIlvaine acted the part of a pure patriot, and exerted a highly favorable influence. He was an active member of the Sanitary and Christian commissions, and at the request, and by appointment of President Lincoln, he visited England, as a special commissioner to explain to the clergy and people of that country the position of the Federal Union on the question at issue. This was a labor of love with the patriotic bishop. He entered with alacrity and spirit upon the discharge of the duties devolved upon him by the commission he had promptly accepted, and no reasonable, intelligent man doubts but great good was the result. The faithful, devoted bishop performed with fidelity and efficiency an honored patriot's duties.

Bishop Mcllvaine was a man of marked ability. His scholastic attainments, his many elegant accomplishments, his superior intellectual endowments, and his force and dramatic power as an orator, no less than his highly cultivated ministerial manner, his rhetorical style asa public speaker, especially in his earlier career; his forcible methods in the presentation of scripture truths; his philosophical mode of dealing with the high themes of religion, immortality, and the life to come; his able, eloquent, and convincing arguments in support of the truths of revelation; his acumen and profoundness as a logician, as displayed by the thoroughness of his investigations of the subjects he presented; his clearness of views, and soundness of argument, all tended to make his pulpit efforts not only instructive and edifying, but exceedingly attractive and popular.

Bishop Mcllvaine, as may be supposed from the foregoing paragraph, was a gentleman of pleasant, elegant, stately, dignified manners, in and out of the pulpit, and held a high rank as a divine, not only in his own denomination, bit also with other Christian churches generally. Being best known among those of his own sect, his influence naturally would be greatest in the Protestant Episcopal church. And it is probably not too much to say that, for many years, Bishop McIlvaine exerted a wider influence among Episcopalians, not only in Ohio, but throughout the United States, than any other man; and that influence was always for good. He probably left his impress upon the Episcopalians of the United States to an extent beyond that of any other one bishop during the past generation. But Bishop Mcllvaine had not only a national reputation, but was probably also better known in Europe, and especially in England, than any other American prelate. Certain it is that President Lincoln thought that he was able to exert a wider, better, greater influence over the English mind, and especially the English clergy and laity, than any other bishop, cleryman, or layman then resident in the United States.

Bishop Mcllvaine, during the closing years of his life, lived in or near Cinnennati, where he died, in 1873, at the ripe age of seventy-five years.

McINTIRE, SAMUEIL A., farmer and dealer in stock, Berlin township, post office, Shaler's Mills, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1825, and was married to Mary Nixon, who was born in the same county in 1828. They had three children: Sarah E., William A., and Cornelius. Mrs. Mary Mclntire died in 1873.

Mr. McIntire came to Knox county in 1857, and purchased the Johnson farm. He is engaged in buying, selling, and shipping stock, making a specialty of short-horned cattle. He has had extensive experience, has good judgment, and stands at the head of the enterprising men of Berlin.

McINTIRE, JOHN, Morris township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown; was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1813; came to Ohio with his parents when quite young, and was married in 1837 to Mary Riley, who was born in Holmes county in 1818. They had eleven children: Martha Jane, born in 1838; Alfred R., in 1840; Cornelius, in 1842; Susan in 1845; Winfield S., in 1847; Elmer Y., in 1849; Minerva, in 1851; Joseph H., in 1853; Agnes, January 28, 1856; John Mitchell, in 1858, and Luella, in' 1869. The following have deceased: Martha Jane, Cornelius, Joseph H., Winfield S., and Agnes.

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The following are married: Susan married John McGrew, Alfred R. married Helen Richards, Minerva married John Braddock, Elmer Y., married Alice Brown, and lives in Morrow county.

Mr. McIntire has resided on his present farm twenty-seven years. Through his industry and frugality he has secured a considerable property, and is now enjoving the fruits of his labors.

McINIIRE, ALFRED R., Mt. Vernon, lawyer, was born in Holmes county, Ohio, July 14, 1840. He is of Scotch-Irish lineage. His father was of Scotch descent and his mother of Irish. He attended school at Fredericktown, and in his early years taught school three winters. When about twenty years of age he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, where he graduated in 1865. In August, 1862, he enlisted in company A, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was discharged in February, 1863, on account of physical disability. He also served as first lieutenant of company H, One Hundred and Forty-second regiment Ohio National guards, during the summer of 1864. He began studying law with Judge R. C. Hurd, April 1, 1867, and was admitted to the bar June, 1869. Immediately after his admission he formed a law co-partnership with his preceptor, which partnership continued until the death of Judge Hurd. until 1875 when he associated with him Mr. D. B. Kirk, which partnership still continues. Mr. McIntire has been a member of the city board of education for many years. In the fall of 1879 he was a candidate for State senator in the district composed of the counties of Wayne, Holmes, Knox and Morrow, all Democratic counties with the exception of Morrow. Mr. Mc- Intire made a rernarkable run under the circumstances, coming within about forty votes of carrying Knox county. He was married to Miss Helen Richards, of Fredericktown, by whom he had two sons.

McINTIRE, WILLIAM A., Berlin township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown; was born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1846, came to this county in 1861, and was marrled in 1868 to Achsah Kimmel, who was born in Carroll county, Ohio, in 1848. They have three children, viz: James I., born in 1868, Belle, in 1874, and Lola in 1880. Daniel Kimmel, father of Mrs. McIntire, was born in Pennsylvania in 1807, was married to Lavina Swarringer, who was born in Ohio in 1812. They had ten children, viz: Catharine, John, Matilda, Elizabeth J., Noah W., Thomas J., Richard M., William J., Wesley (deceased), and Achsah. Mr. Kimmel died in this township in 1877. Mrs. Kimmel died in Bellville in 1876. The Kimmel family have all left this county except Mrs. McIntire, who occupies the home place.

McINTIRE, GEORGE, farmer, Berlin township, post office, Fredericktown; born in Holmes county, Ohio, in 1852; went to Knox county in 1861, and was married in 1874 to Alice M. Adams, who was born in this township in 1856. They have three children: Sabra, born in 1875; Jesse, in 1877; and J. A., in 1878. Mr. McIntire is identified with the farming interests

MCKAY, R. S., stone-mason, Pleasant township, a native of Scotland; born in Aberdeen October 31, 1813. His young days were spent around his native town. In 1836 he emigrated to England, where he married Miss Emma Hursh, who was born in Manchester, England, in 1825. In 1848 they emigrated.to

America, and located in Springfield, Ohio, where they remained until 1853, when they moved to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Jefferson township. There they lived until 1859, when he purchased and moved on the property where they are now living in Pleasant township, near Mt. Vernon. They have four children: William W., Erich, Anna, and Clara. He was engaged in the building of the Cleveland, Columbus & Mt. Vernon railtoad, doing all the masonry along the road from Millersburgh, Holmes county, to Bang's station, Knox county, Ohio.

McKEE, R. B., farmer, Union township, post office, Rossville, was born April 18, 1820, in Brown township, Knox county. He was the first white male child born in Brown township. His mother died in 1864, and his father in 1874.

In 1858 he married Matilda Caster. They lived on the old farm for about twelve years, then moved to Howard township; remained eighteen months, then went to Berlin township, Knox county; remained three years, and then came to their present farm. He had six children: Mary Ellen, Squire, Scott, Amanda, John, William, and Irus, who died in her eighth year.

McKEE, C. H., farmer, Union township, post office, Rossville, was born January 26, 1862. His mother died when he was small, and he was given to G. D. Barr, whose farm joined his father's. He worked for Mr. Barr until he was twenty-one years of age. He was then married to Miss Priscilla Firenlaugh, April ro, 1873, and settled on a portion of the old Barr farm, where he still lives. He has two children: Harry, born July 6, 1874, and Jennie, November 19, 1878. His wife was born April 24, 1851, in Union township.

~McKENLEY, MARTIN, mechanic, Howard township, post office, Howard; was born in Ireland in 1826. His father came to America in July, 1830. He drove a hack in the city of thrown out of employment. He then went to Philadelphia, remained there awhile, and then went to Pittsburgh. He worked there at railroading for about nine years, and had his left leg broken twice during his work on the railroad.

In 1849 he came to Knox county, and settled in Jefferson township, ona new farm. Shortly after this he went to work on the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis railroad and worked there about five years.

In 1854 he was married to Miss Maggie Meggs, and kept a boarding-house for the train hands on the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis railroad at different points along the line, until in 1865, when he came back to Jefferson township, and settled on a farm. He remained there until 1876, when he came to Howard township, and bought a farm, which he now owns, besides a portion of the old homestead. His father and mother died in 1876. He had seven children, four are deceased and three are living: John, who lives in Michigan; Joseph, in Columbus, Ohio, and Maggie, who is at home.

McKENLEY, S. W., Howard township, mechanic, post office, Howard. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1844. In 1864 he went to Cincinnati, and spent two and a half years there, learning the carpenter trade, which he still follows. In 1868 he was married to Miss Mary Jones, in Mt. Vernon, where he settled and carried on business until 1875, when he moved to Jefferson township, and remained two years, then moved to Howard, where he has remained until the present time. His wife was born December 22, 1848. They have had three children, as follows: Maggie, Belle, and John. The latter died in 1871.

McKENNA, J. B., was born January 3, 1824, in Ireland, and was educated at Wooster college, Oxford. After leaving school he started to learn the trade of wood carving, but had an occasional job in stone and marble, and preferring that kind of work he turned his attention to it exclusively. He worked for Forcyth & Bro., of London, England; Lane & Lewis, of Birmingham; and in the fine art works under Berger, the London architect. After this he travelled through the principal cities of Europe, doing some work. He came to America in 1867, and followed his trade in different places for three years when he came to Mt. Vernon, where he has since been engaged in his business, doing all kinds of marble, granite, and stone carving and cutting. He did the work on the Curtis house, Raymond block, and about all the large blocks that have been erected since 1870, he also designed and erected the soldier's monument on the public square, Mt. Vernon.

McKIBBEN, JAMES B., Pleasant township, farmer, son of Matthew McKibben, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, in 1803. He came to Harrison county, Ohio, in 1810, married Jane Kagleson, October 11, 1832, and came to Pleasant township in 1835. He purchased one hundred acres of woodland, which he cleared, and on his farm he reared a family of nine children, of whom James B. was the eighth.

James B. was married September 23, 1869, to Mary Ann Warman, and has at this time four children: Jennie O., Charles I.., Margery I¢., and John M. Mr. McKibben now occupies the old homestead, and is engaged in the propogation of fine stock. His stock consists of thoroughbred Merino sheep and short horn Durham cattle, and is among the finest in the county.

McLAIN, CHARLES S., Morgan township, justice of the peace and farmer, post office, Hunt's Station, He was born in Green county, Pennsylvania, June 28, 1813. His father, John F., was born October 18, 1791, in the same county, and remained there until 1829, when he came to Knox county, where he died. He was a business man and farmer, and a citizen of influence. He married Phoebe Swan, June 3, 1812; she was born March 17, 1792, and died in 1856.

They had a family of eight children, four of each sex, viz: Charles S., Abijah S., Ann, Permelia (deceased), Henry, Samuel (deceased when young), Mary A. (deceased), Cassandra, and William H.

The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm, and had the advantages of the common schools. In 1836 he went into his father's store and subsequently purchased it. He remained in business until 1843, when he sold out and returned to his farm, where he has since resided. In 1849 he was elected justice of the peace, which office he has held almost continuously. He has also held almost all the*township offices. He is a man of much force of character, and well and favorably known. He is well informed upon topics of general interest. He was twice married; he married Ruth Berryhill June 16, 1835, and had nine children; the living are: Samuel B., Fulton county, Ohio; Hattie, at home; William E., Colorado; Frances, Bloomington, Illinois; Charles A., Henty H., and Ruth B., in Morgan township. Mary A. and Laura are deceased.

Mrs. McLain died in 1857. In 1868 he married Mrs. Rebecca Coffin, who died in 1872. Mr. McLain is one of the most systematic and intelligent farmers of Morgan township. His farm is a model of neatness and thrift.

McLARNAN, GEORGE M., farmer, was born August 28, 1829, in Butler township. He was married to Miss Normandy Campbell, March 30, 1854. She was born November 27, 1830. They have had six' children - Augusta Olivia, born September 9, 1855; John Thomas, born September 20, 1859; Daniel Campbell, born January 17, 1863; James Clarence, born January 23, 1866, and two died in infancy.

McLAUGHLIN, MARTIN, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, in 1845; came to Knox county in 1873; located in Pike township, and was married in 1874 to Lavina Scoles, who was born in this township in 1837. They reside on a farm in this township.

McMAHON, JOSEPH, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in College township, July 29, 1845, and was married in 1867 to Eliza Jolly, who was bornin Knox county in 1847, They have the following children: Harry, born in October, 1868; T'annie, in December, 1870; Josie, October, 1873; Helen, June, 1876; Alice, October, 1879.

Mr. McMahon is a farmer, and is fully identified with this county, and is one of its active men. He was engaged in the late war, a member of company C, Thirty-second regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in the service a year, and received an honorable discharge.

McMAHON, ERASTUS, Wayne township, blacksmith, post office, Mt. Vernon, born in this county in 1845, and was married in 1871 to Amanda Jenkins, who was born in Knox county in 1852. 'They have one son - Harry N. - who was born May ro, 1878.

MCMILLEN, DAVID, farmer, post office, Butler, hichland county, Ohio. He was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1805. [In 1830 he was married to Rachel Williams, who was born in the same county in 1807. They had five children: Jesse was born in 1836; Lavena, in 1838; Isaiah; in 1840; James A., in 1842; and Marion, in 1844. The deceased members are: Mrs. Rachel McMillen died in 1880; Isaiah died in Knox county; Lavena died in Wayne county in 1844. They located in Wayne township in 1830.

He settled in Knox county in 1849. He owns a good farm with all the modern improvements. His father, Alexander Mc- Millen, was born in 1779, in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, and was married to Christina Yearian, who was born in the same county. They had five children: Christena, Mary, Esther, Alexander, and David. Mrs. McMillen died in Pennsylvania; Alexander McMillen died in Berlin township in 1864.

Jesse McMillen was married to Louisa Yarger, who was born in Ashland county, Ohio, in 1840. They have three children: Georgia Alice, born May 12, 1876; Bertha Celia, October ro, 1877, and David Franklin, January 9, 1879.

Mr. McMillen is a plasterer by trade, and assisted in plastering the court house in Mansfield. James McMillen was a soldier in the late war, and was a member of the Ohio National guards.

McMILLEN, JOSEPH, deceased, Jefferson township, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1785. He moved to Belmont county, Ohio, where, in 1809, he married Miss Mary Perry. About 1815 he, with his wife and three children, moved to Union township, Knox county, where he lived a number of years, making farming his vocation. In 1817 Ephriam bought eighty acres of land in Jefferson township. He had nine children, as follows: Hamilton, Ephraim, Ellen, John, Silas, Jane, Robert and Margaret, twins, and Mary. They are all dead except E]- len, who married Thomas Harris, and now lives in Monroe township, Knox county.

McMILLEN, SILAS, deceased, Jefferson township, third son of Joseph McMillen, was born in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, July 15, 1818. His father was one of the pioneer settlers of Jefferson township, and entered the farm now owned by the heirs of Silas McMillen, where he made improvements and passed his remaining days. He reared a family of six children, viz: Hamilton, John, Silas, [llen, Margaret, and Jane, all married and have families except Margaret, who was married but had no children. Only two of the above named children are now living: Hamilton and Ellen.

Mr. McMillen married Elizabeth Hicks, October 17, 1852. She was born in England August 3, 1834, emigrated to -\merica in 1835 with her parents, Andrew and Mariah Hicks, who settied in Jefferson township, Knox county, Ohio, on the McMillen farm, where his wife and children are now living. They reared a family of four children, viz: Alice M., Lorin H., Howard R., and George S., who died September 21, 1879.

McNABB, JOHN, Fredericktown, landlord, was born March 5, 1824, in Coshocton, Ohio, was married in 1849 to Susan Adams, who was born in Bedford county, Pennsylvania, November 4, 1829. They have nine children: Theodius, Joseph, Laura, William, Dora, Florida, Edgar, Georgia, and James.

Mr. McNabb came to Howard, in this county, in 1879, and engaged in the hotel business. In 1880 he took charge of the Commercial house in Fredericktown, and is at present doing a successful and profitable business.

McNAMARA, FRANCIS, Jefferson township, farmer, post office, Danville, was born in county Clare, Ireland, in 1798. In 1850 he emigrated to America, locating in Rochester, New York, where he remained about one year, then moved to Holidaysburgh, Pennsylvania, where he and three of his brothers took a contract ona railroad, which they completed in about two years. In 1838 he went to Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and took a contract for building several miles of the National road. His last contract was near West Alexandria, Washington county, Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Christina Weber in 1835.

Mrs. McNamara was born in Germany in 1812. They settled in Brownsville, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, remaining until in 1840, when they came to Knox county, Ohio, and located in Jefferson township, on the farm where they are now living.

Since his settlement in Jefferson township he has made clearing, farming and stock raising, his vocation. They have had a family of nine children, viz: William, John G., Margaret A., Mary, Francis K., Barbara, Bridget, Matthew, and George G. Barbara and Bridget are dead.

McNARE, ISAIAH, Fredericktown, cabinet-maker, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1826, and came to Knox county, Ohio, in 1847. In 1852 he was married to Mary Sergeant, who was born in Knox county in 1833. They had four children, viz: Ida, Anna, Chancey H., and Mary Blanche.

Mrs. Mary McNare died in Fredericktown in 1867. Mr. Mc- Nare was afterwards married to Mary E. Reed, who was born in Virginia. They have had three children - Frederick N., Rosa, and Nellie.

Mr. McNare learned the cabinet business when a young man, and is now engaged with Hill & Hagerty in the manufacture of furniture. He is an excellent mechanic, and has resided in this place since 1847.

Mr. McWilliams was a farmer and stock dealer during his lifetime. _He was a member and elder of the Presbyterian church of Martinsburgh at the time of his death, and was a much respected citizen. He died July 10, 1875.

McWILLIAMS, JOHN, farmer, a native of Ohio county, Virginia, was born January 31, 1797, removed to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1802, and to Knox county in 1818. He was married September 11, 1817, to Lydia Ierguson. They had nine children, viz: James, William, Mary Ann, Hugh, Phebe, ohn, George S., Sarah Jane, and Charles. All are dead but William, Phebe, and George S.

years. Mr. and Mrs. McWilliams were members of the Presbyterian church for many years, he being deacon forty-one years. He resided on his farm one mile east of Martinsburgh fifty-eight years. He now resides in the village.

MAGERS, NATHAN, North Sandusky street. - Mr, Magers is a native of Montgomery county, Maryland, where he was born August 19, 1793, and when about thirteen years old came with his brother-in-law and located in this county, on land adjoining the present town of Gambier, in the year 1806. He commenced life here by assisting the pioneer settlers in clearing up land and in making rails, which he followed about fourteen years. On September 1, 1812, he went out to guard the frontier, where he witnessed many exciting scenes of that eventful war. Heassisted in the taking of the Greentown Indians, and took an active part in the trying events that took place in this and Richland counties. In 1813 he went out to Sandusky, where he served twenty-one days, and in the fall of the same year he was called to Delaware, where he was a short time. He has witnessed all the changes this county has undergone, from the wild and unbroken forest populated by wild and hostile tribes of Indians, ferocious panthers, wolves, and bears, with deer as plentiful as the sheep of to-day, to its present state of civilization, densely populated with a refined and educated Christian people, where on every hand the eye is greeted with highly cultivated farms, teeming with their crops and stocks, beautiful towns and villages, extensive manufactories and business emporiums, interspersed with churches of all denominations and institutions of learning of all kinds.

In the year 1820 he commenced farming, which he followed about seven years. He then engaged in the hotel business at Danville and Millwood, which he followed about two years, after which he engaged in the milling business, running a sawmill and grist-mill, during which, in consequence of bailing certain parties, he lost all he had earned up to that time, so that he was obliged to commence life anew. He then came to Mt. Vernon and engaged in the brick business, which he followed, in connection with farming, for about ten years.

Mrs. Magers died in 1854, aud he married his second wife, Mrs. Mary Berk (Bell), who was born in 1792, and came to Ohio when quite young, consequently she is one of the early pioneers of the State, and has passed through hardships that would be incredible to the women of to-day. We give space to one incident. In those days they had to manufacture all their wearing apparel from the raw material - first spin, then weave, then cut and make it up for wear. She had no place to put up her loom, her brothers were out in the War of 1812, and she, feeling that all depended on her, shouldered her axe and went to the woods and cut logs for a cabin to weave in. When she had them ready she called in some of the nearest neighbors to raise the building, after which she completed it and set up her loom to make cloth for the family. Such was the indomitable energy of some of the pioneer mothers of our county and State.

MAGERS, CALVIN, city marshal of Mt. Vernon, is a son of Nathan Magers, one of the earliest pioneers of the county. He was born in this county: , and when about eight years old his parents came to Mt. Vernon, where he received his education. He was engaged in various ways until 1863, when he was elected to the office of city marshal, which position he has filled, with the exception of two and a half years, until the present. He was appointed and served as United States deputy marshal in the Northern district for five years, after which he was appointed to the same office in the Southern district in 1880, and in which office he still remains. The above facts are sufficient evidence of his faithfulness and abilities as an officer.

MAGERS, ELIAS, Monroe township, deceased, was born in Maryland in 1806, and while yet an infant was brought to Ohio with his parents, who died when he was ten years old, after which Elias made his home among strangers. He was married to Mary Lybarger, who was born in Pennsylvania. They had six children, viz.: Susannah, Lewis (deceased), Lyman, Martha J., Lucinda E., and Nathan A. Mrs. Mary Magers died in 1854. Mr. Magers married Christina Scoles, who was born in Pike township in 1830. They had one daughter, Clara I., who is living with her mother. Mr. Magers has been identified with this county since 1810. He was reared a Catholic, but when he reached maturity joined the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a very prominent and consistent member of the Pike church.

MAGERS, LYMAN, Mt. Vernon, farmer, was born in Howard township in 1837, married to Louisa H. Lambert, daughter of Rev. Daniel Lambert, of this county. She was born in Utica, Licking county, in 1835. They had six children, viz.: William S., Romyne A., Daniel M., Alice A., Blanche E., and Mary E. Miss Alice A. departed this life November 17, 1880, having assurances of a blessed immortality. Mr. Magers is one of the official members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Pike township. He was a soldier in the late war - a member of the Ohio National guard - served out the time of his enlistment and was honorably discharged.

MAGILL, S. W., Howard township, mechanic, post office, Howard, was born in Pittsburgh, April 13, 1836. He enlisted in the late "war, in 1861, in company A, Fourth Ohio volunteer infantry for three months, then re-enlisted for three years; served one and one-half years, and was transferred at Harper's Ferry to battery C, Fourth volunteer artillery. He served till the close of the war; was in nineteen different battles, and only received two slight wounds. February 22, 1865, he was married to Miss Emily Rawly. She was born in Union county, Ohio, September 28, 1843. Then he lived in Mt. Vernon for a time, then in Millwood, in Mt. Holly, and then moved to Howard, where he has since remained, working at his trade and farming. He had eight children - Litta, born August 18, 1866; Lettice, April 18, 1868; Charles, July 27, 1870; Samuel, September 6, 1872; Frank, June 11, 1874; Curtis, July 9, 1876' Emily, April 12, 1878; Mary, April 16, 1880. _ Lettice died January 9, 1875, aged seven years, seven months and two days.

MAGILL, ALEXANDER, farmer, Milford township, was born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1824. About nine years after his parents removed to Washington county, Pennsylvania, where they remained until 1838, when they moved to Monroe county, Ohio, where they settled. They had nine children, five sons and four daughters.

At about nineteen years of age he learned the tanning trade, which he followed for about ten years. In 1855 he came to Knox county, and resided in Harrison and Monroe townships until 1879, when he purchased in Milford township and moved there. His parents are both dead. He married Miss Elizabeth Willoughby, April 23, 1846, who was born February 8, 1827, in

Danville. They had one child, who died in infancy, but have an adopted son (Theodore Magill). Mr. Magill is a good citizen and also a good farmer. The father of Mrs. Magill (Henry Willoughby) lives with her. He was born in Oxfordshire, near Oxford, England, October 3, 1790. He spent ten years of his life-in the English army, three years in marine service, and seven years with the land forces, and passed through many exciting scenes. He was in the English campaign in Spain, and has been in all parts of the world. against the United States. He was discharged from the Thirtyseventh English regiment, January 21, 1816, and the same month came to the United States. His regiment was in Canada. In 1819 he came to Knox county and has resided here ever since. He helped to build Kenyon college, and was well known over the county. He was three times married and by one of his wives (Mariah Furness) he had eleven children, seven of whom are living.

MAHAFFEY, C. M., Pike township, physician, post office, North Liberty, born in Mt. Vernon, Knox county, in 1854, and was educated in the Mt. Vernon public schools; studied medit cine with Dr. J. C. Gordon, of Mt. Vernon, and attended lectures at the Cleveland Medical college. He engaged in the practice of medicine in Brownsville in company with Dr. Hyatt, and continued about eighteen months. From there he went to Mt. Vernon, remained there some time, and came to North Liberty in 1879.

The doctor has established quite an extensive practice; is meeting with good success, and is now classed with one of the leading physicians of this county.

MANN, CLAYTON J., Middlebury township, carpenter, post office, Fredericktown, born in Morrow county in 1854, and was married in 1875 to Lurella Caywood, who was born in this township in 1856. "They have one son - Earl Mann, born in 1877.

MARPLE, HIRAM B., Fredericktown, painter, was born in 1830 in Virginia, and came to Ohio in 1841. He was married to Sarah Phipps, who was born in Morrow county in 1834. They have the following children: Lura, born in 1857; Elroy, deceased; Frank, in 1839; Lincoln, in 1860; McClellan, in 1862; Maca, in 1866; Mary, 1n 1857; Will, in 1869; Gertrude, in 1871; Annias C., in 1873; Birdie, deceased; Ivanna, in 1877.

Mr. Marple has been a citizen of Fredericktown for about twenty-seven years. He wasa soldier in the late war, and a member of the Ohio National guards; served out the time of his enlistment, and received an honorable discharge.

MARRIOTT, MRS. JUDI ANN, Hilliar township, was born in Licking county May 21, 1823. She was the third child of Abraham and Margaret Plumner, who died in Licking county.

The subject of this notice was married to Elisha Marriott in 1845, and about three years after moved to Hilliar township, and settled on the farm on which Mrs. Marriott still resides, and where Mr. Marriott died in June, 1879. They hada family of nine children, six daughters and three sons, seven of whom are living, viz: Mary, married to Harvey Hupp; Jerusha,

MARSH, EBER, deceased, Monroe township, a native of Vermont, born on the twenty-seventh day of February, 1801, was a carpenter by trade, and followed carpentering as his vocation through life. In 1826 he married Miss Sophia Jackson, of Vermont, born June 17, 1807. They settled in Franklin county, New York, and remained about eleven years. In 1837 they emigrated to Knox county, located in Mt. Vernon, and remained two years. 'They then moved to Monroe township, and located on H. H. Young's farm, where they lived about two years, during which time he erected the residence now occupied by his widow and son, Eber P. Marsh, into which they moved in March, 1841. This served him as an abode until! he deceased January 17, 1876. His companion is still living on the home farm, where she has resided since 1841. The farm is now owned by their son, Eber P. Marsh.

They reared a family of eight children, viz: Eber P., Louisa S., Lewis j., EriC., Mary C., Hollis L., Sarah J., and Orlinda O. Allare living except Eri C. and Hollis L., who were killed in the war of 1861. Eri C. enlisted in the Second Wisconsin regiment, and was killed in the battle of the Wilderness on the fifth day of May, 1864. He was a veteran at the time of his death. Hollis L. enlisted in the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, and was wounded at the battle of Stone River, which caused his death in a few days. Eber P. and Lewis J., each served about four months in the same war.

MARSH, A. M., RICHARD BLACKMORE, superintendent public schools, Mt. Vernon, was born August 2, 1835. His father, Moses Marsh, was born in the city of Boston, in 1800, and his mother, Hannah Blackmore Marsh, in Truro, Nova Scotia, in 1820. The subject of this sketch was named for a distant ancestor, Sir Richard Blackmore, a distinguished physician, and a poet of some reputation, who lived in the latter part of the seventeenth century. His early life was spent in New England, from which he removed to Gambier, Ohio, in the winter of 1856, and entered the Kenyon grammar school, then under the charge of Professor H. D. Lathrop. He was poor and friendless, and had a wife and one child dependent upon him for support, which rendered his struggle for an education difficult. Ilis design was to study for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church. His vacaticns and half holidays were spent in building fences, putting in glass, and painting for the college. Parts of his fences are yet standing in Gambier. When he had acquired sufficient education to teach, his spare time was employed in assisting students who had to make extra exertion to overtake classes in branches in which they were found deficient.

Mr. Marsh was a good student, intelligent and industrious to a remarkable extent. In 1861 he was appointed tutor in Kenyon grammar school, at a salary of five hundred dollars per year. His success as a teacher and disciplinarian was so marked that he was advised by the bishop and faculty of Kenyon college to devote his life to teaching, and to relinquish his intention of entering the ministry. ;

In 1862, Professor Lathrop resigning, he was appointed principal of Kenyon grammar school, and became a member of the faculty of Kenyon college. The school at this time was small in numbers, the last year having only seventeen students, but number. Notwithstanding his arduous labors and incessant teaching, he continued his college studies and graduated with his class in 1863. He continued as head teacher of the grammar school, kept up the reputation and numbers, and had for years been making a salary of two thousand two hundred dollars, but at the close of the school year, 1867, not being satisfied with the appointment of J. Kent Stone to the presidency of the college, and foreseeing a struggle between the High and the Low church party, in which the former, with whom he had no sympathy, was likely to gain the ascendency, he accepted an invitation to superintend the schools of Mt. Vernon at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars and house rent, which position, at the same salary, he has continued to hold.

In 1866 he received the degree of A. M. in course from Kenyon college. In 1879 he received a life certificate from the State board of examiners.

Mr. Marsh is an ardent and enthusiastic mason, and was for many years master of Mount Zion lodge, high priest of Clinton chapter, and is al present eminent commander of Clinton commandery Knight Templars. He has devoted some time to the special study of elocution, and has lectured at institutes and normal schools in many counties of the State, and has spent a large part of the Sabbaths of the year in preaching for no pecuniary consideration.

Testimonials from distinguished educators, and from the press of the State, amply manifest the high esteem in which Professor Marsh is held both as an educator and as an elocutionist. A few of these testimonials will suffice:

Professor J. J. Burns, superintendent public schools, speak- -ing of the teacherss' institute, held at Barnesville, Ohio, in August, 1874, says:

'The institute just closed was most successful in number and enthusiasm, and in the interest aroused in the good cause among the citizens. 'These good results are largely due to the earnest and efficient services of R. B. Marsh, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, who, in public and private, has continually labored to sow that seed which must bear fruit in many school-rooms of the county. Professor Marsh's public readings were admirable; fully satisfying the large expectations of his very large audience."

"It was my pleasure to be associated, as colaborer, with Professor R. B. Marsh, superintendent of publicinstruction, Mt. Vernon, Ohio, during the recent session of the Stark county teachers' institute, the largest, perhaps, ever held in the State; and it has seldom been my fortune to meet a more earnest and able lecturer. His special subject is elocution, for which he has arare gift. His evening entertainments, in which he renders some of the most difficult and entertaining pieces, are inimitable. I recommend him to all teachers' institutes and literary associations."

''That a vote of thanks be tendered to Professor Marsh for the masterly manner in which he conducted the elocutionary and reading department, for those ennobling impressions which will not only benefit teachers in life, but go with them through eternity."

Ogden and Marsh. Each in his way is without a superior. This evening Professor Marsh will deliver a lecture on elocution, with recitations, in the Opera House. He has more power and ability in this line than any-man we know in Ohio. It will be a rare treat.

''November 6th - One of the best houses that ever assembled in Canton greeted Professor Marsh at the Opera House on Thursday evening last. He is thoroughly educated and drilled on the subject of elocution. His voice has great compass and power, and his ability to give it the proper tones for deep feeling, or for gay humor, is perfect. In serious, sympathetic pieces he drew tears from many eyes, while in humorous pieces he often convulsed the house with laughter. Professor Marsh has made many friends by his visit to Canton, who will be happy to greet him at future meetings of our teachers' institute.'

The following is from Colonel D. F. DeWolf and signed also by Hon. Thomas W. Harvey: '' Having worked in a teachers' institute with Professor R. B. Marsh, I take great pleasure in sgying that his course of lessons in elocution and reading has been highly entertaining and instructive - indeed, one of the most useful and pleasant courses on this subject that I have ever witnessed in an institute."

Similar tributes might be quoted from the public press at Barnesville, Mansfield, Mt. Gilead, Marysville, Circleville, Coshocton, Marietta, New Philadelphia, Tiffin, and at other cities in the State, but the few quoted will suffice to show the high esteem in which the Professor is held throughout the State.

MARING, JACOB, retired, post office, Fredericktown; was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1800, came to Knox county in 1832, first locating in Fredericktown and engaged in the mercantile business about sixteen years. In 1848 he purchased a farm in Berlin township and has since been a resident here, engaged in farming and dealing in and raising stock. He was elected a member of the Legislature in 1854, which place he filled with credit. He was married in 1833 to Harriet Headley, who was born in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1808. They had ten children, viz: William L., Sarah E., Joseph H., John C., Theodore P., Mary H. (deceased), Ella H., Ann A., Jacob &., and L. W. Mr, Maring is now one of the oldest living settlers of this county. In 1880 he drove the horses to the reaper during the entire harvest.

MARTIN, JACOB, deceased, born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, in 1782, and was brought to Knox county, Ohio, by his parents, George and Sarah Martin, in 1811, who located in Mt. Vernon where his father deceased in 1812; Jacob Martin married Miss Ann Adams about 1813, born in Winchester, Virginia, about the year 1800. 'hey settled in Mt. Vernon, where he died in July, 1870, aged seventy-eight years. His companion is still surviving him at the age of eighty years, and is living in Mt. Vernon where they first settled. He was a cabinet-maker and joiner by trade, and carried on the business in Mt. Vernon for many years. They reared a family of eleven children, viz: George R., Sarah A., Samuel S., John M., Jacob, Benjamin F., Ellen, Joseph, Martha, Albert, and Clara, four of whom died, viz: Sarah A., Jacob, Benjamin F., and Joseph.

MARTIN, GEORGE R.,, oldest son of the aforesaid Jacob Martin, was born in Mt. Vernon, Knox county, Ohio, November 22, 1821. He learned the cabinet-makers' and joiners' trade with his father, and followed that business as his princi- pal vocation until 1853, when he engaged in the saw-mill business, which he has followed in connection with farming as his avocation. In 1844 he married Miss Agnes Shipley. 'They settled in Mt. Vernon and remained there until 1856 when they moved to their present location, on the Granville road a short distance from Mt. Vernon. 'They have reared a family of eight children, four sons and four daughters. His oldest son, Milton P. Martin, served nineteen months in the Third Ohio volunteer cavalry in the war of 1861.

MARTIN, JAMES, Middlebury township, retired, post office, Fredericktown, born in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, in 1793, came to Ohio, this county, in 1811, and was married in 1819 to Luhamar Warden, who was born in Chambersburgh, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, in 1798. They had three children - Henry P., born in 1822; William S., in 1825; and Mary, the eldest, born in 1820.

Mr. Martin is the oldest resident yet living in this vicinity. He was a cabinet-maker and worked at that business for some years, but has been a farmer for many years in this township.

Mr. Martin was born in this city, May 31, 1842. He was educated in our common schools. His first business engagement was made in 1857, with the late Adam Weaver, as salesman in his hardware store at Mt. Vernon. Here he continued five years. He then enlisted in company A, Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, in which he served three years, and was honorably discharged, July, 1865. He returned to Mt. Vernon, remained at home but a short time only, and then went to Jackson, Tennessee, and engaged in the hardware business, which he conducted for five years with success. His next move was to Frogmore, Louisiana, where he engaged in a general store business, in which he remained three years. He then returned to Mt. Vernon, and went into the hardware store of J. H. McFarland, where he continued three years, and then with C. A. Bopes for one year. For some time after this last clerkship he engaged ina variety of businesses. About a year since he purchased the grain and feed store of J. H. McFarland KRGOo), and the firm of Martin & Park was formed. They carry a full stock of coal, ice, feed, etc., and average in winter, coal to the amount of one thousand six hundred dollars per month, and of feed, lime and cement abuut one thousand dollars. he firm is doing a business of about twenty thousand dollars per annum.

MARTS, JOHN C., Berlin town, farmer, post offlce, I*redericktown, born in Berlin township, in this county, in 1842, and was married in 1867, to Malinda Adams, who was born in Berlin township in this county in 1842. They had three children: Alda M., born in 1868 ; George Sherman, deceased, and Madison Lloyd, deceased. Mr. John Marts was a soidier in the late war, a member of company G., One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, and was in the following engagements - battle of Champion Hills, Chattanooga, Buzzard's Roost, Kennesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, J onesborough, Atlanta to Savannah, and from there to South Carolina. He was wounded, April 10, 1865, near Goldsborough, in the left knec with a piece of shell, which has crippled him far

MASTELLER, JACOB S., Wayne township, farmer, post oftice, I''redericktown, born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania; came to Ohio in the fall of 1844; settled near Mount Vernon and remained there till 1865 ; then came to Wayne township. He was married in 1850, to Sarah Stillery. They had the following children, of whom three are living: Charles F., Minnie B., and Rebecca x. Mrs. Mastellar died in 1869. Mr. Mastellar's second marriage was to Sarah Cassell, who was born in Maryland in 183r.

MATHENY, JAMES W., Pike township, farmer, post office, Democracy, born in Brown township in this county, September 7, 1858. He is engaged in farming in this county, and is an active and enterprising young man.

MATHEWS, JOSEPH B., Hilliar township, farmer, was born in Knox county, March 11, 1824. Heis the son of Henry and Mary Mathews, zee Harris. His father was born in Maryland, and moved to Hilliar township in 1811. He was a soldier of the War of 1812, and during the latter part of his life drew a pension. When he first came to Knox county, he worked for James Houck and in consideration of his work, hg got fifty acres 'of land, on which he now resides. This was about 1818, or perhaps a few years earlier. 'There were ten children in the family, five of whom are still living, viz: Joseph B., the subject of this notice, John W., Isaac, Sarah A., married to Allen Moore, and Caroline M., married to Almind Perfect. Mrs. Mathews died in 1858, and Mr. Mathewsin 1872. Thus passed away two of Knox county's first-class pioneers. The subject of this notice was twice married. His first wife was Miranda J. Kempton, to whom he was maeried December 25, 1855. They had three children, two living. His first wife died September, 1861. His second wife was Jane A. Jones. children, two sons and two daughters. Mr. Mathews is social and pleasant. He has the esteem of his neighbors. Mrs. Mathews died recently.

MAVIS, LINAS, Brown township, farmer, post office, Democracy, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Mavis, born in Coshocton county, January 2, 1845; was brought by his parents whena child to Knox county, his father locating in Howard township, where they remained about seven years. His father then purchased.a farm in what is now known as the Jelloway valley, Brown township, where he lived until he arrived at the age of eighteen years, when he enlisted in the Sixty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry, in company A, under Captain Cassil, Colonel Harker being the commander of the regiment in which he served three years, during which time he was engaged in a number of battles, among them being Franklin, Tennessee, Pittsburgh Landing, Corinth, Mississippi, Stone River (where he received a wound in the shoulder), Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Buzzard Roost, where he received the second wound, and was then sent back to Murfreesborough, Tennessee, where he remained until his time expired; and he received his discharge and was mustered out at Columbus, Ohio. He returned home and went to farming for his father, at which he continued up to February 27, 1867, when he married Sarah J. Norick, a daughter of Jacob and Emily Norick, born in Harrison county, Ohio, June 10, 1846. After his marriage he moved to another township, but soon moved back to Brown, and then to Hilliar township, and again to Brown, locating on the old home farm, where he now resides. Their marriage resulted in six children - Franklin C., Della B., Alverda, Burley M., Samuel, and Ora, all of whom are living.