390 HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

aged sixty-five years, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Scott, near Zoar.
He married Margaret Curry, who was born in Washington county, Penn-
sylvania, a daughter of Robert Curry, a native of Scotland. She died
March 15, 1842, in New Cumberland, Ohio, leaving four children, Mar-
garet, Jane, John and William Wallace. Margaret married James H.
Turner, of Jefferson county, Ohio. Jane married Robert Scott, of New
Cumberland, Ohio. John was graduated from the Cincinnati and Phila-
delphia Medical Colleges, and after practising his profession in different
places in Clay county located in Brazil, where he continued as a successful
physician until his death.
    Laying a substantial foundation for his future education in the
district schools of Harrison county, Ohio, William W. McGregor after-
wards attended the village academy at Hagerstown, Ohio, and at the age
of eighteen years began his active career as a teacher in the school at
Stone Creek, three miles from New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas county.
He afterwards taught at Cross Creek village, Washington county, Penn-
sylvania, and at Mount Hope, West Virginia, and for awhile was an
instructor in a private school near Lexington, Kentucky. Going to Iowa
in 1858, Mr. McGregor taught first in Moscow, Muscatine county, and
then in Crawfordsville, Washington county, after which he went to
Steele county, Minnesota, and for awhile was employed in the schools at
Bracketts Station. Coming from there to Clay county, Indiana, he here
began his pedagogical career in Cass township, subsequently teaching in
Jackson, Van Buren and Harrison townships. During the time that he
was employed as a teacher, Mr. McGregor devoted his leisure minutes to
the study of law, and about 1874 was admitted to the bar at Brazil. He
immediately opened an office in Middlebury, and when Clay City was
incorporated located there and continued in the active practice of his
profession in that place until 1905, by his ability, skill and knowledge
building up an excellent patronage. During the past three years he has
lived retired on the farm which he had previously bought.
    Mr. McGregor married, February 16, 1872, Mary M. Storm. She
was born in Mill Creek township, Cosbocton county, Ohio, August 12,
 Her father, John Storm, was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, a
son of George and Barbara (Miller) Storm. Five children have been
born to Mr. and Mrs. McGregor, namely: Deborah Jane, wife of Joseph
C. Boston ; Inez ;. Donald C., who died at the age of nineteen years, in
1900; Gertrude Grace, whose death occurred in 1903, when she was in
the nineteenth year of her age; and Anna Belle, who died at the age of
four years. Formerly a Democrat in his political affiliations, Mr.
McGregor is now a Socialist. Religiously Mrs. McGregor is a member
of the United Brethren church.

    Mrs. MARGARET (BURKHART) COOPRIDER, widow of the late Francis
Marion Cooprider, is a woman highly respected throughout the com-
munity in which she resides for her sterling traits of mind and char-
acter, her home in Harrison township being the one in which she and
her husband spent so many happy years. A daughter of Philip Burkhart,
she was born June 5, 1845, in Coshocton county, Ohio.
    Venable Burkhart, Mrs. Cooprider’s grandfather, moved from his
native state, Pennsylvania, to Ohio, becoming an early settler of Coshoc-
ton county. Entering government land, he there cleared and improved
a homestead, which he managed successfully until his death, both he and