Howard County IN Archives Biographies.....Coyner, M. O. 1844 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

M. O. COYNER.

   It will always be a badge of honor in this country to have known that a
person's father, or even his uncle, enlisted in the service of his country when
the great Rebellion broke out, to assist in saving the Union, and in eradicating
slavery from our soil. Just as to this day we boast that our grandfather or
great-grandfather fought in the Revolution to gain independence, or fought in
the War of 1812 to protect our rights on the ocean, so the descendents of the
gallant soldiers who fought during the Rebellion to save the Union will boast
through the coming centuries of the bravery and self-sacrifice of their fathers
or other relatives. It is a pleasure to write of the subject of this sketch, who
was one of the "boys in blue" who went forth to die on the field or in the no
less dangerous fever camp, if need be, for the salvation of the country.

   M. O. Coyner was born in Ross county, Ohio, December 18, 1844, the son of
George and Eliza (Clark) Coyner. They spent their lives on a farm in the Buckeye
state, never living in Indiana. The father of the subject was a native of
Virginia, and was brought by his parents to Ohio when he was six years old.
There were nine children in this family, only three of whom survive. One son
William, was a soldier in the Civil war, dying at Memphis, Tennessee, while in
the service. His brother, George, was also a soldier in Company D, Eighty-ninth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was taken prisoner at Chickamauga and died in the
prison at Andersonville, Georgia, in July. 1864.

   Our subject was in the One Hundred and Seventy-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
However, circumstances were such that he was not long in the service, greatly to
his regret. He performed gallant work in the pursuit of Morgan's men, when that
intrepid Southern leader was on his raid through the North.

   M. O. Coyner lived on a farm in his youth and attended the common schools,
receiving a good education, such as those times afforded. When he gained his
majority he came west and clerked in a general store for three years. While
there he married Mary E. Neal, daughter of Rev. A. Neal, of Missouri, a family
of high rank.

   In 1870 the subject returned to Ohio, and later engaged in the grocery
business at Frankfort, Ohio, with much success for four years. He then came to
Indianapolis, but soon went to Cincinnati. In 1879 he began work as traveling
salesman for Butterworth & Potts, a Cincinnati shoe house, which line was
successfully followed for five or six years. He then engaged with Manse Brothers
& Company. of Cincinnati, with which firm he continued for three years, after
which he was with J. W. Butterworth, of the Marion Shoe Company, in which he is
now (1908) employed, having devoted nine years to this work in their service. He
has been a travehing salesman for the past twenty-eight years, during which time
he has made hosts of friends and secured an enormous amount of business for his
employers, being not only a man of keen business discernment, but also of
pleasing personality in every respect.

   Mr. Coyner came to Kokomo, Indiana, in 1887, when he purchased property at
1001 East Sycamore street, where he has since resided, maintaining a pleasant
and well furnished home. He has one son. E. G., who was born September 18, 1870,
now located in Norwood, a suburb of Cincinnati.

   The subject's present wife was Viola Ramsey, a daughter of the late L. J.
Ramsey. She has one son, Harold, a reporter on the Kokomo Dispatch. He graduated
from the Kokomo high school in 1908.

   Mr. Coyner is independent in politics. He is a member of the Order of
Traveling Men of Indianapolis. Being a man of upright principles and congenial
disposition he is held in great favor by all who have the fortune to know him.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)

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