Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....McLaughlin, William July 24, 1813 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Washington Township
p. 750 & 751

William McLaughlin, agent Fort Wayne, Cincinnati, & Louisville Railroad, 
Milton, Ind., was born in Lancaster County, Pa., July 24, 1813, a son of 
Francis and Elizabeth (Clouse) McLaughlin. His father was a native of County 
Tyrone, Ireland, and started to come to America when eighteen years of age, 
but was captured while on shipboard by an English press-gang and forced into 
the British navy, where he served three years on a man-of-war. He then came to 
the United States and located in Lancaster County, Pa., in a neighborhood of 
the descendants of Presbyterian emigrants from his native county, who had been 
fellow sufferers, through the tyrrany of British oppression to all 
Nonconformists. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He was by trade a weaver. 
He was married in Pennsylvania to Elizabeth Clouse and in 1886 removed to 
Ohio, and subsequently to Indianapolis. His wife died in Circleville, Ohio, in 
1840, and he in Indianapolis, in 1856. They had a family of five children---
James, William, John, Catherine Ann and Mary Jane, our subject being the only 
one living. He remained at home till fifteen years of age. He received a 
limited education in the common schools but by application he was enabled to 
teach school, a vocation he followed in his native county and in Ohio. He 
served an apprenticeship of three years at the carpenter's trade, and while in 
Ohio worked at his trade in connection with teaching. He came to Milton in 
1846 and worked at his trade till 1862 when he was appointed Assistant United 
States Revenue Assessor of this district, and served three years. He was 
appointed to his in 1846 and worked at his trade till 1862 when he was 
appointed Assistant United States Revenue Assessor of this district, and 
served three years. He was appointed to his present position in 1865. Through 
his own efforts he gained a knowledge of the law, and was admitted to the bar 
in 1851. He has been repeatedly a member of the Town Council and the School 
Board. In 1848 he was a candidate for Representative of Wayne County, on the 
Free-Soil ticket, but was defeated by twelve votes. Politically he is a 
Democrat and has always taken a great interest in political matters. He is a 
member of Milton Lodge, No. 108, F. & A. M., and Cambridge Chapter, No.9, R. 
A. M. He has been connected with the Christian church a number of years. Mr. 
McLaughlin was married in 1832 to Abigail Zell. They have had twelve children, 
seven of whom are living---Mary J., Sarah E., Ann M., Amanda E., Marcellus L., 
Americus D. and Minerva A. The deceased are---George W., James H., Francis M., 
William H., and one who died in infancy.

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