Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....May, Milton 1829 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   MILTON MAY, farmer, P. O. Mount Blanchard, was born in Brooke County, Va.
(now West Virginia), January 30, 1829. In 1850 he went with the gold hunters to
California and remained there six months; during this time he had a severe
attack of mountain fever. He decided to return to his native county, and leaving
San Franciso, with only one dime in his pocket, he worked before the mast for
his passage to Panama, and arriving there, engaged at carpenting for two months,
then crossed the Isthmus to Chagres, and shipped for New Orleans, being promoted
on the voyage to second mate. Arriving in New Orleans, he made his way up the
Mississippi River to Steubenville. Ohio, and in the spring of 1852, he came to
Delaware Township, this county, where he had previously acquired a tract of
land. This land he now began clearing up and improving, and September 15, 1853,
he married Sarah Louisa Smith, daughter of the pioneer Abijah Smith, and they
located in their present home in Delaware Township, this county, in the spring
of 1857; here they have a fine farm of eighty-one acres of well improved land;
they also own a tract of 137 acres in Delaware and Amanda Townships, this
county. Mr. and Mrs. May have two children: Dr. A. S. May, in Donaldson,
Marshall Co., Ind., and Lewis B., at home. Mr. May is a member of the Methodist
Church, Mrs. May of the Presbyterian.



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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Delaware Township




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