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Bobbi Estle
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Amelia, OH  45102
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From
The State Centennial History
By J. W. Klise 
Pages 390-391
County of Highland
State of Ohio

John McMullen and Jennie (Pearce) McMullen

John McMullen, of Rainsboro, Ohio, Highland County, farmer and 
surveyor, and former trustee of Paint township, was born December 
24,1858, and is of Irish descent.  His grandfather, James McMullen, 
born September 1, 1778, in County Down, Ireland, came to America 
in early manhood and married Mrs. Nancy Matthews Sloan, of Ross 
County, also a native of Ireland.  They had two children:  Robert B. 
and Louisa, who married John Arnott.  Robert B. was born July 1, 1829, 
and died August 4, 1901.  His wife was Mary Jane McClure, born June 
1833, and died September 6, 1893, and she was the daughter of John 
and Elizabeth (Taylor) McClure, both of the early and prominent 
families of Highland County.  The children of Robert and Mary J. 
McMullen were James, who died in 1899, aged thirty-three; John, 
subject of this sketch; William J., who died in childhood; Joseph 
Scott, who died at the age of thirty-one years; Matie, wife of George 
Free, who owns the farm adjoining; Ernst, who married Jennie Town, 
and is a farmer in Oklahoma; and Birdie, wife of N. P. Clyburn, an 
attorney at Greenfield.  John McMullen was given a good education, 
in the district school and at South Salem and Lebanon institutes, and 
for six years after leaving school he followed the profession of 
teaching.  He also took a course in surveying, in which he is quite 
expert, and found considerable employment in this profession during 
the past twenty years. He owns a valuable farm of 300 acres, where 
he has built a country home which is one of the most attractive of 
the county.  In his relation to religious and social life he is one 
of the popular men of the township.  He is an elder and leader in 
vocal music of the Petersburg Presbyterian Church, of which his 
family are also valued members, and he maintains fraternal connections 
with the Rainsboro lodge of Knights of Pythias, No. 453, and the 
lodge of Modern Woodsmen, No. 4,711, and with his wife, is a member 
of Mizpah temple, Rathbone Sisters, of Rainsboro.  The office of 
township trustee he held in the years 1894-1900.  Mr. McMullen's 
marriage on February 3, 1886, was to Jennie, daughter of Jacob and 
Jane (Brown) Pearce, of New Petersburg.  Mrs. McMullen is a 
granddaughter of Benjamin and Catherine (White) Pearce both notable 
among the pioneer families of the county.  She had five brothers - 
Benjamin; Robert; Charles; Jacob; and Hosea - and one sister, Ella, 
deceased and has two brothers living, at Petersburg, Frank and George, 
merchants.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. McMullen are John Pearce, 
born November 5, 1886; Robert Beecher, born January 26, 1888; Raymond 
Fay, born March 5, 1889; Marie Jane, born August 30, 1892; Paul 
Huggart, born April 17, 1895; Harold, born February 10, 1901, died in 
infancy.