OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 515 Today's Topics: #1 OH DESCENDANT OF COL. MORGAN MORGA [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 WM. W. McFEELEY -HAMILTON COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #3 HAMILTON COUNTY PART 43 [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:17:03, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907190417.AAA08444@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: OH DESCENDANT OF COL. MORGAN MORGAN Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Ohio The cross road of our nation Records & Pioneer Families July-September 1964 Vol. V No. III Published by Esther Weygandt Powell - NO COPYRIGHT AN OHIO DESCENDANT OF COL. MORGAN MORGAN Contributed by Mrs. Charles H. Smith, Chesterton, IN I. COL. MORGAN MORGAN was born in Wales in 1688 and came to the United States in 1713. He married Catherine Garretson of Pennsylvania and had 8 children. He was the first settler and Governor in W.V. and died in 1766. II. DAVID MORGAN the second son of Morgan and Catherine was born in 1721 in Christiana, Delaware. He married Sarah Stevens who died in 1799. They had 8 children. They lived near the Cheat River, Monongalia County, W.V. (then VA) during the Revolutionary war. David and his 4 sons, Morgan, James, Evan and Zackquill were in the same Company during the war. David died in 1813. III. JAMES MORGAN, the son of David and Sarah was born in 1748, (?) married Hannah Cox of Morgantown, W.V. (He possibly married more than once). They came from Monongalia County, W.V. to Ohio before 1808 and settled in Wayne County in what is now Plain Township. James is buried in a private cemetery on the Jacob Bucher farm, near Moreland, Wayne County, Ohio. (unable to locate grave). Hannah Cox, his wife was born Feb. 10, 1764. They had the following children: Sarah, Jesse, Rebecca, Jonathan, James, Joseph, John, Isaac, Hannah and William. James lived in Burlington, Iowa; Rebecca lived Wayne Co., Ohio and married April 12, 1809 to Thomas Butler; John lived Kane Co., Oregon; William in Rice Co., Minnesota; Isaac died in Kansas; Sarah married Jonathan Butler and lived in Rochester, Indiana and Jesse lived Chesterton, Indiana. IV. JESSE 1788-1853 born Cheat River area in Monongalia Co., W.V., married Jane Cissne and removed to the Chesterton, Indiana area in 1833 where he died in 1853. They had: James 1816-1856; Joseph C. 1819-1908; Ann 1822-1865, married Wm. Thomas Jr. 1819-1865; Eleanor 1825 - ? lived in Michigan; Rebecca 1828-1849; George C. 1830-1895; John G. 1832-1919 married Mary Holland; Hannah 1834-1875 was first white child born in Porter County, Indiana. a. Wm. Thomas and Ann Morgan Thomas (1822-1865) had: Elias 1849- 1927 and Ellena 1860-1947 who married Charles Haslett. b. George C. Morgan 1830-1895 had: Arthur, Wilfred, Sarah L., Edward L., Georgie, Bennett B. and Floyd. c. John G. Morgan and Mary had: Edward G., Lily Mae, Bentley, Agnes and Anna who married Harry Smith. In 1828, the three brothers, Jesse, Isaac and William Morgan left their homes in Monongalia Co., Va. for Wayne County, Ohio. Then in 1833 they moved with their large families to Porter Co., Indiana. William married Anna Blachley, June 19, 1828 and Isaac married her sister Sarah Blachley, February 14, 1822. They were daughters of Dr. Wm. Boyd Blachley of Plain Twp., Wayne co., Ohio. (A Hugh Morgan born Cheat River, Va., January 1, 1759 and wife Mercy Ayres came to same area in Wayne Co., Ohio 1814-15. They had 10 children.) ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:17:08, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907190417.AAA10542@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: WM. W. McFEELEY -HAMILTON COUNTY Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF GRANT COUNTY INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1914 Page 749-750 WILLIAM W. McFEELEY, assistant cashier of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Marion, is a son of Alfred and Sarah (Worthington) McFeeley, residents of Marion, Indiana, and among the most popular and prominent people of this section of the state. Alfred McFeeley, the head of the family in this state and in Grant County, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, on August 31, 1836, and he came from Union City to Marion in 1874, since which time he has been a continuous resident of this city. Early in life he became a miller, a business with which many of his name had been identified in previous years, operating flouring mills throughout the country, and when he first located in Marion he was connected officially with the old mill in Cemetery Boulevard that was long known as the McFeeley mill. He and a brother, Thomas McFeeley, first owned the mill, and they later sold it to an uncle, one Joseph McFeeley, who thereafter operated it for many a year. During a heavy storm on one Fourth of July, the mill was moved from its foundations by the wind, and from that time on as long as a stone stood there, it was known as the McFeeley Cyclone Mill, for many years constituting a land mark along the way to the Marion I.O.O.F. cemetery. When R.L. Jones was killed by a horsethief soon after he was elected to the office of county sheriff for Grant county in the year 1888, Mr. McFeeley received the appointment to the vacancy thus created, and since that time he has frequently been prominent in public life in the county. He was for several years the trustee of Center township before the Associated Charities had in charge the relief activities of the city of Marion, and he handled alone and unaided the local charities, in addition to school and other township business of important character. The trustees of Center township were entrusted with the care of the indigent of Marion, and it was a duty that other township trustees knew little or nothing about, most of the responsibility falling upon Mr. McFeeley. For many years Mr. McFeeley, usually known as Squire McFeeley, has served as justice of the peace of Center township, and he has in that time established a reputation as the "marrying squire," his record down to date accrediting him with three hundred and forty-four marriages. He ever has a pleasant word for the bride, and points out with pride the fact that the nuptial knots he ties are not immediately severed in the divorce courts. He is of the opinion, however, that when the Indiana legislature sees fit to enact a law permitting a justice of the peace to untie the marriage knot, he will have quite as much business at the other end of the line, for he maintains that divorce is as much in demand as marriage in these later days. Squire McFeeley is a veteran of the Civil war, having served as a member of Company K, Fortieth Ohio Regiment for three years, after which he was transferred to the Fifty-first Ohio, and his total service amounted to four full years. Owing to his advanced age and the length of his service, he is now on the pension lists as a dollar a day pensioner, which, in connection with the revenue that comes to him in his capacity as the "marrying justice," permits him to pass his declining days in ample comfort. He visited Fort Recovery, Ohio, on July 1, 1913, where a $25,000 monument was unveiled in honor of General St. Clair, one hundred and twenty-two years after the battle he fought with the Indians at that point, and although a full century has passed by since the battle of Mississinewa, the Squire believes the Grant county battle field will in time be designated with a similar monument. He is familiar with the entire course of the Mississinewa, having been reared at the "spreads" in Mississinewa township, in Darke county, Ohio, where the river has its headwaters, and where for miles it is little more than a swamp drain. Mr. McFeeley is one who enjoys a story well told, and few there are in these parts who can tell more apropos tales than he, all of them suggested by something in the circumstances of the moment, and always right to the point and glimmering with sparkle and brightness. Thus is it that the bride and groom are always started cheerily upon their way -a fact that seems to insure him of ample future patronage. William W. McFeeley is one of the three children of his parents -one of them, Otto H. McFeeley, being a resident of Oak Park, Chicago, and a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Landauer, a resident of Marion. On December 11, 1905, Mr. McFeeley, was married to Miss Ethel Morehead, who died on September 12, 1908. She was a daughter of O. H. P. Morehead and a granddaughter of William Morehead, who was among the last veterans of the Mexican war. The Morehead family have in recent years moved to Tennessee, after long years of continued residence in Grant county. Mr. McFeeley, since the death of his young wife, has taken up his residence with his aged parents, and there has continued to make his home as in earlier years. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 00:17:00, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199907190417.AAA13294@mime3.prodigy.com> Subject: HAMILTON COUNTY PART 43 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF OHIO By Henry Howe, LL.D., 1898 HAMILTON COUNTY PART 43 AARON F. PERRY, like Judge Taft is from the Green Mountain State, born at Leicester, Vermont, January 1, 1815 -like him was educated at Yale, and cast his fortunes in Ohio, first settling in Columbus, where he had as successive law partners, Gov. Dennison and Gen. Carrington. In 1854 he removed to Cincinnati and became a law partner with Judge Taft and Col. Thomas M. Key. As a lawyer he has made enduring marks upon the history of his country -notably in the case of Vallandigham against Burnside, involving the legal right to arrest a private citizen for indulgence in the freedom of speech in opposition to the measures of a government struggling for its life against citizens in armed rebellion. Mr. Perry in his politics was originally a Whig, when a Republican and in 1870 was elected to Congress by the Republicans, where he took a leading part. During the war era no man, in our judgment in the Cincinnati region, was so effective as he in upholding the hands of government by public addresses, irresistible from their grasp and clearness of statement, beauty of diction with keenness of wit, and delivered with a grace and ease of manner and a power that so captivated the multitudes that ever assembled to hear him, that they were always sorry when he closed. So important were his services to Ohio at this period, that Gov. Dennison thanked him in his annual message. Although suffering from a malady, deafness, the warps the disposition of many sensitive natures, Mr. Perry seems not at all affected by it, but everywhere and to every one appears with an overflow of good feeling that renders his presence, and after thoughts of him, to a high degree pleasant. REUBEN RUNYAN SPRINGER, philanthropist, was a descendant of the early Swedes who settled in Delaware in the seventeenth century. His father was a soldier under Gen. Wayne in the Indian war, and later became the postmaster in Frankfort, Ky., where Reuben was born, November 16, 1800. He in turn became postmaster, a clerk on a river steamboat running between Cincinnati and New Orleans, and then acquired an interest. Later he became a partner in a wholesale grocery house in Cincinnati, and retired in 1840 from ill health, and never resumed active business. "He went abroad repeatedly, buying many works of fine art, which are now mostly the property of the Art Museum. He gave to the Music Hall, the Exposition building, the Odeon Theatre and the Art Museum, in all, $420,000; to private charities of the Roman Catholic church -of which he was a member -more than $100,000, and at least $30,000 annually in the way of benevolence, beside contributing liberally and regularly to various charities and public enterprises. He died in 1884 , left by will about $3,000,000 to nearest of kin -having no children; also annuities to the College of Music, the Music Hall and Art Museum, and nearly $400,000 to various Roman Catholic charitable institutions, among these $40,000 to the Cathedral School, $30,000 to St. Peter's Benevolent Society, and $100,000 for the education of priests." A fine statue to his memory is in the Music Hall, the work of Clarence Powers. Mr. Springer was in person tall and erect, with dark eyes, and dignified and quiet in manner, and impressed the casual observer as one of the highest type of gentlemen. CALVIN WASHBURN STARBUCK, printer, born in Cincinnati in 1822; died there in 1870; was the fastest type-setter in Ohio; established the Times, the progenitor of the Star-Times; was remarkable for his philanthropy to various charitable institutions of the city both by cash and personal labor. During the civil war he strove by voice and pen to establish the National credit. To the families of his employees who enlisted he continued their full wages while they were in the service, and in 1864 volunteered and bore his musket as one of the one hundred-day men. DAVID SINTON, so widely known for his benefactions, was born in County Armagh, Ireland, early in the century, of mingled Scotch and Anglo-Saxon blood; the family name was originally Swinton. His father's family came to this country and settled at Pittsburg when he was three years of age. His life business has mainly been the manufacture of iron, the location of his furnaces, Lawrence county. His residence has been mainly Cincinnati. He is entirely a self made man; has a large, strong person with common sense, and therefor moves solely on the solid foundation of facts. His residence is the old Longworth mansion on Pike street, built by Martin Baum early in the century. Mr. Sinton's only living child is the wife of Chas. P. Taft, editor of the Times-Star. To be a public man of note renders such one an object of interest to the public, to say nothing of the gratification in that fact to the public man himself. One such, a fellow-townsman in Cincinnati, we seldom failed to look upon as we passed him on the street from his personal attractions and general reputation as a man. He was rather short in stature but a full-chested, erect, plumply-built and very handsome man, with dark smiling eyes, a noble, massive head adorned with a wealth of dark luxuriant hair: life seemed to go pleasant with him. We never heard the sound of his voice; but once, just before the civil war, we were simultaneously in each other's eyes. We had met and passed on a side street, each of us alone; then turned to gaze upon him at the same moment he had turned to gaze on us. The reader has had a like experience and appreciated the mutual mortification of the moment. Which of us felt the meanest is an unsolved problem. When on our late tour over Ohio we were in the Tom Corwin mansion, at Lebanon, Judge Sage, whose home it is and who was with us, said with pride, as enhancing the attractions of the mansion. "In the room over us GEORGE H. PENDLETON passed several days when he was an infant." This was the full-rounded man we met as above described. His fellow-townsmen called him "Gentleman George" from his suave manners and courtly ways. Then he was "well fixed" for pleasant contemplation, possessing, as reputed, ample means, the best social relations, the best Virginia blood of the revolutionary war coursing through his veins, and as the mother of his children one of the most beautiful, sweetly-mannered of women, and of the blonde order, a daughter of Francis Scott Key, author of the never-to-be-forgotten ode, "The Star Spangled Banner." Her tragic death in Central Park a few years ago, thrown form her carriage, is remembered with a pang. GEORGE HUNT PENDLETON, was born in Cincinnati 5th July, 1825, and educated in the law. He was elected as a Democrat to Congress in 1856, serving till 1865, where he was on the Committees on Military Affairs and Ways and Means. "In 1860, at the time of the division of the Democratic party at the Charleston Convention, Mr. Pendleton warmly supported Mr. Douglas. On sectional questions he was moderate and conservative. If dissolution was inevitable, he preferred it should be a peaceful one; if war was to be waged, he warned Congress to 'prepare to wage it to the last extremity;' and accordingly voted for all measures required to enable the government to maintain its honor and dignity." He was on the ticket for the Vice-Presidency, with George B. McClellan for President, in 1864; was unsuccessful on the Democratic ticket for Governor of Ohio in 1869 against R.B. Hayes. In 1878 was elected U.S. Senator, and became Chairman of the Committee on Civil Service Reform. In 1885 he was appointed by President Cleveland U.S. Minister to Germany. He died of apoplexy in Brussels, Nov. 24, 1889. His remains lie buried in Spring Grove. He was regarded as "the very pink of honor; performed many generous deeds; had antagonists, but no enemies." COL. GEORGE WARD NICHOLS, small in person but great in will, was born in Fremont, Mt. Desert, on the coast of Maine, in 1837, and died in Cincinnati in 1885. He was a school-boy in Boston; then travelled in Europe, making his headquarters in Paris. His tastes were for the fine arts, and he learned to draw and paint. In the war period he was aid both to Fremont and to Sherman, on his march to the sea. Then he came to Cincinnati, where he was for a time engaged in drawing and painting. His life there is a part of the history of the city. His father's house had been a musical home, and love of music was his master passion. He became the originator and organizer of the May Musical Festivals, the Opera Festivals, and the College of Music, founded in 1879, and "was its president, and placed the college where envy could not reach it." The important educational influences of such work and the honorable reputation it has given the city, is not to be lightly measured. He was author of "The Story of the Great March to the Sea;" "Art Education Applied to Industry," and "Pottery, How it was Made." -continued in part 44 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #515 *******************************************