STARK COUNTY OHIO - BIO: MENEGAY, Joseph C. (published 1881)
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Taken from History of Stark County---Perrin  1881
   JOSEPH C. MENEGAY, farmer and stock raiser; P.O., Louisville.   Among the
early French settlers who braved the perils of an ocean voyage from the Old to
the New World, is the family of Menegay, who arrived in this country in 1828.
The subject of this sketch was born in Doubs, France, June 19, 1815. He is one
of a family born to Joseph and Mary (Poinssot) Menegay, who were induced by
their relative, Mr. Frantz, to emigrate with Mr. Menegay's family and his
father to the United States.  They traveled with wagons eight days, before
reaching Havre, where they embarked on a ship for New York, which port they
reached after a prosperous voyage of fourty-two days. From there they went to
Cleveland via Buffalo, and from there to Akron by canal. On their arrival in
Nimishillen Township, Mr. Menegay purchased 320 acres of land, near where
Louisville now is, and with the usual energy and vigor of those old, time-
honored emigrants, set to work improving their farm.  Like the majority of
their countrymen, this family were devout members of the Catholic Church, and
Mr. Menegay was the most enterprising  men to take an active part in the
improvement of the churches and schools of this denomination.  Mrs. Menegay
died in 1850, and Mr. Menegay in 1872. Our subject was reared on the farm with
his parents, and before his coming to America, received an excellent education
in his native land. In 1840 he married Miss Mary R. Violand, and by her had a
family of eight----Mary, Josephine, Joseph S. , Louisa, Catherine, Melinda,
Louis, and Louis deceased.  The Menegays are noted for their honesty and hard
labor. In politics they are Democrats.    


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