William Mahan Jr. Biography   Hancock County, WV
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Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the 
Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia".  
Compiled and Written by:
J.H. Newton,  G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle
Published by:
J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA.

                Biographical Sketches of Hancock County:
William Mahan Jr.:
    farmer.  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 28, 1807.  Came with 
his father William Mahan in 1816.  He remained with his parents until 
eighteen years of age, then he learned the gunsmith business, which he 
followed for five years and then returned to farming.  On the 30th of 
December, 1835, he was united in marriage to Susanna Osborn.  They settled 
on his father's farm, located in Brooke County, West Virginia.  In 1843 a 
farm was purchased by his father, for him, in Butler District.  In 1862 his 
wife died, and in 1866 he married Miss K. J. Baker.  Farm is located near 
old Henderson Mill, on King's Creek.  He is the father of four children.