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��been connected with the milling business about fifty- one years. Mr. Hursh's father, Christian Hursh, was born Aug. 17, 1776 ; he died July 27, 1823, aged 46 years 11 months and 10 days ; he lived and died in York Co., Penn.; his wife, Frances Hursh, was born .Jan. 2, 1774, and, after her husband died, she came to Ohio in 1836, and lived in Wayne Co., where she died Oct. 19, 1867, aged 88 years 9 months and 17 days.

JOHNS, DAVID, farmer; P.O. Mansfield; he was born in Jefferson Co. in 1808, and came to Madison Township in 1814. He was married to tlizabeth Fog- lisong in 1832 ; they had twelve children, six sons and six daughters. Mrs. Johns died in May, 1861, at the age of 48. Mr. Johns was again married in 1862, to Amanda Stoutenbarger, by whom he had one son. When he came to this county, it was almost a wilder- ness, inhabited by Indians and infested by bears, wolves and panthers ; the family located at Bean's Mills, near the block-house ; here they built a log cabin ; it was made after the old style, with a puncheon floor, clapboard loft, and was furnished in the plain custom of those times; they had split stools for chairs and split puncheon for a table; their bedstead was made of round poles attached to the wall by boring holes in the side of the building and fastening the poles in them ; their neighbors were chiefly Indians, who were very friendly ; on one occasion, about forty Indians came near their cabin and had a great jubilee, dancing, thrilling the air with their Indian whoop. Mr. Johns had the door barred, on one side of which was a loop-hole, while his trusty rifle stood near the bed. After the Indians had gone, he came into the cabin and said " they would have to move back, or they would all be killed." His wife replied "they could stand it if 'Daddy Bean' could." Asking the chief if they had better move back or stay, he replied, " No ; you stay ; you good white man ; you make good corn." They raised their first crop of corn in 1815; then they sowed buckwheat and raised a good crop ; they took it to a mill, where the village of Lexington now stands. Mr. Johns formed an acquaintance with John Chapman (Appleseed), who visited them very frequently ; they have some fruit in their orchard which has grown from seed brought by him. Mr. Johns had one son — John B., in McLaughlin's squadron of cavalry, in the late war; he died April 8, 1862, on the Big Sandy River, in Kentucky ; his remains were brought home and buried on his father's farm, Gen. McLaughlin attending the funeral.

KEITH, JOHN T., farmer ; P. 0. Mansfield ; he was born Dec. 11, 1832, in this township ; he was married Jan. 3, 1854, to Mary Browneller, who was born Aug.

1, 1831 ; they have the following family: Linnie, born Nov. 10, 1854; James E., Nov. 15, 1856; Laura, March 5, 1859; Charlie E., Sept. 27, 1863; Anna, June 22, 1866; Alonzo. July 7,1868; Alverda May, Dec. 12, 1870; Vinnie Belle, May 6, 1874; Howard Delno, Feb.

2, 1877. Mr. Keith was elected Commissioner of this county in 1867, was re-elected in 1870; filled the oflSce satisfactorily ; is now a member of the Board of Educa- tion.

LATIMER, MARTHA, MRS.; she was born Nov. 17, 1817; was the daughter of John Warden, one of the first settlers of Tuscarawas Township, Stark Co., Ohio,

��and is the widow of George Latimer, a native of the same county ; they were married March 25, 1845, and went to live with Mr. Latimer's father in Osnaburg Township, near Canton, where they remained until the spring of 1850, when they moved to Mrs. Latimer's farm in Tuscarawas Township, near the old home of her father and mother, and lived there for the next four years. In the fall of 1853, they sold this farm and bought another in Butler Township, Richland Co., where they moved the following spring, and resided there until April 1, 1869, when they moved again to their present home, near Mansfield. To Mr. and Mrs. Latimer were born six children, all of whom are now living; they are Robert Patter, John Warden, Rachel Ann, James Parkinson, Mary Caroline and Clark Watt. John Warden entered the service of his country during the late rebellion, before he was quite 17 years of age; was a member of the drum corps in the 18th 0. V. \. He is now Professor of Writing and Drawing in the public schools of Newark, Ohio. Mr. Latimer died Feb. 14, 1873, at the age of 67.

LONG, JOHN, farmer ; P. 0. Mansfield ; he was born June 18, 1817, in Germany; came to Ohio at the age of 21 years. He married Magdelana Eichhorn, who was born June 15, 1848; they have the following family: .John, born Aug. 11, 1849; William, Nov. 3, 1851 ; Leopold, Nov. 1, 1854 ; Mary, Aug. 24, 185ti ; Halena, Jan. 14, 1860; Henry, Nov. 4, 1863; Cathe rine, March 23, 1865 ; Ludwig Lone, May 31, 1870. Mr. Long was engaged in Mansfield for ten years in the brewery business, after which he moved on a farm, on which he still resides.

LONG, WILLIAM, farmer; P. 0. Mansfield; he was born in Mansfield Nov. 30, 1852. Married Feb. 15, 1877, to Susan Elizabeth Mack, who was born Aug. 28, 1858, in Clyde, Sandusky Co.; they have two chil- dren — Lena, born Jan. 29, 1878; John Frederick Sam- uel, Oct. 5, 1879. They reside on a farm two miles north of Mansfield.

McKEE, SAMUEL (deceased) ; he was born Sept. 10, 1812, in Jefi'erson Co.; came to Richland Co. in 1841 ; settled in Madison Township. Married in 1839, to Mary Burns; she was born in Belmont Co. April 17, 1821; they have the following family: Joseph, born Feb. 23, 1840; John, December, 31, 1841 ; Mary M., March 18, 1844; Sarah J., Aug. Id, 1846; Samuel, Sept. 7, 1848; Amanda A., Dec. 28,. 1850; Cyrus B., Jan. 22, 1853; David Collins, April 22, 1855; Emma Maria, Sept. 15, 1857 ; William Rals- ton, Jan. 2, 1860; Laura Bell, Feb. 21, 1864. Of these, John, Joseph, David, Emma and Samuel are now dead.

McKINLEY, GEORGE, farmer ; P. 0. Mansfield ; he was born July 13, 1811, in Northumberland Co., Penn.; came to Ohio in 1818, and settled near Woos- ter. He married, Nov. 21, 1833, Martha McBride, who was born in November, 1813, in Westmoreland Co., Penn., and who came to Wooster, Ohio, at the age of 4 years ; they came to Richland Co. in 1852, and located in Madison Township : they have four chil- dren—Mary A., born July 4, 1836 : Maria P., Dec. 20, 1838; Alexander H., June 8, 1841 ; Julia C, June 16, 1847. Mary A. McKinley was married to S. B. Nye I Oct. 23, 1855; they have four children — Mattie, born

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