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 moved to Stark Co., Ohio, in 1814, and from there to Richland in 1824, where they continued to reside as long as they lived. Mrs. Keller died in May, 1862, and Mr. Keller in September, 1865; they were buried in the St. Johns Cemetery, in Monroe Township. John R. and Dorothy McDanel are the parents of nine children — five sons and four daughters, two of whom died infants ; the names of those who survived the period of infancy are as follows : Henry Jasper, Mary, William Wallace, Thomas Benton, Simon Judson, Har- riet Ann and Jane Catharine ; three of the above-named children — Henry J., Harriet A. and Catharine J. are living ; the others are all dead ; four of the deceased are buried in the Newville graveyard, and two in the graveyard on the farm. By the decease of his parents, Mr. McDanel became the owner of all the old home- stead, save forty acres that his father had previously sold to his brother Simon ; he purchased the interests of his bi-others and sisters, and thus became the owner of the farm ; it is a very good farm, well watered, well timbered, and well adapted both to farming and grazing purposes. Mr. McDanel has but one brother and one sister now living — Simon McDanel, who resides in Worthington Township, and Rachel, who lives with her brother, John R. ^Irs. Dorothy McDanel departed this life Aug. 27, 1878; she, as also her husband, had united with the Baptist Church many years previous. MARKS, JACOB, cabinet-maker ; P. 0. Lucas ; son of Abram and Sallie Marks ; was born in Montgomery Township, Ashland Co., Aug. 27, 1828. His father was born in Westmorelond Co., Penn.; his mother's maiden name was Sallie Young ; they are the parents of twelve children, six sons and six daughters ; Abram Marks emigrated to Richland Co., with his family, during the year 1824 ; he purchased 80 acres of land, a part of Sec. 16, in Monroe Township ; this farm being nearly all in timber, by dint of hard labor on his part it was cleared and otherwise improved ; in 1860, he purchased what is now known as the Rummel Mill property, sit- uated a short distance east of the village of Lucas, where he spent the remainder of his days ; he died in 1863 ; his widow still lives, near Lucas. Jacob Marks and his brotherr Pete are twins ; they are the eldest children of their parents ; Jacob followed the peaceful pursuits of a farmer till he arrived at the age of 22 years, when he turned his attention to the mechanical arts ; he learned the trade of cabinet-maker with John Heck, of Newville, and has continued to follow that business from that time to the present ; he has the reputation of being a very good workman ; he has re- cently increased his facilities for the manufacture of almost all kinds of furniture ; he keeps constantly on hand a large and well-selected supply of coffins and other articles in the line of an undertaker ; as an undertaker, he has had an experience of twenty-six years, during which time he has averaged not less than thirty coffins per year. In his disposition, Mr. Marks is kind and obliging ; he is temperate in his habits, and honest and upright in his dealings with his fellow- men. In 1855, Mr. Marks was united in marriage to a young lady of an adjacent township ; by this mar- riage he became the father of six children, two sons and four daughters. In politics, he has been a lifelong Democrat. In 1879, he was united in marriage to Miss

��Reno Robison, eldest daughter of the late William Rob- ison, of Monroe Township ; Miss Robison was born in Virginia ; her parents removed to Richland Co. about the year 1848 ; she is a lady much respected for her many virtues.

MANNER, JACOB, farmer; P. 0. Perryville ; he was born in Berkeley Co., Va., Dec. 9, 1804. His father's name was Joseph Manner; his mother's maiden name was Catharine Mentzer ; his parents were both of German descent; they were born in Franklin Co., Penn.; his parents came to Ohio in the spring of 1827, and purchased a farm, then in Richland, now in Green Township, Ashland Co.; there was an old grist-mill on this farm at the time, which he and his son Jacob re- modeled and repaired, and which they ran for many years. Joseph Manner continued to reside here as long as he lived ; he died in April, 1840, aged about 78 years ; his wife survived him a short time ; they were both interred in the Perryville Cemetery. Jacob Manner was married to Miss Jenette Calhoun, second daughter of Noble and Sarah Calhoun, of Monroe Township, Aug. 8, 1883; her mother's maiden name was Taylor ; her parents were both of Irish descent ; they settled in Monroe Township in the spring of 1831, and continued to reside on the same farm till the day of their death. Mr. Manner lived on his father's farm a few months after his marriage ; he then purchased the farm now owned by John Darling, of Monroe Township, where he resided about three years ; he then sold his farm and removed to Newville ; he purchased the only brick building in the place and engaged in the mercantile business ; he subsequently purchased the frame dwelling now owned by H. D. Ruth in that place; he continued in the mercantile business about four months, when he traded his house and lot and stock of goods for a farm of 190 acres on the Black Fork, to which he removed with his family ; he stayed on this farm three or four years, during which time some one of the family was almost continually shaking with the ague ; from there he removed to Wooster, where he kept a hotel about a year; he then sold his hotel, and, removing to Worthington Township, purchased the farm now owned by Jacob Cate ; he subsequently pur- chased an interest in the Herring Mills ; this last in- vestment was an unfortunate one, as he lost by the operation about $2,500 ; he continued to reside on the Cate farm for several years after leaving the mill ; about the year 1852, he sold this farm and purchased the farm formerly owned by his father-in-law in Mon- roe Township; this farm contained 260 acres ; he sub- sequently purchased 140 acres adjoining the old homestead ; he now owns a farm containing 400 acres of as choice land as can be found in the county. Mr. Manner was one of the first men in this section of country to engage in dealing in live stock ; before the days of railroads in the county, he drove his stock through to the Eastern markets; he most generally drove them over the mountains ; after taking his first drove through and selling them, he found, after deduct- ing expenses, that he had cleared just $8; he claims to be the first man to ship stock by railroad from this county ; he was extensively engaged in this business for a great many years. His sons, of late years, have taken the burden of the business off his hands ; they

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