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Born 1845, Pleasant Township
From The history of Brown County, Ohio, containing a history of the county ... general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwest territory; history of Oh (1883), History of Clermont and Brown counties, Ohio, from the earliest historical times down to the present (1913)
A. P. CAHALL, farmer, P. 0. Higginsport, was born in Pleasant Township, March 26, 1845, the son of Thomas, Jr., and Rachel E. (Kilpatrick) Cahall. His father and grandfather were early settlers of this county. A. P. was reared on the farm, and in early life was a school teacher. He has received a liberal education, attending the Pennsylvania Medical College and other educational institutions. He has devoted himself to the farm, and succeeded remarkably in the occupation. He began life with a team and $400, rented land of his father, raised corn and wheat enough to pay all expenses, and the first year sold his tobacco for $1,126; the second year his tobacco crop yielded $1,300; the third year, $1,450; and the fourth, $1,607. In six years he had paid his father $4,700 for rent, and sold $11,000 worth of tobacco. In 1869, he married Emma L. Daugherty, of Union Township, daughter of Rev. J. P. Daugherty, present pastor of the Higginsport Christian Church. They have five children— -Zua, Mattie L., L. P., Ida, and Homer E. Himself and wife are members of the Christian Church at Higginsport. He is a Democrat, and has twice been Assessor of this township. He now owns 133 acres of land.
As printed in The history of Brown County, Ohio, containing a history of the county ... general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwest territory; history of Oh (1883). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
ABRAHAM PENNINGTON CAHALL.
Abraham Pennington Cahall belongs to one of Brown county’s old families and is one of the most successful farmers of Pleasant township. He was born on the farm adjoining his present home, March 26, 1845, son °f Thomas and Rachel Elizabeth (Kilpatrick) Cahall. Thomas Cahall was born in Union township, Brown county, September 22, 1819, and died July 22, 1875, and his wife was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1822, and died in April, 1886, both being buried in Union cemetery, Mt. Pisgah. They had twelve children, all born in Brown county, six sons and six daughters, and of those now living Abraham P. (the third in order of birth) is the eldest, the others being: Augustus-, of Pleasant township; Ella, wife of Charles Henry, of Georgetown; Perry, Jr., of Georgetown; Flora, wife of David Carrigan, of Aberdeen, Brown county; Edna, wife of William Kinnett, of Georgetown.
James Cahall, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, served in the Revolution. He died from frozen feet at the age of one hundred and one years, she from being scalded at the age of ninety-nine years; and the grandfather, Thomas Cahall, Sr., served in the war of 1812. The Cahalls were among the earliest families to settle in Brown county, coming before 1812. The grandfather came from Londonderry, Ireland, and came from a family of weavers. The name was then spelled Cahill, but has been perverted to its present spelling. They have always been a money-making family, and wherever they have located have been able to accumulate property.
Mr. Cahall, of this sketch, was educated in Brown county, Meadville, Pa., and Merom, Ind., and before he attended college taught school in Brown county, where he taught one year after leaving, college. On August 3, 1869, he married Miss Emma L. Daugherty, who was born in Union township, March 1, 1849, daughter of Rev. J. P. and Jane (Barnes) Daughtertv. Her father was born in Union township, May 5, 1819, and died in 1904, and her mother was born in Brown county, in 1812, and died in 1889. Mr. Daugherty was a minister of the New Light church and preached in Brown county over fifty years, from the time he was twenty-five or thirty years of age. He and his wife had six children, four of whom are now living: Sarah, widow of John H. Pangburn, of Union township; Amanda, wife of Louis Lyon, of Georgetown; Mrs. Cahall; Ellie, wife of Lewis Meranda, of Clark township.
After marriage, August 3, 1869, Mr. Cahall and wife located on a farm owned by his father, adjoining his present home, and he has never voted outside of Pleasant township, where all but one year of his life has been spent. He purchased his present farm in 1880, becoming possessed of one hundred and thirty-three acres of land, to which he has added, until he has two hundred and ninety acres of good farm land. In 1889, he erected the pretty home still occupied by the family, and he has also erected all of the present farm buildings. He hasbeen very successful as an agriculturist and devotes considerable attention to stock raising. He is a Democrat in politics, has served as township assessor twice; and is always ready to support any worthy cause for the advancement of the general welfare and progress. Fraternally, he is a Mason and he belongs to the Farmers’ Alliance. He and his wife belonged to Higginsport Christian church. The family have a high standing and have a large number of friends.
Six children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Cahall, all born in Pleasant township, namely: Zua is at home with her father; Mattie L., wife of William E. DeVore, of Pleasant township, has one child, Louise; Lois married Albert Trout and both died within eight hours of diphtheria, twenty-two months after their marriage; Callie Gerirude died at the age of eleven months, in 1873; Ida L. is the wife of Hugh Tweed, of Union township, and they have two children, Amber and Esther; Homer E. married Miss Alberta Singer, daughter of Rev. C. L. Singer, and they have three children. Leavitt Pennington, Alice Rosalin, and the baby, and live in Plain City; Homer E., a graduate of the Georgetown High School, has taught school since he was seventeen years of age, a period of seventeen years, and is superintendent of the schools at Plain City. For the past five years he has been superintendent of the Felicity schools, Clermont county, Ohio.
Mr. Cahall is well informed on general topics and issues and is a pleasant and genial man to meet. He has a witty turn of mind and is very popular. He is proud of what his children have done and the promise they give for the future and all are a credit to their parents. Mr*..Cahall died January 29, 1913-, after a long illness. Both she and Mr. Cahall are descended from good old stock. Mrs. Cahall was a devout member of the church and died in the triumphs of the Christian's faith. She was a loving wife and mother, and devoted to her husband and children. Although a long-time sufferer, she bore her sufferings patiently to the end of life. The finest of eulogics, that ‘'she was a good woman,” was given to her by those who knew her.
As printed in History of Clermont and Brown counties, Ohio, from the earliest historical times down to the present (1913). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: Louis Lyon (b. 1845) Thomas Cahall (b. 1819)
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