Daniel Mckillip

As printed in 1902

DANIEL McKILLIP.

Daniel McKillip is engaged in the tilling of the soil and in raising stock in Moorefield township. He is one of the native sons of this locality, his birth having occurred eight miles south of South Charleston, in Fayette county, August 24, 1832:

His father, Thomas McKillip, was born in North Carolina and when only three years of age was brought by his father, John Mc- Killip, to the Buckeye state. He is descended from Scotch ancestry, who fled from Scotland to the northern part of Ireland, and from the Emerald Isle the great-grandfather of our subject crossed the Atlantic to America. Mr. McKillip's grandfather was a poor man when he came to Ohio, but as the years passed he accumulated a comfortable competence, becoming the owner of a large tract of land in Fayette county. There Thomas McKillip was reared to manhood and he, too, prospered in his farm work until he was the owner of eight hundred acres of land. He followed farming and cattle-raising and had his life been spared he would have probably become a very wealthy man, but he died when but forty-eight years of age. He was the father of twelve children, four of whom passed away ın early youth, while the other eight reached years of maturity, our subject being the second in order of birth. In his political views Thomas McKillip was an old-line Whig, but was never a politician in the sense of office seeking. The educational privileges afforded Daniel McKillip were somewhat limited, for he was never able to attend school after he was thirteen years of age until he had attained his majority. He then spent seven months as a student in Antioch College, his father having purchased a scholarship in that institution. He was forced to give up school in early boyhood in order to go to Illinois and take care of a herd of cattle which belonged to his father, the man who had been employed for this purpose having been taken ill. There Mr. McKillip engaged in harding cattle for seven years, during which time

CRE SBIOGRARHICAL “RECORD, he made many trips to and from Ohio. In the fall he would make his way to Illinois, purchase a herd, feed the cattle during the winter and until July, when he would start east with them, driving them to markets in this section of the country. trips to the east, crossing mountains. jority

He made eight the Allegheny When he had attained his mafather gave him ‘one hundred acres of timber land, which he at once began to clear and also to drain by ditching, thus preparing it for the plow.

Like most young men starting out in life for themselves, he desired a companion for the journey and was married in Clark county July 13, 1856, to Miss Elizabeth Briggs, who was born in Madison township and is a daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Hempleman) Briggs. After his marriage he lived upon his farm in Fayette county for about five years and then traded that property for a tract of land in Stokes township, Madison county, where he made his home until the fall of 1862. He then removed to his present place, having traded for one hundred and eighty acres of land here. To this tract, however, he has since added until he now has in the home place two hundred and eighty acres of rich land and likewise owns another farm of one hundred and sixty-two acres in Moorefield township. He has been very successful and, although he lost two thousand dollars by going security for a friend, he is accounted one of the prosperous agriculturists of his community.

Mr. and Mrs. McKillip now have two living children. Laura, born April 24, 1857, was married February 3, 1876, to William H. Winter, and they have five children: Effie, born April 1, 1878; George, who was born September 5, 1879, and married Zella Byers; Lizzie; Crawford; and

Daniel. Emma Frances, the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. McKillip, was born June 17, 1859, and on the 23d of March, 1882, became the wife of John S. Swaidner, of Springfield township. They had two children: Jessie Belle, born February 5, 1895; and Charles, who died in infancy. When age gave to him the right of franchise Mr. McKillip proudly cast his first presidential ballot for John C. Fremont and from that time to the present has never wavered in his allegiance to the Republican party. He has had neither time nor inclination for office seeking, preferring to give his attention to his business affairs, which have been capable controlled so that his earnest toil and business sagacity have resulted in making him one of the prosperous agriculturists of his community.

As printed in A Biographical Record of Clark County Ohio (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.