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Born 1833
From A centennial biographical history of Champaign county, Ohio .. (1902), The history of Champaign county, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its cities, towns, etc.; general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwes (1881)
ENOCH McCARTY, farmer; P. 0. North Lewisburg; was born in the year 1833, and is a son of Stephen McCarty, who was born in Virginia about 1792; he removed to this county with his family about 1820, locating on 130 acres of wild land, where he now lives; he erected a cabin, into which he moved his family, and, through his own exertions, cleared most of his land; he was a man of strong constitution and great endurance, and the forest gradually disappeared before his strong blows. To him six children were born, four living — Elizabeth A., James, Daniel and Enoch; the deceased were John and Thomas. Deborah (Thompkins) McCarty, mother of Enoch,, was born in Culpeper Co., Va., in 1802; she died in 1876, aged 74 years. Enoch was reared on the farm, where he has since lived. In 1861, he was married to Rebecca J.#Morgan, of this county, who has borne him two children, viz, Sarah L. and John B. He owns 233 acres of cultivated land, all well improved; he was a member of Co. H, 134th O. V. I., O. N. G.; he served four months, and was at the front, doing picket duty.
As printed in The history of Champaign county, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its cities, towns, etc.; general and local statistics; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; history of the Northwes (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
ENOCH McCARTY.
Throughout his entire life Enoch McCarty has been a resident of Champaign county and for many years was accounted one of her leading, Influential and progressive business men, but he is now living in quiet retirement, his labor in former years having enabled him to lay aside active-cares. He was born on the farm on which he now resides, on the nth of January, 1833. His father, Stephen McCarty, was a native of Virginia, and in Loudoun county of that state was united in marriage to Deborah Thompson, who also claimed the Old Dominion as the state of her nativity, and after the birth of two of their children they came to Ohio, locating near Zanesville. Later they took up their above in Gosben township, Champaign county, and two years afterward bought the farm on which our subject now resides, their first residence here being a little log cabin, which during the first summer contained but a dirt floor. The land wtas then in its primitive condition, not a stick of timber having been cut, and everything was new and wild. As the years passed by, however, Mr. McCarty succeeded in placing his land under a fine state of cultivation, and on this farm both he and his wife spent their remaining days, the former passing away at the age of eighty-six years, wdfile the latter was called to her final rest at the age of seventy-six years. They became the parents of six children, namely: Elizabeth Ann, deceased; James, who prior to his death was one of the representative citizens of Champaign county; John, also deceased; Daniel, a resident of Auglaize county, Ohio; Enoch, of this review; and Thomas, who died when young. In an early day Mr. McCarty voted with the Whig party, and after the organization of the Republican party be joined its ranks and afterward remained loyal to its principles. He was a public-spirited and progressive citizen, manifesting a commendable interest in everything pertaining to the public welfare, and his honorable record won him the confidence and respect of the entire community.
Enoch McCarthy, of this review, has spent his entire life on the farm on which he now resides, and in his youth was a student in the primitive log school house of the neighborhood, which he attended about three months during the year, the remainder of his time having been spent in assistinghis father in the work of the home farm. In 1864 he enlisted for service in the Civil war, entering" Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, for one hundred days, and on the expiration of that period received an honorable discharge at Columbus. Ere leaving for the war, in 1864, Mr. McCarty was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca jane Morgan, a native of Wayne township, Champaign county, Ohio, and a daughter of.Abel Morgan, one of the prominent pioneers of that township. Two children have graced this marriage, — Louisa, the wife of J. W. Ratchford, a railroad employe in Saint Paris, Ohio, and John S., who married Susan Cushman and resides on the old homestead. Throughout his entire business career our subject has devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits, and the community has long numbered him among its representative citizens. His homestead contains three hundred and twenty-four acres of rich and fertile land, and all of the improvements thereon stand as monuments to his thrift and ability. Since the organization of the Republican party he has given a stanch support to its principles, his first presidential vote having been cast in 1856, and he supported Lincoln at both elections. He continues his old army associations through his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic, Harry Davis Post, No. —, at Woodstock, and is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of that city. He is a man of integrity, of firm convictions and marked fidelity to the duties of life, and Champaign county numbers him among her worthy sons.
As printed in A centennial biographical history of Champaign county, Ohio .. (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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