Hugh Long

As printed in 1884

HUGH LONG,* one of the oldest settlers of the township, was born in West Liberty, Va., April 12, 1794. He is the son of John and Catharine (Fry) Long, natives of Pennsylvania. His great-grandmother, Nancy Howard, was kidnapped in London, England, brought to this country and sold for her passage. His grandfather Fry was a soldier in the Revolutionary war three years. His father was reared a farmer, and at the age of twenty-one, went to Pittsburgh and learned the tanner’s trade, Gen. Wayne’s army being then stationed there. He was married there and moved to St. Clairsville, Belmont County, Ohio, and became the father of ten children. He died in his sixty-fourth year, and his wife in her seventy-fifth. May. Long, the subject of this sketch, attended the common schools of his time and enlisted in a Light Horse Cavalry Company in the war of 1812, but, with other volunteers, was not wanted, and was exempted from entering the service. He learned the tanner’s trade of his father, and was engaged with him in the trade till twenty-five years of age. About that time he married Miss Catharine Trucks, four children resulting therefrom, two living — Mary and Matilda; the deceased are Catharine and Joseph. The mother of these died in 1832, aged twenty-four years. Mr. Long was married again the same year to Miss Sarah Hinkle, who by him became the mother of fourteen children, six surviving to the present time — Hugh H., John, Hiram, Orrin, Vincent and Hattie, wife of Lawson H. DeLander. Mr. Long came to Marion County, in 1832, settling in Marseilles, then Burlington; the Fitzgeralds, Youngs and Merrimans being the only families in the township; our subject now being the oldest and only surviving resident of those early days. He built his shop and began his trade as tanner in 1834, and continued in this occupation till 1876. He is the owner of thirty acres of land within the corporation and has been largely interested in building up the village. He has held every office in the township except that of the Justice of the Peace, and that he refused. He obtained the title of “Major” through Charles Merriman. For his eighteen days’ service in the war of 1812, he receives a pension of $8 per month; also received a title to 160 acres of land, which afterward sold for $140. He was formerly a Whig, but later ly a Republican. His wife died February 9, 1882, aged seventy-three; he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and highly esteemed in his old age.

As printed in The history of Wyandot county, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, towns, churches, schools, etc.; (1884). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.