Moses G. Madden

MOSES G. MADDEN. Two of the best-known citizens of Wilson township and, in fact, of Clinton county, are Moses and Solomon Madden, brothers, who. with their sister. Rachel, occupy the old Madden homestead of one hundred acres in Wilson township and which was purchased in 1850.

Moses Madden was born in Wilson township, this county, on October 10. 1837. He ami his brother. Solomon, are the sons of Solomon. Sr., and Ruth Madden, who were among the early settlers of Clinton county. Solomon Madden. Sr.. was born in Chatham county. North Carolina. September 20. 17P3. and immigrated to Clinton county in 1811 with his parents. George Madden, the father of Solomon, was born in 175P In Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, the son of Barnabas Madden, a native of England, who immigrated to the American colonies before Revolutionary days. Solomon Madden, Sr.. married Ruth Bobbins, of Wayne county. Indiana. March 11. IMP, and they settled in Adams township, this county, where they lived for seventeen years, at the end of which time they moved to what is now Wilson township, where he sent the rest of his life, his death occurring on Octolier 6. 1S-M). His widow lived to be more than eighty years old. She was the daughter of Moses Robbfns and was born in Randolph county. North Carolina. August S, 1802. and settled with her parents In Wayne county. Indiana, in 1817. Moses Rohbins was born in North Carolina in 1770 and was the son of John Robbins. born in 173-1. The latter was a Baptist minister and a chaplain in the American army during the Revolutionary War. He died in 1834, having reached his one hundredth year. George Madden, the father of Solomon Madden. Sr.. was twice married. His first wife was a Mrs. Reynolds and to this marriage there were born two children, one of whom was Francis. He married, secondly, Elizabeth Carter.

George Madden was a soldier in the American Revolution. During the war Elizabeth Carter and her father carried him from the battlefield after he had been wounded. Later be and Elizabeth were uiarrled. very much to the chagrin of the inter's father, he having opposed the marriage because lie did not believe in war and did not want his daughter to marry a soldier.

To Solomon. Sr., and luth (Itobblns) Madden were born ten children, Elizabeth, Cyrus, Alice, John. Mary Ann. Solomon. Jr., Henry, Moses G.. William H. and Rnchel. Of these children. Solomon. Jr., born on March 11, 1832, Moses G. and Rachel are the ones referred to In this sketch, and they are. the only living members of the family. William H., Moses G. and Solomon, Jr., were soldiers in the Civil War. William H., who enlisted fu the Seventy-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, under Colonel Moody, was taken with typhoid fever soon after enlisting and returned home und died. After his death. Moses G. and Solomon enlisted, simultaneously, on May 2, 1864, in the Ouo Hundred ami Forty-ninth Regiment. Ohio National Guards, and been me a part of the Army of the Cumberland, under Gen. Lew Wallace. Moses G. nnd Solomon, however, were separated. The hitter was taken prisoner at Perry ville, Virginia, hut escaped in about one hour and rejoined his regiment. Moses G. was engaged in the battle of Monocacy and in several minor skirmishes. He received an honorable discharge on August 30, 1864, at Camp Dennlson. his brother, Solomon, receiving his discharge in the same month.

Moses G.. Solomon and Rachel Madden are nil devout members of the Friends church and none of them lias ever married. They all live together on the old home farm In Wilson township. Moses O. Madden was elected trustee of Wilson township in 1870 and held (he office for many years. Both he and his brother vote the Republican ticket and have been more or less active in the councils of the party for many years.

Kpbralm Klbby Miller Is a successful farmer of Jefferson township, where he owns a farm of seventy-eight acres. He was born near Cuba in Washington township, this county. July 20. 1873. the son of C. C. and Electra E. (Klbby) Miller, natives of New Vlenua nnd Clarksvllle. this county, respectively, the former of whom was born near New Vienna on March 26. 1837.

Mr. Miller's paternal grandparents were Isaac and Margaret (Hildebraut) Miller, the former born on July 30. 1812. near Farmers Station and the latter. November 26. 1820. in Hunterdon county. New Jersey. His paternal great-grandfather was Isaac Miller, who was born on February ", 1777, the son of Peter Miller, a native of Wales, born about 1740. who came to America and settled near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he married Catherine Rhodes, a native of America but of Dutch descent. They were members of the Lutheran church. Peter Miller was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, but never returned from that war. Isaac Miller, Sr., was the first of the family to come to Clinton county. He came at the age of twenty years with a party of surveyors to the present site of Farmers Station. It was his work to keep the company In fresh meat. He was a splendid shot and had no difficulty in providing abundant game. From Clinton county, he accompanied the party to Kentucky and thence to Tennessee with John McKlbben. the owner of the estate in Clinton county which they had come to survey. In 1K01 be returned to the vicinity of Farmers Station. Isanc Miller. Jr.. was a farmer during his entire life In the vicinity of Fanners Station.

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As printed in History of Clinton County, Ohio: Its People, Industries and Institutions (1915). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.