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Born 1841, Claibourne Township
From The History of Union County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, towns ... military record; (1883), History of Union County, Ohio; its people, industries and institutions (1915)
URIAH CAHILL, farmer, P. 0. York, was born in Claibourne Township, on the Cahill homestead(l, in this county, December 29, 1841. In 1839, his parents, John E. and Hannah Cahill, came to Union County, and settled near Fulton Creek, in Claibourne Township. Uriah, in his youth devoted his time principally to farming, and obtaining a good English education. In September, 1862, he enlisted in the Thirty first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Third Division, Fourteenth Corps, Army of the Cumberland, and participated in nearly all the battles in which Gen. Thomas' command was engaged; also the Atlanta campaign, and in Sherman's grand march to the sea. He remained with Sherman's army until the close of the war, and was honorably discharged in July, 1865, at Camp Chase, Ohio. On March 3, 1864, while home on veteran furlough, he married Isabel Worbs, a daughter of Laban H. and Martha J. Worbs, of Union County, and a sister of Mrs. Lemuel Cahill. To them have been born two children — James C and Isaac J. In August, 1868, he settled in the southern portion of York Township, of which he has served as Trustee several years. In the fall of 1881, he was elected for three years a County Commissioner, the duties of which ofbce he is performing with credit to himself and the county. In June, 1881, he was elected the first President of the Union County Farmers' Insurance Company, and in June, 1882, was re-elected to the same office. He is a member of the F. & A. M. society, and of the Presbyterian Church at York Center, and the owner of a fine farm of 220 acres.
As printed in The History of Union County, Ohio, containing a history of the county; its townships, towns ... military record; (1883). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
URIAH CAHILL.
It will always be a mark of distinction to have served in the Federal armv during the great Civil War. The old soldier will receive attention wherever he gLies. When he dies, men will pay him suitable eulogy for the sacrifices he made fifty years ago on the battlefields, in prison walls and hospital. Ever afterwards, his descendants will revere his memory, and take pride in his services for his country. Union county, Ohio, sent hundreds of its brave men to the front, and among these, Uriah Cahill, now living a retired life in Richmond.
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Mountain, June 23, 1864, and buried in section E of the National cemetery at Chattanooga: Uriah, of Richwood; Behnda, the widow of John T. Mc- Millan, of Zanesville, Ohio: Lemuel, deceased: Isaac, deceased, and Benton, of Richwood.
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LViah Cahill was reared on his father's farm in Claibourne township, and received his education in the district schools of his neighborhood. He remained at home until the opening of the Civil War, when he enlisted as a member of Company F. Thirty-first Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, First Brigade. Third Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland. He served until the close of the war, taking part in many of the important battles, among them l)eing Hoover's Gap. in the Tullahoma campaign, the battles of Chickamaiiga, Missionary Ridge and the hundred days march from Chattanooga to Atlanta. All of those were fought by Sherman on his march through Georgia to the sea. His regiment was with General Sherman on the trip through the Carolinas and was present at the final surrender of Johnston at Raleigh, on April 16. 1865. Mr. Cahill was present at the "grand review" in Washington, D. C, May 24-25. when one hundred and twenty-five thousand men marched through the streets of the capital. The parade was viewed by the highest civil and military officials of the nation, but the one man above all men whom the veterans would have loved to have seen, had been shot by an assassin only a few days before. Mr. Cahill was mustered out as corporal at Louisville. Kentucky, July 20, i8'65, and immediately returned home.
Upon his return to Union county, he began farming in Claibourne township, and in 1868 moved on a farm of one hundred and sixty-seven acres in York township, which he cleared and improved. In 1894, he retired from active farming and moved to Richwood, where he has since resided. He has a well improved farm and manager it personally.
]\Mr. Cahill was married March 3, 1864, to Isabel Worbs, the daughter of Laban H. and Martha J. (Figley) Worbs, and to this union two sons have been born, James C. and Isaac J. James C. died at the age of thirty-six. He married Alma Fawley. but left no children. Isaac J., the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Cahill, is a minister of the Christian church, and was pastor of the Central Christian church at Dayton. Ohio, for thirteen years. He is mnv the state secretary for the evangelization of the state of Ohio. Isaac J. married Lillian M. Skidmore, and has three children, Paul T., Vaughan D. and Helen Lillian. Paul married Ada Pagenstech; Vaughan D. married Ruth Wells, and has two children, Patricia and Eric.
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As printed in History of Union 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.
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