Ephraim L. Mehan Biographical Sketch from Beers History of Warren County, Ohio
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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 6 October 2005

Sources:
The History of Warren County Ohio
Part V. Biographical Sketches
Deerfield Township
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)

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EPHRAIM L. MEHAN, retired; P. O. Mason. The above gentleman was born on the dividing line between the counties of Warren and Butler, in 1814. Patrick and Abigail (Littie) Mehan were his parents. He (Patrick) was born in County Donegal, Ireland and when 10 years of age came to America with his relatives. His boyhood was passed in Alleghany Co., Penn., where he lived till he was married, at which time (in 1802) he came to Ohio and settled in Columbia. In 1805, he came to Warren County and located in Deerfield Township. During the war of 1812, he operated a distillery on the Little Miami River for Hunt & Lowe, a business he followed for some years in Warren County, being the proprietor of the business. A greater part of his land was in Warren County, but his residence was in Butler County, where he resided till his death. During the "Old Muster Days," he was Captain of a militia company and a stanch Jackson man; he died in 1844, aged 64 years; his wife departed this life in 1838 or 1839. They were parents of twelve children, of whom seven are now living, viz., Lucinda, Clarrisa, Mary A., Ephraim, Amos, Eliza and John. The deceased are William, Elias, Thomas, Joseph and

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an infant. Ephraim Little, brother of Mrs. Mehan, was killed at Tippecanoe by the Indians in the war of 1812. Ephraim Little, father of Mrs. Mehan, Sr., and grandfather of our subject, was a Revolutionary soldier, who died during the war of 1812. To him the Government ceded 90 acres of land in Deerfield Township as a reward for his meritorious services to his country during the dark days of 1776. The boyhood days of our subject were passed on the farm, where he stayed with his parents till of age. In 1835, he was married to Mary, daughter of James and Rachel (Carter) Fugate, natives of Maryland. After the event of his marriage, he located at Mason, where he kept a public house for thirty-four years. In 1868, he was elected a Commissioner of Warren County, and served three years. After that, he withdrew from public affairs and sought the privacy of retirement. To Mr. and Mrs. Mehan nine children have been born, of whom five are living, viz., Adda, Virginia, Sarah, Abigail and Winfield S. The deceased are John A. G., Eliza, Corwin and Joseph. John A. G. and Winfield S. were members of the 2d Missouri Cavalry; the latter served during the war and his brother but three years. The parents of Mrs. Mehan settled in Warren County in an early day, in which they lived till their death. Mrs. M. was born in Deerfield in 1815; her mother died when she was an infant, and her father in 1854, aged 77 years. Mr. M. has been fairly successful in life, and has a competency from which he reaps the pleasures and comforts of life.

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