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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 9 October 2005 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Wayne Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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ISAAC MICHENER, deceased. Information of this family extends to John Michener, who, with his two sons, William and Thomas, emigrated from England to America with William Penn; of William's family, his son, Mordecai, was born Jan. 30, 1723, and died Sept 25, 1795; of his family, his son John was the grandfather of our subject, who married, and his wife Martha bore him five sons and five daughters; John and Martha lived and died in Pennsylvania The maternal grandparents were Benjamin and Abigail Stanton, natives |
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of North Carolina, but who became residents of Jefferson Co., Ohio, where they died; they had five sons and six daughters, of whom Benjamin was the father of the late Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War; the five sons were all practicing physicians. Benjamin Michener, the father of our subject, with his family, came to Harrison Co., Ohio, in 1821; in 1832, they removed to Logan County, where he died in 1854, aged 71 years; his wife died about 1838, and about 1840 he married for his second wife Sarah Canby, who departed this life about 1863. Mr. Michener was the father of six sons and four daughters; four now survive—Susanna, now Mrs. Jehu Brown, residing in Logan Co., Ohio; Lydia, now Mrs. Graves, living near Richmond, Ind.; David; and Martha, now Mrs. Dr. Allen Williams, residing in Kansas. Mr. Michener was a man of firm principles and unflinching character, an earnest Abolitionist and a devoted temperance man; opposing the use of tobacco and intoxicating drinks, and whose whole life was devoted to reform and justice to all men. His devoted wife, Abigail, was known as a woman of extraordinary talents and possessing a noble Christian character. Some of her children possessed, in a marked degree, her superior abilities, and were men and women of influence, and noted for their temperate, honest, Christian lives. Isaac Michener (deceased), the subject of this sketch, was born in Jefferson Co., Ohio, July 10, 1820; was married, Oct. 27, 1842, to Martha Gause, who was born May 3, 1821, whose ancestral history is given in the sketch of Clarkson Gause; by her he had five children; four now survive—Mary Ann, born June 12, 1847; Edwin B., March 11, 1851; Samuel K., June 10, 1855; and Richard J., born Sept. 11, 1858. Mr. Michener, after marriage, resided in Logan County till 1855; then in Union County till 1865, when he removed to Warren County, where he died June 22, 1869. Mr. Michener was a man of firm principles, an earnest advocate of temperance, and, practicing what he professed, used no liquors or tobacco, neither tea nor coffee; was prompt and exact in all his dealings, and whose life was a model of uprightness, and a remarkably kind and affectionate husband and father, thus being an example worthy of all imitation. It is generally expected in every numerous family to find some whose characters are more or less tainted, but of Mr. Michener it is said, that, of one hundred first cousins with which he was favored, not one was known to commit a disreputable or disgraceful act, which is certainly a great honor to the family name; and it may be hoped their descendants may keep up the glorious name and character of their noble ancestors. |
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