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From page 516 of “The McQuiston McCuiston and McQuesten Families 1620 – 1937”
MARY CATHERINE, b. July 21, 1860; was graduated from the State University at Lawrence, Kans., receiving her B.A. degree in 1883; from the elementary course of the Kansas Teachers College, Emporia, Kans., in 1894. In 1900 she came to Kansas City, Kans., as a teacher in the grade schools of the city, where she taught until her marriage in Los Angeles, July 8, 1907, to Artemas M. Bogle who was born in Perry County, Ohio, Mar. 9, 1860. He was a teacher in the Wyandotte High School, Kansas City, Kans., until his retirement in 1929. She d. Feb. 8, 1935, in Bethany Methodist Hospital; is buried at Pittsburg, Kans. She was a lifelong member of the United Presbyterian Church and was interested in all departments of its activities.
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From page 225 of “History of Edwards, Lawrence and Wabash Counties, Illinois.”
DR JOHN C. McCLURKIN
Was born in Union County, Indiana, August 28th, 1840. His father, Joseph McClurkin, a farmer, was a South Carolinian by birth, whilst his mother, Nancy Cook, was an Ohioan. At the age of three years he was taken by his parents to Preble County, Ohio, to live where they resided ten years, from whence they moved to Gibson County, Indiana, where his father died January 12, 1872, aged 71 years, and where his mother still lives. In October 1861, he of whom we write enlisted as a private soldier in Co. F. 33rd Reg. Indiana Volunteers. He was with Sharman "to the sea" and took part in all the battles of that memorable campaign. On the 5th of March, 1863, he was taken prisoner after being wounded in the battle of Columbia, Tennessee, and was sent to Libby prison, at Richmond. Just two months after his imprisonment he was exchanged among the last lot of unfortunate inmates of that dread pen. He joined his command at Tullahoma in the following autumn, after having spent several months in the hospitals. His term of service extended over three years and eleven months. Upon being discharged from the service, he entered the State University of Indiana, at Bloomington, which he attended three years. He next entered the office of Drs. Mumford and West, at Princeton, Ind., as a student of medicine. From there he went to Bellevue Medical College, New York, to further prosecute his studies, and from this institution he graduated, March 2nd, 1871. He at once in seeking a location came to Albion, where he has since resided, engaging with great success in his profession. He is a member of the Illinois Medical Society, and of the A. 0. U. W. also of the Episcopal Church. Politically, he is an active Republican. Recently he was elected a member of the Albion Board of Education, as a mark of the esteem in which his interest in educational matters is held by his fellow citizens. He was married to Ellen Churchill, daughter of Joel Churchill, December 2nd, 1873. Three children, two boys and one girl, bless the union.
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About 1844, she married Oliver Johnson. Their children were Mary E. (Mrs. Wm. A. Lowe), of Terre Haute; James P., of Terre Haute, who married Miss Rebecca Shoemaker, of the same place; Silas H., of Washington township, married to Miss Laura Wright, of the same township; and Franklin P., also of Washington township, married to Miss Georgie Ann Pursel, of Tuscola, Ill.
Pamelia was descended from George Soule, a Mayflower passenger.
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From: History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana; by B.R. Sulgrove; Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884, 785 pgs., p. 505.
Mr. Howland is of English extraction, and the grandson of Elisha Howland, who was a native of Rhode Island, and when seventeen years of age emigrated to Saratoga County, N. Y. He married Miss Powell and had six children, all of whom survive with the exception of Powell, who was born Oct. 16, 1799, n Saratoga County, and removed to Indiana in 1839. He married, in 1818, Miss Tamma Morris, of Saratoga County, and in 1823, Miss Mahala Thurber. To the first marriage were born two children, and to the second five, among whom was Elisha J., whose birth occurred in Saratoga County, Nov. 30, 1826, where he remained until thirteen years of age. He then with his father removed to Indiana, and was until eighteen years of age a pupil of the public school, after which for two years he enjoyed the advantages of the Marion County Seminary, in Indianapolis. His attention was then turned to the cultivation of the homestead farm, a part of which became his by division on attaining his majority. He has since that time continued farming of a general character combined with stock-raising, and has met with success in his vocation. He shares his father's love of horticultural pursuits, and has devoted much time and attention to the subject. He is a member of both the State and County Horticultural Societies. In politics Mr. Howland is an ardent Democrat, and was in 18872 elected to the State Legislature, where he served on the committees on Reformatory Institutions and Fees and Salaries, and was chairman of the former. He has ever manifested much public spirit, been active in the furtherance of all public improvements, and the promoter of various schemes for the welfare of the county of his residence and the good of the public. Mr. Howland was married, in 1851, to Miss Margaret E., daughter of Nineveh Berry, one of the earliest settlers in the State, who was born in Clark County, and removed to Anderson, Madison Co., before the government survey was made. He held many prominent office, and was one of the original surveyors ho laid out the land of the State in behalf of the government. His death occurred Aug. 17, 1883, in his eightieth year. Mr. and Mrs. Howland have children,-Charles B., Elizabeth M., James E., Margaret M., Julia H., and one who died in childhood. He was a member of the Ebenezer English Lutheran Church, in which he has been both an elder and a deacon. Mr. Howland is also a member of the same church.