Contributed by Charlene Saunders:
WILLIAM and DAVID McLAUGHLIN, who own the old homestead of their father,
are among the substantial and enterprising citizens of Tippecanoe
County, with whose interests they have been identified many years.
Their father was born in Virginia in the year 1797, of Scotch and Welsh
ancestry. When he was four years old his father died, and from his
twelfth year he was reared to manhood in Ross County, Ohio. He was
there married to MAGDALENE OVERLY, a native of Ohio, and to them were
born nine children, of whom five are living at the present time--JANE,
their eldest daughter, first married JOHN IMMEL, and is now the wife of
WILLIAM GIBSON, of Perry Township; MARY is the wife of MOSES COLE, of
Washington Township; WILLIAM resides on the old homestead in Fairfield
Township; MARGARET is the widow of SOSTHENES McCABE, of Missouri, and
DAVID, although part owner of the homestead, lives in Washington
Township. The deceased children are--ISAAC, who died at the old
homestead in the fall of 1857, leaving a family; JOHN, died in Perry
Township, also leaving a family; SARAH was the wife of ALLEN OVERLY, and
NANCY, the youngest child, who was the wife of THOMAS HILT.
The parents continued to make their home in Ohio, until October, 1843,
when they immigrated to Tippecanoe County, bringing with them eight
children. A married daughter came to the county in the fall of 1844.
Their journey was made by wagon, no railroads being in that part of the
country at that date. The father purchased 240 acres of wild land on
section 12, Fairfield Township, the land being covered with a heavy
growth of timber. Here he made a good home out of the forest, living on
the land until his death, which occurred November 6, 1878. His wife
died two years after coming to this State.
In politics he was a Whig until the organization of the Republican
party,
when he at once identified himself with the latter with which he
affiliated until his death. WILLIAM McLAUGHLIN, whose name heads this
sketch, has lived at the homestead where he now resides about forty-five
years. He was born in Ross County, Ohio, September 27, 1832, being
about eleven years old when brought by his parents to this county. He
was married to JANE MATTOX, a daughter of ISAAC and NANCY MATTOX, who
settled in Tippecanoe County, as early as 1837. MRS. WILLIAM McLAUGHLIN
was born in Clinton County, Indiana, her parents settling in Perry
Township, this county, soon after her birth. Of the four children born
to MR. and MRS. WILLIAM McLAUGHLIN, only two are living--WILLIAM E. and
IDA J. Two children died in infancy.
DAVID McLAUGHLIN, the younger brother, was born in Pickaway County,
Ohio, in August, 1838, and has lived in Tippecanoe County, since five
years of age. He married MISS SARAH JANE McCABE, a daughter of
WASHINGTON and ELIZABETH McCABE, and to them have been born seven
children--AMBROSE E., LAWRENCE J., MILLIE B., JOHN L., MARY, ROSE E.,
and JOSIE A., the last two being deceased. In their political views the
McLAUGHLIN brothers are Republicans.
Biographical Record and Portrait Album of Tippecanoe County, Indiana,
pp. 529-530