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Minnesota: 1881, Minneapolis, Hennepin County |
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S. [Sylvester] McAninch was born in Licking county, Ohio, December 6th, 1846. |
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He accompanied his parents to Valparaiso, Indiana, in 1855. In 1861 he enlisted and served |
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three years in the war of the rebellion, participating in the battles of Nashville, Altoona, |
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Atlanta, Dalton and many others. After leaving the army he lived in Indiana five years, then |
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went to Michigan and was employed in a barrel factory there three years. In 1873 he came to |
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this city and was in a planing mill, and worked for Bisbee and Moses until 1877, since which |
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time he has been running stationery engines for different parties. He married Ida Hunter in 1870. |
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Their children are: Harry and Orvil. |
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Source: History of Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis, including the Explorers |
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and Pioneers of Minnesota, 1881, North Star Pub. Co., Minneapolis; Biographies, pg.589. |
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Minnesota: 1916: Harriet McAninch, Otter Tail County |
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Benjamin G. Emery, well known farmer and prominent citizen of Maplewood township, |
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Otter Tail county, Minnesota, was born in Marion, Marion county, Ohio, on June 16, 1852, the |
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son of Jonah C. and Lyda (Kelley) Emery, the former a native of Pennsylvania, where he was |
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born in 1820, and the latter born in the same state. Jonah C. and Lyda Emery went to the state of |
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Ohio in the early forties and located in Marion, where he followed his business as a contractor |
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and builder, until his death in 1867. Jonah C. and Lyda Emery where the parents of five children, |
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Ida, Benjamin G., Jesse and Ella (deceased), and Alice. |
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Benjamin G. Emery received his education in the public schools of Marion, Ohio , after which |
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he went to Porter county, Indiana, where he married and then moved to Stevensville Michigan, |
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and later to Oshkosh, Wisconsin for four years' residence. In 1880 Benjamin G. Emery came to |
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Otter Tail county and homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land in Maplewood township, |
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a place which he has improved with good buildings and a farm on which he engages in general |
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agricultural pursuits. |
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On April 23, 1871, Benjamin G. Emery was married in Porter county, Indiana, to Harriet |
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McAninch, who was born in Indiana on November 1, 1854, the daughter of John McAninch and |
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wife, who moved to Porter county from Wyandot county, Ohio, during the time of the Civil War. |
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To the marriage of Benjamin J. and Harriet Emery have been born the following children: |
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Hughie, Ella, Thomas, Archie A., Alfred P. and Mae, who are living; and Alice C., Frank E. |
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and Edith M., who are deceased . |
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For twenty-two years Benjamin G. Emery has served his community as township clerk and for |
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eighteen years he has filled the office as clerk of the school board . During a term of six years |
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Mr. Emery occupied the office of justice of the peace and for practically all of his days in |
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Maplewood township, he has been active in some manner which has resulted in profit and |
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advancement of the community life . |
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Source: History of Otter Tail County, Minnesota, its people industries and institutions, |
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Mason, John W. (author); B.F. Bowen, Indianapolis, Indiana (publisher), 1916, p. 435 |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XXI n.1 / January 2013 / Copyright Frank McAninch / page 2013-05 |