History of Killbuck, (Holmes County) Ohio United States of America

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Biographical Sketch of John Anderson McDowell

John Anderson McDowell, representative, was born in Killbuck, Holmes county, Ohio, Sept. 25, 1853; son of James Coleville and Sarah (Anderson) McDowell; grandson of Matthew and Nancy (Hutchinson) McDowell, and a descendant of John McDowell of Washington county, Pa. He removed with his parents to Monroe township, Ohio, where he resided on a farm and attended the district school. The family subsequently returned to Killbuck and he was employed in his father's store, and attended the village school, the Millersburg high school and Lebanon Normal university. He was married, Aug. 21, 1879, to Esther E., daughter of Lemuel Hole of Damascus, Ohio. He was graduated from Mount Union college, Alliance, Ohio, in 1837. He was principal of the Millersburg high school for two years, superintendent of Millersburg schools for seventeen years, and engaged at different times as instructor in teachers' institutes in several counties of Ohio and as instructor in the summer school of Wooster university. He was a Democratic representative from the seventeenth Ohio district in the 55th and 56th congresses, 1897-1901.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor