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McNEALL, ABRAHAM B., Physician; residence, Columbus; was born in Lancaster county, Pa., March 8, 1810; is the oldest of four sons and five daughters, of Arthur and Elizabeth (Boyer) McNeall, who were natives of that State. His parents removed to Ohio, and settled near Cincinnati, when he was fifteen months old. He was educated in Hamilton, and learned the carpenters’ trade; applied himself to it till he was thirty years of age. In the meantime he read medicine and attended a course of lectures at Starling Medical College, Columbus in 1849 and 1850; located in Adams county in September, 1855, in the village of Columbus, where he has practiced since. In 1868 he received the degree of M. D. from Keokuk Medical College. He married Esther Heywood, a native of New York, Nov. 21, 1833. She died Sept. 5, 1864, leaving five children: Nathan H., Mrs. Lydia A. Cannon, Arthur A., Mrs. Sarah E. Antrim, and David F. Jan. 4, 1866, he married Ruth A. Carroll, a native of Washington county, Ark. They have had four children, two living: Lena May, born April 9, 1862, and Centennella, born July 4, 1876. He owns twenty acres in the village of Columbus, worth $100 per acre, and twenty acres in Sec. 17, worth $25 per acre. He now holds the office of Magistrate. Is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and they are both members of the M. E. church.