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McGLASHAN, MATTHEW, blacksmith and wagon maker, residence Jalappa. Matthew McGlashan is a native of Ohio, and was born in 1822; the second child of James and Phoebe McGlashan. He passed many years of his life upon a farm, although the head of the family was by trade a carder and weaver. On attaining his majority, the subject of our notice became apprenticed to the trade of a blacksmith and wagon maker. Becoming a journeyman workman, he became a resident of various points in the Union, eventually settling in what is now the village of Jalappa, where he was the first permanent settler; he was afterward married to Miss Emily Irwin, a daughter of Isaac and Rachel Irwin. Mr. McGlashan concluding to make of Jalappa a permanent abiding place, erected the blacksmith shop where he now holds forth, and here he has hammered away, while emigration has tended westward, and added materially toward his present prosperity. Of this marriage twelve children were born, five of whom are living: Clarissa L., Jas. F., Wm. L., Cora M., and Geo. W.