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REV. WILLIAM PANGBURN, minister and farmer. P. O. Georgetown. Mr. Pangburn was born July 26, 1821, and is the son of Lewis and Rebecca (Applegate) Pangburn. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania, and of English extraction. He was reared on a farm, and received the education afforded by the district schools of Brown County. He commenced preaching the Gospel at the early age of eighteen years, and for thirty-five years has labored faithfully in the cause of Christ in the Christian Church. For twenty-five years he labored in Huntington Township. A number of religious societies and churches owe their existence to his efforts in organizing; or erecting them. Among them we mention Miller’s Chapel and Dallas Church, of Highland County, Oak Grove, in Adams County, and Hiatt’s Chapel and Emanuel Chapel, of this county. His health failing, he is recuperating it on his well-improved farm in this township. Politically, he is a Republican. Mr. Pangburn has twice married. His first wife, whom he married in 1840, was Melissa Mefford. They had two children — John and Alexander. Mrs. Pangburn died in 1846, and the following year he again united in marriage with Mary, daughter of John Mitchell. His children are John H., a farmer, of this township; Alexander B., deceased, who enlisted for three months in 1861, then re-enlisted for three years in the Thirty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company B; James, who served in the Fourth Ohio Cavalry; Rebecca, deceased; Ellen, deceased; Minerva, the wife of Philip Moore, of this township; Nathaniel; Elmore C.; deceased; Charles G., U. S. Grant, Molly, William S. and George W.