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ALEXANDER HUGH McEOWEN, retired farmer, Greenville; among the old settlers of Darke Co., Ohio; the gentleman whose name heads this sketch is awarded a place in the front ranks; he was born in Somerset Co., N. J., Oct. 2, 1810; he was a son of Alexander McEowen, who was born in the above State Nov. 29, 1778; he married his second wife, Alada Hageman, in November, 1808; she was born in New Jersey; they were the parents of seven children by this union, of whom the subject of this sketch and Henry H. now survive; Henry was born July 21, 1823, and is now living in Allen Township, Darke Co.; their father was one of the patriots of the war of 1812, and was also one of the minute-men of the Northwest Territory, and served under Gen. Wayne in this State; he was married three times, and was the father of eleven children, of whom only three now survive; Mr. McEowen died Dec. 12, 1863, aged 85 years; Mrs. McEowen died Aug. 22, 1830. The subject of this memoir came to Ohio with his parents in 1822, and located in Warren Co., where he followed farming until 1844, when he came to Darke Co., and, after a residence of ten years in Twin Township, during which time he cleared a farm of 90 acres, he came to Greenville Township and purchased his present place in 1854, where he has since lived; he now has in his home farm 225 acres under a good state of cultivation, with good farm buildings, located two and one-half miles east from Greenville, nearly all of which he has secured by his own hard labor and correct business habits, in which he has been nobly assisted by his amiable wife, to whom he was married March 14, 1839; she was born in Warren Co., Ohio, Dec. 17, 1810; they have no children of their own, but have taken and partially raised several until sufficiently old to be self-supporting. Mr. McEowen continued farming until 1878, when he rented his farm and retired from active labor. He was formerly an Old Line Whig, but joined the Republican party upon its organization, and since that time he has ardently labored for the support of the same. Mr. and Mrs. McEowen have been members of the Presbyterian Church many years. They have traveled the path of life together for a period of forty years, and now, in their declining years, find that comfort and consolation in the Bible which only falls to the lot of true Christians.