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CAPT. O. F. MELVIN, bookbinder, post office Ross, was born April 28, 1837, in Brooke county, W. Va., son of Henry and Alzina (Thayer) Melvin, pioneers of that county, former of whom was a merchant in Ohio and Virginia, being a trader by occupation. Their son, O. F., was reared in Ohio and partly educated there. At the age of nineteen he went to Cincinnati, and there learned the bookbinder’s business, at which he is still engaged, being foreman with Eichbaum & Co., of Pittsburgh, in whose employ he has been for twenty years. Mr. Melvin was in Wellsburg, W. Va., when the war-note sounded over the country and Lincoln made his three-months call. In response he enlisted in Co. F, 1st W. V. R., remaining in same until the close of the war. He was first lieutenant in the three-months service, and captain in the three-years; participated in all the engagements of the regiment, and was wounded at the battle of Piedmont, Va. The captain married Hattie, daughter of Robert Nicholls, who was clerk of Brooke county, Va., for twenty-five years. Capt. and Mrs. Melvin have eight children: Allen W., William J., Hattie S., Thayer E., Joseph E., Edward C., Jessie W. and Robert Benton. Capt. Melvin is a member of the A. F. & A. M. and G. A. R.; he is a republican.