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GEORGE McDONOUGH, M. D., physician, Crosstown, native of Clermont County, Ohio, was born March 24, 1820; he is a son of Samuel and Lucy McDonough, both natives of Ohio, of Irish descent. Dr. McDonough was raised on a farm till sixteen years old, when he learned the cabinet-making trade. He was married in 1839 to Eve, daughter of Robert Hutchins. To them were born eight children — Wesley, married Jane Watt; Mary A., wife of P. Hutton; John, married Frank Conover; Sarah Louisa, wife of E. B. Risley; Harris, married Emily Sloan; Aaron, single and at home; George, who died at seventeen years of age; and Jane, wife of George Smith. Mrs. McDonough died in 1862, and in 1863, the Doctor was married to Susan Watt. Dr. McDonough and wife are members of the U. B. Church, of which he has been a class-leader. In politics, he is a Republican. He enlisted in the Twenty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry in 1861; was elected First Lieutenant in Company K, and resigned March, 1862, on account of sickness of first wife; he re-enlisted May, 1864, in Company K, One Hundred and Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served to the close of war. He has been practicing physician over thirty years.