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ISAAC CLYNE, farmer; P. O. Casstown; born in Miami Co. March 18, 1818, on the farm where he still resides; is a son of Isaac and Olive (Ingraham) Clyne, both born in Pennsylvania; the grandfather Clyne was a native of Saxony; the grandfather Arthur Ingraham, of Ipswich, England. Isaac and Olive, the parents, located in Miami Co. in 1809 or 1811; they came by river to Cincinnati, and there landed, when there was nothing there but the block-house; they located upon the farm upon which the son Isaac now lives; here he cut out the first stick of timber, put up his log cabin, and roughed it in pioneer style, his nearest neighbor being nearly two miles distant, and in other directions much further; they were parents of eleven children, five of whom are living, viz., Hannah (now Widow Deweese), Elizabeth (now Mrs. Dye, living in Indiana), Letitia (now Widow Crane), Isaac, and Ingraham (now living in Delaware Co., Ind.); his death occurred in 1833, from cholera, his wife living till 1852. Mr. Clyne, the subject of this sketch, lived with his father till his death, after which the oldest son came home and farmed the place one year, and trained up the younger sons, so that they took care of the farm after the first year. April 11, 1839, Mr. Clyne was united in marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan and Catharine (James) Knight, born in Pennsylvania, and were among the early pioneers of this county, their ancestry coming from England, and the Jameses of Scotch descent; her father, Jonathan, cleared up the land on the farm where the Orphans’ Home is now erected; the works and labors of the Knight family come largely into the early history of Miami Co.; by this marriage they have had eleven children, of whom six are living, viz., Mary Ann (now Mrs. J. M. Studebaker), Nettie (now Mrs. William Frazee), Priscilla (now Mrs. B. F. Hance), Horatio S., William K. and Minerva Ellen; Mr. Clyne has always resided on the old home place, has improved and cleared up the farm, and brought most of it into good cultivation, erecting fine buildings upon it; this land has now been in possession of the father and son nearly seventy years. Mr. Clyne is, politically, a Democrat; has been Township Trustee for many years, and is now serving his second term as Commissioner of the county. He and his wife have been members of the Baptist Church for twenty-four years.