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Connecticut Western Reserve. At that time 

 he made arrangements for future settle- 

 ment, contracting for a grist and saw mill 

 and a log cabin. In February, 1817, ac- 

 companied by his step-brother, Ebenezer 

 Lane, late chief-justice of Ohio, and attend- 

 ed by a company of skilled workmen and 

 laborers, he left West Springfield for his 

 future home. He called the new town Ely- 

 ria, and from that time gave his life to 

 the development of its resources. Hk ei- 

 forts were not confined to' his own town. 

 He served on the state board of equaliza- 

 tion, and from 1835 to 1845 was one of the 

 associate judges under the old constitu- 

 tion. 



Heman Ely, son of Heman and Celia 

 (Belden) Ely, was born in Elyria, Ohio, 

 October 30, 1820, and died July 8, 1894, in 

 the house where he was born. He married 

 May 2j, 1850, jNlary F. Day, daughter of 

 Thomas and Sarah (Coit) Day, of Hart- 

 ford, Connecticut. He was educated at 

 schools in Westfield, JNIassachusetts, ana 

 F^armington, Connecticut. Owing to his 

 father's failing health he gave up his con- 

 templated college course at Yale and re- 

 turned to Elyria. In his father's office he 

 received a business training, particularly 

 in the care and conveyancing of real es- 

 tate, and soon assumed the charge of all 

 his father's business. He assisted in the 

 organization of the first bank in Elyria, 

 and was chosen a director at the first elec- 

 tion in 1847. He was successively direc- 

 tor, vice-president and president to the 

 time of his death. In 1852, with Judge 

 Ebenezer Lane and others, he secured the 

 building of the Lake Shore and Michigan 

 Southern Railway, then known as the 

 "Junction Railroad," from Cleveland to To- 

 ledo. PTom 1870 to 1873 he was a mem- 

 ber of the state legislature, particularly 

 interesting himself in insurance legisla- 

 tion, and in formation of the state insurance 

 department. His connection with the F"'irst 

 Congregational church in Elyria was 

 formed in 1838; he was for many years 

 one of its officers, and for ten years served 

 as superintendent of the Sabbath school. 

 He was deeply interested in the advance- 

 ment of his native town. 



MOORE FA^HLY. The Moores of 

 Richland were descended from Mordecai 

 Moore, a physician, by his first wife, his 

 second wife being a daughter of Thomas 

 Lloyd, well known in the early history of 

 Pennsylvania. The son Richard married 

 5 mo. 27, 1709, ^Margaret Preston, born 

 1689, daughter of Samuel Preston, who 

 was born in Patuxent, Maryland, in 1665, 

 and became mayor of Philadelphia in 171 1. 

 Margaret Preston's mother was Rachel, 

 daughter of the same Thomas Lloyd men- 

 tioned above. Richard Mcore was a physi- 

 cian and merchant, and resided most of 

 his life in Maryland. Richard had five 

 children. 



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Mordeci Moore, son of Richard, mar- 

 ried Elizabeth Coleman and had eight chil- 

 dren : Margaret, Mary, Richard, Samuel 

 Preston, Rachel, Deborah, Henry and Han- 

 nah. Mary married Jonathan Dickinson, 

 and Hannah became the second wife ot 

 Charles Willson Peale, the famous artist. 

 Henry, 5 mo. 29, 1753, married Priscilla 

 Hill Jackson. Fiis father, Mordecai, died 

 at Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania, 7 mo. 

 31, 1800. 



Henry Moore, son of Mordecai and Eli- 

 zabeth, resided in Montgomery county, and 

 afterwards in Lancaster county. They had 

 seven children : Mordecai, Mary, Samuel 

 Preston, Elizabeth, Milcah IMartha, Rich- 

 ard and Charles. Henry died in 1829, ana 

 his wife in 1821. 



Richard Moore, of Richland, was promi- 

 nent in the Society of Friends, as was his 

 son, John Jackson Moore. He was active in 

 the anti-slavery movement, sheltering and 

 feeding many fugitives from bondage. He 

 married, i mo. 7, 1819, Sarah Foulke, daugh- 

 ter of Theophilus and Hannah Foulke, as 

 we have seen. Their children : i. John 

 Jackson, 11 mo. 17, 1819, married Jane, 

 daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Warner, 

 they having three children, — Alfred, El- 

 len, Arthur; 2. Hannah, 7 mo. 27. 1821, 

 married 10 mo. 5, 1843, William M. Levick, 

 of the Philadelphia bar, a brother of Samuel 

 J. Levick. William died 6 mo. 10, 1874. 

 iheir children : Anna F"., Elizabeth J. 



EDWARD W. MAGILL, a prominent 

 member of the Philadelphia bar, was born 

 in Solebury township, Bucks county, Penn- 

 sylvania, January 27, 1858, and is descend- 

 ed from early settlers in Bucks county, 

 who have been prominent in the affairs 

 of the count}', province and state from tlic 

 time of William Penn. 



William Magill, his pioneer paternal an- 

 cestor, was born in the north of L'eland, 

 where his ancestors had been resident for 

 several centuries, several of the name from 

 Armagh, Antrim and Downs having held 

 commissions in the army of Cromwell, ana 

 long prior to that time had held large es- 

 tates with baronial rights. The family is 

 said to have originated with GioUa, a grand- 

 son of the one hundred and twenty-fourth 

 monarch of Ireland, the name becoming 

 anglicized into Gill, and his children be- 

 coming known as jNIacGill. The name cen- 

 turies ago came to be spelled in its present 

 form. William Magill emigrated to Amer- 

 ica about 1725, and about 1730 located in 

 Solebury township, in what was then known 

 as the Manor of Highlands, in the lower 

 part of the township. In 1735 he became 

 a member of Buckingham Friends' meet- 

 ing, and married at Falls Meeting, Mary 

 Sinicock, daughter of Jacob and Sarah 

 (Wain) Simcock, of Ridley, Chester coun- 

 ty. Mrs. Magill's father, grandfather and 

 great-grandfather were all successively 

 members of provincial assembly, and the 



