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COURTRIGHT, HIRAM, far., Sec. 36; P. O. Fort Madison; of Holland ancestry; was born in Franklin Co., near Columbus, Ohio, in 1815, where his father had settled from New Jersey in an early day. There in 1835, he married Miss Isabel Switzer, who was born in the same county in 1817, and died in 1844, leaving two children — Elizabeth, born March, 1836, (married Geo. Cloud, who died in service during the late war); John S., born Sept. 1, 1837 (a resident of Missouri, near Memphis). In 1846, Mr. C. again married Mrs. Eliza W. Fashner, daughter of James and Margaret Taylor, and widow of Joseph Fashner, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1816, and died in 1843, leaving one child — Margaret S., born in 1841 (now the wife of Isaac Bell of Cedar Tp.). Mrs. C. was born on the farm adjoining the one on which her present husband was born, March, 1821; in 1848, they removed to Woodford Co., Ill.; to this county in 1853, and settled on the farm on which he now resides, consisting of 160 acres, valued at $40 per acre; they have three children — Mary J., born in 1846 (now the wife of S. W. Smith, of Oregon); Edward S., born in 1852 (now a resident of Kinsley, Kan.); and Julia A. P., born the 27th of September, 1853 (now the wife of W. A. Powell of Cedar Tp.) Members of the M. E. Church.