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CHARLES C. DONLEY, merchant, Surryville, was born near Point Isabel, in Clermont County, Ohio, January 18, 1852, son of James W. Donley. He came with his father to Pike Township when a small child, remained with him on the farm until the fall of 1871, when he left his home and began his career as a school teacher, first teaching near Brookville, Bracken Co., Ky.; the next year, taught at Rock Spring, Ky.; during the next two years, in Pike Township, during which time he attended two sessions at the National Normal School, at Lebanon, Ohio, and, in the fall of 1875, he entered the State Normal School at Carlisle, Ky., and completed the scientific course of instruction prescribed by that institution; teaching again in the fall and winter of 1876 and 1877 at Foster, Ky., and the next year was Principal of the school at Neville, Ohio. He then purchased his present property in Surryville in 1878, engaging in the mercantile business, and in June, 1879, he lost his property by fire; he rebuilt his store and dwelling in the same year, and has continued in the store business until the present time. He taught school again in the fall and winter of 1881 and 1882. He was married, in June, 1878, to Josie L. Robinson, who died in her twenty-second year, in June, 1880.