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J. T. McCORMICK, tobacco dealer, Ripley, is a son of James and Lucinda (Maxwell) McCormick, and was born in Eagle Township, Brown County, in 1832. His parents were natives of Virginia and Adams County, respectively, and their settlement in Eagle Township occurred in 1830. James was a miller by trade, at which he worked in connection with farming. The latter part of his years were spent with his son in this city, when he died in 1876. Her death is recorded in 1880. The subject of this sketch enlisted in 1863, and performed active service for four months in the one hundred days’ call. Returning, he raised Company K, of the One hundred and Eighty-eighth, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and Commissioned Captain, in which rank he again entered the field and served thirteen or fourteen months. In the fall of 1868, he was married to Miss Amy L., daughter of Samuel Yearsly, of Higginsport, the place of her nativity, where the family settled in 1838. Four children born to this union are all living, viz.: Nora L., Clifford E., Annie N. and Edith B. This posterity comprise the great-grandchildren of John McCormick, an early pioneer of Brown County, who served in Revolutionary war. He was of Scotch-Irish descent, and was brought to America, when three years of age, by his parents, who settled in Virginia. He was a miller by trade, but drove team, and in the early days hauled goods from Philadelphia to the growing cities of the West. He was Justice of the Peace many years, and a man of respected character and widely known. His grandson, our subject, began dealing in tobacco in 1878, since which time he has been largely engaged in the trade.